Venture Capital News
Follow the money to learn what’s new in the world of venture capital. This section features companies, organizations and people involved in funding, such as seed, Series A and Series B rounds, including VC firms, angel investors, crowdfunding sites, micro-investors and startups.
eCTD Solutions Appoints New CEO and Changes Name to Highlight Expanded Capability
Sunny Ayr Holdings, a group of healthcare product solutions companies, is pleased to announce the change of the name of eCTD Solutions Ltd. to Omni Early Development Services and the appointment of Mark Marino, MD as Partner and Chief Executive Officer of the early product development solutions provider. - May 19, 2021 - Sunny Ayr Holdings
InfiSense Unlocks Real World Data to Help Experts Solve the World’s Most Pressing Problems
InfiSense, with offices in Burlington VT, announced that it raised a round of capital led by Vermont-based investment fund FreshTracks, and graduated from the Montreal-based Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) accelerator program. As the world combats climate change on many fronts, InfiSense ensures that a continuous supply of actionable data from sensors in the real world is available on demand. - May 14, 2021 - InfiSense
People’s Trust Federal Credit Union Launches Enrich Financial Wellness Platform to Its 30,000 Members
People’s Trust Federal Credit Union has partnered with San Diego-based financial education company iGrad to offer the award-winning Enrich™ financial wellness platform to its 30,000 members. Enrich is used by more than 20,000 employers and more than 300 financial institutions... - May 13, 2021 - iGrad
First National Closes $22.7 Million Single Family Rental Development Loan in Chicagoland
First National, a financial industry independent lender with over 30 years of history, has closed another complex, multi-property residential development transaction. - May 12, 2021 - Kensington Nanny Service
North American Pet Health Insurance Market Continued Double-Digit Growth in 2020
The North American Pet Health Insurance Association (NAPHIA) today reported that North America’s pet insurance sector exceeded $2.174 billion USD in 2020, recording its sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth. The industry continued its growth trajectory despite the... - May 04, 2021 - NAPHIA - North American Pet Health Insurance Association
Califia Partners, LLC Announces Its SEC Form D Filing for Its New Water Resources Investment Fund, Beneficial Use Partners I, LLC
California’s drought continues, but there are innovative solutions. Califia Partners, LLC’s new fund, Beneficial Use Partners I, LLC, has commenced its initial funding round for its acquisition of rights to substantial sustainable sources of clean water deliverable to Southern... - April 27, 2021 - Califia Partners, LLC
Super Lottery: NordFX Gives Away Prizes to Traders
The Super Lottery was launched by the brokerage company NordFX among its clients on April 1. - April 27, 2021 - NordFX
Growing Demand for Storage Made Easy’s File and Object Unification Solution, The Enterprise File Fabric, Drives Record Revenue in 2020
Record revenues in 2020 driven by growing Enterprise File Fabric adoption for enterprises who require unified file and object storage along with cybersecurity and compliance protections for hybrid workers. - April 23, 2021 - Storage Made Easy
Courage Therapeutics Awarded STTR Grant to Design Novel Anorexia Drugs
Courage Therapeutics has been awarded an STTR grant by the National Insittute of Mental Health to design novel anorexia drugs. The grant is a follow-up to research by the Cone lab at the University of Michigan that recently published in Science Translational Research that MC3R is a potential target for therapeutic development in anorexia and obesity. The effort allows for an expeditious translation of basic science into eating disorders which have remained an area of significant unmet need. - April 23, 2021 - Courage Therapeutics
Status Group International Now Aligned with UAE FasterCapital
Status Group International, a global boutique strategic business advisory and private capital facilitator, and FasterCapital, a UAE based online incubator, and accelerator are now associated service partners dedicated to international small business development. - April 17, 2021 - Status Group International Corporation
Financial Times: The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies Ranking 2021
Occams Advisory was featured 478th on the 2nd annual Financial Times’ Americas’ fastest-growing companies 2021. Per FT, "This ranking offers a snapshot of the relative strength of companies as they entered COVID-19 pandemic and points to those likely to have the resilience to... - April 16, 2021 - Occams Advisory
Da Vinci Increases Investment in DataArt
Emerging markets private equity firm Da Vinci Capital has closed a follow-on investment in global software engineering company DataArt. Da Vinci Capital made its initial investment in DataArt in 2018. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, DataArt achieved record annual revenue up over 15% from... - April 15, 2021 - Da Vinci Capital
Exclusive Invitation-Only Pilot Project E-commerce Delivery Chain of Custody Fulfilling Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Standards
Surge Automated is inviting a limited number of marijuana dispensaries nationwide to join an exclusive invitation-only pilot program. This project will allow participants to use the Surge Verify ID and Age SaaS solution, a ground-breaking digital ID and Age validation product. This innovative... - April 15, 2021 - Surge Automated, Inc.
Softline Venture Partners Fund Bought a Share in IoT-Company, T-One Group
Softline Venture Partners, the corporate venture fund of Softline Group, became a co-owner of the Russian JSC T-One Group, which specializes in the creation and development of services based on navigation technologies for consumer and corporate markets. The parties did not disclose the number of shares and the value of the deal. - April 15, 2021 - Noventiq
Fundacion Génesis Empresarial Sees 3x Lower Loan Defaults After Using Alternative Credit Data by Innovative Assessments
Fundación Génesis Empresarial has partnered with IAssessments to assist in their risk assessments and loan origination processes. Génesis Empresarial, a Guatemala based foundation specialized in economic and social development, originally tested Worthy Credit during 2018. They... - April 14, 2021 - Innovative Assessments
Sound Payments’ Partner Freedom Electronics Announces Availability of Kits to Enable EMV at the Pump
The Freedom Easy Pump kits, powered by Sound Payments, has UL1238 approved retrofit kits for Advantage, Encore 300, Encore 500, Encore 500S, Encore 700S, Vista, and Ovation-1 models. All systems include contactless payment as a standard feature. Sound Payments was recognized in 2020 for providing an optimal tap to pay experience through the Visa Ready Tap to Pay Program for the IM20 and Aries 8 contactless payment solutions. - April 12, 2021 - Sound Payments
Fintelum Opens Investment Into New Tokenisation Project KEEPP
Over 15% in dividend, KEEPP represents an attractive investment opportunity in a yield-starved and COVID-19-disrupted investment environment. - April 06, 2021 - Fintelum
Longshore Capital and Revco Solutions Acquire ARMC Financial Services
Revco Solutions is pleased to announce the acquisition of ARMC Financial Services, a healthcare revenue cycle management company that specializes in insurance denial management - helping hospitals collect revenue that is improperly denied by insurance carriers. - March 31, 2021 - Revco Solutions
VDOSH Expands Portfolio with Investment in JETSWEAT
Los Angeles venture capital firm is pleased to announce investment in New York-based, boutique fitness platform. - March 31, 2021 - VDOSH
Courage Therapeutics Raises $1M for Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Other Related Eating Disorders
Courage Therapeutics raised $1M towards development of treatments for eating disorders including Anorexia Nervosa, ARFID, BED and genetic obesity. The company is led by Dan Housman a parent of children with eating disorders. The round was led by Michigan Biomedical Ventures. Funding will be used to test Courage’s proprietary compounds in animal models of eating disorders. The technology is based on the research on MC3R at the University of Michigan from co-founder Dr. Roger Cone’s lab. - March 24, 2021 - Courage Therapeutics
Clearsense Secures $30 Million in New Funding to Fuel Growth as a Cutting-Edge Data Platform Technology
Clearsense, an advanced data management and analytics technology platform serving the healthcare industry, announced today it has closed $30 million in financing in partnership led by Health Catalyst Capital. Clearsense will use the new capital to build out its technology and advisory services to... - March 24, 2021 - Clearsense, LLC
Notice Ninja, Inc. Launches SaaS CRM for Tax Notice Compliance
Rick Pinkerman, Founder and CEO of Notice Ninja, Inc., says, “We are disrupting a $6.7B year industry with digital innovation that will transform how businesses process tax and compliance notices from any agency or jurisdiction in the World. Put simply, we make global government compliance simple.” - March 17, 2021 - Notice Ninja, Inc.
CCS Facility Services First Company in the World to Earn GBAC STAR Service Accreditation
CCS Facility Services is honored to announce that the company is the first to earn GBAC STAR™ Service accreditation from the Global Biorisk Advisory Council. - March 09, 2021 - CCS Facility Services
Franklin Templeton Partners with iGrad on New Personalized Financial Wellness Platform
Franklin Templeton and iGrad/Enrich partner to provide a personalized financial wellness platform for financial professionals to share with defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors and participants. - March 08, 2021 - iGrad
Verb(TM) Presents Speaker Series Features Roman Buhler, Esq.
Roman Buhler, Esq., National Director of the Madison Coalition and former Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, will be the Verb(TM) Presents Speaker Series’ featured guest on Thursday, March 25, 2021, 6:30 pm (Pacific Time). Moderated by Peter Coe Verbica. - March 04, 2021 - Silicon Private Wealth
GenRocket Delivers Synthetic Test Data Automation with Enterprise Scalability
New Platform Offers Self Service Provisioning of Comprehensive Synthetic Test Data to Enable the Next Level of Agile and DevOps Evolution - February 18, 2021 - GenRocket, Inc.
Seedfunders Opportunity Fund Invests in weRise
Seedfunders, the early-stage investment firm headquartered in St Petersburg, Florida has announced an investment of $50,000 in weRise through the recently developed Opportunity Fund. weRise's mission is to close the wealth gap for underrepresented groups by promoting wealth-building investment... - February 13, 2021 - Seedfunders
Vayn, Inc. and AppIt Ventures Launch Denver's First At-Home, On-Demand Beauty App
The Vayn mobile app acts as a booking and reviews tool to help users enjoy on-demand beauty and wellness services with a sense of convenience, safety, and security. - February 11, 2021 - AppIt Ventures
Spektral Investment Bank to Acquire Shares of BTCBAM
Spektral Investment Bank, a recently founded investment bank with 800 million EU paid in kind capital that is composed of exclusive licenses of pharmaceutical drug patents and valuated mining licenses have concluded an acquisition deal with BtcBam team, a renowned software company that owns 7... - February 09, 2021 - Spektral Investment Bank
BDA Advises Kim Dental on US$24M Series B Capital Raise Led by Asia Impact Investor ABC World Asia
BDA Partners is pleased to announce that its client, Kim Dental, Vietnam’s largest private dental care platform, has raised US$24m in Series B round. The investment was led by ABC World Asia, a PE fund dedicated to impact investing across Asia, seeded by Temasek. Proceeds from the round,... - February 03, 2021 - BDA Partners Ltd
Pakistani Startup RINSTRA, Valued at US $20 Million, Raising Series-A Funding of US $2 Million
Pakistan’s first digital platform for content creators receives valuation of US $20 million; has potential to become one of the fastest growing companies in the digital sphere from Pakistan. - January 29, 2021 - RINSTRA Technologies Private Limited
Kevin Sarney Joins Charles River CFO to Lead Life Sciences Practice
Charles River CFO, Inc. (CRCFO), a provider of part-time and interim CFO and accounting services, today announced Kevin Sarney has joined the leadership team as the Life Sciences Practice Leader and CFO. With over 20 years of experience in public and private life sciences companies, Kevin will lead... - January 21, 2021 - Charles River CFO
Residence Clubs International, Inc. Announces $50 Million Investment from Alfie Best, Chairman of Wyldecrest Parks
Residence Clubs International, Inc. CEO Craig Williamson is pleased to announce the sale of a portion of ResClubs® to British businessman and philanthropist Alfie Best. With the ResClubs’ innovative program patent pending, mobile app partnership with Hudini and infinitWiFi, and its one-year beta test with live members completed in 2020, the company now has its capital partner in place and is moving ahead with its expansion. - January 13, 2021 - ResClub
Bench International Launches "Bank of Women"
First of Its Kind Program Features 550+ Executive Women Leaders for Board Seats and the C-Suite - January 05, 2021 - Bench International
NuvOx Pharma Announces Appointment of Jon S. Saxe to Its Board of Directors
NuvOx Pharma today announced that Jon S. Saxe has joined its Board of Directors. Saxe brings to NuvOx many years of experience from the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and venture capital industries. He has served as a director of more than 25 companies and currently is a director of several... - December 28, 2020 - NuvOx Pharma
United Capital Partners Sources $10MM Equipment Lease Line
United Capital sources $10MM equipment lease line for customer in the Biotech Industry. - December 18, 2020 - United Capital Partners
Amit Sharma, Founder & CEO of FinClusive, Joins SweetGig’s Advisory Board
Amit Sharma, Founder & CEO of FinClusive is joining SweetGig's Advisory Board. Mr. Sharma’s work compliments SweetGig’s mission of making it easier for low-income, hourly workers to improve their financial well-being through employment. - December 16, 2020 - SweetGig
Digital Aerolus Elects New Independent Director
Digital Aerolus, Inc., an autonomous software developer and provider of unmanned aerial vehicles, announced today the election of Douglas Davis to the company’s Board of Directors. With thirty-five years of technology-related experience at Intel Corporation, most recently as a senior... - December 14, 2020 - Digital Aerolus
Verb(TM) Presents Speaker Series Features Bill Crowell
Bill Crowell, Partner at Alsop Louise Partners and former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, will be the Verb(TM) Presents Speaker Series’ featured guest on January 18, 2021, 12 Noon (Pacific Time). Peter Coe Verbica, JD, CFP®, Managing Director of Silicon Private Wealth,... - December 10, 2020 - Silicon Private Wealth
Knoza Achieves New Milestone with Its Revenue Recovery Software, Announces Availability on Amazon’s EU Marketplaces and the UK
Knoza announced today that its proprietary Revenue Recovery software has returned over $1 million in 2020 on behalf of over 150 clients and can now be used in all Amazon EU marketplaces and the UK. - December 10, 2020 - Knoza
Keller Manufacturing Company, Inc. Announces Purchase of TA Logistics, Inc.
Keller Manufacturing Company, Inc. has purchased 100% of the issued and outstanding stock of TA Logistics, Inc. in a cash transaction. Now, TA Logistics, Inc. is a 100% owned subsidiary of Keller manufacturing Company, Inc. - December 09, 2020 - Keller Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Barron’s Honors iGrad/Enrich for Financial Empowerment
The Enrich and iGrad financial wellness platforms have received recognition from Barron's in its "Barron's Celebrates" initiative, where organizations were evaluated based on their purpose, scalability and effectiveness. - December 08, 2020 - iGrad
Green Buoy Consulting Certified as a Woman-Owned Business
Green Buoy Consulting, a New York firm specializing in sustainability consulting, strategy and B Corp certification, is proud to announce national certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women Presidents' Educational Organization - NY, a regional certifying partner of the... - December 03, 2020 - Green Buoy Consulting
GRG Announces Partnership with BPB Medica
The Global Regenerative Group and BPB Medica(TM) Italy are very pleased to announce a global consultancy relationship to further develop the distribution of BPB Medica(TM) products. - December 02, 2020 - Global Regenerative Group
Private Placement Markets to Open a Restaurant & Nightclub Venture Capital Division
Steve Muehler today announced that the Private Placement Markets is opening a Venture Capital Division solely focused on Restaurants and Nightclubs. - November 21, 2020 - Steve Muehler
Dr. Taylor Bladh to Join Total Vision
Total Vision announces the addition of Dr. Taylor Bladh to its network of optometrists. Dr. Bladh brings more than 35 years of experience operating his private practice in Diamond Bar, California. - November 18, 2020 - Total Vision
Black Book™ Moves ZyDocⓇ to #2 in Medical Transcription Clinical Services and #6 Transcription Software Solution Vendor of 2020
ZyDoc was ranked second in medical transcription services and sixth for their TrackDoc Connect enterprise cloud transcription platform in the 2020 Black Book™ Market Research vendors survey by 203 hospitals and 2,263 physician practices. - November 16, 2020 - ZyDoc
Fidelis Freight Transport Services Reports Exploding Growth with 735% Hike Year-Over-Year
Fidelis Freight is a veteran-owned freight broker and supply chain management firm. Freight Transport Services, a key division of Fidelis Freight, is an asset-based trucking company based in Jacksonville, Florida that provides business support services to capacity owners and transportation services to shippers and transportation brokers. Their team is composed of experienced industry professionals who carry out the company’s mission to take care of their clients and their community. - November 11, 2020 - Fidelis Freight
Procurement Advisors Announces Rebranding, Changes Name to Procure Analytics
Procurement Advisors LLC, North America's leading and most data-forward group purchasing organization for Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) supplies, announces its new name, logo, and website as part of a comprehensive rebranding campaign. - November 10, 2020 - Procure Analytics
The Flux Adapt: The Shoe That Won the Vote in 2020
Fully funded in just 2 hours on Indiegogo, these shoes got our vote on November 3. - November 06, 2020 - Flux Footwear