| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.03.2025 | SimCare AI Raises $2M in Seed Funding | SimCare AI founders Vrishank Saini and Tigran Bdoyan.
SimCare AI, a Chicago, IL-based clinical training company using AI patients to bypass regulatory constraints and certify clinical skills with far fewer patient interactions, raised $2M i... |
| 02.03.2025 | SimCare AI: Revolutionizing Clinical Training with AI Patients | The healthcare industry is at a crossroads. A shortage of clinicians looms large, threatening patient care. Traditional training methods are like a ship with a hole in the hull—no matter how much water you bail, it keeps sinking. Enter SimC... |
| 27.02.2025 | SimCare AI Raises $2M for AI-Powered Clinical Training Platform | What You Should Know:
– SimCare AI, a healthcare technology company developing an AI-powered clinical training platform secures $2M in seed funding round led by Y Combinator and Drive Capital.
– The investment will support the company’s mis... |
| 26.11.2024 | Cofactor AI Secures $4M to Tackle Hospital Claim Denials with AI Innovation | In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the battle against claim denials is fierce. Hospitals across the United States are grappling with a staggering increase in claim denials, which surged by 20.2% in 2023. This trend is not just a ... |
| 25.11.2024 | Cofactor AI Nabs $4M to Combat Hospital Claim Denials with AI | What You Should Know:
– Hospitals across the country are facing an ever-increasing onslaught of claims denials from insurance companies, with denials up 20.2% in 2023, according to the American Hospital Association. These denials – triggere... |
| 22.11.2024 | Vecna Robotics: Material Handling Automation Solutions Company Raises $14.5 Million | Vecna Robotics, a leader in flexible material handling automation solutions, announced it has brought on Karl Iagnemma as CEO and raised $14.5 million in additional funding from existing investors. The proceeds of the funding round are earm... |
| 13.11.2024 | The Rise and Fall of Startups: A Tale of Two Companies | In the world of startups, fortunes can shift like sand in the wind. Two companies, Dealshare and Vecna Robotics, illustrate this volatility. One is sinking, while the other is rising. Their stories reflect the broader landscape of innovatio... |
| 13.11.2024 | Industrial automation startup Vecna Robotics raises $14.5M, appoints new CEO
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| 17.10.2024 | Eye On AI: As Big Money Rolls Into Data Centers, Startup Investment Gains | 3 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here.
It’s been hard to browse tech headlines this week and not read something about billions of dollars being poured into... |
| 04.10.2024 | KOHO: Fintech Company Raises $190 Million And Debt Raised | KOHO announced that it has raised $190 million in additional capital, $40 million of which is equity and $150 million in debt. This new funding will drive growth, the expansion of KOHO’s lending book and new innovative products, and continu... |
| 19.07.2024 | Planned Secures $35M in Series B Funding, Welcomes Hopper's CEO to its Board of Directors | Planned, a Montreal-based company, has secured $35 million in Series B funding, led by Drive Capital, with participation from Outsiders Fund and two other firms. This brings their total funding to $65 million since their launch in 2017. The... |
| 18.07.2024 | Planned Secures $35M in Series B Funding, Welcomes Hopper's CEO to its Board of Directors | Planned Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer Emeric Noel, and Co-Founder and CEO Marc-Antoine Bonin.
- The round was led by Drive Capital, with the participation of Outsiders Fund and two other firms, bringing total funding to $65M since th... |
| 02.07.2024 | Sidecar Health Disrupts Employer Health Insurance Landscape with $165M Funding Injection | Sidecar Health, a trailblazer in the health insurance sector, has recently announced a significant milestone by securing a whopping $165 million in Series D financing. This funding round, spearheaded by Koch Disruptive Technologies, along w... |
| 01.07.2024 | Cincinnati tech startup Pieces raises $13.5M Series A led by Drive Capital | - |
| 27.06.2024 | Sidecar Health Secures $165M to Disrupt Employer-Sponsored Healthcare | What You Should Know:
– Sidecar Health, a health insurance provider for businesses raises $165M in a Series D funding round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies with participation from new and existing investors such as GreatPoint Ventures, ... |
| 27.06.2024 | Sidecar Health scores $165M for employer health insurance plans | Photo: Franziska & Tom Werner/Getty Images
Sidecar Health, an insurance startup focused on price transparency and direct payments for care, announced it secured $165 million in Series D financing.
Koch Disruptive Technologies led the ro... |
| 18.06.2024 | Birdseye Adds New Features to its AI-Powered Email Marketing Platform | Birdseye, an emerging force in AI-powered retail and e-commerce marketing, has launched new features in its autonomous email marketing platform that empower retailers to liquidate inventory using its one-click artificial intelligence (AI) s... |
| 17.05.2024 | Voxel51's Visual AI Platform Receives a Boost with $30 Million in Funding | Voxel51, a prominent player in the field of visual AI technology, has recently announced a significant milestone with the successful raise of $30 million in new funding. This infusion of capital is set to propel the company's efforts in rev... |
| 16.05.2024 | Voxel51 Raises $30M in Series B Funding | Voxel51, an Ann Arbor, MI-based company which specializes in visual AI, raised $30M Series B funding.
The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from new investor Tru Arrow Partners and existing investors Drive Capit... |
| 09.10.2023 | If you liked Trim and Truebill, your business will love Sparx | The profitable startup just raised $3.1M to advance its spend-monitoring AI bot
If you regularly subscribe to services on your smartphone, then you most likely found Trim (acquired by OneMain) or Rocket Money (f.k.a. Truebill) quite useful.... |
| 23.08.2023 | Nursa Secures $80M to Expand Healthcare Staffing Platform | What You Should Know:
Nursa, a nationwide platform that exists to put a nurse at the bedside of every patient in need, today announced the completion of its executive leadership team following an $80 million Series B funding raise led by Dr... |
| 01.08.2023 | Where Silicon Valley West failed, Chicago’s Silicon Valley MidWest will succeed | Reposted from rama.chakaki.com
Doing business while doing good never felt so plausible as it did in my recent trip to Chicago. Through our at Transform VC partner Walter Hughes, I met the West Loop community of black and brown founders, ven... |
| 29.06.2023 | Canada-based Passage raises USD 30 million in Seed | Canada-based company that seeks to match talented immigrants to educational and career opportunities, Passage raised USD 30 million (C$40 million) in seed funding. The round took place on June 27, 2023. Drive Capital led the financing for t... |
| 07.05.2023 | The Industrial Belt Fights Back | Battle Motors CTO Kelleigh Ash at the front of the new assembly line for electric vehiclescredit: Jennifer Gross, Battle Motos |
| 08.03.2023 | Drive Capital Launches $80M Seed Program to Invest in Startups Inside the Driveway | Drive Capital, a Columbus, OH-based multi-strategy venture firm investing in market-defining startups located in the “Driveway”, the region in North America between the Hudson River and the Rocky Mountains, launched an $80m seed program.
Wi... |
| 09.09.2022 | VCs who cast a wider net have double backed to CA, says this ex-Sequoia Capital partner | Investor Chris Olsen knows the West Coast VC scene. He spent six years with Sequoia Capital in California before co-founding Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013 based on the theory that the “most compelling emerging market is America, ... |
| 31.08.2022 | Coming out of COVID, investors lose their taste for board meetings | Two weeks ago, longtime venture capitalist Chris Olsen, a general partner and cofounder of Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, settled into his seat for a portfolio company’s board meeting. It turned out to be a maddening exercise.
“Two of the... |
| 21.07.2022 | Planned Raises $18 Million as In-Person Corporate Events Return | Plenty of companies have started in this space, but none of them have done the upfront work to truly simplify the experience of event planning like the Planned team has.
MONTREAL (PRWEB) July 21, 2022
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| 14.07.2022 | Planned Raises $18 Million as In-Person Corporate Events Return | Share
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The event planning platform is North America’s go-to resource for in-person event planners. The Series A funding will be used to meet the surge of demand from enterprise customers.
MONTREAL — Planned, the all-i... |
| 08.07.2022 | Drive Capital Raises Additional $1 Billion to Invest in Startups | Drive Capital, a Columbus, Ohio-based multi-strategy venture firm, closed two new funds totalling $1 billion.
With the new funds, Drive has $2.2 billion in assets under management to support founders from pre-seed to IPO.
Founded in 2013, D... |
| 05.07.2022 | The most active VC investors in Q2 2021 are pumping the brakes | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Okay. Okay. So you’ve seen a lot of “End of Times” letters being blasted off to founders. What’s ... |
| 08.06.2022 | Encamp Secures $30M in Series C Funding to Help Enterprises Transform Their Environmental Compliance | Jessel Thomas, Tech Times 08 June 2022, 11:06 pm
Encamp, an award-winning enterprise technology startup for environmental compliance data management and reporting, today announced $30M in Series C funding from Drive Capital. Funding was led... |
| 03.06.2022 | TechCrunch Podcasts this week: Layoffs, the crypto downturn, investor offense, and Columbus, Ohio | TechCrunch is more than just a site with words. We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. To help you find the right show for your interests, we’... |
| 03.06.2022 | How Olive pivoted 27 times on its way to a $4 billion valuation | Olive is a homegrown Columbus, Ohio unicorn; hear from the CEO and lead investor how the company was founded and grew into an industry leader.
Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s... |
| 17.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Licious nets $150m, Bear Robotics raises $81m | Licious, an India e-commerce marketplace for meat, scored $150 million in Series F-plus investment this week, while California’s Bear Robotics bagged $81 million for its robot restaurant servers. Over in agtech, Local Bounti snapped up a ri... |
| 25.01.2022 | Decasonic Announces Final Close of Early-Stage Blockchain Venture Fund at $48.8 Million with 88 Investors | Decasonic Announces Final Close of Early-Stage Blockchain Venture Fund ”Our fund syndicate is composed of technology executives, founders of high growth businesses, experienced traders and long-term asset managers – an impressive investor e... |
| 03.11.2021 | Catholic App Hallow Passes 1 Million Downloads, Raises $40 Million Series B to Help Christians Around the World Find Peace | Every day we’re humbled by the support of everyone in the Hallow community and are incredibly excited about this next phase in Hallow’s mission.
CHICAGO (PRWEB) November 03, 2021
Hallow, the #1 Catholic prayer and meditation app, today anno... |
| 21.07.2021 | Armenia-founded edtech startup Sololearn raises €20.3M; expects to double its headcount in next 12 months | Armenia/US-based Sololearn has raised $24M (€20.38M) in a Series B funding round. This was led by Drive Capital along with participation from previous investors in Sololearn’s $5.6M Series A in 2016, including Learn Capital and Prosus Ventu... |
| 21.07.2021 | Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education app | Coding is not just for engineers and computer programmers anymore: The pace of technology and its growing ubiquity mean that even nontech roles will require workers to have some degree of knowledge to do their jobs in the future. Today a co... |
| 12.07.2021 | Algolux Closes $18.4 Million Series B Round for Robust Computer Vision | MONTREAL, July 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Algolux, a globally recognized computer vision software company, today announced it has raised $18.4 million in Series B funding. This round was co-led by Forte Ventures and Drive Capital with additio... |
| 26.02.2021 | U.S. Insurtech Circulo Raises $50 Million Through Series A Funding Round Co-Led By Drive Capital & General Catalyst | Circulo, a U.S.-based insurtech, recently announced it secured $50 million through its Series A funding round, which was co-led by Drive Capital and General Catalyst. Circulo reported it is building the Medicaid insurance company of the fut... |
| 11.01.2021 | Two ex-Sequoia VCs: the most ‘compelling emerging market’ may be America, outside of Silicon Valley | Roughly eight years ago, investors Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen left Silicon Valley to open a venture firm, Drive Capital, in Columbus, Ohio. It wasn’t an easy decision. Leaving California wasn’t exactly fashionable at the time. In fact, Whi... |
| 09.12.2020 | battleface Raises $12M in Series A Round with Drive Capital | battleface Inc., a rapidly growing tech-enabled insurance startup focused on providing innovative insurance products for travellers worldwide, today announced a $12-million Series A financing round from Columbus-based Drive Capital. This in... |
| 21.03.2020 | New Business Preservation Act | On March 19, 2020, a bill proposing the New Business Preservation Act was submitted to the Senate that seeks to drive economic activity, innovation, and job growth in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic downturn. The New Busi... |
| 07.11.2019 | Two ex-Sequoia investors who ditched Silicon Valley for Ohio raised a $350 million fund to bring venture capital to America's heartland | Advertisement
Drive Capital, a venture capital firm based in Columbus, Ohio, has raised a $350 million fund to invest in Midwestern startups.
The firm's founders came from venture capital powerhouse Sequoia Capital and moved to find new opp... |
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| 21.05.2019 | AI Startup Clinc Snags $52M Series B to Expand Offices, Markets | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ann Arbor, MI-based startup Clinc, which is focused on developing conversational artificial intelligence software for use in chatbots, has raised $52 million in a Series B rou... |
| 02.05.2019 | CirrusMD Lands $15M to Fuel Adoption of Chat-First Virtual Care Solution | CirrusMD, a Denver, CO-based chat-first virtual care solution, today announced that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by Drive Capital, Colorado Impact Fund and other prior investors, bringing total funding to-date to $26 mi... |
| 16.10.2018 | Why I finally left the Bay Area to work at a Midwest startup | 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!
After spending eight amazing years in the Bay Are... |
| 16.10.2018 | Why I finally left the Bay Area to work at a Midwest startup | After spending eight amazing years in the Bay Area, my wife and I decided to move back to Minnesota to be closer to family. It was the hardest decision of my life, but having been here for a little over a month, it was probably the best dec... |
| 30.08.2018 | Vecna Robotics Grabs $13.5M, Led by Drive, as Logistics Robots Stay Hot | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Vecna Technologies’ logistics robotics business has raised $13.5 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC.
The funding for Vecna Robotics marks the first... |
| 08.07.2018 | Universities and legacy industries are giving rise to the Midwest’s AI startups | 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!
Even as artificial intelligence promises to trans... |
| 08.07.2018 | Universities and legacy industries are giving rise to the Midwest’s AI startups | Even as artificial intelligence promises to transform many facets of life, the majority of AI companies in the U.S. are still concentrated in traditional tech hubs. According to a Glassdoor analysis from November, 30 percent of open jobs th... |
| 17.05.2018 | To really know the Midwest, investors need to get off the bus | 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!
For those of you paying attention, the weather sk... |
| 17.05.2018 | To really know the Midwest, investors need to get off the bus | For those of you paying attention, the weather skipped spring this year and we in the Midwest find ourselves just tipping into warm temperatures. To keep from going crazy during those cold months, I would take the kids to a nearby pet store... |
| 20.02.2018 | Drive Capital’s Chris Olsen sees the Midwest as the ‘frontier of innovation’ after 5 years in Ohio | When Sequoia Capital partners Chris Olsen and Mark Kvamme left Silicon Valley to start their new venture capital firm in Columbus, Ohio, they bet their careers on the idea that the Midwest was one of the biggest overlooked investment opport... |
| 20.02.2018 | Drive Capital’s Chris Olsen sees the Midwest as the ‘frontier of innovation’ after 5 years in Ohio | 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!
When Sequoia Capital partners Chris Olsen and Mar... |
| 08.02.2018 | How startups are changing their approach to distributed teams as big tech looks outside the Valley | When ClassPass was looking to open a third office outside of its New York and San Francisco locations, it decided on Missoula, Montana — a location that doesn’t usually top the lists of the best cities for tech startups.
“We wanted to choos... |
| 08.02.2018 | How startups are changing their approach to distributed teams as big tech looks outside the Valley | 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!
When ClassPass was looking to open a third office... |
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| 23.12.2017 | Over the holidays, Bay Area transplants should check out the tech industry in their hometown | 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!
I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 11 year... |
| 23.12.2017 | Over the holidays, Bay Area transplants should check out the tech industry in their hometown | I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 11 years before moving to London for three, but my wife and I grew up in the Midwest, which meant annual trips home for the holidays. Our nights were usually packed with family events or reconnectin... |
| 25.07.2017 | Why Midwesterners leave Silicon Valley and go home for better opportunities | Each week, I check in with Travis McCleery, who leads product design for Root, an insurance company that uses data collected from drivers’ smartphones to more fairly price and sell auto insurance. Today, our conversation was about engaging ... |
| 25.07.2017 | Duolingo raises $25M at a $700M valuation | Duolingo, the popular language learning service that was co-founded by reCAPTCHA founder Luis von Ahn, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series E round led by Drive Capital. This brings Duolingo’s total funding to $108.3 mill... |
| 25.07.2017 | Why Midwesterners leave Silicon Valley and go home for better opportunities | 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!
Each week, I check in with Travis McCleery, who l... |
| 16.06.2017 | Columbus could be the next startup city | Ever since I wrote about the Midwest last year I’ve been keeping my eyes on Columbus. I decided to hold a small pitch-off to meet some of the startups I saw last time I had driven through. The pitch-off was a success and a company called Wy... |
| 09.04.2017 | The Midwest’s healthy fear of failure beats Silicon Valley’s fail-fast mantra | A couple of years ago, I met Dan. He had just left one of Silicon Valley’s hottest tech companies (fully vested, of course), where he’d run their growth team. He planned to take some time off, get married, and work on his startup. When I as... |
| 09.04.2017 | The Midwest’s healthy fear of failure beats Silicon Valley’s fail-fast mantra | 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!
A couple of years ago, I met Dan. He had just lef... |
| 12.01.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Otto Robotics Raises $1.5m, Organic Chicken Processor Raises $2.7m, Diet to Go Raises $500k, more | AgriMetis, a crop protection spin-off from healthcare innovation firm Acidophil, closed a $23.5 million Series B in an oversubscribed round led by Anterra Capital. Learn more about the round and the healthcare VC that joined it in our recen... |
| 11.01.2017 | FarmLogs Raises $22m Series C as CEO Vows Never to Exit to Agribusiness | FarmLogs, the decision support and ERP software tool for farmers, has raised $22 million in Series C funding in a round led by new investor Naspers Ventures, the venture arm of the South African media group.
Existing investors Drive Capital... |
| 11.01.2017 | FarmLogs raises $22 million to make agriculture a more predictable business | Ann Arbor, Michigan-based FarmLogs has raised $22 million in a Series C round of funding for technology that helps farmers monitor and measure their crops, predict profits, manage risks from weather and pests and more. Naspers Ventures led ... |
| 12.11.2016 | Driving the Midwest | L
ast September, in the depths of high summer, my wife and I wanted to see the Midwest again. It’s not a very common desire, this one, to drive hours between small Midwestern cities with nothing but cornfields and rest stops in between. But... |
| 30.09.2016 | ‘The rise of the rest:’ Why startup hubs outside Silicon Valley are built to last | Shutterstock.
There is a regionalization movement underway in the technology startup industry that has appropriately sparked controversy and strong opinions, most recently between Peter Thiel and Steve Case. Thiel argued that Silicon Valley... |
| 01.09.2016 | Drive Capital Launches $300M Venture Capital Fund | Drive Capital, a Columbus, Ohio-based venture capital firm investing in the Midwest, has launched a $300m fund.
Led by partners Chris Olsen, Mark Kvamme, Andy Jenks, Ned Schwartz, Nick Solaro, Robert Hatta, and Yasmine Lacaillade, Drive Cap... |
| 28.08.2016 | In 5 years, the Midwest will have more startups than Silicon Valley | Four years ago, I was a partner at Sequoia Capital, where Drew Houston, Brian Chesky, and a daunting parade of dent-making founders routinely proved that disruption happens in Silicon Valley like nowhere else. But things were changing, and ... |
| 28.08.2016 | In 5 years, the Midwest will have more startups than Silicon Valley | 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!
Four years ago, I was a partner at Sequoia Capita... |
| 10.06.2016 | How to Raise Venture Capital
Key Takeaways | We launched the second program in our Entrepreneurial Education Series, “How to Raise Venture Capital,” on June 8th with our partner 1871. |
| 08.06.2016 | Hourly employee scheduling startup When I Work secures $15MM from Drive Capital | It’s been some time since I worked hourly (mostly in restaurants) but I do remember that scheduling my shifts was a real hassle and involved a paper sheet on a cork-board in the shift room. I’m sure organizing those schedules for multiple e... |
| 06.04.2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 6, 2016 | Bright Health secured $80M Series A; FinanzCheck closed Series C funding; CrossChx recieved $15M
Qool Therapeutics, Inc., a Menlo Park, CA-based developer of non-invasive therapeutic hypothermia device for targeted temperature management an... |
| 30.08.2015 | Why I just moved from Silicon Valley to Ohio | Those who know me were no doubt surprised a few months back when I started breaking the news. I’ve lived in Silicon Valley my entire career. My wife and I have grown very involved both civically and philanthropically.
We’ve been having a bl... |
| 30.08.2015 | Why I just moved from Silicon Valley to Ohio | 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!
Those who know me were no doubt surprised a few m... |
| 17.06.2015 | LeadPages lands $27M for SMB marketing tools | Drive Capital leads round, joining Foundry Group and Arthur Ventures
Not even three years old, LeadPages has quickly climbed the fundraising ranks, as it just announced its Series B financing of $27 million Series B round of financing, led ... |
| 17.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 17, 2015 | LeadPages secured $27M; Doctor On Demand closed $50M; Mapbox landed $52.6M
Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides video visits with board-certified physicians on a patient's smartphone closed a $50 million round of Series B fi... |
| 17.06.2015 | 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. Pssst! We’re experimenting with Funding Daily. Wanna help?
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Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 02.06.2015 | The Backyard Effect: Finding The Secret Sauce For Growing An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem | Tom Walker Contributor
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| 17.12.2014 | Ann Arbor’s FarmLogs Closes $10M Series B, Plans New Premium Features | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Ann Arbor, MI-based ag tech startup FarmLogs announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series B round of funding. The round included repeat investors Huron River Ve... |
| 20.10.2014 | The Midwest Is On Track For Its Strongest Year In Startup Investing As “The Rest” Rises | From Chicago’s city of big shoulders to the new businesses bolstering Detroit’s renaissance; in Cleveland and Cincinnati and Kansas City and St. Louis, startup economies are flourishing across the Midwest.
The proof is in events like Steve ... |
| 07.10.2014 | Comply365 Secures $12M in Funding | Comply365, a Beloit, WI-based software company offering a full suite of enterprise mobility solutions for airlines and other industries, secured $12m in funding.
The round was led by Drive Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to ac... |
| 24.09.2014 | Udacity Raises $35M in Funding | Udacity, a Mountain View, CA-based online education startup, raises $35m in funding.
The round was led by Drive Capital with participation from Bertelsmann, Recruit, Valor Capital, Cox Enterprises, Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Vent... |
| 24.09.2014 | Its Audacity Undiminished, Udacity Raises $35 Million To Train A New Generation of Developers | As its push to transform education through technology begins to show results, massively open online course provider Udacity is announcing a fresh $35 million financing from a global group of investors to take its vision worldwide.
Earlier t... |
| 24.09.2014 | Udacity Raises Fresh $35M to Expand the ‘University of Silicon Valley’ | Silicon Valley companies often clamor about the shortage of qualified STEM workers--particularly those in the computer science and engineering ranks. Sometimes, competition gets so fierce that they allegedly collude in illegal “non-poaching... |
| 24.09.2014 | Udacity Raises $35M in Series C |
PALO ALTO, CA, Drive Capital announced today that it has led a $35 million investment in Udacity, an online learning startup.
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| 27.08.2014 | Drive Capital Didn’t Demand Aver Informatics Move, Investor Says | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It was Aver Informatics’ idea to relocate the healthtech startup from Wisconsin to Ohio—not a demand by one of its lead investors.
That’s according to Chris Olsen, co-founder ... |
| 13.08.2014 | The Fallout From Aver Informatics’ Reported Move from WI to OH | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 8/13/14, 12:35 p.m.] Aver Informatics’ reported move from Green Bay, WI, to Columbus, OH, could have financial and reputational ramifications for the healthtech start... |
| 11.08.2014 | Beam Technologies Raises $5M in Series A Funding | Beam Technologies, a Columbus, Ohio-based data-driven oral health startup, raised $5m in Series A funding.
Drive Capital made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development and expand the team (http:/... |
| 08.08.2014 | Smart Toothbrush Startup Beam Technologies Raises $5M in Series A Funding | Beam Technologies — a Louisville, KY based data-driven oral digital health startup and creator of the first connected smart toothbrush — announced today that it has received $5 million in Series A financing from Drive Capital. The funding w... |
| 08.08.2014 | Beam raises $5M for smartphone-connected toothbrush | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I brush everyday, but I’ve never learned to enjoy it. I also don’t do it right, as my dentist never fails to tell me.
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| 08.08.2014 | Beam raises $5M for smartphone-connected toothbrush | I brush everyday, but I’ve never learned to enjoy it. I also don’t do it right, as my dentist never fails to tell me.
Beam Technologies wants to make brushing more interesting and fun by connecting a smart toothbrush to a smartphone. Beam’s... |
| 07.07.2014 | Drive Capital, Led By Sequoia Vets, Sees Midwest as Next Startup Hub | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Chris Olsen thinks the Midwest is a better place to build a startup than either coast, and he intends to prove it.
The Cincinnati native was a partner for six years at the wel... |
