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| 12.03.2026 | Chowbus Fuels AI Expansion with $81 Million Investment | Chowbus, a leading restaurant technology firm, secured $81 million in new funding. Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital led the round. This investment accelerates its AI-powered platform. Chowbus moves beyond POS, offering extensive solution... |
| 11.03.2026 | Chowbus Raises $81M in Funding | Chowbus Co-Founders: Linxin Wen (CEO) and Suyu Zhang (CTO)
Chowbus, a Chicago, IL-based provider of an AI-powered platform for culturally rooted restaurants, raised $81M in funding.
The round was led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital, ... |
| 11.03.2026 | Chowbus: $81 Million Raised For AI-Powered Restaurant Platform | Chowbus (see Pulse 2.0 profile here), an AI-powered technology platform serving culturally rooted restaurants, announced it has raised $81 million in a new funding round led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital, with participation from Du... |
| 27.01.2026 | Fika Ventures Promotes Gabriella Brignardello to Partner | Promotion recognizes Brignardello's leadership and long-standing impact on the firm
CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Fika Ventures, an early-stage B2B venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, today announced the pr... |
| 03.12.2025 | Coverbase Secures $20M to Revolutionize AI-Powered Procurement | Coverbase, a security-first AI procurement platform, raised $20M. This includes a $16.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures. The funds will fuel expansion and platform scaling. The platform embeds risk management into procurement.
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| 20.11.2025 | Coverbase raises $16.5M to expand its AI procurement and risk platform
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| 18.07.2023 | Bowery Valuation Closes $16.3 Million Extension of Series B Funding, Accelerating Growth Trajectory | Bowery Valuation Founders and Co-CEOs John Meadows and Noah Isaacs with CTO Cesar Devers (middle) "This latest capital raise will enable us to further enhance our data infrastructure, expand our team, and accelerate our growth trajecto... |
| 05.06.2023 | FedNow instant payments are about to unlock fintech investment opportunities | TX Zhuo Contributor
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| 16.03.2023 | Payabli Closes $12,000,000 Seed Round To Make Software Companies, Payments Companies | Payabli team at a recent company retreat in their home city, Miami "We created Payabli to make it much easier for Software companies to build, manage and scale their own Payments Business,” said Joseph Elias Phillips, Co-Founder and Co... |
| 19.07.2022 | Can Medicare save the insurtech market? | TX Zhuo Contributor
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| 13.01.2022 | HeyRenee Raises $4.4M for Care Concierge Platform | c
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– HeyRenee, the newest health-tech innovation from Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, the founders of Heal, today announced an oversubscribed $4.4M Seed II funding round led by Quiet Capital, with participation from City ... |
| 12.01.2022 | HeyRenee Raises $4.4M for Care Concierge Platform | c
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– HeyRenee, the newest health-tech innovation from Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, the founders of Heal, today announced an oversubscribed $4.4M Seed II funding round led by Quiet Capital, with participation from City ... |
| 24.08.2021 | Fika Ventures nearly triples its assets under management: ‘It’s definitely a crazy time’ | Fika Ventures is a five-year-old, LA-based seed-stage fund that has been funding mostly business-to-business startups, as well as fintech companies and a sprinkling of healthcare IT startups — as long as they don’t involve hardware or FDA a... |
| 03.08.2021 | What Square’s acquisition of Afterpay means for startups | On Sunday Square announced it was gobbling up Afterpay in a deal worth $29 billion at the time of announcement. Alex followed up yesterday with more details on why the deal made sense for Square and Afterpay over here, but we wanted to ask ... |
| 29.05.2021 | Can You Make An Entrepreneur? New Educational Incubator Fika Accelerator Intends To Try | Last fall, Fika Ventures partner Eva Ho and LATech.org Executive Director Sean Arian helped lead entrepreneurship programs for preselected high school students in working class and immigrant communities in the San Fernando Valley.
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| 27.05.2021 | SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook | John Chen Contributor
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| 18.05.2021 | Momenta expands Investment in Edge Impulse, participating in $15M Series A Round | Momenta and fund partner Advantech are pleased to announce an additional investment in Edge Impulse, the leading platform for developing intelligent devices using embedded machine learning |
| 18.05.2021 | Momenta expands Investment in Edge Impulse, participating in $15M Series A Round | Momenta and fund partner Advantech are pleased to announce an additional investment in Edge Impulse, the leading platform for developing intelligent devices using embedded machine learning
The $15m Series A Round is led by Canaan Partners, ... |
| 15.04.2021 | For startups choosing a platform, a decision looms: Build or buy? | TX Zhuo Contributor
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| 30.11.2020 | Strike first, strike hard, no mercy: How emerging managers can win | TX Zhuo Contributor
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A COVID-19 resilience test for B2B companies
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| 03.06.2020 | A COVID-19 resilience test for B2B companies | TX Zhuo Contributor
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| 01.04.2020 | ‘A perfect storm for first time managers,’ say VCs with their own shops | Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an angel investor but even put himself or herself in business as a fund manager.... |
| 11.01.2020 | Why TinyML is a giant opportunity | The world is about to get a whole lot smarter.
As the new decade begins, we’re hearing predictions on everything from fully remote workforces to quantum computing. However, one emerging trend is scarcely mentioned on tech blogs – one that m... |
| 11.01.2020 | Why TinyML is a giant opportunity | 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!
The world is about to get a whole lot smarter.
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| 01.07.2019 | Susa Ventures, a young VC firm with some high-flying bets, just closed on $140 million in new capital | Susa Ventures, a six-year-old, San Francisco-based, seed-stage venture firm, has closed on two new funds, a $90 million early-stage fund — its third flagship fund — along with its first opportunity fund, to which investors committed $50 mil... |
| 23.05.2019 | Fika Ventures raises $76M to fund the growing LA tech ecosystem | The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger today as Fika Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm, announces its sophomore investment fund.
Fika invests roughly half of its capital exclusively in startups headquartered in LA, with... |
| 30.04.2018 | Discovering that deckhands make great waiters — and why this matters | TX Zhuo Contributor
TX Zhuo is the managing partner of Fika Ventures, focusing on fintech, enterprise software and marketplace opportunities.
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| 24.01.2018 | Attention LA: Don’t miss this pitch day for female founders, happening in March | On Tuesday, March 13, some of the most well-regarded venture capitalists on the West Coast will converge in LA to hear pitches from women-led startups. The day is part of a growing series of events that was originally spearheaded by investo... |
| 10.01.2018 | Winning deals as a new venture capital fund | TX Zhuo Contributor
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| 10.08.2017 | Teaching startups the art of the sale | TX Zhuo Contributor
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| 15.02.2017 | L.A. gets more capital as Fika Ventures raises $40 million debut fund | Investors are seemingly growing more excited about L.A. by the day. The newest sign comes via a $40 million fund that L.A.-based Fika Ventures is announcing today.
That’s none too shabby for a venture firm that was founded just last year.
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| 15.02.2017 |
Fika Ventures Launches New, $40M Seed Fund In LA
| Fika Ventures, a new startup venture fund led by venture capitalists Tx Zhuo, Eva Ho, and Arteen Arabshahi, has officially launched this morning, saying that it is investing in startups focused on data, related AI-enabled technologies, and ... |
| 15.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 15 | THE BOLD AND THE DISCIPLINED
Soft-Tress: The big news in Term Sheet’s world this morning is SoftBank Group’s after-hours acquisition of Fortress Investment Group for $3.3 billion. Takes are rolling in hot and fast! (“Neither cheap nor wise!... |
| 08.08.2016 | How startups are trying to fix consumer debt | TX Zhuo Contributor
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| 06.06.2016 | Why the recent hype about insurance tech will be just the beginning | TX Zhuo Contributor
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| 23.04.2016 | What’s next for personal financial services? | Erin Shipley Contributor
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| 13.02.2016 | How To Expand Your Marketplace To LA | Arteen Arabshahi Contributor
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What Los Angeles Is Missing
“The theme of L.A. is diversity.”... |
| 10.10.2015 | What Los Angeles Is Missing | Arteen Arabshahi Contributor
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| - | LA Venture: TX Zhuo is the 'Accidental Entrepreneur' Behind Fika Ventures' $77M Fund | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, meet Fika Ventures co-founder TX Zhuo. Fika is a $77-million seed-stage investment fund managed by Zhuo and his partner Eva Ho. The two created the fund with the intention to foster and gi... |
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Two companies are surging forward in Los Angeles’ most prominent tech industries, aerospace and gaming.
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After announcing its partnership with the PGA of America earlier this year, LA-based Sensible Weather, a climate finance platform, has now introduced its Weather Guarantee program in collaboration with 23 distinguished golf faci... |
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University of Southern California has long been known for big spending parents, but the university is now also attracting big investment in the form of research grants from agencies and institutions.
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| - | Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline. | It’s been an up and down year for tech. Between a looming recession, mounting layoffs and the rollercoaster that is market volatility, 2023 isn’t looking any calmer.
Amid the chaos, Los Angeles VCs are trying to read the tea leaves on where... |
