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| 14.05.2024 | Chris Halkyard, Former C-Level Executive of Gilt.com and Blue Apron, joins Ox as Chief Operations Officer | Bringing over three decades of expertise to Ox, Chris Halkyard's storied career also includes transformative roles at Toys"R"Us, L'Occitane en Provence and Marc Ecko Enterprises.
BENTONVILLE, Ark., May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ox,... |
| 18.03.2022 | Unlocking inclusion for women of color in web3 | Audrey Handem Contributor
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Audrey is a VC at Speedinvest, a pan-European early-stage fund.
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Adetola Olatunji is a Columbia Business School MBA candidate, investor (formerly of New... |
| 24.02.2022 | Canela Media Closes Oversubscribed $32 Million Series A Funding | Canela Media’s approach of “For Latinos, by Latinos'' has helped them remain authentic and attract brands seeking to truly connect with multicultural audiences
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Canela Media, an industry-leading, minority-o... |
| 10.12.2021 | The top 15 VCs focused on female founders | Investments into companies started by women exploded in 2021, reaching over $30B for the first time
Companies with female founders have notoriously had a tough time raising funding in Silicon Valley. Whatever you want to chalk that up to, b... |
| 25.03.2021 | BBG Ventures just closed on $50 million to fund more women-led startups | BBG Ventures, an eight-year-old, New York-based seed- and early-stage venture firm that only backs founding teams which feature at least one woman, just locked down $50 million in capital for its third fund, a major leap over its first two ... |
| 25.08.2020 | A therapy startup set to launch in person in March pivoted online in one week and went on to land $6 million in funding, and now it's looking to reinvent mental-health care as people grapple with the ... | Ariela Safira. Ariela Safira This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Ariela Safira hoped to launch Real, her therapy startup, in March with a brick-and-mortar studio in... |
| 01.04.2020 | Could Covid action spur climate action? Packaged food company Planet FWD thinks so. | Countless consumer goods companies are reeling from the impact of Covid-19, as shelter-in-place orders deter customers, supply chains buckle, and workers are sent home or laid off. Companies are being forced to radically rethink strategies ... |
| 19.10.2019 | The Woman Behind New York’s Hottest Female-Led Startups: Q&A With Susan Lyne of BBG Ventures | Susan Lyne, president of BBG Ventures. Michele Asselin/Contour by Getty Images
If you are a working woman commuting daily in New York City, it doesn’t take long to notice the crop of lifestyle startups that are taking up subway ad spaces to... |
| 09.09.2019 | NYC, a Top Global Ecosystem for Women-Led Startups | New York City is known for a lot of things; The Yankees, Empire State Building, Broadway, pizza and for being a melting pot of different cultures around the world. It’s no surprise that NYC has a diverse startup scene as well. According to ... |
| 12.12.2018 | Out of $85 Billion in VC Funding Last Year, Only 2.2 Percent Went to Female Founders. And Every Year, Women of Color Get Less Than 1 Percent of Total Funding. | December 12, 2018 15+ min read
“You’ve clearly got what founders are made of, but I hope you're not planning to get pregnant anytime soon.”
As the co-founder of comprehensive maternity healthcare company Mahmee, CEO Melissa Hanna is an expe... |
| 18.10.2018 | Amplifyher Ventures launches to fund startups led by women | Amplifyher Ventures is a new firm looking to invest in female founders.
Amplifyher was created by Tricia Black, Facebook’s former vice president of advertising sales. Since her time at Facebook (where she was the seventh employee), Black ha... |
| 18.10.2018 | Future Family lands $10M Series A to make fertility financing easy and affordable | Founder Claire Tomkins believes the number of babies born with IVF could soon grow to 10% in U.S.
Filling in gaps in America’s health insurance and helping tens of thousands of men and women become parents, Future Family has announced scori... |
| 13.12.2017 | This VC Says Stitch Fix’s IPO Paved the Way for Female Founders | This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune’s newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here.
Susan Lyne has quite the résumé. She was chairman of Gilt Groupe, CEO of AOL’s Brand Group, president of ABC Entertainment, and CEO of... |
| 29.11.2017 | Women in Agtech: Amanda Weeks Says Female Founders Have to Jump Through More Hoops to Get Investors Excited | Amanda Weeks is cofounder and CEO of Industrial/Organic, which means she’s not just a women in agtech, she’s also a woman in the male-dominated world of waste.
Industrial/Organic is an norganic waste recycling operation that began in Brookl... |
| 13.04.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: SEC Filing Reveals Freight Farms Has Raised $5.7m Towards Larger Series B | Freight Farms, the startup growing lettuce inside shipping containers, has raised $5.7 million in an $8 million round, according to a SEC filing. Since the startup raised $3.7 million in Series A funding in 2014, this could be its Series B ... |
| 13.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, April 13 | FEELING TOPPY
Today Yext will go public on NYSE under the symbol YEXT. It’s a small IPO, valuing the company at around $940 million. Last night the company boosted pricing by $1 a share to $11 a share, for a total raise of $115.5 million.
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| 13.04.2017 | goTenna Series B fuels vision to make local communication possible anywhere on the planet | Founded in 2012 with the small goal of enabling connectivity-free communication, goTenna has ballooned to more than 23 employees and delivered real hardware to market in the process. Today the startup is adding another $7.5 million to its c... |
| 12.04.2017 | Full Harvest raises $2 million to stop farmers from tossing ‘ugly’ fruit and veggies | Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding to reduce food waste at the farm level. Founded by Christine Moseley, formerly the head of business development for cold-pressed juice makers Organic Avenue,... |
| 12.04.2017 | Full Harvest Raises $2m Seed Round for Food Waste Reduction Platform | Full Harvest, an online platform selling food seconds to businesses, has closed a $2 million seed round led by Wireframe Ventures. BBG Ventures, Early Impact Ventures, Impact Engine, early stage agtech VC Radicle, and a collection of angel ... |
| 13.03.2017 | The Fem-preneurs Of Crowdfunding: Did the JOBS Act Change the Venture Landscape for Female Entrepreneurs Forever? Let’s Hope So! | “Them that’s got shall get / Them that’s not shall lose / So the Bible said”… and is it still news?
Raising significant amounts of capital has never been easy for anyone. For some, it has been a higher hurdle than for others. The American f... |
| 25.04.2016 | Female Founders, apply now for Include Office Hours with BBG Ventures | It’s happening! Include Office Hours are coming to New York City. On Friday May 6 from 5-7 p.m., Susan Lyne and Nisha Dua of BBG Ventures will join TechCrunch in hosting the first ever Include Office Hours, New York Edition. Apply now.
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| 31.03.2016 | ShooWin Secures Seed Funding from BBG Ventures | ShooWin, a New York City-based female-founded sports & entertainment tech startup, secured seed funding from BBG Ventures.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Led by founder & CEO Brisa Trinchero, an entrepreneur with more tha... |
| 02.03.2016 | The growing trend of firms investing only in women founders | They include BBG Ventures, BELLE Capital and Golden Seeds
For the last year or so, Vator has been running a weekly column where we highlight a different early stage venture capitalists. One thing that has been eye opening to me has been how... |
| 26.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 26, 2016 | Grovo announced $40 funding; Vidyard nabbed $35M; Cedexis closed $22M Series B funding
Grovo, a SaaS-based learning management system (LMS) for companies, today announced that it has closed $40 million in a Series C funding round led by exi... |
| 26.01.2016 | HopSkipDrive, The Ridesharing Startup For Kids, Grabs $10.2M In Series A Funding | HopSkipDrive, The LA-based “Uber for Kids”, has closed a $10.2M Series A round co-led by FirstMark Capital and UpFront Ventures, with participation from existing investors BBG Ventures and 1776, and new investors Greycroft Partners and Prit... |
| 13.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 13, 2015 | White Star Capital closed $70M funding; GetYourGuide bagged $50M; Zola raised $10M
WriteLab, a browser-based tool that provides feedback on writing, has raised $2 million in a series A round led by Reach Capital with participation from Kapo... |
| 09.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 9, 2015 | Segment bagged $27M; Glamsquad raised $15M; SightCall landed $8.4M
On Friday Segment, a company that wants to make accessing data as easy as possible across companies announced that it has raised $27 million in a Series B round led by Thriv... |
| 20.09.2015 | CentreStyle, Built By Teenagers, Helps You Get Dressed In Any Weather | At the Disrupt Hackathon here in San Francisco, we were joined by a relatively large group of young female coders as part of the Built By Girls Challenge.
A team of them came together and, using Esri and Zalando APIs, built a new product ca... |
| - | 12 of the best retail-tech venture capitalists in 2022, according to deal data and other VCs | Kimmie Carey, Ethan Choi, Carter Reum, and Frederic Court. Listen Ventures; Accel; M13; Felix Capital; iStock; Vicky Leta/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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