Date | Title | Description |
17.06.2025 | Aspora: Bridging Financial Gaps for the Indian Diaspora | In a world where borders blur and people move, financial services often lag behind. Enter Aspora, a fintech startup that aims to change the game for non-resident Indians (NRIs). With a fresh infusion of $53 million in Series B funding, Aspo... |
16.06.2025 | NRI-focused fintech Aspora closes $53M round to broaden reach | Aspora, a London-headquartered fintech startup focused on the banking needs of the Indian diaspora, has raised $53 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Sequoia Capital and Greylock. The fresh capital will support the company’s push... |
16.06.2025 | Aspora nets Series B to offer remittance, financial services to Indian diaspora | Aspora founder Parth Garg
Aspora, a cross-border payments startup that provides remittance services and other products for non-resident Indians, said Monday it has closed its Series B funding round co-led by venture capital firms Sequoia Ca... |
16.06.2025 | Aspora raises $93m from Sequoia, others to scale cross-border banking for global Indians | Fintech startup Aspora (formerly Vance) on Monday said it has raised $93 million across three funding rounds from investors including Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Soma Capital, Global Founders Capital, and Y Com... |
16.06.2025 | Fintech Aspora Closes USD 53 Mn Series B Led by Sequoia and Greylock The brand also received support from Quantum Light Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, and Y Combinator. | Fintech startup Aspora, which was previously known as Vance, has successfully raised USD 53 million in a Series B funding round, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Greylock. It also received support from Quantum Light Ventures, Hummingbird Ventu... |
01.03.2025 | Human.org Secures $7.3 Million to Bridge the Gap Between Humans and AI | In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, the need for trust and alignment between humans and AI agents has never been more critical. Enter Human.org, a San Francisco and Dubai-based AI safety lab that recently raised $7... |
27.02.2025 | Human.org: $7.3 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised For Solving Alignment Between Humans And AI Agents | Human.org – a product-based AI safety lab dedicated to solving AI Alignment (AIA) – announced $7.3 million in pre-seed funding to build a trust infrastructure that ensures AI agents are verifiably aligned with human intent. Backed by invest... |
22.01.2025 | Indonesia’s Skor Technologies raised $6.2 M Pre-series A funding from Argor Capital | In its most recent Pre-A round, Skor Technologies, the parent company of the new Skorcard credit card and Indonesia-focused Skorlife, raised $6.2 million.
Skor Technologies said in a statement on Tuesday that the round was led by Argor Capi... |
13.12.2024 | Upbound to Acquire Brigit, for up to $460M | Upbound Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPBD), a Plano, TX-based technology and data-driven company which specializes in accessible and inclusive financial products, acquired Brigit, a financial health technology company, for total consideration of up... |
08.10.2024 | Lovable's Leap: Democratizing Software Development with GPT Engineer | In a world where technology reigns supreme, coding is the new literacy. Yet, only a fraction of the population can wield this power. Enter Lovable, a Stockholm-based startup that aims to change the game. With a fresh €6.8 million (approxima... |
07.10.2024 | Lovable raises $7.5M for GPT Engineer | Lovable, a platform aiming to allow anyone to create software, has closed a $7.5M pre-Seed funding round. The round was led by Hummingbird VC and byFounders VC, top Nordic funds and angel syndicates, as well as Deepmind angel operators, pro... |
28.06.2024 | BillionToOne: Molecular Diagnostics Company Raises $130 Million | BillionToOne, a next-generation molecular diagnostics company, announced that it has raised $130 million in an oversubscribed and upsized Series D round. This funding was led by Premji Invest, with significant participation by another incom... |
30.04.2024 | Gideon Valkin Launches Andrena Ventures With $12M Solo GP Fund | Gideon Valkin
Gideon Valkin, the former Monzo and ClearScore commercial leader, investor and entrepreneur, is launching Andrena Ventures with a $12m solo GP fund.
The vehicle has reached its first close with a final close planned for later ... |
21.03.2024 | Silence is an early stage climate tech VC fund with $35 million | Silence wants to shake things up when it comes to climate tech investment. This new angel-style VC firm has already raised $35 million and plans to make dozens of small investments in climate startups to help them apply the tech startup pla... |
12.09.2022 | Armut and ProntoPro join hands, raise €15 million to expand local services marketplace in EMEA | Turkish local services marketplace Armut.com has now merged with Italy-based ProntoPro and the new company has raised €15 million to strengthen its position in Europe. The round was led by ProntoPro’s investors. Armut has earlier raised inv... |
03.05.2022 | Upping the ante for financial modelling for businesses, Estonian platform nabs €1.25 million | According to Forrester, companies lose 10-12% of their total contract value due to contract value leakage every year translating into $3 trillion in losses per year globally. The majority of contract value leakage occurs due to invoicing er... |
22.02.2022 | Octopus Ventures backs London-based startup with $50 million to boost automation in life sciences | For far too long, scientists and clinicians have been working with overly complex lab solutions. Equipment and software are disjointed and difficult to orchestrate, while solutions are often too rigid and inappropriate for labs with small g... |
03.02.2022 | Kraken Launches Proof of Reserves Audits Allowing Clients to Verify Crypto Balances | Kraken, one of the world’s largest digital asset exchanges, is announcing its implementation of next-generation auditing standards designed to let clients prove their bitcoin and ether balances are backed by real assets held in our custody.... |
09.07.2021 | Firat Ileri becomes Hummingbird VC’s new Managing Partner, as the firm looks to expand | Seed investment firm Hummingbird VC, which previously invested in Deliveroo, Peak Games, MarkaVIP, and Kraken has a new Managing Partner. Firat Ileri, previously a Partner – who at 28 became one of Europe’s youngest VCs when he joined in 20... |
04.04.2021 | England based startup Anima secures US $ 2.5 million in seed round | Anima, a London based startup, announced on 2nd April 2021 that it has raised US $ 2.5 million in its seed funding round. The round was led by Hummingbird Ventures along with participation from Animo Collective. |
17.10.2020 | TOP 10 FoodTech Startups of Europe | Founders: Greg Orlowski and William Shu |
05.12.2019 | Tallinn-based MeetFrank, the ‘secret job agent’ for job seekers, raises €1.5 million, to launch new features | Today the career app MeetFrank announces snapping up €1.5 million, in a round led by investors Karma.vc, Enern VC, Change Ventures, and Hummingbird. MeetFrank will use the capital to launch its new “relocation without location” feature that... |
11.09.2018 | The Family raises $17.4 million to support European startups | The Family has always been an ambitious startup accelerator. But it has always felt like the company never had enough money to grow as quickly as it wanted. The Family is raising a new $17.4 million funding round (€15 million).
Private bank... |
10.07.2018 | Aspire Capital offers fast finance for SMEs in Southeast Asia | Southeast Asia’s digital economy is tipped to grow more than six-fold to reach more than $200 billion per year, according to a report co-authored by Google, with e-commerce accounting for the dominant share. The emergence of e-commerce plat... |
20.12.2017 | Interview with Diego Fischer, co-founder and CEO of InstaCarro | How Latin American startups are on the rise and what companies are doing to capitalize in the area
Latin America is quickly becoming an area that is drawing the interest of both startups and venture capitalist. What started with VOX Capital... |
21.09.2017 | London and Antwerp-based Hummingbird Ventures closes new $95M fund | London and Antwerp-based Hummingbird Ventures, which counts Deliveroo and Showpad in its portfolio, has closed a new $95 million fund to invest in tech startups at the “late Seed and Series A” stage.
Targeting Europe and also further afield... |
21.06.2016 | Services Marketplace Armut.com Raises $3.2M in Series A Funding | Armut.com, an Istanbul, Turkey-based provier of a services marketplace, raised $3.2m in Series A funding.
The round was led by new European marketplaces-focused venture capital fund Addventure, with participation also from existing seed inv... |
- | Octopus Ventures backs London-based startup with $50 million to boost automation in life sciences | For far too long, scientists and clinicians have been working with overly complex lab solutions. Equipment and software are disjointed and difficult to orchestrate, while solutions are often too rigid and inappropriate for labs with small g... |
- | Upping the ante for financial modelling for businesses, Estonian platform nabs €1.25 million | According to Forrester, companies lose 10-12% of their total contract value due to contract value leakage every year translating into $3 trillion in losses per year globally. The majority of contract value leakage occurs due to invoicing er... |