Venture

“Entrepreneurs navigating the later stages of a startup face a mine field of funding options, and not all of them are suitable for their business,” writes David Spreng, founder and CEO of  Runway Growth Capital. Full technewss+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUS

A growing number of venture firms may be uncorking champagne ahead of the New Year. Today, a handful of investment firms announced new funds: Artis Ventures, BoxGroup, Playground Global and Singular all closed on funds, while Partech said it was launching a €360 million venture fund. Against a ba

Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has announced its intent to begin lobbying the U.S. government, and their plan is as tone-deaf and obtuse as this summer’s dreadful “Techno-Optimist Manifesto.” Essentially, they will give to anyone — literally anyone — who “supp

The hurdle for Series A funding is a lot higher than it was a year ago — and investors in seed-stage companies are having to respond. They don't have much choice if they want their startups to survive. When the market abruptly turned in the spring of 2022, late-stage companies were the fi

For a VC firm, the second fund is a make-or-break moment. With the initial fund, you raise money based on an investment thesis because you don't have any track record, any return on investment to prove that you're a capable investor. It's a different story when it's time to raise th

Zuper, a field service management company, closed on $32 million in Series B funding to provide its customers with technologies and tools to cater to a wider range of workers. FUSE led the round and was joined by Prime Ventures and other existing partners. While other field service management compa

Just a couple of weeks after announcing $22 million in fundraising, Paris-based startup studio Hexa is expanding beyond its studio model to partner with later-stage companies that have already found product-market fit. Called Hexa Scale, with this program, the startup studio is looking for B2B comp

The holidays are in full swing, which means you might start getting automatic-reply emails as people take off on vacation. But don't let the relative calmness of the holidays stop you from fundraising. According to a DocSend report on fundraising trends, young startups aren't looking so hot

Omidyar Network, backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, is shutting down its India operations, two sources familiar with the matter told technewss, in a stunning development for the impact venture firm that has backed over 120 startups in the South Asian market over the last 13 years. technewss c

Venture capital investment into the food tech sector experienced its eighth consecutive quarter of decline in the third quarter of 2023, with 205 deals worth $2 billion, according to a new PitchBook report. This is down 13.9% from the previous quarter, when 268 investments were made valued at $2.2

High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they hope will return 3-5x invested capital. Several leading India investors, including Peak XV Partners, Elevation Capital, Lights

We continue to see more pre-seed funds, which is great for ideas that need a boost to fruition. Today, pre-seed startups have another new source of capital — but there's a catch. Suzanne Fletcher has to have invested in you before. “I started Zelda Ventures at the end of last year with a pr

Avenir Growth Partners is seeking to raise $800 million for its fifth fund, it disclosed in a securities filing, two years after it began the paperwork for raising its IV fund. It ended up raising about $780 million for the fourth fund, it disclosed in a filing earlier this year. The New York-headq

Amazon has been No. 1 in the cloud for years, ever since it invented the concept in 2006. But now the company finds itself in a spot it might not be used to: playing catch-up to Microsoft when it comes to AI. Full technewss+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP