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Halogen Ventures

https://www.halogenvc.com

Last activity: 14.12.2024

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Halogen Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on female founded consumer technologies.
We believe in hands on attention and plug each of our portfolio companies into a strategic network of advisors, investors and accelerators in the greater venture community. With a focus on consumer, we also add value in the entertainment, marketing and PR space to further the footprint of our brands.

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Location: United States, California, Los Angeles

Employees: 1-10

Founded date: 2016

Investment Type: Venture Capital; Accelerator

Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A

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Date	Name	Website	Total Raised	Location
04.11.2021	Babylist	babylist.com	$40.65M	United Sta...

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17.12.2024	Rideshare Revolution: Filling the Gaps in School Transportation	In the bustling corridors of Chicago Public Schools, a silent crisis unfolds. The once-reliable yellow school buses have dwindled, leaving parents scrambling for alternatives. With only 17,000 of the district's 325,000 students eligible for...
14.12.2024	Halogen Ventures And Innovate Alabama Investing $10 Million In Local Female Founders	Halogen Ventures, which is Jesse Draper’s venture capital fund focused on early-stage startups with a woman on the founding team, announced a $10 million investment to build the pipeline of female founders in Alabama. Halogen is the first o...
25.07.2024	Charging Ahead: Itselectric's Vision for Urban EV Infrastructure	** The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is here, and itselectric is at the forefront. This Brooklyn-based company recently secured $6.5 million in seed funding, bringing its total investment to $11.8 million. With backing from notable inves...
16.07.2024	itselectric Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding	itselectric, a Brooklyn-based electric vehicle curbside charging company, raised $6.5M in seed funding, bringing its total funding to date to $11.8M. The round was led by Failup Ventures and Uber Technologies, with participation from Haloge...
23.01.2023	Tech's ultimate nepo babies: Meet the Drapers, the first family of Silicon Valley	Tim Draper and his family members have been venture-capital icons for decades. Danny Moloshok/Reuters. The billionaire Tim Draper is part of a lineage often lauded as Silicon Valley's premier VC family. His grandfather founded the VC firm D...
23.01.2023	Tech's ultimate nepo babies: Meet the Drapers, the first family of Silicon Valley	The billionaire Tim Draper is part of a lineage often lauded as Silicon Valley's premier VC family. His grandfather founded the VC firm Draper, Gaither, and Anderson. Advertisement Celebrities bristling about being called "nepo babies&...
11.05.2022	After Raising $53 Million For Ellevest, Sallie Krawcheck Shares Concerns Around The Series B Cliff	A glance at some of the most high profile women-owned businesses that garnered large scale investments reveals an interesting trend: many that reach the $1 Billion tend to fall into “traditional women-focused” categories such as retail and ...
10.02.2022	Autonomous Vehicle Companies Doubled Their Testing Miles In California Last Year	While the number of self-driving car companies testing vehicles on California roads decreased last year, those that are trying out new autonomous driving technologies—like Waymo and Cruise—nearly doubled their testing miles, according to a ...
04.03.2021	Jesse Draper of Halogen Ventures Closes $21 Million Fund to Invest in the Next Generation of Billion Dollar Businesses Run by Women	Jesse Draper Closes $21 Million Fund to Invest in the Next Generation of Billion Dollar Businesses Run by Women. Like this: Like Loading... Related
15.02.2021	Halogen Ventures Closes $21 Million For Second Fund	Halogen Ventures — the venture capital fund led by Jesse Draper — announced it has closed a second fund of $21 million Halogen Ventures — the venture capital fund led by Jesse Draper — announced it has closed a second fund of $21 million. D...
15.02.2021	Scott Galloway Usually Gets It Right—But Not About Section 1202’s Tax Break For Qualified Small Business Stock	Section 1202 offers startup investors 0% capital gains on their investments.getty
04.02.2021	Halogen Ventures, Led By Jesse Draper, Raises $21M In Second Fund	Los Angeles-based Halogen Ventures, the venture capital firm led by Jesse Draper, has raised $21M in its second fund, the firm said on Wednesday. According to Halogen Ventures, the fund will continue to invest in women and diversity. Haloge...
04.02.2021	Halogen Ventures lands $21M to back female founders	Los Angeles-based Halogen Ventures has closed its second fund on $21 million. The firm, which has backed companies including HopSkipDrive and TheSkimm, focuses on early-stage consumer tech startups with at least one female founder. Halogen ...
04.02.2021	Halogen Ventures Closes $21 Million Fund	-
03.02.2021	Fund for Female Founders Closes $21 Million Round	Halogen Ventures, the Los Angeles venture firm focused on increasing the woefully underrepresented number of female founders who lead consumer tech startups, has closed a second $21 million fund. "With this fund, we will continue to pr...
16.07.2020	Halogen Ventures Launches The Halogen Fellowship in Venture Capital	Halogen Ventures, Jesse Draper’s venture capital fund focused on early stage consumer technology startups with a female in the founding team, is doubling down on their commitment to improve diversity in technology with the launch of The Hal...
14.07.2020	Halogen Ventures Launches Diversity Fellowship	Halogen Ventures, the Los Angeles early-stage firm that focuses on female-led consumer tech startups, announced it is launching a fellowship to focus on gender dynamics and address the lack of equity and diversity in the overwhelmingly whit...
08.04.2020	Guest Column: What Early Stage Startups Should Be Thinking About COVID-19 Right Now	As the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 continues to play out, we are all facing new challenges as we adjust to this "new" normal. However, it doesn't have to be all doom and gloom for early-stage startups, with the right approa...
22.08.2017	Female founders in Chicago still struggle to secure funding	The well-documented gap in venture capital funding also exists in Chicago. In the last five full years, Chicago startups with at least one woman founder never received more than 20 percent of the venture capital funding or deal flow in the ...
22.08.2017	Female founders in Chicago still struggle to secure funding	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 well-documented gap in venture capital fundin...
05.02.2017	The rise of femtech: women, technology, and Trump	The market is flooded with products tailored to the needs of men: viagra, penis enlargement pills, fitness apps, and more. But a new sector dedicated to women is emerging. Femtech, or female technology, is tickling the curiosity of hungry v...
05.02.2017	The rise of femtech: women, technology, and Trump	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. The market is flooded with products tailored to the needs of men: viagra, penis enlargement pills, fitness apps, and more. But a new se...
-	Halogen Ventures’ Jesse Draper on How to Make It as a Woman in VC	As the founding partner of Halogen Ventures, Jesse Draper and her team are betting big on early-stage, female-founded companies with billion-dollar potential. In this episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, Draper discusses how she deals ...
-	🎓💸 USC is spending big on research. Will it translate to more LA startups? 🤝 Venture Deals 📅 LA Tech Calendar 📙 What We’re Reading 🤝 Venture Deals 📅 LA Tech Calendar 📙 What We’re Reading 🤝 Venture Dea...	Happy Friday Los Angeles!🔦 Spotlight 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. In ...
-	Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline.	"We're at a moment when retail brokerages have been exposed as serving Wall Street oligarchs." "Going Public," a series that debuts this summer, will follow five companies over 10 weeks, culminating in NASDAQ IPOs in whi...
-	Relativity Space targets more funding, Marvel Snap developer secures $100M 🤝 Venture Deals 📅 LA Tech Calendar 📙 What We’re Reading 🤝 Venture Deals 🤝 Venture Deals 📅 LA Tech Calendar 📙 What We’re Readi...	Happy Friday Los Angeles!🔦 Spotlight Two companies are surging forward in Los Angeles’ most prominent tech industries, aerospace and gaming. Long Beach-based Relativity Space, known for launching the first 3D-printed rocket, is reportedly s...

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