| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.07.2024 | The Surge of Financial Services for Medical Professionals and Reinsurers**
** | ** In the ever-evolving landscape of finance, two recent developments stand out: Earned Wealth's $200 million capital commitment and Martello Re's impressive $1.3 billion funding round. Both companies are carving out niches in their respect... |
| 23.07.2024 | Earned Wealth: $200 Million Capital Commitment Raised | Earned Wealth, a tech-enabled financial services firm focused on the needs of medical professionals, announced a $200 million capital commitment led by growth equity investors Summit Partners and Silversmith Capital Partners with participat... |
| 24.05.2024 | New funding secured by UAE’s Huspy to develop SuperApp | With operations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Madrid, Huspy is a property technology company based in the United Arab Emirates. The company recently announced that it has raised money in a funding round headed by Balderton Capital, with addition... |
| 07.03.2024 | Firewall Raises $3.7M to Take Smart Contracts Mainstream With Programmable Finality | San Francisco, USA / California, March 7th, 2024, Chainwire Firewall secures funding from North Island Ventures, Breyer Capital, and Hack VC to bulletproof smart contract networks.
Firewall, a blockchain infrastructure startup, announced it... |
| 07.03.2024 | Firewall raises $3.7M to take smart contracts mainstream with programmable finality | San Francisco, USA / California, March 7th, 2024, Chainwire
Firewall secures funding from North Island Ventures, Breyer Capital, and Hack VC to bulletproof smart contract networks.
Firewall, a blockchain infrastructure startup, announced ... |
| 17.01.2024 | Lousy U.S. economic conditions dampen 2023 venture investments, but not for generative AI | It's a race for generative AI applications among the big techs and the smaller players alike
If the year 2022 was a sluggish year for private equity deals, 2023 was outright lethargic. Rising interest rates, inflation, and fears of a recess... |
| 21.08.2023 | Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck that Kinjo, a startup that helps encourage kids to play educational games on Roblox, used to raise $6.5 million in seed funding | Kinjo CEO Charles Thornburgh (left) and Laura Malcolm, the startup's head of product. Kinjo This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Austin-based Kinjo is an app that ranks the edu... |
| 14.04.2022 | Tushop secures $3m pre-seed funding to scale affordable community eGrocery in Kenya | Tushop, a female-founded digital platform that aggregates Kenyan consumers into groups to buy groceries more cheaply, has secured $3 million in pre-seed funding.
The investment was led by early-stage investment firm 4DX Ventures. Other inve... |
| 14.01.2022 | Verana Health Raises $150M to Expand Real-World Data Network | What You Should Know:
Verana Health, a digital health company that delivers quality drug lifecycle and medical practice insights from an exclusive real-world data network, today announced a $150 million Series E funding round led by Johnson... |
| 07.12.2021 | Suki Secures $55M for Voice-Enabled Clinical Assistants to Relieve Physician Burnout | What You Should Know:
– Suki raises $55M in Series C funding to expand its AI-enabled, voice-enabled clinical assistants to relieve physician burnout.
– Suki will use this funding to make strategic investments that will lead to an expansion... |
| 17.08.2021 | ClosedLoop.ai Raises $34M to Expand Healthcare Data Science Platform | What You Should Know:
– ClosedLoop.ai., an Austin, TX-based healthcare data science platform, today announced it has raised $34 million in Series B financing led by Telstra Ventures with participation from Breyer Capital, Greycroft Ventures... |
| 19.07.2021 | Nigerian investment platform Chaka secures $1.5M pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license | When Robinhood raised its $3 million seed round in 2013, it was a couple of months old with huge ambitions of democratizing securities access to the underserved and unserved. Robinhood has since taken the world by storm and grown to serve m... |
| 16.07.2021 | Social ecommerce platform Taagar closes $6.4M round | Share this:
Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new... |
| 28.04.2021 | Viva Wallet Sa announced that it has received $80 million in funding from The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Tencent Holdings Limited, Breyer Capital and other investors | Viva Wallet Sa announced that it raised $80 million in a round of funding on April 28, 2021. The transaction included participation from several technology and financial services investors, including new investors Tencent Holdings Limited (... |
| 07.08.2020 | AppHarvest raises $28m as Martha Stewart & Impossible Foods’ CFO join board | High-tech greenhouse startup AppHarvest has closed a $28 million Series C funding round, added some big names to its board, and created a new chief people officer position.
Narya, the new venture capital firm co-founded by author of best-se... |
| 07.08.2020 | AppHarvest raises $28m as Martha Stewart & Impossible Foods’ CFO join board | High-tech greenhouse startup AppHarvest has closed a $28 million Series C funding, added some big names to its board, and created a new chief people officer position.
Narya, the new venture capital firm co-founded by author of best-selling ... |
| 04.08.2020 | Silicon Valley VC Firm Breyer Capital Opens an Austin Office | |
| 25.02.2020 | Kenyan ecommerce startup Sokowatch raises $14m | Nairobi based B2B ecommerce platform Sokowatch has raised $14-million in a Series-A investment round.
Sokowatch — which was founded in 2013 by CEO Daniel Yu (pictured above) and COO Josh Middleman — enables informal retailers to place order... |
| 25.02.2020 | Kenyan ecommerce startup Sokowatch raises $14m | Nairobi based B2B ecommerce platform Sokowatch has raised $14-million in a Series-A investment round.
Sokowatch — which was founded in 2013 by CEO Daniel Yu (pictured above) and COO Josh Middleman — enables informal retailers to place orde... |
| 03.01.2019 | Boundary Capital Partners portfolio company raises £3.6m to accelerate growth | Dymag Group, the British designer and manufacturer of carbon hybrid automotive wheels, is predicting a record 2019 following a £3.6m investment from Puma Private Equity.
Dymag raised two rounds of funding in 2015 and 2017 led by Boundary C... |
| 03.12.2018 | The Ledger: Legendary Investor Jim Breyer Warns of Crypto ‘Nuclear Winter’ | Greetings from China, where Fortune just concluded its 2018 Global Tech Forum in Guangzhou, a city whose industrial potency permeates the air, literally, in the form of a throat-tickling miasma. I am spending the week unwinding in the reviv... |
| 01.11.2018 | EDO Closes $12 Million Series A Financing Led By Breyer Capital | EDO hits the accelerator in its mission to challenge the limitations of historical TV measurement with the closing of $12 million in Series A funding led by Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital. The company focuses on delivering innovative and accu... |
| 08.11.2017 | Famed VC Jim Breyer on finding the next Mark Zuckerberg (and much more) | Yesterday, at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, we caught up with Jim Breyer, renowned in Silicon Valley thanks to a decades-long track record of smart bets, most notably in Facebook. Breyer was the managing partner at Accel Partners, wh... |
| 27.02.2017 | The most well-funded healthtech startups | CEOs and founders of Oscar Health, Prelude Fertility and Human Longevity on stage at Splash Health
We're thrilled to have the founders and CEOs of the most well-funded healthtech startups join us on stage at our Splash Health, Wellness and ... |
| 07.02.2017 | When Oscar was young: the early years | With $727 million in VC and a reported $2.7 billion valuation, Oscar still seeking profits
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Founder & C... |
| 09.01.2017 | China: IDG Capital scores 17 exits, 15 portfolio firms cross $1b valuations in 2016 | Premium
IDG Capital has said it had a bumper 2016, scoring 17 exits, even as three of its portfolio companies got listed during this period. The China-focussed VC firm further said that the 15 companies it had backed had achieved valuation ... |
| 14.12.2016 | Stash Raises $25 Million Series B | Stash makes investing easier and more accessible for the 100M American consumers with limited access to financial opportunity. It is now the fastest growing mobile investing platform in the United States. Today, Stash announced it has raise... |
| 18.10.2016 | Zumper raises a $17.6M Series B to expand beyond apartment searches | Zumper, the online apartment search platform, has raised $17.6M in Series B funding. This brings total funding to date to $39.2M. While the company declined to discuss valuation, TechCrunch has learned that it’s just north of $100M post-mon... |
| 17.08.2016 | Breyer Capital Leads $5.5M Series A for Drivetribe | LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DRIVETRIBE, a next-generation digital media platform dedicated to motoring and adventure, announced it has completed a $5.5. million Series A funding round led by Breyer Capital with additional participation by Atom... |
| 17.08.2016 | Breyer Capital Leads $5.5M Series A for Drivetribe | LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DRIVETRIBE, a next-generation digital media platform dedicated to motoring and adventure, announced it has completed a $5.5. million Series A funding round led by Breyer Capital with additional participation by Atom... |
| 12.07.2016 | IDG Capital Partners Closes $1 Billion Venture Capital Fund | China-focused venture capital and private equity investment firm IDG Capital Partners has partnered with Breyer Capital, a Menlo Park, CA-based venture capital investor, to close a new fund, at $1 billion.
IDG Capital Fund III will focus on... |
| 14.10.2015 | Lyra Health raises $35M Series A to ramp up staff, remove barriers in mental health delivery | One of them is employer-facing health IT company Castlight Health, which is also a financial backer. In a phone interview with Chief Medical Officer Dena Bravata, formerly CMO and Head of Products at Castlight, she talked about the importan... |
| 18.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 18, 2015 | Clover Health bagged $100M; Jaunt raised $50M; Establishment Labs closed $20M funding round
Travel Startups Incubator announced a $25,000 investment in VidPal, a travel and tourism video marketplace that provides paid opportunities to the f... |
| 04.05.2015 | Learn To Code Startup Kano Gets $15M To Build A Creative Computing Brand | London-based startup Kano, which makes a software platform and DIY computer kit built atop the Raspberry Pi to encourage kids to learn coding, has a new building block of its own to announce today: $15 million in Series A funding, led by Ji... |
| 04.05.2015 | Kano Raises $15M in Series A Funding | Kano, a London, UK-based computer building kit, raised $15m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Breyer Capital, with participation from Collaborative Fund and Jim O’Neill.
The company intends to use the funds to extend the product pla... |
| 30.04.2015 | Bitcoin Startup Circle Grabs $50M to Add U.S. Dollar to Payment System | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Circle, a bitcoin-based payment and money transfer business headquartered in Boston, has received $50 million in a new financing round led by Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs a... |
| 26.06.2014 | Self-destructing messaging app Wickr scores $30M led by Jim Breyer | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
At this point, it’s clear that the disappearing message market isn’t just going to fade away.
Wickr, an app that lets you securely send... |
| 20.03.2014 | Silicon Valley giant Accel Partners raises nearly $1.5B — key partner Jim Breyer steps back | 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!
Prominent venture capital firm Accel Partners, fa... |
| 20.03.2014 | Silicon Valley giant Accel Partners raises nearly $1.5B — key partner Jim Breyer steps back | Prominent venture capital firm Accel Partners, famed for its early investments in companies like Facebook and Dropbox, has raised capital for two new funds, totaling $1.475 billion. In the midst of this news, Partner Jim Breyer announced he... |
| 31.10.2013 | Circle launches with $9 Million from Jim Breyer, Accel and General Catalyst in biggest ever bitcoin funding | A new startup has launched in the bitcoin ecosystem, backed by $9m of Series A funding from a number of notable tech investors.
Called Circle Internet Financial, or just 'Circle', the company was founded by Jeremy Allaire, co-founder of All... |
| 06.12.2012 | Prismatic Raises $15M in Series A Funding | According to multiple reports, Prismatic, a San Francisco, California-based developer of a personalized social news discovery engine, has raised $15m in Series A funding.
Backers include Accel Partners, Breyer Capital and Yuri Milner.
Led b... |
| 30.01.2008 | Etsy Raises $27 Million; Accel's Jim Breyer Joins Board | Etsy, the anti-eBay shopping site for handcrafted goods, raised $27 million in a series D round. It previously raised a total of $4.6 million from Union Square Ventures and angels Caterina Fake, Stewart Butterfield, Joshua Schachter, and Al... |
| - | Lyra Health raises $35M Series A to ramp up staff, remove barriers in mental health delivery | Lyra Health, a digital health startup co-founded by former Genentech and Facebook CFO Dave Ebersman to improve the patient referral process and care coordination for mental health, has raised a $35 million Series A round, according to a com... |
| - | Death of shipping CEO Angela Chao under ‘criminal investigation,’ Texas sheriff says | The death of Foremost Group CEO Angela Chao is currently under “criminal investigation,” a Texas sheriff’s office said Thursday.
Chao, 50, was found dead shortly after midnight on Feb. 11 after being pulled out of a car that had gone into a... |
| - | Startup with bold goal to establish digital biomarkers for neurological disease diagnosis wins $25M | Artificial intelligence is being leveraged to solve a variety of healthcare challenges, but its greatest promise remains its potential to detect and diagnose diseases better than humans can.
The latter is being attempted by NeuraLight, an I... |
