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| Aug 9, 2026 | Claryx Secures $3.5M to Transform Hospital Infection Prevention | Claryx, a new genomic intelligence startup, has emerged with $3.5M in pre-seed funding. Its mission: transform hospital infection prevention. The platform reads pathogen genomes, linking patient cases to environmental sources. It builds a &... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | SkinBit Raises $6M in Pre-Seed Funding | SkinBit, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of a full-body skin scanner platform for skin cancer screening, raised $6M in Pre-Seed funding.
Backers included Boost VC, Cleo Capital, Manna Ventures, Profluent Capital, Lyft co-founder Logan Gree... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | SkinBit Closes $6M Pre-Seed Round |
LOS ANGELES, CA, SkinBit, the company building a revolutionary full-body scanner for skin cancer screening, announced a $6 million pre-seed round.
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| Aug 5, 2026 | SkinBit raises $6M to bring 20-minute full-body skin cancer screening to clinics across America | A melanoma diagnosis changed Jonathan Benassaya’s life. Now the Deezer co-founder is betting $6 million in fresh funding on a simple idea: skin cancer screening should depend less on luck and more on data.
SkinBit, a health tech startup bui... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Claryx Raises $3.5M in Pre-Seed Funding | Claryx, a NYC-based provider of a genomic intelligence platform for hospital infection prevention, raised $3.5M in Pre-Seed funding.
The round was led by Outlander, with participation from Company Ventures, Boost VC, Neon, Mana Ventures, 64... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Claryx emerges from stealth with $3.5M to use genomic intelligence to stop hospital outbreaks before they spread | Founded by two brothers after their grandmother contracted a hospital infection, Claryx is using genomic surveillance to uncover transmission chains hospitals can’t see.**
Claryx has emerged from stealth with $3.5 million in pre-seed fundin... |
| Jul 19, 2026 | Intrinsic Power Raises Seed Funding To Expand AI Power Orchestration Platform For Data Centers | Intrinsic Power has completed the first close of its Seed financing to accelerate commercialization of its AI-enabled power orchestration platform for data centers and other critical infrastructure. The financing included participation from... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Intrinsic Power Closes Seed Funding | Intrinsic Power, a Los Angeles, CA-based developer of AI-enabled electrical infrastructure, raised an undisclosed amount in Seed funding.
Backers included Kyocera Ventures, Drive Catalyst, Boost VC, and RPV Global.
The company intends to us... |
| Jul 6, 2026 | geoSurge Raises $12m in Seed Funding | geoSurge, a London, UK-based AI company helping brands inside generative AI systems, raised $12M in Seed funding.
The round was led by AlbionVC, with participation from Play Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Celero Ventures, Boost Capital, existi... |
| Jul 3, 2026 | geoSurge Raises $12 Million Seed Round To Advance AI Visibility Platform | geoSurge announced an oversubscribed $12 million Seed round. The financing was led by AlbionVC and included participation from Play Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Celero Ventures, Boost Capital, existing investors Passion Capital and Tuesday C... |
| Oct 20, 2025 | $100’000 to accelerate structural non-contact sensor technology |
The ETH 100K startup investment competition, organized in collaboration with deep tech investors, Boost VC and Earthling VC, was designed for projects developed at the ETH or EPFL. The competition attracted about 100 applicants out of whic... |
| Oct 16, 2025 | ego AI Raises USD6.7M in Seed Funding | ego AI, a San Francisco, CA-based AI-driven character technology company, raised $6.7m in early seed funding.
Backers included Patron, Y Combinator, Accel, Boost VC, and angels such as Balaji Srinivasan (former Coinbase CTO), Logan Kilpatri... |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Bondu Raises $5.3M in Seed Funding | bondu, a San Francisco, CA-based AI toy company, raised $5.3M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Makers Fund with participation from Samsung Ventures, Boost VC, and Founders Inc.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations ... |
| Sep 10, 2025 | Boost VC closes on $84.5m for Deep Tech Fund 4, beating $75m target | |
| Jul 16, 2025 | Hope Hydratation Raises $20M in Series A Funding | HOPE Hydration, a Miami, FL-based company which delivers free filtered water through its digitally connected water refill HydroStations™, closed a $20m Series A funding.
The round was led by Pentair plc, with additional participation from B... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Castle Raises $1M in Pre-Seed Funding | Castle, a Miami, FL-based bitcoin treasury platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), raised $1m in a pre-seed funding.
The round was led by Boost VC, with participation from Winklevoss Capital, Park Rangers Capital, Epoch VC, a... |
| May 23, 2025 | $1.6 million for a restroom cleaning robot |
Miks Ozols and Antonio Arbues, co-founders of Loki Robotics, are pioneering the future of facility management with their flagship product, Loki—a cleaning robot engineered to autonomously handle complex, high-contact cleaning tasks in area... |
| Jan 16, 2025 | Torram’s Pre-Seed Closure Paves the Way for Institutional-Grade DeFi on Bitcoin | Toronto, Canada, January 16th, 2025, Chainwire
Torram, a Web2.5 infrastructure company, has announced the successful closure of its $710,000 pre-seed funding round in early December 2024.
The company is focused on developing institutional-g... |
| Dec 6, 2024 | Rosy Soil: $3.6 Million (Seed) Raised For Creating Gardening Soil From Captured Carbon Dioxide | Rosy Soil, a sustainable soil company built to offset the negative environmental impact of producing traditional peat-based potting mixes, announces closing a $3.6 million seed round. This funding will advance the company’s mission to trans... |
| Aug 29, 2024 | Nunu.ai raises USD 2M Pre-Seed Funding to innovate game testing with AI | While quality is vital in the gaming industry, game testing remains a manual, time-consuming process. This repetitive work not only strains resources but also hinders innovation.
Swiss startup nunu.ai aims to change this by developing the f... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Nunu.ai secures USD 2 million in pre-seed funding |
While quality is a critical factor in the gaming industry, the process of testing games is still manual. Studios invest countless hours in testing games for bugs, balancing gameplay, and ensuring a smooth player experience. The repetitive ... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Volley: Voice AI Gaming Company Raises $55 Million In Series C | Volley, a revenue leader in AI-powered games, announced today the closing of its Series C fundraising round at $55 million. The round was co-led by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. General Catalyst, Causeway Media P... |
| Dec 21, 2023 | European VC gets boost as Singular closes on €400m for Fund II | |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Tech's ultimate nepo babies: Meet the Drapers, the first family of Silicon Valley | Tim Draper and his family members have been venture-capital icons for decades. Danny Moloshok/Reuters.
The billionaire Tim Draper is part of a lineage often lauded as Silicon Valley's premier VC family.
His grandfather founded the VC firm D... |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Tech's ultimate nepo babies: Meet the Drapers, the first family of Silicon Valley | The billionaire Tim Draper is part of a lineage often lauded as Silicon Valley's premier VC family.
His grandfather founded the VC firm Draper, Gaither, and Anderson.
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Celebrities bristling about being called "nepo babies&... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Мой опыт в акселераторах в России и немного в США | Недавно я рассказал о своем опыте бизнеса на VR в России. Спасибо всем, кто прочитал и дал обратную связь. Я задумался, а что еще полезного я могу рассказать на основе своего опыта? Для меня одним из самых интересных открытий за прошедшие г... |
| May 26, 2022 | Dutch VC firm SHIFT Invest shifts into high gear to boost sustainability in mobility and logistics; expands fund to €110M | Netherlands-based SHIFT Invest, a venture capital fund that invests in ‘innovative’ enterprises with positive environmental impact potential, announced on Wednesday that it expanded its fund to €110M to accelerate the sustainable transition... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | The Top 40 Investors In Industrial Tech: How Investments In Transformative Solutions Using AI, Cloud, And Edge Act Like Probiotics For Manufacturing | Traditionally, few venture capitalists would touch industrial startup companies. Time cycles were too long and clunky hardware complicated things. However, deep digitalization is taking hold, the expectations are that the industrial sector ... |
| Oct 7, 2021 | The ocean is a $100tln market opportunity | Tony Chen is co-founder and CEO of Manolin, a software and data analytics company that builds disease-detection models for aquaculture, based in Denver, Colorado.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not ... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | The Ultramarine Ocean Summit Aims To Promote Ocean Conservation | The Ultramarine Ocean Summit will bring together scientists, artists, filmmakers, and ... [+] conservationists for a common cause: ocean protection.getty |
| Oct 20, 2020 | 7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020 | For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays.
The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to ci... |
| Sep 25, 2020 | This Week In XR: Enterprise Adoption And Financing Soar | Following its public offering last Friday, Unity (NYSE: U) now has market cap over $24 B. The tech stock boom, which include mobile gaming, where Unity supplies the building blocks for developers, could not have come at a better time. Compe... |
| Jun 19, 2020 | Акселераторы в Долине: возможности для стартапов
Инкубаторы, акселераторы и разница между ними
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Чего ожидать от Долины и ее акселераторов | Акселераторы в Долине: возможности для стартапов |
| Apr 21, 2020 | BoostVC closes $40M fund as revamped ‘sci-fi’ accelerator preps for digital demo day | BoostVC has been an accelerator known for the unconventional bets it has chased — and is still chasing — trends like blockchain and AR/VR that other investors have long sworn off. Its accelerator program has been as classical as it comes, o... |
| Sep 5, 2019 | Adam Draper gives his oddball accelerator a makeover | Adam Draper, the son of that Draper, is changing things up a bit at his accelerator.
Boost VC has been living life on the fringe of Bay Area accelerators, chasing trends like VR and crypto (and sometimes a combo of the two) hard while court... |
| Sep 2, 2019 | Sun Exchange looking to raise R7m through crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa | SA fintech Sun Exchange, which claims to run the world’s first peer-to-peer solar leasing platform, has launched a bid to raise R7-million via equity crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa, in return for a 5.2% equity stake in the company.
Th... |
| Sep 2, 2019 | Sun Exchange looking to raise R7m through crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa | SA fintech Sun Exchange, which claims to run the world’s first peer-to-peer solar leasing platform, has launched a bid to raise R7-million via equity crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa, in return for a 5.2% equity stake in the company.
The... |
| May 13, 2019 | Guesser cierra una ronda semilla de $1,1M, acuden Version One, Compound y Boost VC | 13/05/2019
GUESSER CIERRA UNA RONDA SEMILLA DE $1,1 MILLONES, ACUDEN VERSION ONE, COMPOUND Y BOOST VC.
Guesser ha cerrado una ronda semilla de $1,1 millones a la que han acudido las entidades de capital riesgo (venture capital) norteameri... |
| Mar 12, 2019 | Amun has secured $4 million | |
| Jan 30, 2019 | Impact investing is driving the most exciting emerging technologies | Last week, Adam Draper, Managing Director at Boost VC, the Sci-Fi pre-seed fund, tweeted he was looking for Ocean-related tech startups. “The Ocean is the oldest frontier, and it’s time to solve global problems with the latest technology,” ... |
| Jan 30, 2019 | Impact investing is driving the most exciting emerging technologies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last week, Adam Draper, Managing Director at Boos... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | Boost VC Just Fulfilled a Crypto Funding Pledge 4 Years in the Making | Boost VC has officially backed crypto startup number 100.
With the news, confirmed Tuesday by CoinDesk, the San Mateo incubator has finally fulfilled a funding pledge made all the way back in March 2014, when co-founders Adam Draper and Bra... |
| Aug 29, 2018 | Cryptocurrencies will exceed nation-based currencies in 10 years, says early Coinbase investor | Boost VC founder Adam Draper (right) interviewed by Storm CEO Simon Yu. (Photo via Jordan Murphy/ Fresh Photography)
The topic is comic book superheros, and the answers come easy for Adam Draper.
The 32-year-old is the managing director of ... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Top Blockchain Venture Capital Firms | Back in January, we put together a list of some of the hottest blockchain startups to watch in 2018. In this post, we want to take a look at the some of the top blockchain venture capital firms. The folks at CryptoFundResearch did an excell... |
| Jun 4, 2018 | Where is VR headed? Investors share insights on the industry’s trajectory | After an initial frenzy of interest in virtual reality due to Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, investors and startups alike faced a “VR winter.” This was a difficult period of time in which consumer adoption of VR was slow, funding dried u... |
| Jun 4, 2018 | Where is VR headed? Investors share insights on the industry’s trajectory | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After an initial frenzy of interest in virtual reality due to Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, investors and startups alike faced a “V... |
| Mar 17, 2018 | Europe needs to halt its startup brain drain to the U.S. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The startup community in Europe is well accustome... |
| Mar 17, 2018 | Europe needs to halt its startup brain drain to the U.S. | The startup community in Europe is well accustomed to the limitations of its local investment community, which, although growing steadily, can never quite match that of Silicon Valley. In fact, for founders of startups in especially dicey e... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Adam Draper’s Boost VC closes new fund to become the ‘Y Combinator of sci-fi startups’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sentiments about cryptocurrencies are as fickle as the price of a token. But everyone can agree on one thing: Cryptocurrency is a hot t... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Adam Draper’s Boost VC closes new fund to become the ‘Y Combinator of sci-fi startups’ | Sentiments about cryptocurrencies are as fickle as the price of a token. But everyone can agree on one thing: Cryptocurrency is a hot topic. A year ago, however, before initial coin offerings (ICOs) became a thing, it wasn’t an easy task to... |
| Feb 9, 2018 | Inside one VR company’s iterative path to becoming revenue-positive | Any ordinary startup will need to face the challenge of finding the right combination of both a product-market fit and a business model that gets them to a revenue positive scenario. Naturally, things are much trickier when that startup is ... |
| Feb 9, 2018 | Inside one VR company’s iterative path to becoming revenue-positive | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Any ordinary startup will need to face the challenge of finding the right combination of both a product-market fit and a business model... |
| Dec 20, 2017 | The rise of the crypto accelerators | As cryptocurrency fever grips the tech world, and blockchain technologies gradually become more viable, there is a new wave of accelerators and incubators appearing to service this growing ecosystem. Some are covering funding and services, ... |
| Dec 2, 2017 | 7 Tokens Investors Are Talking About | Disclaimer: This article should not be taken as, and is not intended to provide, investment advice.
What separates a real-deal token from a scam?
A new wave of tech enthusiasts is asking that question as tokens rack up big gains and take ov... |
| Oct 25, 2017 | GuestReady, a service for Airbnb hosts to manage their property, raises $3M | With over four million listings across more than 65,000 cities worldwide, Airbnb has not just upended the global hospitality industry — it has inadvertently created an industry within an industry: demand for services that help hosts manage ... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | NearGroup chatbot startup lands $1.6m Seed round led by OpenOcean | In Arabic, Indian or Eastern cultures where people can’t really have an open dating profile, the traditional Tinder/Happn/Bumble/Badoo etc dating apps don’t work too well as they are based on images. It turns out chat bots may be the way fo... |
| Jul 24, 2017 | Белорусский стартап BotCube попал в акселератор Boost VC в Кремниевой долине
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| Jul 10, 2017 | SA’s Rehive launches Shopify-type platform for fintech apps | South African fintech startup Rehive — which aims to become the Shopify for small companies to build their own fintech apps — has launched a new platform and series of off-the-shelf products.
Rehive’s platform allows developers to build, la... |
| Jul 10, 2017 | SA’s Rehive launches Shopify-type platform for fintech apps | South African fintech startup Rehive — which aims to become the Shopify for small companies to build their own fintech apps — has launched a new platform and series of off-the-shelf products.
Rehive’s platform allows developers to build, l... |
| Jun 4, 2017 | VR startups go into cockroach mode to survive barren consumer market | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The VR industry continues to ride out the trough of disillusionment, prodded by the big tech players like HTC that hope to jumpstart a ... |
| Jun 4, 2017 | VR startups go into cockroach mode to survive barren consumer market | The VR industry continues to ride out the trough of disillusionment, prodded by the big tech players like HTC that hope to jumpstart a market that is ultimately driven by genuine and organic consumer demand, but there’s no sign of this actu... |
| May 16, 2017 | Boost VC Will Now Invest Directly in Crypto ICOs | Boost VC is opening up its portfolio to cryptocurrency startups in a whole new way.
One of the first
institutional investors to open its coffers to bitcoin startups in 2013, the San Mateo-based firm today revealed it will invest in so-calle... |
| Jan 3, 2017 | BitPagos, now Ripio, lands $1.9M to promote financial inclusion in South America using bitcoin | BitPagos, a bitcoin and digital payments startup that was a Battlefield finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2016, has closed a $1.9 million Series A round to expand its services in its native South America.
The round was led by China-ba... |
| Aug 21, 2016 | VR: Bigger than reality, eventually (part 2) | When you look at the historic rates of adoption of communications technologies that broaden our connections and how they keep moving us closer to the purest form of the experience, there’s a strong case for VR as the next big thing. I expec... |
| Aug 21, 2016 | VR: Bigger than reality, eventually (part 2) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When you look at the historic rates of adoption of communications technologies that broaden our connections and how they keep moving us... |
| Jul 9, 2016 | The reality of AR/VR survival | Tim Merel Contributor
Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital.
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Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?
VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper)
VR will be big,... |
| May 24, 2016 | The reality of augmented and virtual reality venture capital | Tim Merel Contributor
Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital.
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Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?
VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper)
AR/VR is the ne... |
| Apr 11, 2016 | Tim Draper has raised $190 million for his newest venture fund | In late 2013, Tim Draper left the decades-old firm he’d co-founded, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, but he suggested he might be back some day.
Specifically, he told this reporter, “I am not leaving DFJ. Ever. I am just skipping a fund to do some ... |
| Apr 2, 2016 | The DeanBeat: How long will we have to wait before VR delivers our technology Renaissance? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
My former boss, Jerry Ceppos, once said he worried that the San Jose Mercury News was covering the tech industry without enough scope o... |
| Apr 2, 2016 | The DeanBeat: How long will we have to wait before VR delivers our technology Renaissance? | My former boss, Jerry Ceppos, once said he worried that the San Jose Mercury News was covering the tech industry without enough scope or context, as if we would have covered the Italian Renaissance by measuring how many cans of paint were s... |
| Mar 29, 2016 | Will Barcelona-Based Verse Be The Whatsapp Of Transactions? | As the banking industry is undergoing dramatic changes, and new Fintech and banking startups is providing us with smarter and better solutions every month, three young founders from Barcelona are doing their part by making transactions as e... |
| Mar 25, 2016 | The DeanBeat: At the Upload Collective, investors and entrepreneurs gather to evangelize VR | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I’ve been hanging out a bit at the Upload Collective, a new virtual reality incubator started by the founders of UploadVR, to soak in t... |
| Mar 25, 2016 | The DeanBeat: At the Upload Collective, investors and entrepreneurs gather to evangelize VR | I’ve been hanging out a bit at the Upload Collective, a new virtual reality incubator started by the founders of UploadVR, to soak in the enthusiasm that Silicon Valley has for VR. During the Game Developers Conference last week, I attended... |
| Sep 20, 2015 | Is Virtual Reality Gaming Bound To Crash? | Jayson DeMers Contributor
Jayson DeMers is founder and CEO of EmailAnalytics, a productivity tool that connects to Gmail or G Suite account and visualizes email activity.
Techies of all varieties constantly look forward to the next great re... |
| Jul 31, 2015 | Bitcoin winners starting to break free: CoinJar founder | Winners and losers have been chosen from the first wave of bitcoin startups, according to CoinJar founder Asher Tan.
The Melbourne founded startup which has a presence in the UK, is a bitcoin exchange and wallet provider, allowing individua... |
| Jul 19, 2015 | 10 VC Firms Betting Big on Bitcoin and the Blockchain | With more than $800m so far invested in bitcoin and blockchain technology startups since 2012, it's safe to say that venture capitalists are certainly captivated.
Investments in the industry have already exceeded the cumulative total for 20... |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Meet the Cast of Tim Draper’s “Startup U” on ABC | Startup U, a new startup reality show featuring venture capitalist Tim Draper, is premiering on ABC Family on August 11 at 10 pm, the network announced recently.
The plot? Ten students of entrepreneurship take part in a seven-week program a... |
| Jun 21, 2015 | BitAngels' Michael Terpin on the 'Long Road Ahead' for Bitcoin | Last month marked a milestone of sorts for Michael Terpin. BitAngels, the first "serious" angel network in bitcoin, celebrated its second birthday.
Things are markedly different since the group's first impromptu meeting at the Bit... |
| Jun 2, 2015 | Boost.vc Diversifies With A Push Into VR | Startup accelerator Boost.vc is diversifying its next cohort of startups, shifting its line-up of accepted startups from focusing solely on Bitcoin to include those working on virtual and augmented reality.
In a chat with TechCrunch last we... |
| May 1, 2015 | To help the deaf, this startup first had to learn how to listen | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Thibault Duchemin and his team applied for our Le... |
| May 1, 2015 | To help the deaf, this startup first had to learn how to listen | Thibault Duchemin and his team applied for our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley in 2014. We accepted them because it was clear Thibault was driven to solve a very personal problem – he grew up in a deaf family, the only one who could hea... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Tim Draper leads $1.2M investment in Bitcoin startup Hedgy
Hedgy, a Bitcoin company that hopes to tackle the cryptocurrency’... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | Tim Draper leads $1.2M investment in Bitcoin startup Hedgy | Hedgy, a Bitcoin company that hopes to tackle the cryptocurrency’s volatility issues, has emerged from Adam Draper’s Boost accelerator with $1.2 million in hand.
In addition to the funding, the company also announced that its block-chain en... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | Tim Draper leads $1.2M investment in Bitcoin startup Hedgy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hedgy, a Bitcoin company that hopes to tackle the... |
| Apr 6, 2015 | Tim Draper’s latest experiment is a bid for West Coast financial tech | Investor Tim Draper has launched a lot of projects in recent years, including his highly expensive Draper University and Hero City. Now, he’s zeroing in on financial tech with a new incubator called Fintech Connection.
Hero City is a relati... |
| Mar 22, 2015 | Meet Boost VC's Youngest-Ever Bitcoin Entrepreneur | Louis Dumont, Bitproof
At 17 years old, Louison Dumont is the youngest-ever entrepreneur to be accepted into Boost VC, the California incubator that has so far nurtured five batches of mostly bitcoin startups, but he’s not short on experien... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | Gyft to Embrace ‘Radical’ Blockchain Concept in Gift Card Fraud Fight | SXSW
Gyft CEO Vinny Lingham has announced plans for his mobile gift card company to use bitcoin to enable gift card providers to issue more secure, consumer-friendly digital products.
Announced at the annual SXSW conference, the news was re... |
| Mar 13, 2015 | Delivery App Favor Grabs $13M Series A for National Expansion | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Favor, the app that offers to deliver anything, is starting off South By Southwest with some big news: a $13 million Series A financing.
The Austin, TX-based company, which is... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | Singapore Exchange CoinHako Gets Personal Investment Boost from Tim Draper | Tim Draper with CoinHako founders Yusho Liu and Gerry Eng
Recently launched Singapore exchange and wallet service CoinHako has received a helping hand via a "six figure" personal investment from venture capitalist Tim Draper.
The ... |
| Dec 16, 2014 | After A Difficult 2014, Bitcoin Hopes For A Brighter New Year | Bitcoin spiked to north of $1,000 in late 2013, before starting a long decline in the current year. After some optimistic fluctuation, it has landed in a mid-$300 trading range that the virtual currency can’t seem to shake.
Gone, for now it... |
| Dec 5, 2014 | Boost VC to Invest Additional 300 BTC in Each Tribe 5 Bitcoin Startup | Boost VC boost bitcoin fund 2
California-based startup accelerator Boost VC is continuing its "all-in" dive into the bitcoin space with an announcement of a new fund, Boost Bitcoin Fund 2, which promises each company in its upcomi... |
| Nov 22, 2014 | Boost VC Goes 'Full Bitcoin' For Next Startup Mentor Round | Boost VC, the startup accelerator and immersive mentorship program co-founded by Adam Draper, will accept only bitcoin companies for its next round, known as 'Tribe 5'.
Boost VC
will include 20-30 bitcoin companies for its next three-month ... |
| Nov 3, 2014 | Boost VC Closes $6.6M Fund | Boost VC, a San Mateo, California-based startup accelerator, closed an oversubscribed $6.6m fund.
Backers included:
– Marc Andreessen (individual),
– Ben Davenport (individual),
– Barry Schuler (individual),
– Rothenberg Ventures,
– Maven I... |
| Nov 3, 2014 | Bitcoin-Friendly Accelerator Boost VC Raises $6.6 Million in Funding | Boost VC announced today that it has closed a $6.6m funding round to accelerate 200 companies over three years, half of which will be focused on bitcoin.
Marc Andreessen
, Ben Davenport, former American Online CEO Barry Schuler, Rothenberg ... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | Boost VC Demo Day: Meet Tribe 4's Bitcoin Startups | Boost VC Tribe 4 Behind The Scenes
It’s the final day of Tribe 4's tenure in Boost VC’s startup accelerator, and things have been busier than ever.
The accelerator, perhaps most famous for its CEO Adam Draper’s promise to fund 100 bitcoin s... |
| Oct 14, 2014 | An App That Lets You Converse With The Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary | Transcense is a new app that accurately translates conversations in real time so the deaf and hard of hearing can participate in meetings, presentations and conversations.
Founders Thibault Duchemin, Pieter Doevendans and Skinner Cheng say ... |
| Apr 17, 2014 | Meet Adam Draper: The Man Behind 100 Bitcoin Startups | Adam Draper is the founder and CEO of Boost VC, a California-based startup accelerator that focuses on bitcoin related companies.
Draper sat down with CoinDesk last week at Inside Bitcoins NYC to discuss the evolution of Boost VC, his inter... |
| Mar 26, 2014 | Three Classes In, Boost.vc Is Raising A New Fund With Plans To Incubate 100 Bitcoin Startups By 2016 | Adam Draper and Brayton Williams launched Boost.vc in 2012 at a time when the accelerator market was beginning to burst at the seams with new entrants — some would say it was nearing saturation. In an effort to differentiate their approach ... |
