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.
Ramki Ramanarayanan Rejoins Occams Group as Divisional CEO
Occams Advisory, a leader in professional and consumer services, announced Ramki Ramanarayanan’s return to Occams, as its Divisional Chief Executive Officer. Ramki’s return boosts Occam’s rapid emergence as a leader in middle-market B2B professional services and in... - September 18, 2021 - Occams Advisory
RightsLedger (RTKN) is Now on FMCPAY Exchange
FMCPAY Exchange Token Listing News. - September 13, 2021 - RightsLedger
Sterling Equities Group Unveils $25 Mln PE Commercial Real Estate Fund
Sterling Equities Group LLC has launched a $25 million private equity commercial real estate fund. Sterling Equities Group LLC will focus on commercial real estate mostly located in the midwest. Based in Phoenix, Arizona Sterling Equities Group is a portfolio manager of commercial real estate. - September 13, 2021 - Sterling Equities Group
InPowered Business Solutions Raises Awareness and Funding for Dystonia
Local company supports Dystonia community to fuel knowledge and treatments. Approx. 50,000 Canadians cope with the neurological disorder, Dystonia which causes involuntary muscle movements. For Dystonia Awareness Month this September, Alicia McGill, from local accounting & finance business, InPowered Business Solutions, is sharing her story about living with this disorder to increase awareness and inspire others. InPowered is also donating 10% of Sept. sales to fund research and treatments. - September 13, 2021 - InPowered Business Solutions Inc.
TopDawg’s CEO and Former Trupanion Senior Executive Creates New and Unique Opportunity for Online Retailers and Suppliers
TopDawg has created a platform for retailers and suppliers that streamlines the online retail process and increases revenue for both sides. The platform benefits all businesses in the supply chain, from the online retailers to the product manufacturers and everyone in between. - September 07, 2021 - TopDawg
BILT Expands Brand Support Teams: Customer Experience Platform Secures Microsoft Sales Talent
Matthew Henley is joining the brand support sales team at BILT. His experience and track record of success at Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 will be instrumental in driving sales expansion at the customer experience innovator. - September 01, 2021 - BILT Incorporated
Senior Bain Partner Joins BILT: Leading Tech Strategist to Guide the CX Innovator
BILT Inc is expanding its c-suite after securing $9M from Silverton Partners. Bill Wade will be responsible for corporate strategy, enterprise partnerships and solutions management at the tech company. Wade says BILT has tremendous growth potential as the future of product onboarding. The 3D interactive instruction app revolutionizes the customer experience for products requiring assembly, installation, maintenance and repair. - August 26, 2021 - BILT Incorporated
True Nopal Prickly Pear Cactus Water
True Nopal Cactus Water Announces National Representation with Green Spoon Sales. - August 11, 2021 - True Nopal Ventures LLC
BDA Advises HappyFresh on US$65 Million Series D Capital Raise
BDA Partners is pleased to announce that its client, HappyFresh, has successfully raised US$65m in Series D funding led by Naver Financial Corp and Gafina BV, followed by STIC, LB Investment, and Mirae Asset Indonesia & Singapore. Existing investors such as Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund... - August 03, 2021 - BDA Partners Ltd
Steve Muehler Introduces “Broker Dealer Placement” for Companies Raising Capital
Steve Muehler Securities & Steve Muehler Paralegal today introduced their “Broker Dealer Placement” for Startups, Early Stage, and Growth Stage Companies that are currently seeking capital to grow their business. - July 30, 2021 - Steve Muehler
GivingTuesday Opens Applications for Global Fellowship of Grassroots Leaders
GivingTuesday’s Starling Collective is a global learning lab and innovative fellowship for grassroots organizers, activists, artists, and changemakers. The program recognizes, supports, and uplifts the extraordinary leadership arising from within communities to meet needs and provide healing, leadership that is often under-recognized and under-supported. Applications are now being accepted through September 1, 2021. - July 15, 2021 - GivingTuesday
NOTICENINJA Announces Newly Formed Corporate and Advisory Board
“We thoughtfully curated this board to include industry leaders whose collective experience ensures NOTICENINJA has the guidance it needs to navigate its way in the dynamic and complex notice management solutions market,” said founder Richard Pinkerman. - July 13, 2021 - Notice Ninja, Inc.
HitPath Hires New VP of Sales
HitPath is thrilled to welcome Shaun Hall as the new VP of Sales. As a long time industry insider and an absolute sales fanatic, Shaun brings his experience in affiliate marketing from both the publisher side as well as the advertiser/network side. He will no doubt be a terrific addition to the... - July 07, 2021 - Webapps LLC
TechTable and Culterra Capital Release 2021 Restaurant Tech Ecosystem Map
Restaurant Industry Tech Map Reveals Dynamic Trends Under Way - July 01, 2021 - Culterra Capital
Three Bogota Fintech Startups That Will Give a Lot of Buzz in the Coming Years
Get to know three growing Bogota fintech startups that due to their innovation and business development will give a lot to talk about in the coming years and will continue to position Bogota as one of the cities with the best fintech ecosystem in Latin America. - July 01, 2021 - Invest in Bogota
Verb(TM) Presents Speaker Series: “A Clear-Eyed Review of Proposed Federal Tax Law Changes” with Michelle P. Scott, Esq.
Michelle P. Scott, Esq., author of “Biden’s Tax Plan: What’s Enacted, What’s Proposed,” will be featured on the Verb™ Presents Speaker Series, July 27, 2021, 12:00 pm (Pacific Time). Ms. Scott will address high notes from her recent, comprehensive article on The American Rescue Plan, The American Jobs Plan, The American Families Plan, and Biden’s efforts to fortify the IRS with fresh funding. Peter Coe Verbica, JD, CFP® of Silicon Private Wealth will be the moderator. - June 29, 2021 - Silicon Private Wealth
The Daftarian Group Luxe Real Estate Represents 33 Smithcliffs
The Daftarian Group Luxe Real Estate is proud to represent one of the most exclusive and expensive home in Southern California. - June 28, 2021 - The Daftarian Group
Mid-Tier Advocacy, Inc. Announces the Appointment of Mr. Jose Arrieta to Become a Board Member
Jose Arrieta most recently served as the former Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer of HHS joins Mid-Tier Advocacy, Inc. Board of Directors. Mr. Arrieta will enhance the board’s focus on acquisition and procurement policies that support the growth of a small and mid-size firm.Before assuming the CIO role, he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition and Grants at HHS overseeing $26 billion dollars in contract awards and $800 billion dollars in grants. - June 23, 2021 - Mid-Tier Advocacy, Inc.
Commercial Private Equity Completes 75 Years of Offering Trusted Funding Solutions
Atlanta-based private equity company funds non-conventional transactions as one of the most trusted funding companies in the region. - June 23, 2021 - Commercial Private Equity
ProxyCEO Launches a Service for Part-Time Founders to Accelerate Startups Without Quitting Their Job
There are many important questions to answer before starting a business and even more questions to get it launched and successfully funded. By working with proven CXOs and domain experts, startup founders can improve their probability of success. - June 22, 2021 - Proxy CEO
Kronos Wallet Adds Support for New Decentralized Social Media Network BitClout (CLOUT)
Kronos adds support for the new decentralized social media network BitClout. - June 19, 2021 - Denarius
Targeted Pharmaceuticals and George Mason University Announce First-Ever Preclinical Study Using Cannabinoids in an Organoid Model
Study Examines the Effects of Cannabinoids Treating Central Nervous System (CNS) Viruses including HIV Associated Dementia - June 16, 2021 - Targeted Pharmaceuticals
Red Stone Lending LLC is a Startup in the Real Estate Funding Business
A Los Angeles based startup, Red Stone Lending LLC is actively assisting real estate investors with acquiring funding. The firm has experienced regular drama as they entered a volatile market impacted by the pandemic. They provide education and guidance to their clients and help them find the ideal funding for investments. - June 09, 2021 - Red Stone Lending
NFT Data Startup Snickerdoodle Labs Raises $2.3M Seed Round from Kenetic, Blockchain Capital, Tribe Capital and FTX/Sam Bankman-Fried
Co-founded by former PayPal Head of Blockchain Strategy, Snickerdoodle aims to use NFTs to build a data economy focused on user data privacy and security. - June 08, 2021 - Snickerdoodle Labs
Redline Communications and Morcom International Provide Unprecedented Wireless Connectivity to Arlington County in Virginia
Redline Communications and Morcom International announced today the installation of Redline’s 3GPP iLTE network in Arlington County, Virginia. This industrial-grade broadband wireless solution utilizes the Citizen Broadband Radio Service or CBRS spectrum and provides improved broadband access and network reliability. - June 08, 2021 - Morcom International
JG Franchise Lending Launches New Website for Securing SBA and Investment Banker Funds to Help Franchisees; Franchises Wanted for Post COVID-19 Funding Plans
JG Franchise Lending Launches New Website for Franchise Lending. McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Jersey Mike's, OrangeTheory Fitness, Smoothie King, Kumon, Servpro and many other franchises can benefit from released funding for COVID-19 businesses hurt by government force business closures. Franchisees need money to rebuild, renovate and expand and JG Franchise Lensing has obtained small business loans for franchises in Florida, California, Texas and all states in the USA. - June 02, 2021 - JG Franchise Lending
Despite the Challenges Due to the Pandemic, GHV Gives Impetus to Blue Tokai to Enter the Japanese Market
Having a strong Global reach, GHV is approached by International Enterprises who look to expand in the Indian market. GHV’s cross border Advisory services includes mentoring, market insights, cultural mapping, roadmap development, among several other components, that empowered one of the renowned brands from Japan, Soup Stock Tokyo (SST), to explore the Indian market, wherein SST collaborated with Blue Tokai and became a strategic equity partner. - June 01, 2021 - GHV
Metalenz Launches Orion(TM) Product Family of Dot Pattern Projectors Using Patented Metasurface Technology
Using Metalenz's patented metasurface technology, the Orion product family is a simplified and more efficient solution that is bound to displace refractive lens and diffractive element optical stacks with a single meta-optic. - May 27, 2021 - Metalenz
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and iGrad Partner to Offer Enrich Financial Wellness Platform to Current and Retired State Employees
In the first statewide program of its kind, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and San Diego-based financial education company iGrad have partnered to offer the award-winning Enrich™ financial wellness platform to 156,000 current and retired state employees. The Economic Empowerment Trust... - May 25, 2021 - iGrad
Verb(TM) Presents June 22, 2021 Event in Support of US Olympic and Paralympic Shooters
June is celebrated as “Great Outdoors Month.” In keeping with this tradition, Verb™ Presents and Silicon Private Wealth have teamed up for a day at bucolic Coyote Valley Sporting Clays to support the non-profit USA Shooting which supports US Olympian and Paralympian Shooters. - May 24, 2021 - Silicon Private Wealth
MIND 24-7 Secures $20 Million in Growth Financing to Support Behavioral Health Expansion
Funding enables ground-breaking development of mental health crisis and urgent care center model. - May 19, 2021 - MIND 24-7
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