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‘Brotopia’ inspired OODA Health to raise its $40.5M round only from firm’s with female partners

Crunch 19 Sep 2018

It helps if you’re male too, at least according to all the data out there on the gender funding gap in VC ... Colella is the founder and former CEO of Castlight Health, which raised nearly $200 million in VC funding before going public on the NYSE in 2014 ... As far as lifting up women in VC, that’s purely been a side benefit of the overall operation....

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Vegan meal delivery startup Allplants is served £7.5M Series A funding

Crunch 19 Sep 2018

Allplants, a London-based startup that delivers ready-made “plant-based” meals (that’s vegan, to you and me), has raised £7.5 million in Series A funding. The round is led by VC firm Octopus Ventures, which was an early backer in healthy snack delivery company Graze....

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Startup Aims To Be Millennials’ Bank With Cash-Back Debit Card, High Interest On Savings

Forbes 19 Sep 2018

Personal finance app Empower is offering traditional banking features like 1% cash back on debit card transactions and a 1.85% interest savings account, and it has secured new funding from Sequoia and Alexis Ohanian’s VC firm Initialized Capital ... ....

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Vezeeta, the leading MENA healthcare startup, secures $12M Series C led by STV

Crunch 19 Sep 2018

One of the major structural issues in the Middle East is the lack of consistent healthcare across the region ... Vezeeta, has today announced a Series C investment of $12M led by Saudi Technology Ventures, the largest VC fund in the region ... Vezeeta says the financing will be used to fund its continued expansion primarily in (the increasingly more open) Saudi Arabia and for further investments in key new products ... ....

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[The F Word] Livspace raises $70 M in Series C funding led by TPG Growth and Goldman Sachs

Your Story 19 Sep 2018

Livspace, India’s largest home interior and renovation platform, on Wednesday announced that it had raised $70 million in Series C funding ... YourStory reported first that the top 12 Indian home furnishings companies, Urban Ladder, PepperFry, LivSpace and Home Lane among them, have raised $466.2 million (Rs 3,017 crore) in VC funds, a small figure when compared to Ikea’s investment....

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China’s Communist Party-backed investor joins Ola’s $50m fund-raise

The Times of India 18 Sep 2018

Cab-hailing firm Ola has raised $50 million from two Chinese investment funds, one of which is backed by the Communist Party of China ... This is part of Ola’s ongoing funding round aimed at raising about $1 billion ... Regulatory documents, sourced from business intelligence platform Paper.vc, show each Ola share has been priced at Rs 14,603. Paper.vc data suggests that the latest fund-raise valued the company at $3.75 billion....

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Bend-Based Seven Peaks Ventures Raises $28 Million for Second Fund Aimed at PNW & West ...

Cascade Business News 18 Sep 2018

Bend-based Seven Peaks Ventures announced today that it’s launching its second fund, which aims to funnel $28 million in venture funding toward early stage tech startups in the PNW and rest of the west ... “Today my VC friends from Silicon Valley don’t say we are crazy nearly as often — I take that as progress,” Dino says in the Geekwire piece. While the VC firm has grown its fund size, it has also increased its partner ranks....

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Ola raises $50 M funding led by Chinese investors

Your Story 18 Sep 2018

Ola, the Bengaluru-based ride-hailing platform has raised $50 million funding led by two Chinese investors, at a valuation of $4.3 billion. The fund raise is believed to be led by China-Eurasian Economic Cooperation and Hong Kong-based Sailing Capital. According to media reports, this fund raise will be part of Ola's move to raise fresh funds of atleast $1 billion....

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Automation software platform UiPath raises $225 million from CapitalG, Sequoia, and Accel at $3 billion valuation

Venture Beat 18 Sep 2018

... repetitive tasks, has raised a whopping $225 million in a series C round of funding co-led by Alphabet’s late-stage venture capital (VC) fund CapitalG and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Accel....

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Ola raises $50M at a $4.3B valuation from two Chinese funds

Crunch 18 Sep 2018

Ola, the arch-rival of Uber in India, has raised $50 million at a valuation of about $4.3 billion from Sailing Capital, a Hong Kong-based private equity firm, and the China-Eurasian Economic Cooperation Fund (CEECF), a state-backed Chinese fund. The funding was disclosed in regulatory documents sourced by Paper.vc and reviewed by Indian financial publication Mint....

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Canadian companies come calling to work with Indian startups

Your Story 18 Sep 2018

The event was not just attended by Indian startups, but also by bigger corporates like Tech Mahindra, TCS and also had India-based VC funds marking their presence. The two joint Indo-Canadian bilateral initiatives under which startups from both countries get funding from their respective governments for collaborative research and development ......

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GV leads $20 million investment in automated software testing startup Mabl

Venture Beat 18 Sep 2018

Fledgling automated software testing startup Mabl has raised $20 million in a series B round of funding led by Alphabet’s venture capital (VC) arm GV, with participation from its series A investors Charles River Partners (CRV) and Amplify Partners ... But by bringing scriptless testing to the browser underpinned by a focus on machine learning, the company is looking to expedite and simplify the testing process ... Above. Mabl trainer ....

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This is what women endure when trying to raise capital

Fast Company 18 Sep 2018

Funding, in particular, was a source of frustration for many women, which comes as little surprise. In 2017, just over 2% of venture capital funding went to companies founded by only women ... Of course, there was a moment at one of them recently, where the partner of the VC fund that was hosting the dinner asked me to get him a glass of wine and hang up his coat....

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