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| 09.12.2024 | Quick commerce unicorn Zepto set to see another $100-mn-plus transaction | Premium
Zepto founders Kaivalya Vohra and Aadit Palicha | Credit: Contrary Capital
Quick commerce startup Zepto, which sealed a $350 million round bankrolled by domestic investors including several family offices just weeks ago topping up i... |
| 31.08.2024 | This Week's Best Startup Funding: August 24–31 Here is a list of the startups that have raised the most money this week, from August 24 to August 31. | This week's funding highlights a diverse range of sectors, from rapid delivery services and fashion retail to specialty coffee and tech support, showcasing the dynamic landscape of startup investments.
Zepto: Quick Commerce Platform
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| 30.08.2024 | Zepto's Meteoric Rise: A $340 Million Leap into the Future of Quick Commerce | In the fast-paced world of quick commerce, Zepto is making waves. The Mumbai-based startup has just secured $340 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst, catapulting its valuation to a staggering $5 billion. This marks a remarkab... |
| 30.08.2024 | General Catalyst leads $340 mn funding in Zepto as valuation soars | Zepto founders Kaivalya Vohra and Aadit Palicha
Zepto has raised fresh funding, barely two months after its last round of fundraising, lifting the valuation of the quick commerce startup to $5 billion (nearly Rs 42,000 crore), about 40% hig... |
| 18.04.2024 | Ramp's Rise: A Financial Frenzy | Ramp, the financial automation platform, has secured a whopping $150 million in Series D-2 funding, co-led by Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund. This injection of cash has catapulted Ramp's valuation to a staggering $7.65 billion, solidifyi... |
| 17.04.2024 | Ramp raises another $150M co-led by Khosla and Founders Fund at a $7.65B valuation | Spend management startup Ramp has raised another $150 million at a post-money valuation of $7.65 billion, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today.
New investor Khosla Ventures and existing backer Founders Fund co-led the raise, which also... |
| 18.08.2023 | Why generalist investors will always win | Will Robbins Contributor
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| 09.04.2023 | In the new normal for VC, builders will win | Will Robbins Contributor
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| 11.12.2022 | 5 lessons we’ve learned from building a venture fund from scratch | Eric Tarczynski Contributor
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| 17.10.2022 | 2023 VC predictions: Finding an exit from the ‘messy middle’ | Eric Tarczynski Contributor
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| 22.02.2022 | Brevity Inc. Raises $2.75M Seed Investment Led by Contrary Capital | We’re delivering on the true mission of no-code to let people anywhere in the world, with or without technical skills, build apps to power their business.
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Brevity Inc., a next-gen no-code software compan... |
| 18.11.2021 | Fractional | As investors, we often talk about ‘knowing it when you see it’. ‘It’ being the x-factor – the difficult-to-explain quantitatively but easy to observe differentiator that sets someone apart from the pack. |
| 15.07.2021 | California Crescent Fund Is Taking a Chance on SoCal Students | College kids have hatched some of the biggest ideas throughout tech history, sometimes before they even finish school. But students who aren't as lucky as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates usually have to backburner big ideas to focus on earnin... |
| 15.07.2021 | 'They Know You Better Than Any Venture Capitalist': The California Crescent Fund Aims to Boost SoCal's Student Founders | College kids have hatched some of the biggest ideas throughout tech history, sometimes before they even finish school. But students who aren't as lucky as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates usually have to backburner big ideas to focus on earnin... |
| 16.02.2021 | Looking for opportunity in the community? Don’t sleep on Technical.ly Baltimore’s daily newsletter | A journalist’s mission is to accurately represent the contours of their community as it exists today, and push it toward a better version of itself tomorrow.
There are lots of ways to do that work, especially with the tools offered by the w... |
| 24.12.2020 | US seed-stage investing flourished during pandemic | As the United States entered its first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, there were wide expectations in startup land that a reckoning had arrived. But the expected comeuppance of high-burn, high-growth startups fueled by cheap capital provided b... |
| 08.09.2020 | Trailblazers: Gefen Skolnick, Entrepreneur, Community Organizer And Venture Investor | OwnTrail, Gefen Skolnick |
| 31.07.2020 | Opportunities (and challenges) in church tech | Will Robbins Contributor
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| 03.06.2020 | University entrepreneurship — without the university | Eric Tarczynski Contributor
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| 17.02.2020 | Voodoo Games thrives by upending conventional product design | Will Robbins Contributor
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| 03.02.2020 | Venture investing in elder tech | Will Robbins Contributor
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| 14.09.2019 | Startups Weekly: Part & Parcel plans plus-sized fashion empire | Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I wrote about Stripe’s grand plans. ... |
| 03.07.2019 | 5 tips for female founders from DMV investors and tech leaders | What does it take to build and support a “robust and inclusive entrepreneur ecosystem” in Baltimore?
As part of this year’s Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) National Conference and Business Fair, a group of over 70 femal... |
| 16.05.2019 | Part fund, part accelerator, Contrary Capital invests in student entrepreneurs | First Round Capital has both the Dorm Room Fund and the Graduate Fund. General Catalyst has Rough Draft Ventures. And Prototype Capital and a few other micro-funds focus on investing in student founders, but overall, there’s a shortage of c... |
| 25.05.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, May 25 | THE PET WARS
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| 27.10.2017 | This Venture Capital Fund Focuses on Startups at the University Level | There are college students who look for established opportunities and college students who decide to make their own. Let’s say for a moment you’re a student that does make his or her own opportunity mixed with a knack for everything entrepr... |
| 19.09.2017 | More funding for Philly college startups: Meet Contrary Capital | Though startups from the Penn ecosystem already have a healthy supply of capital to go around, here’s a new national fund that looks to fund startups out of the Ivy League institution: newly-launched Contrary Capital.
The fund has student i... |
| 14.02.2017 | TheBlindGuide acquires UPenn startup ThirdEye, bringing computer vision to the visually impaired | There’s nothing quite like the atmosphere of a college hackathon. Amidst the free t-shirts and apps to help you find parties on campus always lie a few hidden gems for those with the patience to hunt. ThirdEye, one of those gems forged out ... |