Startups

Yes, warm intros are the best way to approach investors and should ideally be your Plan A. But what if you can’t get one of those? As I’ve discussed in the past, cold emails can work well, too, and while it takes a bit of research to put together a good list of investors, it can be done

If you’re an electrical engineer, DigiKey, Octopart and Mouser are permanently etched into your browser history — all the components you might need, at your fingertips. Volition just raised $11 million to become the same indispensable supplier for mechanical and industrial engineering:

Digital bank Onyx Private announced today $4.1 million in new funding to provide private banking and investment services specifically tailored to high earning Millennials and Gen Zers. Village Global, Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, One Way Ventures, 186 Ventures and Olive Tree Capital parti

General Atlantic has poured another $100 million into PhonePe, four months after leading a $350 million investment in the Indian fintech startup that has so far raised $850 million in an ongoing financing round at the height of the slowing global economy. Walmart-backed PhonePe disclosed the invest

Patient21, a four-year-old German startup that combines a digital healthcare platform with real-world brick-and-mortar clinics, has raised €100 million ($108 million) in a Series C round of funding led by Israeli VC firm Pitango, constituting a mix of equity and debt. Founded out of Berlin in 201

As women have gained economic power, their economic influence has expanded. Women long held primary purchasing responsibility for everyday household items, but today, they control or influence 85% of consumer spending. I founded Cake Ventures as a venture capital firm that invests in technology com

Welcome to Startups Weekly, with your shiny, newly minted host, yours sincerely. If you've seen my name on technewss, it's probably because of my popular Pitch Deck Teardown series, where I take a startup's pitch deck and celebrate the good, lambast the bad and use both to learn more a

Remember when it was actually interesting to see a startup becoming a unicorn? A company reaching the billion-dollar valuation mark used to be a rare event — hence the term “unicorn.” But by 2020 and 2021, it was anything but. Every week was like, “Oh, another crypto unicorn? Great.

In late 2020, Peggy Johnson took the reins as CEO and led Magic Leap's pivot away from a consumer audience — those less able to swing $2,300 for a mixed-reality headset — to the deeper pockets of the enterprise market. We're excited to have Johnson join us for a fireside chat on the Har

Newchip, an online accelerator promising to help startups, has filed for bankruptcy and is now facing insolvency amid employee and client discontent. Dozens of employees of the troubled organization staged a walkout on May 4, demanding that founder Andrew Ryan step down as CEO. Ryan

ESG has been under the microscope for the past 12 months with pressure from some Republican politicians in the U.S. who have called for investment managers to pull their clients' money from ESG-focused investments. Simplistically, their argument is that ESG prevents investors being able to acce

Want a sneak peek at the electrical grid of the future? Don't look to the U.S., Europe or China. Instead, head to Nigeria, where Odyssey Energy Solutions has been hard at work. There, a shaky and incomplete grid has driven many businesses and communities to invest in mini- and microgrids that a

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was not the end of venture debt, but it was likely the end of companies raising venture debt with the same ease that many were accustomed to. technewss+ recently spoke to five different VCs about the state of venture debt in the wake of SVB and then First

Yet another early-stage VC fund has closed in Europe this week, as Elkstone finalized a €100 million ($108 million) pot aimed at Irish startups. It comes a day after Lifeline Ventures closed a €150 million ($163 million) fund for fledgling startups in Finland, while several others have landed a