Venture

As part of the Metrics That Matter series, we've written about three analyses to track the path to profitability and two metrics to calibrate retention and expansion. These metrics serve as both outputs and inputs. They are outputs from the activities of people at companies working hard to crea

We last wrote about AllSpice, a git platform for hardware developers, in 2022, when it was just starting out with $3.2 million in new funding. At that time, co-founders Valentina Ratner and Kyle Dumont wanted to build a developer operations ecosystem for hardware development. Though they initially

Today, there are great opportunities in the cross-border investment world. While early-stage funding continues to fall globally, some markets continue to thrive. Last year, foreign investment in the Latin American region rose by 51%. That number will likely grow this year as constraints on U.S. inv

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Forests are worth as much as $150 trillion, according to the Boston Consulting Group, with much of the interest in them centering around carbon credits. That means that forests that are conserved or restored need to be monitored, to make sure that everything is working as planned. But that data is

Yesterday in Helsinki, this editor interviewed four of the six general partners at Benchmark, the nearly 30-year-old Silicon Valley firm that's known for some notable bets (Uber, Dropbox), paying each general partner exactly the same way, and for continuing to raise similar-size funds over its

So, you want to craft a great investor pitch deck. You want to come up with something authentic to what you are building, but also informed by past successes. Hell, you probably want to avoid common mistakes and get a feel for what other startup founders are using to raise capital, right? Good news

In Western markets, freight forwarders are well into digitizing their operations, but the same doesn't hold true in Southeast Asia, say the founders of Fr8Labs. The reasons for that include the lack of localized software and a more fragmented logistics industry where SMBs dominate. Fr8Labs want

For more than 25 years, ecologists have been desperately trying to prove the economic worth of the world's ecosystems, hoping that a markets-based approach would slow the destruction of the natural world. Forests, the world's largest terrestrial ecosystem, have played a central role in that

Investment giant Prosus has written down the valuation of edtech giant Byju’s to below $3 billion, marking a steep drop from the $22 billion valuation the Indian startup hit early last year. Byju’s is facing many “challenges” and Prosus and other backers are working alongsid

FEBE Ventures' name stands for “For Entrepreneurs By Entrepreneurs,” and true to form, it is continuing to support seed-stage startups with the launch of its second fund. Targeting $75 million, Fund II is 2.5 times larger than FEBE's first fund and 90% has already been committed. As par

Fearless Fund's Strivers Grant Program was already in danger before Edward Blum's American Alliance for Equal Rights sued it in August, according to documents reviewed by technewss. In June, just two months before the lawsuit was filed, the foundation arm of the fund held a company offsite

The venture capital activity in Latin America is coming back, and startups there have a new pool of capital to go after. NXTP, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage, business-to-business startups, secured $98 million in capital commitments for its third fund — its largest fund to date.

Foxconn plans to invest $1.54 billion in India, the latest in its growing expansion plan, following a surge in revenues in the South Asian market. Foxconn said in a stock exchange filing that the investment will help it fulfill “operational needs.” The investment comes two months after