| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.10.2024 | Finix: Full-Stack Payment Processor Company Secures $75 Million (Series C) | Finix, a full-stack payment processor enabling businesses to accept and send payments online and in-store, announced it has raised $75 million in Series C funding, led by Acrew Capital and co-led by Leap Global and Lightspeed Venture Partne... |
| 30.10.2024 | AI contact center provider Regal closes $40M round to scale personalized customer interactions
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One click below supports o... | Contact center software startup Regal Voice Inc. announced today that it has raised $40 million in new funding to accelerate the rollout of its AI Phone Agents for contact centers.
Founded in 2020, Regal is focused on redefining customer ma... |
| 24.10.2024 | Finix Raises $75M in Series C Funding | Finix, a San Francisco, CA-based payment processor enabling businesses to accept and send payments online and in-store, raised $75m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Acrew Capital and co-led by Leap Global and Lightspeed Venture Par... |
| 03.10.2024 | Thread AI: $6 Million (Seed) Raised To Make Infrastructure Simple For Enterprises | Thread AI, a new company founded by former Palantir AI Product and Engineering leads Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah, emerged from stealth to announce the launch of its composable AI infrastructure platform Lemma. And this AI workflow solu... |
| 01.10.2024 | Thread AI emerges from stealth, debuts composable infra platform | Thread AI, a new company founded by former Palantir AI Product and Engineering leads Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah, emerged from stealth today to announce the launch of its composable AI infrastructure platform, Lemma.
This AI workflow s... |
| 01.10.2024 | Thread AI Launches Platform to Simplify Enterprise AI Workflows | Company raises $6 million in seed funding, led by Index Ventures, as customer momentum builds
Thread AI, a new company founded by former Palantir AI Product and Engineering leads Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah, emerged from stealth today ... |
| 19.04.2024 | Webflow acquires Intellimize to add AI-powered webpage personalization | Webflow, a web design and hosting platform that’s raised over $330 million at a $4 billion valuation, is expanding into a new sector: marketing optimization.
Today, Webflow announced that it acquired Intellimize, a startup leveraging AI to ... |
| 04.03.2024 | When your cap table makes your startup uninvestable | The CEO of a Norwegian hardware startup shared a pitch deck with me that had an unusual slide: It included the company’s capitalization table — the breakdown of who owns what part of the company. Typically, cap tables are shared in the dili... |
| 04.01.2024 | Pika 1.0 makes generating videos with AI easier and accessible | The technology is not perfect, but it can create pretty content that's modifiable
These days, most tech jobs have some sort of "AI knowledge" qualifier in the description. Of course, if you're in tech, understanding AI seems to be... |
| 27.06.2023 | Calling a restaurant? An AI voice may answer now, thanks to these former Spotify data scientists | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
Slang.ai, an AI-powered phone answering product for the restaurant industry founded by two former ... |
| 13.06.2023 | Albert Invent Raises $7.5 Million Seed, Led by Index Ventures, to Bring New Products to Market Faster Than Ever Before | "Built by scientists, for scientists, Albert reimagines what R&D can be, by connecting processes, data and insights in a single place to create one data source of truth. "
OAKLAND, Calif. (PRWEB) June 13, 2023
Albert Invent, t... |
| 17.05.2023 | Adonis Secures $17M for Revenue Cycle Automation Platform | What You Should Know:
Adonis, an NYC-based revenue cycle intelligence and automation platform built for healthcare, today announced that it has raised $17.3M in Series A financing led by General Catalyst and existing investors Bling Capital... |
| 27.07.2022 | PropTech Startup Makes Buying And Selling Your Home Easier And Cheaper | Lindsay McLean, cofounder and CEO at HomeLister, an online home selling platform HomeLister |
| 01.03.2022 | One decade in, Homebrew says it’s becoming self-funded | Homebrew has a new cup of tea (or coffee, or beer, or beverage of your choosing).
The venture capital firm is leaving its strictly seed-stage roots — and its traditional venture structure — and pursuing a more stage-agnostic evergreen model... |
| 24.02.2022 | The Lowdown: Bowery’s strawberry bot buyout | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Root AI and Tevel.
Last week, New York vertical farming company Bowery announced that it had acquired Mountain View, California-based ag robotics startup Traptic for an undisclos... |
| 07.12.2021 | Hummingbird lands $30M to bring design thinking to anti-money laundering investigations | Hummingbird, which sells anti-money laundering software to banks and fintechs, announced today that it raised a $30 million Series B led by new investor Battery Ventures. Existing investors Flourish and Homebrew also participated in the rou... |
| 20.10.2021 | Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? | Sophie Alcorn Contributor
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| 08.07.2021 | Intellimize raises $30M Series B to deliver high converting websites for results-focused marketers | Intellimize married the best of marketing’s creative thinking with machine learning to deliver 1,500 more leads in the last 90 days, and the pace of improvement is accelerating.
SAN MATEO, Calif. (PRWEB) July 08, 2021
Intellimize, the leade... |
| 22.06.2021 | ResQ raises $7.5 million to make back of the house top of mind | Entrepreneur Kuljeev Singh has had a three-course meal in the restaurant business. He was an angel investor in ChefHero, a part-time owner in an Australian-style meat pie shop and, now, is the founder of ResQ, a startup that helps restauran... |
| 18.04.2021 | Employee benefits fintech company Level raises US $ 27 million | Level, a New York based company that builds financial products for people-first companies, announced on 16th April 2021 that it has raised US$ 27 million in its series A funding round. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Kh... |
| 16.04.2021 | Level is Rebuilding Insurance to Help Employers Offer Bigger Benefits for Less | Level not only offers a better experience, but it also offers the potential for significant cost savings. Level’s self-insured dental and vision products let companies offer more coverage to their teams while often cutting nearly 20 percent... |
| 13.05.2020 | With the CRV-backed Liftoff List competition and prize, student entrepreneurs get rewarded | Justine and Olivia Moore, the twin investors behind the CRV-backed Liftoff List have long believed in the power of student entrepreneurship.
The twin sisters were among the early architects of Stanford University’s student investment progra... |
| 11.05.2020 | Hunter Walk: Damn the TAM and other seed startup thoughts | Hunter Walk thinks your TAM slide is stupid.
That’s one viewpoint that the seed-stage investor shared with TechCrunch that made us laugh during our recent conversation. Walk joined us for an Extra Crunch Live chat late last week that was a ... |
| 07.05.2020 | Extra Crunch Live: Join Hunter Walk for our live chat right now | Today at 10am PDT, two-thirds of the Equity crew are sitting down with Hunter Walk, a venture capitalist with Homebrew and well-known seed-stage investor.
Continuing TechCrunch’s running series of Extra Crunch Live discussions with prominen... |
| 30.04.2020 | Extra Crunch Live: Join Hunter Walk for a Q&A May 7th at 1 pm ET/10 am PT | We are not slowing down the pace of our Extra Crunch Live discussions.
Fresh off our chat with Mark Cuban, we’re already gearing up for next week, which will bring us an investor from Sequoia, and, later in the week, Hunter Walk of Homebrew... |
| 20.02.2020 | The rise of the winged pink unicorn | Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor
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| 07.01.2020 | 6 VCs explain why seed investors now favor enterprise startups | Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
Today we’re digging into seed-stage companies, the vanguard of the venture market. In particular, we’re trying to underst... |
| 02.09.2019 | Seed Series: Homebrew Founders Hunter Walk and Satya Patel | 63 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Next in the Seed Series, we talk with the co-founders of Homebrew, Satya Patel and Hunter Walk about how they met, their product roles at Google, YouTube, and Twitter, what makes a Homebrew company,... |
| 02.09.2019 | Seed Series: Homebrew Founders Hunter Walk and Satya Patel | 66 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Next in the Seed Series, we talk with the co-founders of Homebrew, Satya Patel and Hunter Walk about how they met, their product roles at Google, YouTube, and Twitter, what makes a Homebrew company,... |
| 20.09.2018 | Investors should pay their own legal expenses | Legal by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images
There, I said it; right there in the title of the blog post. And I’ll repeat it again: Investors should pay their own legal expenses.
I’ve never understood why the norm for someone pu... |
| 14.02.2018 | Homebrew Raises $90M for Third Fund | According to a blog post, San Francisco-based seed stage venture capital firm Homebrew raised $90m for its third early-stage fund.
All of Homebrew II Limited Partners, a small group of institutional investors including nonprofit foundations... |
| 13.02.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, February 13 | BIOTECH BOOM
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| 12.02.2018 | Homebrew closed $90 million fund | Homebrew is announcing the close of its third fund. This time they’ve raised $90 million, an increase from $50 million in 2015 and $35 million for its debut fund in 2013.
Led by Hunter Walk and Satya Patel, the seed-stage venture firm has s... |
| 31.01.2018 | Inside Joymode, a subscription service saving you from buying all of the things | Surveying the retail world right now, it’s hard to see anything but Amazon.
The company offers a degree of convenience for buyers of stuff that’s never been equalled (which, while being hyperbolic may also be true), and it has made consumin... |
| 14.06.2017 | Bowery Farming Raises $20m Series A to Hire and Expand | New Jersey-based indoor farming company Bowery Farming has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by General Catalyst and GGV Capital, with additional investment from GV (Google Ventures), taking Bowery’s total fundrai... |
| 20.10.2016 | Cardiogram raises $2 million to predict heart health issues using wearables | Health tech startup Cardiogram has raised $2 million in a seed round led by the a16z Bio Fund for an app that screens users’ cardio health and gives them help improving or maintaining it.
The company started out with an Apple Watch integrat... |
| 04.08.2016 | What’s the #1 Thing Founders Should Avoid Doing in a Pitch? | Earlier this week LinkedIn launched 30 second videos for Influencers. One of the first questions put out there by LinkedIn was about what not to do in a pitch meeting. There were some very interesting and helpful answers for any entrepreneu... |
| 17.05.2016 | Just 27 hours left to apply for Include Office Hours with Homebrew Ventures | TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening on May 24th! Satya Patel, Beth Scheer and Hunter Walk from Homebrew Ventures will join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback to startups.
Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s d... |
| 28.03.2016 | Homebrew’s Satya Patel on his firm’s investment thesis and how startups should approach investors | Harry Stebbings Contributor
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| 15.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 15, 2016 | Huanxi invested $50M in Mubi; Taulia Inc.received $46M; Keyme secured $20M funding
The Wireless Registry, a San francisco, CA-based global registry for wireless names and identifiers, raised $1.7 million in funding. Backers included members... |
| 05.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 5, 2015 | Coveo raised $35M; Macat secured $30M; Semantics3 launched $1.55M funding
doDOC, a Boston, MA- and Coimbra, Portugal-based web-based platform that allows pharmaceutical companies to accelerate regulatory and compliance processes, recently r... |
| 10.10.2015 | Meet Hunter Walk, Founder of Homebrew VC | Walk was a product manager at Google before co-founding Homebrew with Satya Patel in 2013
There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not.
What everyone can agree on, though, is that there... |
| 28.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 28, 2015 | Deliveroo took $70M; Kareo pulled in $55M; MacroFab closed $2M
Deliveroo, a food delivery startup based in the United Kingdom, took a $70 million round, according to a report from VentureBeat. The round was led by Greenoaks Capital and Inde... |
| 23.02.2015 | Homebrew Closes Two Venture Capital Funds | According to a blog post, Homebrew, a San Francisco, CA-based seed stage venture capital firm, closed its second fund at $50m.
Homebrew II will focus on investing in hyper-growth companies over a 30-36 month period. It aims to make $500k-$1... |
| 23.01.2015 | Can service startups pay contract workers well? This investor says yes | On-demand and delivery services have radically changed how some of us do things like getting from point A to point B, eating food, mailing packages, cleaning house, and more.
But what about your on-demand driver or the friendly face picking... |
| 01.12.2014 | Post Seed Live Web stream on December 2 | Watch interviews with Peter Thiel, Chris Dixon, Keith Rabois, Naval Ravikant and more
 
Please stay tuned for a live stream of Post Seed, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Venture51 and Vator, with Peter Thiel from Founders Fund w... |
| 22.09.2014 | “We’re passing but stay in touch” – how to build a relationship with a VC even if he doesn’t invest | Many founders send our periodic “friends of…” emails with updates on the product, business, team. Perfectly acceptable – and IMO not spammy – to add any investor to this list proactively with whom you had a good rapport. If you want to be s... |
| 18.07.2014 | Shyp Raises $10M in Series A Funding | According to a post on its blog (read here), Shyp, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an app designed to shipping anything, raised $10k in Series A funding.
The round was led by SherpaVentures, with participation from Homebrew and additi... |
| 09.06.2014 | Money doesn’t talk: Why some startups don’t announce seed financings any more | Clinical Care Capacity Planning
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| 03.04.2014 | You’re Either Venture-Backed or a Lifestyle Business: The Big Lie | The following piece was written by Hunter Walk of San Francisco VC firm Homebrew, and I reproduced it here because I thoroughly agree with Hunter and I feel that we don’t have to focus on the massive scalable startups, small and lifestyle s... |
| 30.09.2013 | AngelList Syndicates By The Numbers: 12 Deals, $3.5M Raised, 199 Angels Activated Syndication With $5.6M Committed | This weekend, the Twittersphere and news cycle was dominated with the reactions of a number of VCs and angels to AngelList Syndicates. According to the data we’ve collected from AngelList, there has been an explosion of activity around Synd... |
| 29.09.2013 | Leading vs Following | Hunter Walk has a good post up on the coming competition among angels with syndicates to get into deals. Hunter observes:
My guess is there are also some angels who were popular when they represented a $25k check but won’t be as sought afte... |
| 29.09.2013 | How AngelList Syndicates could actually hurt some angels, help some VCs | AngelList, a site that helps angel investors invest in technology startups by providing screening information about the companies, last week announced AngelList Syndicates.
The new feature lets a trusted angel investor with a solid track re... |
| 29.09.2013 | How AngelList Syndicates could actually hurt some angels, help some VCs | 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!
AngelList, a site that helps angel investors inve... |
| 17.08.2013 | Hunter Walk's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | When my good friend Mike Masnick asked me to guest post on Techdirt, I answered just as most Americans would, “What’s Techdirt?” I kid, I kid. Other than a name suggesting we’re going to get more scoop on Sean Parker’s wedding or the Bustle... |
| 17.07.2013 | Funding Daily: Booze news | 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!
Many different kinds of startups get funding ever... |
| 17.07.2013 | Former YouTuber launches $35M fund for startups that are building the 'bottom up economy' | 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!
Former YouTube exec Hunter Walk and former Twitte... |
| 17.07.2013 | Hunter Walk And Satya Patel’s Homebrew Is A $35M Seed-Stage Fund To Invest In The “Bottom Up Economy” | Former Googler/YouTuber Hunter Walk has been making angel investments for some time now, and recently began observing that although he was one of the smallest parts of the cap table, he often was the first call when it came to product or fu... |
| - | Money doesn’t talk: Why some startups don’t announce seed financings any more | Most of the startups we’ve backed at Homebrew don’t rush to announce their funding. Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1M+ in revenue per annum. They just don’t feel the need to d... |
| - | “We’re passing but stay in touch” – how to build a relationship with a VC even if he doesn’t invest | It sucks to hear “no” and as an early stage investor, the law of numbers means I have to say it regularly. Sometimes I deliver it quickly, sometimes it’s after deliberation. But I try to always do it honestly with feedback because we can al... |
| - | Switch Ventures | Last year I launched an experiment. I started a small venture fund. I wanted to make great investments, work with great entrepreneurs, and explore some specific hypotheses around finding great companies.
I slapped Arnold Capital on the exp... |
| - | Odeia networking? Ex-funcionário do Google mostra como sobreviver | * Por Exame.com
O networking é o pesadelo de muita gente: passar horas em eventos, trocando cartões e firmando relacionamentos com desconhecidos, pode parecer uma tortura para quem não está acostumado a “fazer social”.
O empreendedor Hunter... |
