NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Who: Capital Connect What: Working Capital Loans; Asset Finance; Property Finance; Refinancing Solutions NZ HQ: Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? Key services and resources At Capital Connect, we provide tailored finance solutions to help New Zealand businesses grow. Learn more.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 2, 2024

They seized an opportunity they observed in the rapidly growing AI arena, launching PlayAI with their shared vision to “Enable Delightful Human-AI Interactions”. Kindred Ventures and 500 Global led the Seed round with participation from Race Capital, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund, TRAC, and others. Its Play 3.0

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Recently funded Cake addresses that concern with the launch of its open-source AI infrastructure platform enabling all businesses to deploy the latest technologies cost-effectively. With the rollout of AI impacting one business sector after another, one wonders what areas or companies will be left behind.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 2, 2022

When I asked him what he meant, he replied because capital was so plentiful and accessible today, he hired more expensive people, spent more time developing a product, and invested with a longer time horizon before demonstrating evidence of success. Capital availability on the x-axis and evidence on the y-axis to illustrate his point.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2024

Successful track record of investment spurs latest fund supporting biotech innovation Foresite Capital, a multi-stage healthcare and life sciences investment firm continues to do what they do best—investing in companies that leverage biology and big data to transform healthcare.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2014

It''s also the same bet that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures made with Makr --that enabling more people to be more creative could be revolutionary. Venture Capital & Technology' Squarespace also fits in this space--narrowing the gap between thinking of something creative and making it happen.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 10, 2014

Ringly is a platform for fashionable wearables, enabling them to filter your world for what you care about. Venture Capital & Technology' I don''t need a phone to provide me every notification and every tool all the time, but different devices have their difference place in my life. You should check it out.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

billion of total venture capital. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies. According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based billion) out of approximately $238.3

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

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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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2023

30 Investments to date in the areas of AI, autonomy, cybersecurity and space Shield Capital was launched in 2021 by the Managing Partners Philip Bilden and Raj Shah, both of whom have deep experience in technology and investing, driving their passion to support founders of frontier technologies.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures recently joined Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and KarpReilly in Hungryroot 's $2mm seed round. By the time you get your food, you've gotten it days in advance of when you'd get your food if you were ordering from a service that preps it for you, enabling it to last longer in your fridge.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

The oversubscribed round was led by global multi-stage investor B Capital aligned with the Boston Consulting Groupand marks a significant vote of confidence in Omnidians mission to ensure long-term performance and reliability of distributed clean energy systems.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 10, 2025

million Series A funding of Gridware led by Sequoia Capital. Through the use of advanced Gridscope devices and its analytics platform, utilities now have unprecedented insight into the health of their grids enabling them to have faster response times and better mitigate risks associated with outages, wildfires, and other disasters.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 30, 2025

This fresh capital comes just months after Canopy secured $35 million in May 2024, signaling strong investor confidence in the companys vision and execution. With this new infusion of capital, Canopy plans to double down on AI product development, embedding automation and intelligence into every corner of its platform.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

With this, the Japanese government now allows startups the flexibility to secure capital using crypto assets in addition to conventional stocks. This shift may lead to increased venture capital inflow and enable startups to secure larger funding. Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Japan’s cabinet has given the green light to a bill that permits investment funds and venture capital firms in the country to hold cryptocurrency assets, according to an announcement from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Friday.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Singaporean fintech enabler Fluid has successfully raised $5.2 This latest investment follows […] The post Singaporean Fintech Enabler FLUID Raises $5.2M million in Series A funding, spearheaded by Insignia Ventures Partners. The funding aims to strengthen Fluid’s business-to-business purchase financing solutions.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

The startup has raised over $13 million to enable designers and individuals to build dream homes using a massive product library of digital furniture from retailers like Amazon, Houzz, and Wayfair. The product offers 3D file support for AEC design tools like SketchUp, Revit, Rhino, and FBX.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The company recently completed a $350 million Series A funding round, co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory , with additional backing from Google. One of the companys key innovations is its unique actuation technology, which underpins Apollos performance and enables more affordable production while simplifying maintenance.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Its initial use cases target pharma companies to enable the creation of voice and chatbot products to improve sales reps’ performance, complement their medical science liaisons, and support clinical trial sites and investigators. The Echo-integrated product enables them to alert staff in a hands-free way if they fall or have an emergency.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

We are proud to help creators grow their businesses – whether it’s helping creators access funding with a small working capital solution, or helping creators get paid in real-time to their debit card.” Creators produce and share content, products, or services primarily through digital platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

The venture fund launched a completely virtual program with a focus on helping 13 Urbantech, Healthtech, and Securetech startups with business development, customer growth, and capital raising in a time of economic uncertainty. Securetech Startups Healthtech Startups Urbantech Startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Cocoon Capital, an investment firm from the same country, led the round. This platform enables construction companies, operators, and contractors to identify the most effective construction plans by leveraging proprietary optimization algorithms.

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

With the platform pressure tested by over five thousand users a month across multiple large healthcare facilities, this financing will enable TrekIT to focus on customer acquisition and filling key sales and customer-facing roles as more accounts go online. In his prior role as President of Qualcomm Life, Valencia built Qualcomm Inc.’s

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The startup is integrated with large EMRs including Epic, Cerner, and Allscripts using SMART on FHIR technology, enabling the company to embed the wound care portal into a clinician’s typical workflow. Net Health is a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, Level Equity, and Silversmith Capital Partners.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Getting investors excited about your product is a critical part of raising capital. But founders are often so consumed with talking metrics, milestones achieved, or the capital they need that they sometimes forget to talk about their overarching vision for their startups. Don’t confuse "exit strategy" with your company’s vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

At Upfront we always took the approach that we wanted to back startups that enabled merchants to own the customer relationship and to increase profits by becoming excellent at marketing and serving ones most loyal customers. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product. Covid-19 has changed all of that.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 31, 2025

The recently closed Series A funding round was led by B ison Ventures with participation from Cibus Capital, Acre Venture Partners, Congruent Ventures, Fall Line Capital, E14 Fund, SNR, and Serra Ventures. The company has deployed its autonomous solutions across over 500,000 acres, including key tree nut orchards in the U.S.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For years, tech companies, talent, and venture capital were concentrated on the coasts — a precedent the pandemic tipped, if not flipped. The confluence of shifting work and travel habits and an expensive housing market has allowed companies like Placemakr to fill a gap in the market with more flexible, tech-enabled options.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. Having a great early investor provides downstream capital with a “signal” that you are a company worthy of being paid attention to even if you haven’t scaled your metrics.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Since we have about a 5-month payback on today’s acquisition costs and our LTV / CAC ratio is already > 4.5x – and increasing through lower CAC & higher LTVs both – we have plenty of room for growth once we decide to properly capitalize the business. What tech has our capital raised gone into?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I have supervised situations involving novel financial structures (Enron and Residential Capital) and cross-border asset recovery and maximization (Nortel and Overseas Shipholding). Most importantly, there is a reasonable probability that the absence of standard governance guardrails and constraints actually enables reckless behavior.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But I’ve long been a believer in the stark benefits that flexible working environments enable. Cash and capital is oxygen, but the best kind of capital are my relationships. You could call this lucky; no one could have predicted this pandemic (although Bill Gates came close). It felt inevitable that the world would follow suit.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2025

The funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners included Kleiner Perkins, WestBridge Capital, Battery Ventures, and Emergent Ventures. With this capital injection, Nexthop AI plans to accelerate the development of its cutting-edge networking solutionstailored specifically for hyperscale AI infrastructure.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

With this new capital, Island has now raised approximately $730 million to date, indicating the confidence investors have in its transformative technology and market trajectory. Islands ascent is not just a story of capital raised, but of a paradigm shift in how enterprises secure and deliver digital work.

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