| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.03.2025 | Family office dealmaking doubled in February with bets on crab shells, nuclear reactors and more | After a slow January, family offices made at least 48 direct investments in February, double that of the month prior, according to Fintrx.
Some of the most active family office investors made bold bets, like Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Col... |
| 08.02.2025 | X-energy's $700 Million Leap: A New Dawn for Nuclear Energy | In a world hungry for clean energy, X-energy is making waves. The Rockville, Maryland-based company has just closed a significant financing round, raising $700 million in its Series C-1 funding. This isn't just a number; it's a signal. A si... |
| 07.02.2025 | X-energy: Advanced Nuclear Reactor Company Raises $700 Million (Series C-1) | X-Energy Reactor Company – a leader in advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology – announced the closing of its upsized Series C-1 financing round of $700 million. Segra Capital Management, Jane Street, Ares Management funds, Emerson Col... |
| 06.02.2025 | X-energy Closes Upsized $700M Series C-1 Financing | X-energy, a Rockville, MD-based nuclear reactor and fuel technology company, raised upsized $700M in Series C-1 funding.
Backers included Segra Capital Management, Jane Street, Ares Management funds, Emerson Collective, and others joined th... |
| 20.01.2025 | Umoja Biopharma's $100 Million Leap: A New Era for In Vivo CAR T Cell Therapies | Umoja Biopharma is on the rise. The Seattle-based company has just secured $100 million in Series C financing. This is not just a number; it’s a statement. It signals a bold step forward in the world of biotechnology. The funding round was ... |
| 20.01.2025 | Umoja Biopharma Raises $100M in Series C Financing | Umoja Biopharma, a Seattle, WA-based clinical-stage company which specializes in vivo cell therapies, raised $100M Series C financing.
The round was led by Double Point Ventures and DCVC Bio, with participation from new and existing investo... |
| 17.01.2025 | Breaking Barriers: Innovations in Fertility and Women’s Health | In the realm of health, two recent initiatives shine a light on the pressing need for accessible care. The BIVF Foundation and Teal Health are tackling significant challenges in fertility and cervical cancer screening. Both organizations ar... |
| 17.01.2025 | Teal Health: $10 Million (Seed) Closed To Launch Wand For At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening | Teal Health, a women’s health company with a goal of eliminating cervical cancer in the US, announced the closing of an additional $10 million in seed funding to support the upcoming launch of the Teal Wand, which is currently under FDA rev... |
| 16.01.2025 | Teal Health Raises $10M, Launches the First At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening | What You Should Know:
– Teal Health, a women’s health company dedicated to eliminating cervical cancer, announced today it has raised an additional $10M in seed funding led by Emerson Collective and Forerunner, with continued support from e... |
| 11.12.2024 | WeaveGrid: $28 Million Raised By EV Software Company | WeaveGrid—a software company that enables rapid electric vehicle (EV) adoption on the electric grid—announced $28 million in funding, led by Toyota’s growth fund, Woven Capital. Existing investors Activate Capital, Collab Fund, Emerson Coll... |
| 10.12.2024 | WeaveGrid Raises $28M in Funding | WeaveGrid, a San Francisco, CA-based software company that enables rapid electric vehicle (EV) adoption on the electric grid, raised $28M in funding.
The round was led by Woven Capital. Existing investors Activate Capital, Collab Fund, Emer... |
| 16.10.2024 | Zap Energy: $130 Million (Series D) Raised To Build A Scalable Fusion Energy Platform | Zap Energy announced it started operations of Century, its new high-rep-rate, liquid-metal-cooled fusion test platform. It closed $130 million of fresh capital, marking significant steps toward a commercial fusion power plant. Century is th... |
| 14.10.2024 | The Shifting Sands of Venture Capital: A New Focus on Health and Senior Care | In the ever-evolving landscape of venture capital, a seismic shift is underway. Traditional tech investments are giving way to a new focus on health and senior care. This change is not just a trend; it’s a response to market realities. As v... |
| 14.10.2024 | Eleanor Health: $30 Million (Series D) Raised For Transforming Delivery Of Substance Disorder Care | Eleanor Health – an outpatient addiction treatment provider working to transform the quality, delivery and accessibility of substance use disorder care – announced it raised a $30 million Series D funding round led by General Catalyst, with... |
| 23.09.2024 | Twelve: Carbon Transformation Company Raises $645 Million | Twelve, a carbon transformation company that converts captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products typically made from fossil fuels, announced $645 million in funding. This funding is based on a strat... |
| 22.09.2024 | Джони Айв работает над новым устройством для OpenAI | Бывший дизайнер Apple Джони Айв подтвердил, что работает с генеральным директором OpenAI Сэмом Альтманом над проектом устройства с функциями ИИ.
Подробностей о проекте немного. Сообщается, что Айв познакомился с Альтманом через Брайана Ческ... |
| 21.09.2024 | Midi Health: A New Dawn for Women’s Healthcare | In a world where women’s health often takes a backseat, Midi Health is steering the wheel. This California-based virtual care clinic is on a mission to bridge the healthcare gap for women aged 35 and older. With a recent $63 million Series ... |
| 20.09.2024 | Midi Health Raises Further Funding Via $5M Special Purpose Vehicle | Amy Schumer, Connie Britton, Brandi Chastain, Meena Harris, Sheryl Sandberg, Tekedra Mawakana and Tory Burch among the bold name investors committed to Midi’s goal of closing the women’s healthcare gap.
Midi Health, a Los Altos, CA-based vi... |
| 27.07.2024 | Seven Starling: Women’s Behavioral Health Services Virtual Provider Raises $10.9 Million | Seven Starling, a virtual provider of women’s behavioral health services, announced it has raised $10.9 million in Series A funding. RH Capital led the oversubscribed investment round, with participation from insiders Pear VC, Expa, Magnify... |
| 27.06.2024 | Formation Bio: Revolutionizing Pharma with AI | Formation Bio, a NYC-based tech-driven and AI-native pharma company, recently secured a staggering $372M in Series D funding. This funding, led by a16z and with significant participation from Sanofi, marks a significant milestone for the co... |
| 26.06.2024 | Formation Bio secures $372MM Series D funding to grow drug pipeline and continue expanding AI-driven drug development platform | NEW YORK, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Formation Bio, a tech-driven and AI-native pharma company, announced today that it has raised $372MM of Series D financing. The financing was led by a16z with significant participation from Sanofi. Cu... |
| 19.05.2024 | Why tech billionaires are trying to create a new California city | Starting back in 2017, something mysterious was going on just 90 minutes northeast of San Francisco: a secretive group was purchasing farmland – lots of it, some 60,000 acres – in rural Solano County. Many feared it might be a Chinese gover... |
| 26.04.2024 | Midi Health, a virtual care clinic for women's health, raises $60M | Midi is currently on track to serve about 100,000 patients this year, up from about 30,000 in 2023
Join us May 22, 2024 for "The Future of Fertility" webinar 4pm-6pm PT with Dr. Archana Dubey (Chief Medical Officer, United Healthc... |
| 26.04.2024 | FemTech: Midi Health Secures $60M to Expand Virtual Clinic for Perimenopause and Menopause | Midi Health Founders, From left: CEO Joanna Strober, COO Sharon Meers, Chief Medical Officer Kathleen Jordan, MD, Chief Brand Officer Jill Herzig
What You Should Know:
– Midi Health, a virtual clinic for women experiencing perimenopause and... |
| 12.04.2024 | Tech Titans Seek $1 Billion for AI Device Venture | Jony Ive and Sam Altman, two tech titans, are on a mission to secure a massive $1 billion investment for their groundbreaking AI device project. The duo, known for their work at Apple and OpenAI, are looking to revolutionize the tech indust... |
| 08.04.2024 | Multiverse, the apprenticeship unicorn, acquires Searchlight to put a focus on AI | Multiverse, the U.K. unicorn that builds apprenticeship programs for people to learn technology skills while on the job, has made an acquisition as it aims to skill up itself. The company has bought Searchlight, a startup that builds AI-bas... |
| 08.04.2024 | iPhone of AI: Jony Ive, Sam Altman Pursue $1 Billion Investment for Revolutionary AI Device | Inno Flores, Tech Times 08 April 2024, 12:04 am
Two well-known people in the industry engaged in discussions to secure a staggering $1 billion investment from SoftBank for their AI device project.
Dubbed the "iPhone of AI," this m... |
| 08.04.2024 | AI hardware company from Jony Ive, Sam Altman seeks $1 billion in funding | Jony Ive, the former Apple designer.
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Former Apple design lead Jony Ive and current OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are seeking funding for a new company that will produce an "artificial intelligence-powered personal... |
| 30.01.2024 | Behind the Curtain: A new, powerful political movement | A new, powerful, well-funded political movement is rising fast in America: the techno-optimists.
Why it matters: This group — mostly rich, white, middle-aged men with tech jobs, companies or investment funds — is building impressive, if uno... |
| 09.01.2024 | Development projects in the D.C. area to watch in 2024 | Developers are poised to make big strides on major projects around Washington this year.
Why it matters: D.C. has seen $81.6 billion of new real estate development since 2000, Washington Business Journal reported last year.
That means it ca... |
| 01.08.2023 | Meet Reed Jobs, the Apple cofounder's son who just launched a VC fund to invest in cancer treatments | Reed Jobs (left), the son of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs (right), is starting Yosemite, a venture capital firm that will invest in new cancer treatments. Reuters; Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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| 18.07.2023 | OpenAI commits $5M to local news partnership with the American Journalism Project | Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here
OpenAI isn’t done making waves in the media industry — far from it.
The Sam Altman-led private company behind ChatGPT, last valued at close to $30 bil... |
| 18.01.2023 | Noon Energy Secures $28M to Scale Novel Carbon-Oxygen Battery for Sustainable Long-Duration Energy Storage | PALO ALTO, Calif., January 18, 2022 — Noon Energy Inc. today announced $28 million in Series A financing to commercialize its ultra-low-cost, high energy density carbon-oxygen battery technology for long-duration energy storage. The round w... |
| 29.08.2022 | Psych Hub gets $16M to become ‘Angie’s List meets Match.com for mental health care’ | Psych Hub, a mental health education startup based in Nashville, announced last week that it raised $16 million.
The funding round was led by HC9 and Frist Cressey Ventures, with participation from HealthStream, Emerson Collective and Baile... |
| 22.02.2021 | Elise Smith, CEO Of Praxis Labs, Raises $3.2 Million In Venture Capital To Help Bring Forth More Conscious Leaders Using Virtual Reality | Elise Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, Praxis Labs Photo credit: Brandon Appleton |
| 13.05.2020 | Job Moves at Sunrun, SMA, sPower, Enel X, Fluence, Emerson Collective, ENGIE, Arevon, Posigen | Sunrun hired Tom vonReichbauer as CFO, succeeding Bob Komin. vonReichbauer was previously CFO of Nest and later VP at Google. Sunrun reported strong solar deployments and revenue to start 2020, even with orders decreasing by as much as 40% ... |
| 21.05.2019 | Debunking the ‘Gold Standard’ Myths in Edtech Efficacy | Imagine you’re in the market to buy a house. You’ve heard about various great neighborhoods from friends; at some point, you start dreaming about putting down roots, maybe even growing a family. You get an email or spot a description on the... |
| 22.01.2019 | Latina VCs Are Optimistic About Opportunities In Their Industry | 200 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
There are not enough female VCs—that much is known. Unfortunately, there are even fewer Latina VCs.
A 2016 survey jointly conducted by Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association found th... |
| 22.01.2019 | Latina VCs Are Optimistic About Opportunities In Their Industry | 202 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
There are not enough female VCs—that much is known. Unfortunately, there are even fewer Latina VCs.
A 2016 survey jointly conducted by Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association found th... |
| 12.12.2018 | Out of $85 Billion in VC Funding Last Year, Only 2.2 Percent Went to Female Founders. And Every Year, Women of Color Get Less Than 1 Percent of Total Funding. | December 12, 2018 15+ min read
“You’ve clearly got what founders are made of, but I hope you're not planning to get pregnant anytime soon.”
As the co-founder of comprehensive maternity healthcare company Mahmee, CEO Melissa Hanna is an expe... |
| 25.07.2018 | Hawaii’s Elemental Excelerator raises $30 million, expands its sustainable accelerator to California | Hawaii-based Elemental Excelerator announced it has raised $30 million from the U.S. Navy and will expand its socially minded accelerator program to California.
The nonprofit program finds and nurtures startups working on solutions to press... |
| 28.01.2018 | LearnPlatform Raises $3.2M | LearnPlatform, the research-backed software-as-a-service for educators to easily find, buy, manage, and rapidly analyze education technologies, today announced a $3.2 million round of financing from investors, led by New Markets Venture Par... |
| 28.01.2018 | New Markets Venture Leads $3.2M Funding for LearnPlatform | LearnPlatform, the research-backed software-as-a-service for educators to easily find, buy, manage, and rapidly analyze education technologies, today announced a $3.2 million round of financing from investors, led by New Markets Venture Par... |
| 07.11.2017 | Panorama Education Gets $16M for “Social-Emotional Learning” Tools | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Panorama Education announced Tuesday that it raised $16 million from several high-profile tech investors to accelerate the adoption of its software tools aimed at boosting K-1... |
| 02.11.2017 | Optimus Ride Raises $18 Million Series A | Optimus Ride, a MIT spinoff company developing self-driving technology, announced it has closed an $18 million Series A funding led by Greycroft Partnerswith participation from Emerson Collective, Fraser McCombs Capital and renowned venture... |
| 02.11.2017 | Greycroft Partners Leads $18M Series A for Optimus Ride | Optimus Ride, a MIT spinoff company developing self-driving technology, announced it has closed an $18 million Series A funding led by Greycroft Partnerswith participation from Emerson Collective, Fraser McCombs Capital and renowned venture... |
| 04.10.2017 | How the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals brought Rocio Lopez into the startup world | Ruben Harris Contributor
Ruben Harris is a professional cellist and a recovering investment banker who now leads partnerships in San Francisco for Honor, a healthcare startup focused on seniors. He is also a founder of the Breaking Into Sta... |
| 25.09.2017 | Tech for good: Filling in the government’s gaps | While traditional industries can get away with ignoring broader social ills or hot-button political issues, tech companies big and small are increasingly expected to solve the former and speak out on the latter — a position that’s either to... |
| 21.08.2017 | The 8 Top Cleantech Corporate Incubators and Accelerators | Corporations need to stay competitive in their industries, and that cutting edge can be tough to keep up with, particularly for the most rapidly shifting industries out there. As a sector evolves, the source of a revolutionary new tech coul... |
| 28.07.2017 | Laurene Powell Jobs via Emerson Collective takes a Majority Stake in 'The Atlantic' and Full Ownership over Time
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Search | Laurene Powell Jobs is taking a majority stake in The Atlantic, positioning the philanthropist and widow of Steve Jobs to become the sixth owner of the US magazine in its 160-year history. Ms Powell Jobs is investing in the magazine through... |
| 28.07.2017 | Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective is buying a majority stake in The Atlantic | Emerson Collective, the organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, has agreed to purchase a majority stake in The Atlantic.
In a memo to the staff of The Atlantic, chairman and owner David Bradley writes that he started looking for a buye... |
| 16.05.2017 | Neighborly Raises Series A | Today we’re thrilled to announce that Neighborly raised a $25 million Series A round to further our mission of modernizing public finance. The investment was led by Joe Lonsdale at 8VC, Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective, with follow... |
| 14.02.2017 | Investing in GoodBusiness | Ted Rheingold Contributor
Ted Rheingold is a profit-from-purpose entrepreneur. He was the founding COO of Tala and founder of the social networks Dogster and Catster.
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companie... |
| 21.11.2016 | Revolution Foods plans aggressive retail expansion, on track to generate $130m in revenue in 2016 | While many food start-ups gravitate towards snacks and beverages, Revolution Foods began right at the center of the plate, and was very clear about its mission from the outset, co-founder Kirsten Saenz Tobey told FoodNavigator-USA: “To tran... |
| 30.09.2016 | President of Emerson Collective, Laurene Jobs, takes Minority Stake in 'Anonymous Content' Studio
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Search | It's being reported today that Silicon Valley investor and and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs is getting into Hollywood. Jobs with a minority stake in the powerhouse management-production company called 'Anonymous Content.' The producti... |
| 12.05.2016 | How It Takes a Village—and a Summit—to Redress Education Inequality | Gone were the tables where entrepreneurs with their Apple laptops and iPads showed off their edtech apps. In their place were students from east Los Angeles and other parts of the country sporting XQ School Project tee-shirts who spoke fran... |
| 08.02.2016 | Jessica Livingston Talks Female Founders, Business Cycles, and Her Favorite Event of the Year | On April 4th, Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston will host the third annual Female Founders Conference at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, an event meant to empower female founders — and those who aspire to become them – though a... |
| 15.08.2014 | FreshGrade Secures $4.3M in Seed Funding | FreshGrade, a Kelowna, BC, Canada-based edtech startup, secured $4.3m in seed funding.
Backers included NewSchools Venture Fund, Emerson Collective, Accel Partners and The Social+Capital Partnership.
The company intends to use the funds to ... |
| 16.05.2014 | Blended Learning's Two-Legged Stools | Blended learning is putting students in the driver’s seat of their own education. By leveraging the power of technology, teachers are finding new ways to differentiate instruction and pacing, moving students from passive recipients to activ... |
| - | Laurene Powell Jobs echoes late husband Steve Jobs in commencement speech: ‘Let his words guide you as they’ve guided me’ | Laurene Powell Jobs delivered the commencement address on Monday to the University of Pennsylvania 2021 graduation class.
In her speech, she echoed the advice her late husband, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, gave her.
“Steve used to say your ... |
