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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend.

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Wefox grabs $400M at $4.5B valuation to buck the insurtech downturn trend

TechCrunch

Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe. This represents a 50% increase on last year’s $3 billion valuation at its Series C round.

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TravelPerk adds $115M to equity and debt Series D, discloses unicorn valuation

TechCrunch

In total, it has raised $409 million since being founded back in 2015. That said, it’s not clear how much of the $115 million tranche is equity versus debt — a spokeswoman for the startup declined to provide a break down or a clear answer when we asked, saying only: “This round is a mix of equity and debt funding.”

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Orbacam adds music video-making tools to its palm-size musical sequencer

TechCrunch

With Orbacam, the company made it easy to make music — what is new, is the ability to weave visual effects into the video export, without needing to do additional music mixing, audio routing or post-production. In 2015, the company pre-sold $1.3 million worth of the INSTRUMENT 1 musical instrument.

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Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users

TechCrunch

Rapchat , an app that lets people create music tracks — raps, as its name suggests, or something else — using a platform that crowdsources beats and lets people put vocals on top of them, has raised $2.3 “We were coming of age when everyone in college was using apps like Snapchat and Instagram,” he said.

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Hivery bags new money to automatically optimize product placement on store shelves

TechCrunch

Hivery has its origins in the pre-pandemic era — the Australia-based company was founded in 2015 — but Hosking argues that many of its technologies have become more relevant over the last several years. chances are you’re selecting products off shelves that have made it there using Hivery’s core product,” he told TechCrunch.

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Ghost Financial whips up new capital into finance tools for ghost kitchens

TechCrunch

So instead, Meyer, founder and CEO, created Ghost Financial to initially do two things: provide what he touts as “the first cash-back credit card for food and beverage inventory” and use data and technology to underwrite restaurant expansion loans and credit limits for the card. million pre-seed round to build engineering and marketing teams.