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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. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S.

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Hydration brand Cure mixes new funding into its growth plans

TechCrunch

It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months. Cure founder and CEO Lauren Picasso.

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Plantish fishes for restaurant partners to try plant-based salmon filets

TechCrunch

The Israeli company is only a year old, but has already tackled the structure of the whole cut, which is complex, co-founder and CEO Ofek Ron told TechCrunch. State of Mind Ventures led the round and was joined by Pitango Health Tech, Unovis, TechAviv Founder Partners, SmartAgro, E2JDJ, Alumni Ventures, FoodHack Syndicate and OurCrowd.

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Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M seed round

TechCrunch

The rosters of existing investors participating in the round are Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Plug and Play Ventures. Regional VCs like Seedra Ventures, LoftyInc Capital, and Essa Al-Saleh (CEO of Volta-Tucks) also took part. A commission-based model is used and Odiggo charges the car suppliers 20% commission on every transaction.

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

TechCrunch

This way of growing users, by getting third-party brokers to use Wefox to advise their own customers, is how CEO and founder Julian Teicke reckons helped the company double its revenues to $320 million last year. and Asia in 2024. billion valuation, while YuLife snagged $120 million at an $800 million valuation just last week.

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WeWalk raises cash to bring computer vision to smart cane for visually-impaired people

TechCrunch

million) in venture funding from several notable institutional and angel investors — this includes Manchester City and German international footballer İlkay Gündoğan. Last year, WeWalk announced a partnership with Intel-owned Moovit to bring local transit data into the mix. WeWalk , a U.K.-based The WeWalk Smart Cane.

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6 VCs explain why embedded insurance isn’t the only hot opportunity in insurtech

TechCrunch

And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.” “It’s been a turbulent few months for all tech sectors, including insurtech,” said Stephen Brittain, director and co-founder of Insurtech Gateway.