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Boulevard Launches New Capital Program Designed Specifically for Self-Care Businesses 

American Entrepreneurship

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Data reveals Women Entrepreneurs Gaining Ground On the startup side, according to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women -Owned Business Report, between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men which was exceeded during 2022 to 2023, reaching 4.5

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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round

TechCrunch

The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the financing. It is on a mission to triple the number of merchant transactions it helps facilitate by 2024. My weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launched on May 1! “As

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Cruise and Waymo score a win and a surprising deal between electric aircraft rivals

TechCrunch

The company is starting with limited sales this year and will grow its capacity in 2024 if all goes well. Inrix , the transportation analytics and connected car services, raised $70 million in a financing round from investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Morgan Stanley Tactical Value. In other news . . .

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Virtual Incision Extends Series C Round with Additional $30M Funding

American Entrepreneurship

. – September 19, 2023 – Virtual Incision Corporation , the developer of the world’s first miniaturized robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system, today announced a $30 million extension to its previous $46 million Series C financing. The investment will be used to support this mission through a gynecologic clinical study planned for 2024.

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Citi backs Indian SaaS startup Lentra as it plans to expand internationally

TechCrunch

Now that legacy has taken a very different turn in fintech with outsourcing of a very different kind, with the emergence of embedded finance technology. This is Citi Ventures’ first investment in a fintech out of India, and this round overall underscores how far the fintech and embedded finance ecosystem have come along in recent years.

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Why We’re Heading Into the “Perfect Storm” of Startup Closures.

Hunter Walk

These seed companies raised enough capital to persist longer than normal and/or weaker companies in hot verticals received follow-on financings that wouldn’t normally be granted to them in a tougher environment. Startups Past: the boom of the last decade kicked forward and delayed a bunch of closures.

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