Venture Capital
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Tidal joins flood of VCs attracting investors, raising $80M
“So with the maturity of the ecosystem and the founders now raising bigger checks or rounds, we are able to increase our scale a bit.” The ... -
Wealthy ex-NFT shoppers celebrate in pain – TechCrunch
Welcome back to Chain reaction. Last week we talked about endless pessimism in the crypto markets. This week we’re talking about parties, tattoos, booze and fun. ... -
Q2 2022 PitchBook Analyst Note: Did VC fly too close to the sun?
A cloudy end to the VC day in the sun Financial markets have taken a series of blows over the past two quarters. With growth stocks ... -
The pension investment bridge between New York and Belfast has been a win-win partnership
UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL FOR PEACE; Flashback to 2008 when New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (r) and New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson tour Belfast’s former ... -
Is investing in Venture Capital Trust (VCT) a good idea?
Published: 08h15 17 June 2022 I’m 35 and have been accumulating my savings in a Cash ISA for many years and now have around £150,000 in ... -
Sweater – The Venture Capital Fund for Everyone – launches to the public today
Mobile Fintech platform democratizes venture capital for accredited and non-accredited investors BOULDER, Colorado – June 15, 2022 – (Newswire.com) Sweater, the fintech company that seeks to ... -
Howard University School of Law to Host FounderTribes HBCU Start-up Homecoming Bootcamp
FounderTribesa tech startup that connects entrepreneurs with investors and mentors they would otherwise struggle to access, will host an HBCU Homecoming Bootcamp event in the Moot ... -
From Nigerian Immigrant to Raising $25M in Venture Funds
A Nigerian immigrant who became an army captain, earned his law degree and then ran for statewide office has taken on another challenge: raising $25 million ... -
The market correction has come for Series A and seed startups
After being largely spared the pressure that market turmoil has placed on big tech companies, early-stage startups are starting to feel the chill. Changes in market ... -
Black business revival is happening in LA
Lawyer Almuhtada Smith helps local black founders take their business to the next level. The LA Standard Newspaper needs your support to continue ... -
How to survive the tech downturn, according to a venture capitalist
The venture capitalists at Lux Capital have bad news. The outlook for the technology sector is likely to deteriorate, much worse. Josh Wolfe and Peter Hébert, ... -
Venture capitalists urge startups to cut costs
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the business landscape startups are all familiar with. Venture capitalists are advising start-ups in their portfolios to cut costs and freeze ... -
Venture capital funding: Venture capitalists are tightening the funding tap for Indian startups
Bengaluru: The flood of venture capital directed at Indian startups in recent years is drying up even as a stream of global investors including Sequoia Capital ... -
Venture capitalists advise portfolio companies on dealing with recession – GeekWire
(Picture BigStock) Extend your cash trail. Do more with less. And prepare for the end of boom times. These are common threads embedded in the warning ... -
Why One LP does not want to invest in new venture capital funds
The Fairfax County Employees Retirement System plans to focus on funds it has previously invested in. The pension fund may refrain from investing in new funds ... -
Israeli Startup Food Tech Yo! Egg will debut in the United States
Israeli food tech startup Yo! Egg, which has developed plant-based poached and fried eggs (also known as sunny-side-ups), has announced plans to launch in US restaurants ... -
Selling tech is also causing big problems for start-ups
The sharp sell-off in tech stocks has already had a severe impact on investors’ portfolios, and now it’s also causing considerable ripples in the venture capital ... -
Emory University student-run venture capital fund focuses on underrepresented entrepreneurs
Peachtree Minority Venture Fund gives Emory students a hands-on opportunity to learn about … [+] venture capital while providing capital to minority entrepreneurs. Humza Mirza. The ... -
Gennext in family offices is not afraid of riskier assets
Investment products, from vanilla common stock PMS funds to complicated alternative investment products, long-term debt funds, private equity, venture capital and even peer-to-peer lending are now ... -
Fear and hate return to tech start-ups
Startup workers arrived in 2022 expecting another year of gushing initial public offerings. Then the stock market crashed, Russia invaded Ukraine, inflation skyrocketed and interest rates ... -
Dragonfly Capital Closes $650M Oversubscribed Crypto Venture Fund III
The company will expand its global seed portfolio crypto and blockchain investments SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Dragonfly Capital (“Dragonfly”), a ... -
Raise funds on trust, says Mathilde Collin, CEO of Front – TechCrunch
Startups need capital and often raise funds from investors. It requires a pitch, numbers, stats and a story. And the time must be correct. The key ... -
Larry Ellison leads group of investors paying $7.1 billion for Musk takeover on Twitter – TechCrunch
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Fractional home equity lender Point raises $115 million
Fintech and Fractional Home Equity Lender Indicate raised an additional $115 million through a Series C fundraising round led by a venture capital firm West Cape. ... -
“Achieving net zero carbon emissions is possible”
Climatech continues to be a hot topic as natural disasters and other climate-impacting events continue to raise alarm bells. Capital Nature is one of Israel’s leading ... -
Venture capital financing deals in the medical device sector worldwide in March 2022
DNAnexus’ $200 million venture financing was the medical device industry’s leading venture financing deal as total deals worth $2.1 billion were announced globally in March 2022, ... -
Chinese investment in Europe gained in 2021 from a low level; Doubled VC streams
Chinese billionaire Zhang Lei’s Hillhouse Capital led Philips home appliance purchase … [+] business last year. Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance L.P. China’s direct ... -
Venture Capital Investment Market Size, Outlook and Forecast
New Jersey, United States – the Venture capital investment market The research report offers complete coverage of the Venture Capital Investment Market during the forecast period ... -
TULU Raises $20M Series A for Usability-Saving Platform and Amenity Services
TULU, which has developed a smart technology platform that provides building tenants with on-demand access to hundreds of brand name appliances, basic groceries, micro-mobility solutions and ... -
Global Digital Asset Summit 2022 Held Successfully
Los Angeles, California, April 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — This is not investment advice. Please do your own research when investing in a project. On April ... -
Global insurance company Tokio Marine launches Tokio Marine Future Fund, a $42 million CVC arm to support early-stage startups
Based in Silicon Valley, Tokio Marine Future Fund will be an inaugural corporate venture capital (CVC) fund that will deploy venture capital thematically in sectors including ... -
Japan’s Leading Laser Nuclear Fusion Company, EX-Fusion Raises 130 Million Yen in Pre-Seed, Paving the Way for Development of Critical Components Needed to Commercialize Nuclear Fusion
The funds will be used to develop technologies that enable continuous injection of target material and automatic tracking and alignment of laser systems to build a ... -
This week in European tech: Beqom gets $300m, Germany gives birth to choco-corn, Bosch buys Five, NATO plans for billion-euro venture capital fund, and more
This week, the Tech.eu research team followed 75 technology financing agreements value more than 1.4 billion eurosand more than 20 outputsM&A transactions and rumors across Europe. ... -
Alice Walton and Jim Goetz will launch the Heartland Challenge 2022
Carl Humphry Northwest Arkansas philanthropist Alice Walton and famed Sequoia Capital investor Jim Goetz headline a list of top speakers and ... -
Mining the future – The Wire China
Good evening. Robert Friedland is perhaps the most interesting billionaire you’ve never heard of. Check out our cover story this week to find out how the ... -
Startups need to control ESG to attract venture capital – Nick Freer
Survey says startups could do better on environmental policies A study last month by a collective of leading European venture capital (VC) firms found that while ... -
The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine – TechCrunch
venture capital According to the data, the market could see a shift in power dynamics away from founders and more toward investors. The information, gathered by ... -
Peloton Guide with body tracking camera now on sale for $295 – TechCrunch
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SeaX Ventures Launches $60M Fund II to Help International Startups Expand in Southeast Asia
Although the initial target size of the fund was $50 millionthe increase was oversubscribed and the total was increased to $60 million. SeaX Ventures will invest ... -
Atlassian doubles its venture capital fund to propel the SaaS ecosystem
Atlassian Corporation Plc (NASDAQ:TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software and maker of Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Trello products, has deployed over $110 ... -
SOSV and JetBlue Technology Ventures Discuss VC Climate Tech and ESG at TC: Climate 2022 Sessions – TechCrunch
Investments in climate technologies are growing almost as fast as climate change itself. In 2021, climate tech startups have received over $40 billion on more than ... -
Indonesia Impact Fund has officially achieved its first closing
He is indonesia first private impact investment fund compliant with ESG standards, managed by Indonesian institutions and focusing on sectors such as education, health, waste management, ... -
Family Offices bet on fungal drug discovery by backing LifeMine Therapeutics for Series C round
Published on 03/26/2022 LifeMine Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company reinventing drug discovery by extracting genetically encoded small molecules (GEMs) from the biosphere. LifeMine Therapeutics raised ... -
Investments and acquisitions take off in new spaces | Coie Perkins
This article is the first in a series from industry group Perkins Coie New Space on developments in the “new space” industry. Charged with reducing the ... -
New Podcast Series Featuring Local Entrepreneurs Headlines Triangle Startup Guide Updates
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – With regular updates to keep content fresh, WRAL TechWire’s Triangle Startup Guide offers a timely set of resources for anyone looking to ... -
Trinity Capital promotes Harder to COO, Kundach to CCO
Trinity Capital, a specialty lending company that offers loans, including loans and equipment financing, has promoted Gerry Harder to the company’s first chief operating officer position ... -
Investment vehicle Abramovich changed control shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine
LONDON—Hours after Russia invaded Ukraine, control of an investment vehicle long linked in public documents to oligarch Roman Abramovich and used to hold stakes in renewable ... -
PTT Oil and Retail Business (OR) plans ambitious international expansion and venture capital investment to become a global player in mobility and lifestyle offerings
BANGKOK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Thailand leading oil and retail operator PTT Oil and Retail Business Plc. (OR) is gearing up for prolific international expansion ... -
Bessemer Venture Partners launches BessemerDAO
Hello and welcome to Pipeline. This week: Bessemer opts for the DAO, wartime startupland and a little Tiger in your coffers. Decentralize VC Venture capital firms ... -
Tiger Global disrupts VCs again by backing seed funds
Tiger Global partners have reportedly pledged to invest $1 billion in seed funding. Large VCs are increasingly looking to invest in early-stage startups. But Tiger’s strategy ... -
Mid-Cap Growth Fund Gets Ahead With Pick and Shovel Stocks
Ron Zibelli isn’t afraid to hold a stock. Early in his career, he invested in Cisco Systems (ticker: CSCO) as a young company and saw the ... -
European Investment Bank provides €7.5 million loan to support research and development of Diadem’s AlzoSure® Predict blood test for Alzheimer’s disease
First CE-IVD marked blood test that predicts the likely progression of Alzheimer’s disease up to six years before the onset of definitive symptoms Received ... -
Uganda in the spotlight as the country’s startups captivate YC, Google – TechCrunch
The startup ecosystem in Africa has so far been dominated by Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt (“the Big 4”), countries that continue to receive the ... -
Divirod, a Colorado Water Risk Startup, Secures Investment from TDK Ventures
This week, TDK Companiesthe venture capital arm of the Japanese electronics company TDK and a leading investor in global “hard tech” startups, announced that it is ... -
Serena Williams raises over $100 million for venture fund
Serena Williams’ early-stage venture capital firm, Serena Ventures, has raised an inaugural $111 million fund that will invest in founders with diverse perspectives, she told the ... -
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MiB: Sebastian Mallaby on the history of venture capital
This week we speak with journalist Sebastian Mallaby about his new book, “The law of power: venture capital and the creation of the new future.” Mallaby, ... -
Sunstone Management Welcomes New CEO John Keisler | News
LONG BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–February 22, 2022– Elevating its position as a leader in local economic development and innovation, Sunstone Management today announced that John Keisler, an ... -
US pension fund commits $50m to BlueRun Ventures’ latest Asian vehicle
In Singapore, we are looking to double our reporting team by the end of the year to comprehensively cover the rapidly changing world of funded startups ... -
Meta fires executive after ‘predator catchers’ interview video goes viral – TechCrunch
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PiLab Technology (BIFROST) Raises $8.4M in Series A Funding Led by Korea Investment Partners and STIC Ventures
Korea’s two leading venture capital and private equity firms, Korea Investment Partners and STIC Ventures, are known for their past investments in unicorns, including South Korean ... -
2021 Power Industry M&A and Investment Trends Monthly Deal Analysis Report – ResearchAndMarkets.com
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Power Sector Mergers and Acquisitions and Investment Trends Monthly Deal Analysis – June 2021” report has been added to from ResearchAndMarkets.com offer. This report ... -
Metaverse BUD Platform Raises $15M Series A+ from Qiming Venture, GGV Capital
BUD Technologies, one of the world’s largest user-generated 3D content platforms, has raised new capital in a Series A expansion round led by Shanghai-based Qiming Venture ... -
Nandu Kuppuswamy, Senior Finance Executive joins as 3Lines Partner
Nandu Kuppuswamy, CFA, former Head of Investor Relations at Sandstone Capital, has joined 3Lines as a Partner. Tweet that He credits his experience as an LP ... -
Glushik of HG Ventures Named “Emerging Leader” of Global Corporate Venturing
INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HG Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of The Heritage Group, today announced that Chief Executive John Glushik has been recognized as one of Global ... -
Envisioning Partners closes $64 million fund for climate tech startups – TechCrunch
Most companies today recognize the importance of global warming. As such, they are redefining their objectives with the aim of tackling the problem of climate change. ... -
The Dallas-based home rental company’s next housing venture is rent-to-own
The nation’s largest investor in rental homes is backing a new rent-to-own home company. Dallas-based Invitation Homes has acquired more than 80,000 rental homes across the ... -
Exclusive: Veteran Blockchain VC Backer Tiger Global Gets Into Crypto Trading
Tiger traded decentralized finance protocols including Filecoin The company, founded in 2001, invests in public and private companies Tiger Global, long known for making winning bets ... -
Tiger Global: pay and spray
In 2021, it felt like you couldn’t move without hearing about another venture capital deal by the $95 billion tech fund Tiger Global. Until Christmas last ... -
Auburn University’s New Venture Accelerator Received Grant to Accelerate Growth of High-Quality Jobs
Auburn University is one of 50 organizations in 26 states that receive significant federal grants to support programs that fuel innovation and economic development. Auburn’s grant, ... -
ViISA announced its investment in SHub
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, January 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — ViISA, a Vietnamese venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups, announced its latest investment in ... -
Acting like an expert, even without experience, can help secure venture capital funding
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain What matters more to venture capitalists: a polished presentation or the actual experience and expertise of the company founder? A report by ... -
Lincoln Company Helping Truckers Haul $78 Million Investment | Local business news
BasicBlock, a Lincoln-based startup that helps truckers access capital and get paid faster, announced a $78 million investment Monday from multiple companies. Noah Berger, Associated Press ... -
Microfinance Group Offers to Buy SSL Ventures for $38 Million | Business
Publicly listed junior SSL Venture Capital Jamaica Limited, SSL Ventures, has received a takeover bid that could see the acquirer purchase 100% of the company’s shares, ... -
[Weekly Funding Roundup] Venture capital inflow into Indian startups remains steady
January to date has seen steady funding momentum, with Indian startups raising around $400 million in total capital. In the third week of January, Indian startups ... -
The frenetic pace of fintech investment is outpacing the global venture capital boom – TechCrunch
The global startup the fundraising boom lifted nearly every industry you can name: Edtech took off during the pandemic, software in general took a boost, and ... -
WealthKernel raises $7 million to expand, plus
WealthKernel, a digital investment services provider, raised $7 million in a Series A+ funding round, according to a Monday, January 17, press release. The London-based company ... -
Are the go-go years of venture capital about to end?
Seasoned investors have been nervous for several years about the risk of a potential bubble forming in venture capital markets. This anxiety has been particularly pronounced ... -
Venture Capital-Backed Dogdrop Partners with Oakscale for National Franchise Expansion
dog drop Consumers expect both cutting-edge technology and flexibility in 2022. Dogdrop is rewriting the business model for dog daycare. —Joshua Kovacs NEW YORK, NY, USA, ... -
Dorm Room Fund returns to campus with new $10.4 million fund – TechCrunch
Dorm Room Fund, a venture capital operation launched to invest in student-led startups, has raised a new $10.4 million fund, according to SEC filings. The filing ... -
FORMER CAPGEMINI DIRECTOR PATRICK NICOLET AND SAPPHIRE VENTURES FINANCE EXEC SAI SOOD JOINS BGV, AS WELL AS SEVERAL NEW TEAMS RECRUIED
MENLO PARK, California, January 10, 2022 / PRNewswire / – Silicon Valley-based venture capital (VC) firm Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) today announced that Patrick Nicolet, former ... -
Saudi fintech investment surges as regulators define 2021 landscape
Saudi Arabia’s ‘Unprecedented Growth’ Expected to Solidify M&A Leader Position in 2022 RIYAD: Saudi Arabia has become one of the most attractive markets for international companies ... -
Databricks creates venture capital fund to help young companies and startups
The San Francisco-based data analytics software company announced Databricks Ventures, a strategic investment to encourage the generation of data and AI technologies. Databricks’ Lakehouse Fund will ... -
Orios Venture leads funding for live streaming platform Bolo Live
SynergyByte Media Pvt. Ltd, which operates the social live streaming platform Bolo Live, has raised $ 2.4 million (around Rs 18 crore) as a precursor to ... -
Taiwan FSC reveals focus areas for 2022 inspections
The 7 main areas of intervention include consumer protection, real estate credit, information security, conflicts of interest and green finance. Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has ... -
How VCs won by throwing away their rulebooks in 2021
A tiger and a bull on a pile of coins. Getty MArk Goldberg knows how much the venture capital market has changed in recent years. A ... -
Voyant Photonics Raises $ 15.4 Million in Series A Funding to Provide 3D Sensing with its Chip LiDARs
Voyant’s LiDAR system, containing thousands of optical components fabricated on a single semiconductor chip, enables its customers to integrate an efficient and exponentially more scalable LiDAR ... -
Mohammad Khairil Abdullah Joins VEON Management Team as CEO of VEON Ventures
AMSTERDAM, December 29, 2021 / PRNewswire / – VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON) (Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), one of the world’s leading providers of connectivity and internet services, ... -
Tech Economy Grows Despite Chicago’s COVID-19 Challenges
In a globally nerve-racking year for Chicago businesses – whether the problem is the plague, inflation, labor and supply shortages, or just opening the office or ... -
Infinite Income Multiples – TechCrunch
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startup and market newsletter. It is inspired by the daily TechCrunch + chronicle from where it takes its name. ... -
Japan’s largest bank MUFG to launch new $ 300 million venture capital fund
People line up at a branch of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFJ) bank in Tokyo, Japan on February 1, 2016. REUTERS / Yuya Shino ... -
CFPB shuts down payday lender it calls venture capital ‘darling’
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau forced the payday loan company LendUp to stop making new loans and to stop collecting some outstanding loans as part of ... -
VC Tribe Capital in start-up phase in US seeks $ 500 million for third fund
In Singapore, we are looking to double our reporting team by the end of the year to comprehensively cover the rapidly evolving world of funded startups ... -
African startup raises $ 6million in pre-series A funding round
Africa Blockchain Lab recently said it had raised $ 6 million in a pre-Series A investment round and would use the capital to fund the launch ... -
Are venture capitalists misunderstood?
The Law of Power: Venture Capital and the Construction of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby, Penguin, 2022 The last few years have been tough on ... -
Accelia Capital launches $ 50 million venture capital fund to support women-led startups in Quebec
A new $ 50 million Quebec venture capital fund supports technology start-ups led by women. Accelia Capital intends to finance innovative Quebec technology companies. The fund ... -
Risks and bureaucracy hold back IPOs – CVBJ
12/13/2021 at 07:31 CET Araceli Munoz A few years ago go to bag it was the goal of my dreams many companies, who saw the jump ... -
Apollo Health Ventures closes Fund II at $ 180 million
Apollo Health Ventures, a Boston, MA and Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm specializing in developing and investing in data-driven biotechnology and health technology companies, has closed ... -
Work-Bench report finds only 1.9% of VC investments go to female business founders – TechCrunch
A new report from venture capital firm Work-Bench has confirmed what you probably already know: Startups with female founders only get a fraction of the overall ... -
Mission BioCapital strengthens its team to support the investments of the new fund
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. And SAN FRANCISCO – (COMMERCIAL THREAD) –BioCapital mission, a venture capital firm focused on making investments in early stage life sciences companies that it ... -
Funding News: Cyrus Raises $ 18 Million, Purchases Start-Up Developing COVID-19 Therapy; Spare Labs wins $ 18 million for mobility software
Cyrus CEO Lucas Nivon. (Photo Cyrus) The news: Seattle-based protein engineering company Cyrus Biotechnology has raised $ 18 million and acquired Orthogonal Biologics, a University of ... -
Black Ops Ventures Launches $ 13 Million Seed Fund to Help Black Tech Founders Launch Their Startups
Black Ops Ventures, a venture capital fund managed and led by a team of all-black founders, closed its first fund with a total investment of $ ... -
OCC advises banks to carefully assess investments in venture capital funds – finance and banking
On November 23, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued Bulletin 2021-54 (the Bulletin) advising national banks that many equity investments as ... -
4 qualities that could make you the next Arlan Hamilton
Opinions expressed by Contractor the contributors are theirs. You are reading Entrepreneur United States, an international Entrepreneur Media franchise. If you identify as a black woman ... -
UK government launches plan to ease charge limit on pension fund investments
A fee limit protecting UK retirement savers from high fees is set to be relaxed further amid proposals to get pension funds to invest billions of ... -
Mi Casa helps Denver’s most vulnerable residents start careers and small businesses
Denver residents Claudia Hernandez and Ignacio Rosas face rising costs as their four children reach their teens and plan to go to college, which seems financially ... -
Local baby food brand attracts $ 12 million in venture capital as it moves from e-commerce to traditional retail
Organic baby food brand Amara just announced $ 12 million in Series A funding. The lead investor was Eat Well Investment Group, a vertically integrated plant ... -
Coinbase acquires the team behind the BRD crypto wallet – TechCrunch
As crypto proponents seek to onboard a new generation of users, one of the main ramps for consumers has been a multitude of consumer wallet apps ... -
Seaya Ventures and Cathay Innovation launch $ 125 million fund for LatAm startups – TechCrunch
Venture capital firms Seaya Ventures and Cathay Innovation have created a pooled fund for Latin American startups that are redefining their industries and their society. The ... -
Flytrex, suburban drone delivery service, raises $ 40 million in Series C – TechCrunch
For a rundown of TechCrunch’s most important and important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to ...