Tagged: lightspeed venture partners

April 18, 2023 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitola, the digital marketplace for commercial insurance that connects brokers and carriers and uses AI-based risk appetite matching to streamline the placement process, today announced it has raised $15.6 million in its Series A funding round. Led by Munich Re Ventures, this investment round will… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sentio has raised $6.4 million to bring modern observability to decentralized applications. The investment round was “led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from industry leaders Hashkey Capital, Canonical Crypto, Essence VC and GSR Ventures.” The Sentio team “consists of veteran engineers from Google, Linkedin,… Read More

September 3, 2022 @ 1:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alloy, which claims to be the leading Identity Decisioning Platform for banks and fintech companies, announced that it “raised an additional $52 million led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Avenir Growth with participation from existing investors Canapi Ventures,” Bessemer Venture Partners, Avid Ventures, and Felicis… Read More

August 5, 2022 @ 6:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Talon Cyber Security, the “secure” enterprise browser provider, recently announced $100 million in Series A funding, led by Evolution Equity Partners, “with participation from Ballistic Ventures, CrowdStrike’s Falcon Fund, Merlin Ventures, SYN Ventures and previous investors CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz, Lightspeed Venture Partners,… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment platform Lightyear has announced a $25M Series A equity round “led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.” The company’s seed investors, Mosaic Ventures, Taavet+Sten and Metaplanet also took part in the investment round “alongside a number of new and existing angel investors.” Joining Lightspeed in this… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payhawk, the payment and expense solution with offices in London, Sofia, Berlin, and Barcelona, has secured an additional $100 million in order to extend its Series B round to $215 million. The Fintech firm’s Series B extension was reportedly “raised at a valuation of $1… Read More

July 4, 2021 @ 3:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based Endowus, a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)-approved and licensed digital wealth management platform, reveals that it has acquired an investment from strategic investors UBS AG, Samsung Ventures and Singtel Innov8. The size of the investment has not been disclosed. Venture capital investors Lightspeed Venture… Read More

April 1, 2021 @ 9:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Endowus, a Singapore-based wealthtech, announced on Thursday it raised $23 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from SoftBank Ventures Asia. Founded in 2017, Endowus stated it is seeking to empower people to “take control” of… Read More

February 26, 2021 @ 7:33 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Mexico-based consumer fintech Stori announced on Thursday it raised $32.5 million through its Series B funding round, which was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Vision Plus Capital, BAI Capital, and Source Code Capital. The investment round brings its total funding to… Read More

July 8, 2020 @ 9:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Wintermute, an algorithmic liquidity provider for digital assets, announced on Tuesday it secured $2.8 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.  Founded in 2017, Wintermute claims to be a leading global market maker for digital assets. It… Read More

December 14, 2016 @ 8:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BlueVine, an online lender that provides factoring finance, announced on Wednesday is has secured $49 million during a Series D funding round, which was led by existing investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, 83North, Citi Ventures, Rakuten FinTech Fund, and Silicon Valley Bank. Since… Read More

January 20, 2016 @ 11:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BlueVine, an online provider of working capital financing to small businesses, announced on Wednesday it has closed $40 million in funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $64 million to date.  This Series C funding was led by an investment from Menlo Ventures, with additional… Read More

January 29, 2015 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Giphy did a Series A funding round last Spring raising $2.4 million plus a crowdfunded portion via Alphaworks in the amount of $100,000.  The crowdfunding portion was filled immediately.  Well Giphy is at it again and they are closing on a Series B that has… Read More