Tagged: venture fund

November 8, 2022 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Quona Capital has announced a new Fintech venture fund which has raised $332 million to “accelerate financial inclusion investments in emerging markets.” Quona Capital was established as an independent venture capital firm in 2015 by co-founding managing partners Monica Brand Engel, Jonathan Whittle, and Ganesh Rengaswamy. According to… Read More

August 22, 2022 @ 2:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Web3 venture studio SuperLayer is announcing a $25 million fund “led by anchor investor and strategic partner Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform onboarding millions to Web3.” SuperLayer is “a Web3 venture studio founded by early pioneers in blockchain, gaming, and social tokens who are applying… Read More

June 25, 2022 @ 7:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Breega, the European VC built “by founders for founders,” has closed a €250 million venture fund and now celebrates the launch of a Barcelona office along with its London and Paris locations. The fund should enable Breega to finance founders at Series A stage and… Read More

February 28, 2022 @ 11:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A&T Capital has finalized the fundraising for a $100 million pool of capital that will be dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain-focused venture investments, the company confirmed. The investors reportedly include major Fintech industry participants, partners of various other venture funds as well as technology entrepreneurs,… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 10:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Circle Internet Financial has launched Circle Ventures, a fund that aims to invest in promising early-stage blockchain firms. While best known for its dollar-based stablecoin (USDC), Circle is already engaged with the early-stage funding sector via its acquisition of SeedInvest, a top investment crowdfunding platform…. Read More

June 6, 2021 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GreenSky Capital Inc. recently revealed that it has finalized its fourth affiliated venture fund, the GreenSky Accelerator Fund IV, LP. The Fund reportedly has $15 million to invest in Canada‘s early-stage tech firms. The Fund’s limited partners are “composed of a network of private Canadian… Read More

March 12, 2019 @ 12:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Forte, a blockchain technology for games developer, has formed a new partnership with Ripple to create a $100 million fund for mainstream blockchain games. According to Venture Beat, this new fund will operate alongside Forte’s platform technologies and include open-source solutions designed with Ripple to… Read More

June 11, 2018 @ 9:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Luge Capital, a new venture capital fund specifically focused on early-stage fintech companies and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions applied to financial services, announced on Monday it has completed a $75 million round of financing to begin operations. The fund reported that Initially, $50 million of the raised capital was… Read More

January 27, 2017 @ 11:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Venture capital and advisory firm, Nyca Partners (Nyca), announced on Friday its latest venture capital fund received more than $125 million in total commitments. The company reports that over the course of the next 30 months, its founder, former Visa president, and LendingClub chairman, Han Morris,… Read More

February 4, 2016 @ 4:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

During the past two years, eight companies in Index Ventures’ portfolio went public, including Pure Storage, King, Just Eat and Hortonworks, while many others expanded significantly, including Funding Circle,Adyen, BlaBlaCar, Deliveroo, Slack and Sonos. Seven out of 10 Index’s investments originated at Seed or Series… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 11:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, KXTER, Inc. launched a new crowdfunded Silicon Valley venture fund that is designed to offer individual investors the opportunity to access multiple venture investment strategies and managers in a single closed-end fund. The Kxter Fund One LLC (the “Fund”), which already holds positions in several… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 11:14 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Bavarian-based noDNA, Europe’s biggest online seller of robotics components for research and education,  launched a financing campaign on Companisto, offering venture loans bearing annual interest of 8%.  noDNA is the second venture loan offered on Companisto, following Sawade which has raised over 442,880€ of its 1M€ goal…. Read More

February 21, 2014 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding company Crowdcube will be closing their first foray into offering a Fund of Crowdfunded Investments.  Venture Fund will close on Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Launched on January 28, 2014, Crowdcube has experienced significant demand for the product.  The investment vehicle allows individuals to… Read More

January 26, 2014 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has launched their very own venture fund to allow a  professional fund manager do all the hard work in creating a diversified portfolio. Crowdcube has partnered with Strathtay Ventures who have over 15 years’ worth of expertise and a strong track… Read More