Tagged: venture capital

February 19, 2022 @ 2:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

A new report by Telstra Ventures highlights how the tech hub ecosystem is changing. The US has long been a hotbed of entrepreneurship and innovation with early-stage firms establishing dominant hubs in locations like the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. But COVID… Read More

February 15, 2022 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The early stage continues to resemble the “late stage of years past.” Last year, the median early-stage valuation surged 50% YoY to $45.0 million. This value represents a greater median than the late stage only a few years ago “and illustrates the tsunami of capital… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 2:56 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The explosive growth of Fintechs and their rising influence in finance has been neatly summarized in F-Prime’s State of Fintech Report for 2021. Start with the raises. In 2021 Fintechs attracted close to $120 billion of capital in private markets, with more than 300 nine-figure… Read More

February 7, 2022 @ 10:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CommerzVentures, a “return-driven,” non-strategic venture capital investor, has shared a detailed report on climate Fintech, which covers venture capital funding for Fintech companies. The report reveals that in this sector, net-zero economies reached a record high last year. Surveying several climate Fintechs across European and… Read More

February 4, 2022 @ 3:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Barclays today announced Rainmaking, a corporate venture builder, will help it launch a new suite of initiatives targeted at fintech founders across the globe to help grow and develop their companies. The first to launch is the Rise Start-Up Academy, a virtual digital skills-building accelerator… Read More

February 4, 2022 @ 6:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

VC firm Founders Fund has reportedly led an investment in Ramp, a corporate credit card and spending management software firm that launched a few years back. The company is now valued at $8 billion (including the investment). This, according to sources familiar with the matter… Read More

January 31, 2022 @ 2:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US venture capitalists had a “tremendous” year in 2021, as they were able to shatter all previous annual fundraising records, according to an update from Carta, a San Francisco based firm helping private and public companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership. As noted… Read More

January 31, 2022 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and innovation incubation division of Binance, has announced a strategic investment in StarryNift, the game Metaverse and co-creating platform that aims to bring the Metaverse space to greater heights. StarryNift is described as the first gamified “massive” co-creation Web 3.0… Read More

January 26, 2022 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Luna PR, a digital asset-focused marketing firm, has announced the creation of Luna VC – a venture company launched to invest in early-stage crypto companies. Apparently, Luna VC has already invested in ten crypto firms claiming a 4000% return during the first quarter of its… Read More

January 25, 2022 @ 6:38 pm By Adam Putz, PhD  |  

With a new SPAC launched seemingly every day and IPOs popping left and right, it might seem like the public markets are the place to be. Although following that path to liquidity might make sense for some companies, that’s just not the case for most… Read More

January 24, 2022 @ 1:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Future Planet Capital, the impact-led, international VC company built to invest in high-growth firms from the world’s leading universities and research centers, has sold £18,549 with 26 days left in its campaign carried out via Seedrs. Future Plane Capital claims to be a profitable impact-VC… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 9:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Like any industry, venture capitalism is “a shifting landscape with ebbs and flows, though to be fair, it hasn’t really ‘ebbed’ lately,” according to a blog post by US Fintech Unicorn Brex. The VC industry has seen tremendous growth during the past few years—one that’s… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 12:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Avolta Partners has distributed a note highlighting the gangbuster year for the French startup ecosystem. Avolta is a French boutique investment bank that is participating in this sector that says it is one the most active M&A firms in Europe in the tech industry, including… Read More

December 14, 2021 @ 5:16 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

European VC firm Sapphire Ventures will significantly expand its European investment activities over the coming year, the company said this week. As part of this expansion, which follows the opening of the firm’s first European office last year, Sapphire promoted Annalise Dragic, currently a principal,… Read More

November 29, 2021 @ 11:24 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK research firm Hardman & Co. has distributed a white paper that says investors are underweight venture capital. The research was published with the support of SyndicateRoom, Deepbridge, One Four Nine, and Nova Growth  Capital. Once a securities crowdfunding platform, SyndicateRoom now offers a… Read More

November 28, 2021 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Future Planet Capital, an impact-led, global VC company launched to invest in high-growth firms the world’s leading universities and research centers, has raised 111% (£2,777,247) of its  £2,500,065 target from 412 investors (at the time of writing) via Seedrs with 24 days left in its… Read More

November 28, 2021 @ 8:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Judith Hartley, CEO of British Patient Capital, says the performance of UK venture capital is a notable success story during a challenging period for businesses across the world British Patient Capital is a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of British Business Bank plc, the UK government’s… Read More

November 22, 2021 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) has disrupted many industries since its launch and now it could be the turn for venture capital. We recently had the chance to connect with Hatu Sheikh, a founding member at DAO Maker — a platform opening up the… Read More

November 17, 2021 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Balderton Capital, a venture capital firm that has backed numerous Fintechs, says it has raised $600 million in a new fund focused on early-stage European firms. This is its second fund for 2021. In the past two decades, Balderton has raised around $4.5 billion across… Read More

November 16, 2021 @ 3:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Paradigm, a firm investing in cryptocurrency-based startups, said this week it has raised $2.5 billion from investors to create the largest-ever cryptocurrency investment fund. If true, it would kick Andreessen Horowitz out of the top spot. The sum also surpasses the initial $1.5 billion target…. Read More