Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Startups News and Updates

Mantium Reaches $12.75 Million From Co-led by Venture Funds Drive Capital and Top Harvest

Mantium is seeing a huge surge in funding from co-led investors Drive Captial and Top Harvest. For such a new company that doesn’t even have a lot of public advertising, this company is making headlines and waves. The current 33-person team, including CEO and Co-founder Ryan Sevey, ae looking towards the future and the future only. On November 9th, 2021 Mantium released a press release stating how their latest funding round had attracted $12.75 Million in seed funding. After Mantium’s programming was only created this past January (that’s right, technically this company had its software created only this year) that’s […]

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Cometeer Ends Their Round With $35 Million More From Co-investors Tao Capital Ventures

Cometeer is based out of Bedford, Massachusetts, United States that is a company who created single-serve frozen specialty coffee capsules, that can be shipped while still cold. This type of coffee technology is seeming to pair and add rivalry with other companies such as single serve Keurig. Even better is that Cometeer is pretty much in lead for creating recyclable single serve aluminum cups that will aid in cutting down wasteful disruptions where single service coffee cups tend to make up more than 50% of waste in landfills.  Equaling to 2.5 billion single-use a year that ends up in landfills. […]

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Ramp Sees $300 Million from Co-led Investors Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, and Thrive Capital

Co-founders Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, and Gene Lee created Ramp back in March 2019. This company recently made news on August 24, 2021 with a $300 million series C funding tranche led by co-led investment Founders Fund, with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Thrive Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Spark Capital, Coatue Management, Iconiq, Altimeter, Stripe, Lux Capital, A* Partners, and Definition Capital. Glyman said that the round, which values the company at $3.9 billion post-money, will be put toward product development, growing Ramp’s product and engineering teams, and investing in sales and marketing efforts. Ramp’s company process and motto centers around […]

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Event Start-Up Hopin Rounds Out $7.7 Million From Co-Lead Investors DFJ Growth and IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)

Hopin is a unique company that allows individuals to create live online events that can be interactive and personal. This allows people whose job may be a creative art that has been shut down or paused throughout the year of 2020 – 2021. This allows people to put on a live concert, art show, or any other type of creative activity. Hopin was formerly Hop.In. The newsbreak that Hopin was hitting the $1 Billion milestone happened on August 5th, 2021. Studies were shown that when Nickelodeon created an interactive idea, the beginning of interactive television… it seems Mr. Boufarhat is […]

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Vitosha Venture’s Partners Announce $30 Million Funding to Bulgarian Start-Ups MeatMe Bar & More

This recent news for Bulgaria actually has the government of Bulgaria backing Vitosha Venture’s Partners for this extensive opportunity. While this is news about a vc capital brand, Bulgaria has so many start-ups awaiting financial funding that Vitosha Venture’s may need more help from the government. Co-founder Max Gurvits pointed out that Bulgaria was ahead in the tech world before any neighboring countries by a handful of years. This means Bulgaria has an ecosystem waiting for clientele to approach them. Even better, Bulgaria has a fast-growing business district that is ready to take off on a potential global scale. Vitosha […]

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Mandolin Ends Up with Co-led Investors Foundry Group That Raised $12 Million

Mandolin released a press announcement on June 29, 2021 that the company had $12 Million funded by co-led investors the Foundry Group. The company is based out of Indianapolis, Indiana and has become a digital platform designed to help artists, venues, and fans connect through live music. Currently, Mandolin is a private company that was founded by women and is led by women; which showcases Mandolin as a diversity spotlight company within the United States. Mandolin was founded in 2020, which shows tremendous growth within the music streaming industry. Co-founders Mary Kay Huse, Robert Meitus, and Steve Caldwell who all […]

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Drata Ends Up With $25 Million In Its Series A Round from Lead Investor GGV Capital

On June 25, 2021 Drata announced how much their Series A round funding had brought in, a total of $25 Million. The investor company GGV Capital who has asset funding around the $9 Billion mark is known to help fund start-up security intelligence companies. However, what is Drata? Drata is a compliance and security automation company that offers a fast way to achieve and maintain continuous compliance. Automation companies are not only ruling the venture capital of 2021, but investors are on high alert for these exact companies. New co-led investors that participated are: Okta Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investors […]

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Forge Receives $150 Million Co-Led from Investors Temasek Holdings & More

On June 22, 2021 Forge announced that $150 Million was raised in total while a huge $50 Million amount was from investors Financial Technology Partners, Operative Capital, and Panorama Point Partners. Temsaek Holdings was another co-led investor that has 340 investments within Forge. The other investors are Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Deutsche Borse, and LUN Partners Group who are just from the latest funding cycle. The reason for the huge amounts invested from different co-lead companies is because Forge focuses on buying and selling private company shares to credited investors. Which works in this company’s benefit because private shareholdings percentages […]

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Tonkean Closes on $83.2 Million from lead investor companies Accel & Lightspeed Ventures

Tonkean was founded in 2015, but is still being called a start-up tech company. On June 24, 2021 a press release showed exactly how much their early seed funding, Series A, and Series B round of funding happened to come to in total… $83.2 million. Lead investors Accel ensured that the $50 Million funding was met in this Series B funding round. Lightspeed Ventures helped with the Series A funding with $24 Million, where company Foundation Capital helped with the seed round funding at the very being of Tonkean’s existence. However, as the title says a complete total of $83.2 […]

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New Start-Up Company Batch Raises $5 Million from Founder JD Maresco and Co-led Investors

QR Codes will come to the forefront of the retail market with help from JD Maresco becoming the founder and the first official investor of Batch. Batch intends to be a retailer or companies main go to by helping a buyer to see information in one place; while the company can take the information and be able to place it within a QR code. It does have to be noted that as of right now reliant on Apple’s App Clip technology according to the press release that was announced on June 23, 2021. Because JD Maresco has been in charge […]

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