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Jane.VC, a new fund for female entrepreneurs, wants founders to cold email them

Crunch 19 Oct 2018

Jane.VC, a new venture fund based out of Cleveland and London�wants entrepreneurs to cold email them ... The fund, which has so far raised $2 million to invest between $25,000 and $150,000 in early-stage female-founded companies across industries, is scrapping the opaque, inaccessible model of VC that’s been less than favorable toward women....

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Online Fashion Manufacturing Marketplace ‘Sewport’ Secures Investment

Fashion Capital 19 Oct 2018

The online fashion manufacturing marketplace, Sewport, has secured £650,000 investment from a venture capital fund, since launching at the end of 2017 ... Sewport will be using the investment from VC fund Fuel Ventures, for new staff, marketing and growth ... Fuel Ventures is a venture capital firm that specialises in providing seed funding to early stage technology companies ... Boris Hodakel, Sewport founder, said ... ....

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Data analytics startup Incorta raises $15 million from Microsoft’s M12 and Telstra Ventures

Venture Beat 18 Oct 2018

Data analytics software startup Incorta has raised $15 million in a series B extension round of funding from Microsoft’s venture capital (VC) arm M12 and Telstra Ventures, which closes the round at a total of $30 million. This latest investment tranche follows a year after Incorta first announced a $15 million series B funding round, with investors including Kleiner Perkins and Alphabet’s VC division GV....

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YC grad Oh My Green gets $20M seed investment

Crunch 18 Oct 2018

In its first institutional funding round, Oh My Green has raised $20 million from Initialized Capital, Powerplant Ventures, Backed VC, ZhenFund, Talis Capital and the Stanford StartX Fund to bring healthier foods to offices around the U.S ... It stocks office snack pantries — a staple at tech startups — caters events, manages cafes and provides wellness programming ... and eventually launch overseas ... ....

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Why we honor women in business | Editorial

The San Juan Journal 18 Oct 2018

By Diane Craig. Journal staff ... Allow me to offer at least one reason. It wasn’t always this way ... Far fewer ... That same year, Title IX prohibited federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students based on sex, opening viable school sports to young girls ... In 2016 women received just over 2 percent of investor and venture capital funding and women-led businesses comprised only 4.9 percent of VC deals ... .......

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Unifonic, dubbed the Twilio of emerging markets, closes $21M Series A round

Crunch 17 Oct 2018

Unifonic, which has been dubbed “the Twilio of emerging markets” has today closed a $21M Series A funding round led by Saudi Technology Ventures (STV), and the emerging market specialist fund Endeavor Catalyst, which is backed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, among others ... At $500M, STV is the largest VC fund in the region, and anchored by the Saudi Telecom Company (STC), the largest telecom company in the Middle East....

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Cryptocurrency Daily News Bulletin: October 17, 2018

WorldNews.com 17 Oct 2018

The technology will be used to distribute housing to deserving applicants in a bid to address past issues concerning “graft fears arising from beneficiaries and even legislators.”Steve Wozniak has joined EQUI Global, a VC fund built using blockchain technology, as a co-founder ... Investors can buy EQUITokens to join the VC fund, which will be tradable on exchanges.CryptocurrenciesAugur $12.49 USD (0.86 percent)....

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On the Precipice: Which ICO Funds Will Survive?

The Bitcoin News 17 Oct 2018

As such, the number of investment funds that have either been designed to invest specifically in ICOs and other funds that have participated in ICOs has quietly grown. Blockchain and DLT ‘Tehcnologist’ Charles Voltron tweeted a list of over 600 such funds in mid-August ... And some cryptocurrency hedge funds have, indeed, failed ... The VC funds are Union Square Ventures, A16z, Sequoia, and Greylock,” Traidman explained....

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TravelTriangle raises venture debt funding from InnoVen

Live Mint 17 Oct 2018

Online travel startup TravelTriangle will use the funding for expansion and strengthening outbound-based operations, says co-founder Sankalp Agarwal ... The Gurugram-based startup counts mid-stage venture capital (VC) fund Fundamentum, SAIF Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and RB investments among existing investors ... “The funding acquired from ......

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Agritech startup Farmersfz raises investment from Indian Angel Network

The Economic Times 17 Oct 2018

Kochi-based agritech startup, Farmers Fresh Zone Pvt Ltd (FarmersFZ) said it has raised an undisclosed amount in seed round of funding from Indian Angel Network (IAN) and its maiden VC Fund, IAN Fund ... ....

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Polish fund Innovation Nest invests in Portuguese startup

Warsaw Business Journal 17 Oct 2018

Innovation Nest, a Polish VC fund cooperating with companies creating IT solutions for the B2B sector, has invested in Infraspeak – a Portuguese startup offering a platform for managing hotel facilities, the fund said. This is already the third company from Portugal in Innovation Nest portfolio and the sixth foreign investment of the fund in… This content is for Silver 6 months, Gold 1 Year and Bronze 2 weeks members only....

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WhiteSource raises $35 million to help companies monitor open source elements of their software

Venture Beat 17 Oct 2018

WhiteSource, a platform for securing and managing the open source components of software, has raised $35 million in a round of funding led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, with participation from Microsoft’s venture capital (VC) arm M12 and 83North ... Prior to now, WhiteSource, which is now headquartered in New York, had raised $11 million in funding....

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U of M students take on startup investing with Atland Ventures

Business Journal 17 Oct 2018

About two years ago, a group of business students quietly launched what became Atland Ventures, a VC fund with about $150,000 in capital under management. An alumnus who wished to remain anonymous provided the group with its original pool of capital, and the fund has already invested in two Twin Cities companies. St. Paul-based Structural, which makes human-resources software,… ... ....

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