Venture Capital Press Releases & News (Page 6)

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 - Softline Group

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 Therapeutics

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

Chunker Wins 2020 Real Estate Technology Award

Chunker, the leading marketplace for short-term warehouse space, is pleased to announce that it is a Seventh Annual Real Estate Tech Awards (#RETAS) winner in the Industrial category, presented by CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform in the commercial real estate tech... - October 28, 2020 - Chunker

Jorjin Technologies Announcing J7EF, the Latest of Its J-Reality™ smartglasses Series & World First AR Product Built Upon Epson’s New High-Performance Optical Engine

Jorjin Technologies, a Taiwan company which started working on Augmented Reality (AR) when the technology was still in its infancy, has spent the last 12 months developing J7EF, the latest member of its J-Reality™ smartglasses family. J7EF, the world's first AR product based on Epson’s... - October 27, 2020 - Jorjin Technologies

Private Placement Markets to Expand Its Alternative Energy Operations

Steve Muehler today announced that the Private Placement Markets is committed to growing its Alternative Energy Markets Operations and Moving Away from Traditional Energy Operations. - October 24, 2020 - Steve Muehler

Former Harvard Tech Innovator Joins BILT: Wheelwright Lends 50 Years of Operations Expertise to 3D App Company

Dr. Steven Wheelwright, the former head of Harvard Business School and president of Brigham Young University-Hawaii, is joining the board of directors of BILT Incorporated. He will mentor the company as they scale to accommodate exponential growth over the next few years. The free-to-use BILT app provides 3D interactive Intelligent Instructions® for assembly, installation, set-up, and repair. - October 20, 2020 - BILT Incorporated

The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association Announces a Strategic Partnership with Jupiter Orphan Therapeutic

Jupiter Orphan Therapeutics forms strategic partnership with The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association. - October 15, 2020 - Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association

Volasertib, a Potential New Treatment for Rhabdomyosarcoma, Receives Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. FDA

Oncoheroes Biosciences, a biotech focused on advancing new therapies for childhood cancer, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to volasertib for its use in treating pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma and other rare soft tissue sarcomas. Key... - October 15, 2020 - Oncoheroes Biosciences Inc.

Private Placement Markets Commits to Staying in California

Steve Muehler today announced that the Private Placement Markets is committed to not only staying in California, but to expanding its Southern California Operations in 2021. - October 15, 2020 - Steve Muehler

Ambit Inc. Announces the Release of AmbitVPN’s Enduring Digital Privacy on Mac Desktop

As early as 2021, a technique known as Variational Quantum Factoring may enable quantum computers to begin decrypting everything on the internet. AmbitVPN is a new post quantum encryption VPN leveraging WireGuard. It's faster and more secure, protecting your privacy today and tomorrow. Even without this method, quantum computers will decrypt classically encrypted email clients, cloud solutions, and consumer/enterprise VPNs as soon as 2023. AmbitVPN prevents this coming quantum decryption crisis. - September 28, 2020 - Ambit Inc.

The World Needs Enduring Digital Privacy and Ambit Inc. Has Delivered It

As early as 2021, a technique known as Variational Quantum Factoring may enable quantum computers to begin decrypting everything on the internet. AmbitVPN is a new post quantum encryption VPN leveraging WireGuard. It's faster and more secure, protecting your privacy today and tomorrow. - September 18, 2020 - Ambit Inc.

State of the Underdog Report Shows Upside for Investors but the Gap is Widening for Underestimated Entrepreneurs to Access Capital

The 2nd Annual State of the Underdog Report 2020 shows there is tremendous potential upside for investors if the barriers faced by underestimated entrepreneurs can be overcome. Underdogs include women, Blacks, Browns, Latinx, LGBTQ, older, differently-abled, non-Ivy League graduates and all others who have been conditioned to believe that entrepreneurial success is not possible for people like them. Promise Phelon, an underdog, highlights the upside for investors and opportunity for founders. - September 10, 2020 - The Growth Warrior

Private Placement Markets to Open Its Aviation & Aerospace Market in October of 2020

Steve Muehler today announced that the Private Placement Markets will be opening its much anticipated “Aviation & Aerospace Market” in October of 2020. - September 02, 2020 - Steve Muehler

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