Venture

Matrix Partners India is raising $450 million for its fourth India fund, doubling down on the South Asian market where scores of investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, SoftBank, Elevation, Accel, Alpha Wave Global and Tiger Global have increased the pace of their investments in recent years. The

Vahak is not only an open marketplace for truckers, but it also provides drivers with services like healthcare and discounted fuel cards. The Bengaluru-based company announced today it has raised a $14 million Series A. The round was led by Nexus Partners, with participation from Foundamental, iSee

For years, startups addressing the recycling crisis labored in relative anonymity. But for those who have stuck with it — or survived the lean times — investors are now rewarding them with growing support, three founders told me this week at TC Sessions: Climate 2022 in Berkeley. “It's be

It's confirmed — Black entrepreneurs saw a dramatic decrease in funding this year as investors continue to pull back. So far, new Crunchbase data shows Black startups received $324 million in VC funds in the second quarter, a steep decrease from the $1.2 billion received in Q1 this year and s

One day early in the pandemic, Dazayah Walker came across a job she'd never heard of before: venture capitalist investor. The pandemic ensured she had time, and intrigued by the profession, she started teaching herself the trade. She soon realized it was a way to build wealth, and as a young B

Earlier this month, The Exchange took a look at quieter companies that have been growing consistently before, during and after the 2021 venture capital peak. The startups and unicorns that didn’t raise at 50x or 100x ARR last year may be the companies most ready to kick open the IPO window at

When my co-founders and I started Equi, we each committed to putting 80% of our liquid net worth into the investment platform we were building. It made sense because we had initially built the product for ourselves. We knew what investment strategies would yield the best returns on our savings, but

Last year, a small group of Emory University graduate students at Goizueta Business School in Georgia began to examine the challenge of getting Black and other historically underrepresented founders access to capital. One way to do that, they reckoned, was to raise a generation of investors who wou

Despite developers being deeply involved with tech company product launches and software upgrades, most company executives have very little insight into how these teams actually do their work or how their productivity could be improved. DX thinks it has cracked the code. Back in early 2020, DX co-f

Precision fermentation may be a food tech term that doesn't put a pleasant taste in your mouth, but advances in the technology have investors increasingly ordering it from the menu and giving compliments to the chef. This technology — brewing food inside huge fermentation chambers — is not

Cube, a startup that wants to help companies “plan their financial future,” has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures. Existing backers Mayfield Fund, Bonfire Ventures and Operator Collective participated in the financing, along with new strategic investor GTMfu

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The U.S. federal government needs better tech, but implementing new systems is more complex than the nuclear launch codes. The internal process to build new tech moves at a slow enough pace to ensure the government remains behind the commercial sector. While startups could serve as a lifeline of in

World Innovation Lab (WiL), a Palo Alto- and Tokyo- headquartered venture capital firm, said Tuesday it has raised more than $1 billion. It’s an enormous fund for the outfit, relatively speaking. The latest funding, which will be deployed across WiL's multiple funds, including WiL Venture