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Bringing the Mediterranean Way to the Masses

Revolution

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Maryland, and Virginia.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. In early 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting food supply chains across the planet, it was time to double down on the Feeding the City mission.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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FourKites Raises $100M in Series D

HPA

“We look forward to partnering with our investors to enable true end-to-end visibility and unlocking tremendous value for the entire ecosystem.”. The supply chain disruptions from the pandemic accelerated the push for businesses to invest in real-time transportation visibility solutions.

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Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day

TechCrunch

For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Over the years, the accelerator has created a portfolio of biotech companies valued at over $3.2 Leaving the $3.2

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Nuvemshop, a Latin American answer to Shopify, raises $30 million

TechCrunch

Nuvemshop’s platform accelerates a company’s digital transformation and has enabled thousands of SMBs across Latin America to go digital by tapping into the company’s one-stop shop of seamlessly integrated solutions,” said Alexandre Villela, senior director of Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

DYVVYD : work with diverse teams who are actively seeking capital that are self-launched, self-scaled or recent graduates of an incubated or accelerator cohort. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences. The broad portfolio includes companies disrupting traditional markets.