Date | Title | Description |
07.06.2025 | Canid's $10M Funding: A Game Changer for Pediatric Vaccine Management | In the bustling world of healthcare technology, Canid has emerged as a beacon of hope for independent pediatric practices. The New York City-based company recently secured $10 million in Series A funding, led by Telescope Partners. This inv... |
06.06.2025 | Canid Raises $10M to Streamline Pediatric Vaccine Management for Independent Practices | What You Should Know:
– Canid, the healthcare technology company dedicated to simplifying pediatric vaccine management secures $10M in Series A funding round led by Telescope Partners with participation from FJ Labs, Brooklyn Bridge Venture... |
03.03.2023 | Prog.ai wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code | Companies already have a wealth of tools at their disposal for headhunting technical talent, but a new startup wants to give recruiters a leg-up by bringing together the worlds of GitHub and LinkedIn to create a database of the most suitabl... |
15.09.2020 | Circulate Networking Events | My friend and former colleague Charlie O’Donnell created a new kind of networking event for the moment we are in. These are virtual networking events designed to “include diverse perspectives in the innovation community.” They are called Ci... |
11.06.2018 | Radformation Raises $1.6 Million | Radformation, an early-stage oncology software company that works with state of the art radiation equipment, announced the closing of $1.6 million in seed round financing led by Brooklyn Bridge Ventures and a group of successful angel inves... |
02.02.2018 | Agrilyst Adds Horizons Ventures to New Round with Eyes on China | Indoor farming software startup Agrilyst has raised an undisclosed strategic round, bringing in new investors with the aim of expanding the scope of its product offering and entering the Chinese market.
Agrilyst offers a software-as-a-servi... |
18.12.2017 | Brooklyn founders and investors predict big headlines of 2018 | So the plan originally was to write a column of my predictions for the tech world in 2018, when I realized that I am the medium for this information, not the source of it. So why not turn to the tech and business experts I talk to every day... |
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... |
10.09.2017 | Petal Raises $3.6M Seed from Brooklyn Bridge Ventures | Petal Announces New Credit Card that Does Not Require Credit Scores
Petal uses machine learning to pioneer cash flow underwriting and safely make credit accessible without relying on credit scores.
Petal’s new technology will radically expa... |
10.09.2017 | Petal Raises $3.6M Seed from Brooklyn Bridge Ventures | Petal Announces New Credit Card that Does Not Require Credit Scores
Petal uses machine learning to pioneer cash flow underwriting and safely make credit accessible without relying on credit scores.
Petal’s new technology will radically expa... |
31.01.2017 | Brooklyn VC says risk of ‘fascist dictatorship’ under Trump will hurt business | Charlie O’Donnell of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is none too pleased with the recent actions of our President and the venture capitalist has taken to his weekly newsletter to note the dangers Papa Trump poses for investing.
“Just realizing tha... |
07.12.2016 | Move over, Cheezburger: Blog ‘written by animals’ fetches $2.3 million | 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!
Waggle, a blog that claims to be “written by anim... |
07.12.2016 | Waggle raises $2.3 million because the internet doesn’t have enough funny animal videos | A startup called Waggle raised $2.3 million in seed funding to become the go-to destination for animal lovers and pet parents online, and for sharing all the cute pups and madcap kitteh adventures they have to offer.
The New York City-based... |
07.12.2016 | Move over, Cheezburger: Blog ‘written by animals’ fetches $2.3 million | Waggle, a blog that claims to be “written by animals,” launched today, after the New York-based startup fetched a $2.3 million investment earlier this year. The seed round was led by VC house Raine Ventures.
Incubated by Broadway Video Vent... |
21.11.2016 | Bizly lets you book on-demand meeting spaces in luxury hotels | Everyone talks about rooms being an underutilized asset in the hospitality industry. But what about meeting space?
Almost all four- to five-star hotels, even boutique ones, have at least one meeting room. These can be 10-person conference r... |
23.08.2016 | Gowanus-Based VC Still Favors New Companies With New $15M Fund | Founder of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Charlie O’Donnell speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016, on May 9, 2016 in Red Hook. (Photo: Noam Galai / Getty)
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures founder Charlie O’Donnell pulled out a basketball to sh... |
23.08.2016 | Venture Capital, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Closes Second Fund, at $15.1M | Brooklyn, NY-based early stage venture capital firm Brooklyn Bridge Ventures closed its second fund, at $15.1m.
Led by Charlie O’Donnell (formerly at Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital), Brooklyn Bridge Ventures now manages $23m ... |
22.08.2016 | VC Charlie O’Donnell on building up community on the cheap | Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a nearly four-year-old, seed-stage venture firm that’s solely run by founder and general partner, Charlie O’Donnell, just closed its second fund with $15 million, up from an $8.3 million debut fund in early 2014.
Y... |
28.05.2016 | 11 Years of the USV Investment Team | As part of our (currently open) analyst hiring process, we ask applicants to record a few videos of themselves answering questions about their views on USV, venture capital, and the web & mobile app ecosystem.
So, in the spirit of fair... |
12.05.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Agrilyst Scores $1m Seed Round During a Busy Week for M&A | Agrilyst Raises $1m Ahead of Cannabis Platform Roll Out
Disrupt SF 2015 winner Agrilyst has raised $1 million in seed funding in a round led by New York seed stage investors Brooklyn Bridge Ventures with participation from NYC early-stage t... |
10.05.2016 | ProofPilot pivots, launches DIY research study design and development platform for small nonprofits | In an interview with ProofPilot CEO and Co-founder Matthew Amsden, he summarized the company’s experience.
“We have become more mission driven,” he said. “We took a big risk 18 months ago to re-architect this experience. We’re proud of the ... |
09.05.2016 | We Are Hiring An Analyst | Every couple years USV hires a two year analyst. This is an ideal job for a young person early in their career who is looking to get a bird’s eye view on startups, the tech sector, and venture capital investing.
This is not the start of a c... |
08.05.2016 | AlexaSite wins the Disrupt NY 2016 Hackathon Grand Prize | It’s been a long night at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. But this time, you couldn’t see anyone waiting for a boat. Instead, the Cruise Terminal hosted a very special competition — the Disrupt NY Hackathon.
Around 650 engineers and designers... |
06.05.2016 | Announcing the Disrupt NY Hackathon judges and API workshops | The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon kicks off tomorrow at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, and we’re honored to welcome the hackathon’s stellar judges. Nicholas Chirls
Nick Chirls is a partner at Notation Capital, a pre-seed fund based in Broo... |
06.05.2016 | Hiring a New Analyst | We are kicking off another search for an analyst at Union Square Ventures (USV). As in the past, we will recruit for this position using an open process. While this results in a lot of work sorting through applications, we are often inspire... |
02.03.2016 | Hungryroot Raises $3.7m Series A for Gluten-Free, Quick Recipe Meal Kits | Hot on the heels of AgFunder’s recent investing report which detailed some $1.65 billion of investment in food e-commerce companies in 2015, Hungryroot, a New York-based meal kit delivery service, has raised $3.7 million in Series A funding... |
22.02.2016 | Hey, founders: Here’s a chance to practice pitching a venture capitalist | Brooklyn’s top venture capitalist will host an open call for pitches next Monday at Brooklyn Law School.
The event, called #notapitch, is a semi-regular pitch night in which startuppers have two minutes to pitch their idea to Charlie O’Donn... |
18.02.2016 | Brooklyn Bridge Ventures places a bet on the future of weed | With respect to those involved, the recent investment by Brooklyn Bridge Ventures in a cannibis derivatives company could be a case study in how to make drugs boring.
Brooklyn Bridge founder Charlie O’Donnell announced the funding round for... |
29.09.2015 | 3 lessons from Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ #notapitch night | Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ #notapitch is like Shark Tank but there’s just one shark and he’s actually pretty nice.
Last week at Brooklyn Law School, Charlie O’Donnell held an open call for startup ideas and freely dispensed advice on what he... |
13.05.2014 | VC Fund Economics | Charlie O’Donnell, who was our first analyst at USV and who now runs his own VC fund, wrote a post yesterday outlining the economics of running a venture capital fund.
Charlie’s fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, operates on the 2.5/20 model. ... |
23.03.2014 | The USV MBA | Since starting USV in 2004 (we actually started USV in the summer of 2003, but it took Brad and I over a year to raise our first fund), we have had a two year analyst position. The idea is we bring in a young talented person early on in the... |
12.02.2014 | Dash software for paying bar tabs raises $400k [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Here’s the official announcement that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures raised an $8,251,000 fund, according to an SEC filing. We covered the announcement of this funding round last week.
Dash Software raised $419,691, according... |
27.01.2014 | Charlie O’Donnell announces $8.3M Brooklyn Bridge Ventures fund | Two years after launching the first investment fund based in Brooklyn, Charlie O’Donnell announced last week he finished raising a $8.3 million fund for his Brooklyn Bridge Ventures.
In that time, with $3.5 million in launch money, the firm... |
22.01.2014 | Charlie O’Donnell’s Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Raises $8.3M To Back NYC Startups | VC Charlie O’Donnell, who has worked at both First Round Capital and Union Square Ventures, is announcing the second raise, of $8.25 million, for his New York City-based, early-stage VC fund Brooklyn Bridge Ventures.
The LPs include Wiley C... |
22.01.2014 | A fund grows in Brooklyn: Meet the East Coast’s newest seed firm | 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!
Former First Round Capital principal Charlie O’Do... |
- | ProofPilot pivots, launches DIY research study design and development platform for small nonprofits | A health IT company that set out to make clinical trials easier to manage for pharmaceutical, medical device and biotech companies shifted its business model. Now, after 18 months, ProofPilot has launched a Software as a Service to support ... |