| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.05.2021 | Cowen to Offer Crypto Custody to Hedge Funds and Asset Managers | Cowen will provide “institutional-grade” custody services through a partnership with Standard Custody & Trust Co. and will also make a $25 million investment in PolySign Inc., Standard’s parent company. |
| 11.05.2021 | Ginkgo Bioworks To Go Public In $17.5 Billion Deal With Former Hollywood Exec Harry Sloan’s SPAC | Synthetic biology pioneer Ginkgo Bioworks agreed to go public today in a $17.5 billion SPAC deal. The Boston-based company will merge with Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., a blank-check firm founded by former Hollywood exec Harry Sloan in a... |
| 05.05.2021 | Galaxy Digital to Buy BitGo in Crypto Sector’s First $1 Billion Deal | Bitcoin-focused firm Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. has agreed to buy BitGo Inc. for $1.2 billion in cash and stock, the first $1 billion deal in the cryptocurrency industry. The acquisition will make Galaxy Digital with more than $40 billion... |
| 15.04.2021 | Multiply Labs raises $20M for robotic pharma manufacturing | Multiply Labs, a San Francisco-based company developing automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs at scale, raised $20 million in a Series A funding. The round was led by Casdin Capital. |
| 07.04.2021 | Think smart sleeping is a good investment? SoftBank does in its new Miami tech initiative | SoftBank has picked Eight Sleep as the third company to receive funds via the $100 million Miami investment announced in January. Eight Sleep is a high-performance sleep company that sells tech-enabled, temperature-controlled mattresses. |
| 08.01.2021 | SilviaTerra Closes $4.4M Seed Round Led by USV and Version One Ventures | SilviaTerra is America’s leader in precision forestry and the developer of Basemap, the only high-resolution map of the sizes and species of trees on every acre of forest in America. They announced the close of a $4.4M seed financing round ... |
| 30.11.2020 | Why corporate partners are essential for Third Derivative, a new climate-tech support network | Third Derivative (D3), is launching with a portfolio of close to 50 startups (both early-stage and those closer to commercial readiness) and the support of nine corporate partners and nine venture capital firms. |
| 26.11.2020 | Mekonos raises $4.6M for its gene engineering platform | Mekonos, a biotech company launching the first-of-its kind system-on-a-chip (SoC) for targeted ex vivo gene engineering, today announced it has completed a $4.6 million financing round. Mekonos will use the new capital to accelerate the SoC... |
| 20.10.2020 | Sports Chat App Flick Raises $5 Million Series A | Flick, a group chat platform that connects sports influencers with fans, has raised a $5 million Series A round led by AlleyCorp—with participation from Bullpen Capital, Everblue Management, Amity Ventures, and Courtside VC. |
| 25.09.2020 | Alloy Secures $40M To Digitally Onboard Banking Customers | Alloy, an identity operating system for the financial services industry, raised $40 million in Series B funding. |
| 27.06.2020 | App Friendly Video Company Agora Goes Public | API-focused app developer Agora has raised $350 million with its IPO price of $20 a share, above its expected range. Tony Zhao, Chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Agora, joined Cheddar to discuss. Please check the video. |
| 26.06.2020 | Agora starts life as a public company by more than doubling to $50 a share | Agora, a China and U.S.-based “real-time engagement” API company, soared today after it went public. It targeted a share price of $16 to $18 and yesterday Agora priced 17.5M shares at $20 apiece. |
| 11.02.2020 | Google Cloud Announces to work with Hedera Hashgraph to support the next generation of distributed ledger technology | Google has announced to become a member of the governing body for distributed ledger startup Hedera Hashgraph. As part of our council membership, Google Cloud will operate a Hedera network node, and make the ledger data available for analyt... |
| 21.12.2019 | Ripple raises $200 million to improve global payments | Ripple has raised $200 million Series C funding round. Tetragon is leading the round, with SBI Holdings and Route 66 Ventures also participating. According to Fortune, the company is now valued at $10 billion. |
| 10.12.2019 | Iterable, founded by an ex-Twitter engineer, nabs $60M for cross-channel growth marketing tools | Iterable — which uses email, push and in-app notifications, SMS and other sources to interact with users and deliver them targeted, personalized marketing messages — has closed another $60 million in funding, a Series D that it’s going to u... |
| 06.11.2019 | Eight Sleep Raises $40 Million To Make Slumber A Medical Solution | Eight Sleep raised a $40 million growth funding round led by Founders Fund and joined by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, 8VC, Flexport Founder Ryan Petersen and Eventbrite Cofounder and Chairman Kevin Hartz. The company wants... |
| 09.10.2019 | Ginkgo Bioworks Raises $350 Million Fund for Biotech Spinouts | Biotechnology start-up Ginkgo Bioworks said that it had raised a $350 million fund. Dubbed the Ferment Fund, the investment vehicle will invest in two to three spinout ventures that use its bio-engineering technology. |
| 19.09.2019 | Synthetic Biology Unicorn Ginkgo Bioworks Raises An Additional $290 Million | Ginkgo Bioworks announced the Series E financing round totaling $290 million, with all their existing investors participating. This brings the total funding of the company to $719 million. The recent $290 million funding is dedicated to fur... |
| 17.09.2019 | Alloy Raises $12 Million in Series A Funding Led by Bessemer Venture Partners to Scale The First Identity Operating System in Financial Services | Alloy, the identity operating system for the financial services industry, announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round and was joined by previous investors including Eniac Ventures and P... |
| 22.08.2019 | A $44M Series B Drop in The Bucket for Millennial Loyalty | Earn with Drop, a coalition customer loyalty company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, announced that it’s raised $44 million in series B funding led by HOF Capital, with participation from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sierra Ventures, ... |
| 03.07.2019 | Synyi.AI Raises RMB 250M Series C Funding Led by Tencent | Synyi.AI, a company provides AI solutions for medical institutions announced it has raised RMB 250M in Series C Funding. This round is led by Tencent. |
| 24.06.2019 | Drone Racing League Is Raising $50 Million | The Drone Racing League is in the process of raising up to $50 million from investors in a Series C round. The startup has already raised over $26 million from Lux Capital and RSE Ventures and is looking to secure additional investors to cl... |
| 16.04.2019 | Turning Point Therapeutics Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering | Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage precision oncology company announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 9,250,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $18.00 per share. The shares are expected... |
| 28.02.2019 | Right Most Raised $80M Series C Round Led by Xiaomi | Social community product “Right Most” recently closed a new round 80 million us dollars, led by Xiaomi and followed by some existing shareholders. It’s also one of the biggest fundraising events in the social community industry in nearly a ... |
| 06.02.2019 | P&G Acquires Organic Period Care Startup This Is L. | Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced its acquisition of This is L., a period care startup that manufactures organic pads and tampons. TechCrunch reported that the price tag is at roughly $100 million. TechCrunch reported that a person w... |