Tag: seed round

Duncan Davidson Founding Partner Bullpen Capital on Covid-19 crisis for startups

Covid19May 28, 2020

The estimated reading time for this post is 1245 seconds PEMO (00:00): Okay. Duncan, welcome. So good to hear your voice again. I was...

Crowdfunding Shows Its Strength

CrowdfundingMay 27, 2020

Crowdfunding reached the ripe age of four years old earlier this month. It’s come a long way in a relatively short time. And...

Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

StartupsMay 27, 2020

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more....

Toro snags $4M seed investment to monitor data quality

StartupsMay 27, 2020

Toro’s founders started at Uber helping monitor the data quality in the company’s vast data catalogs, and they wanted to put that experience...

Overfunding: Neobank for Africans Eversend Surpasses €550,000 in Funding Through Seedrs Round

CannabisMay 27, 2020

Eversend, a Neobank for African, has successfully secured its initial €550,000 equity crowdfunding target through its Seedrs campaign. The company is now offering...

LeverEdge wants to get you and your friends a volume discount on student loans

StartupsMay 27, 2020

Student loans are both a trillion-dollar debt category and also one of the most popular mini-verticals out there in fintech startup investing right...

San Francisco neobank Aspiration raises $135m in Series C round

FintechMay 27, 2020

San Francisco-based fintech firm Aspiration has raised $135 million in a Series C funding round led by investors Alpha Edison. Aspiration has raised $200...

Tava Health raises $3M to expand access to mental health services

Venture CapitalMay 19, 2020

The Salt Lake City-based company provides employees with mental health telemedicine services While the conversation around mental health has certainly shifted in the last...

Balderton Capital backs Primer, a fintech helping merchants consolidate the payments stack

StartupsMay 11, 2020

Primer, a U.K. fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in the future, has...

With $73 million CAD, Symend closes one of the largest Series B rounds in recent Alberta history

CrowdfundingMay 8, 2020

Betakit | Meagan Simpson | May 7, 2020 Calgary-based Symend has raised a $73 million CAD ($52 million USD) Series B round of funding...

Update: Fintech Mobile App Clim8’s Equity Crowdfunding Campaign Surpasses £1.1 Million During the Final Week on Crowdcube

CrowdfundingMay 8, 2020

Clim8, an App-based startup for sustainable investing, has now surpassed £1.1 million through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round, which...