Back in April 2019, we wrote a piece titled, “Why Aren’t Women-Led Startups Getting More Funding?” The article was about a woman-owned startup based in San Francisco and how the founder linked her inability to raise enough funding to her gender. […]
Summit Partners, a global alternative investment firm, announced today it has raised $8.35 billion for its latest flagship U.S. growth equity fund. The Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund XI was launched in June 2021. Summit said the latest fund will target minority […]
Early last month, Reddit raised $700 million in a fundraising round doubling the company’s valuation to $10 billion in just 6 months. There are now reports that the popular aggregation site with billions in monthly traffic might be planning to go public. […]
Today, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is officially launching its media outlet Future.com, a new tech platform that explores how technology is transforming our world—from crypto and biology to gaming and social networks. The new Future brand was launched on a […]
It’s been over two years since we wrote about Pegasus Tech Ventures (“Pegasus”), a global venture capital firm managing over $1.5 Billion in assets. The last time we wrote about Pegasus, the Silicon Valley-based firm became the first firm to launch the Venture Capital-as-a-Service […]
As we reported early this week, venture capitalists (VCs) poured a record $64 billion into tech startups in the first quarter of 2021. That equals 43% of the total fundraising in all of 2020, which was a record year. But what […]
With the U.S. government spending of $10 trillion in the last 12 months and the interest rate at almost zero, rich investors and venture capitalists are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash. As worries about coronavirus continue to go […]
Prosus is an Amsterdam-based technology investor and internet conglomerate. Prosus’s parent company, Naspers Ltd., is Africa’s largest listed company and a global consumer internet group, and one of the largest technology investors in the world. In 2001, Naspers made an early, successful […]
According to Markets and Markets, the data and backup recovery market is anticipated to be worth well over $11 billion by 2022. However, legacy data protection solutions are predicated on outdated and appliance-based storage, which is an antiquated and complex […]
Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, the official investment partner for top global startup accelerator UC Berkeley SkyDeck, is proud to announce a major milestone today. The $23.5 million-fund has completed more than 100 investments in just three years, making it one of […]
Finding investors for your startup can be hard and very challenging. One of the traditional avenues for founders to raise funding for their startups is through venture capital firms. Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity financing that is […]
Small and medium-sized businesses that require quick access to cash in less than two days can count on the growing number of financial technology (fintech) online lenders to satisfy their unique needs. Unlike traditional banks that are slow at what […]
Late 2019, we briefly covered Israeli IoT security startup Vdoo after one of its investors, 83North, raised a $300 million funding to invest in exceptional European and Israeli startups. With over $1 billion war chest, 83North invests in the best and […]
We covered Rapyd back in 2019 after the Fintech-as-a-Service startup raised $40 million in a Series B funding round to expand its technology platform that supports any local or cross-border commerce use case requiring local payments. A lot has changed since we last […]
Good morning! It’s been a while since we last featured the top tech news of the day. Back in March 2020, we decided to put a pause on daily briefing and focus more on news that affects everyone around the […]
Cockroach Labs, a New York-based software startup that develops a cloud-native SQL database, said Tuesday that it raised $160 million to accelerate its product development. The announcement follows other tech startups that have secured big funding during the coronavirus pandemic […]
SellersFunding, a New York-based fintech startup that provides an alternative working capital solution for e-commerce marketplace sellers, announced today it has closed on a $100 million global eCommerce funding program with European alternative asset manager Fasanara Capital. The multi-currency deal will allow […]
Doing business is not all about profit. It is also about been a Socially Responsible company. One of the companies making changes in the community is Smart Circle, a marketing agency which plans sales and customer acquisition strategies, for Fortune 500 […]
