Date | Title | Description |
15.01.2025 | Robeauté: Pioneering the Future of Neurosurgery with Microrobots | In the world of medicine, the brain is the final frontier. It holds the secrets to our thoughts, memories, and identities. Yet, when it comes to treating neurological disorders, the tools we use are often blunt instruments. Enter Robeauté, ... |
14.01.2025 | Robeauté raises $28M for neurosurgical microrobots for neurology, medicine's final frontier | French robotic medtech Robeauté has raised $28 million funding for its neurosurgical microrobots.
Neurological disorders are difficult to diagnose in the early stages when intervention can have the most impact.
Modern neurosurgery still rel... |
14.01.2025 | “Size of a grain of rice”: Robeauté raises €27.2 million to transform neurosurgery with microrobots | Robeauté, a Paris-based medtech startup developing neurosurgical microrobots, has announced the completion of a €27.2 million funding round to advance their microbot tech, initiate human trials in 2026, and establish operations in the US as... |
27.11.2024 | PlayAI: Voice AI Platform Company Raises $21 Million (Seed) | PlayAI, a voice AI platform advancing conversational AI, announced that it raised a $21 million Seed round led by Kindred Ventures and 500 Global with participation from Race Capital, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund, TRAC, and othe... |
26.11.2024 | PlayAI Secures $21 Mn Seed; Releases New Model for Gen AI Conversations | Just-released model that uses a conversation’s historical context to facilitate natural, human-like conversational experiences
PlayAI, the voice AI platform powering the future of conversational AI, announced that it has raised a $21 millio... |
26.11.2024 | Inversion closes $44M Series A round | Inversion Space, a startup looking to lead in logistics and delivery from above Earth’s atmosphere, has captured $44 million in Series A capital to support its development of a new autonomous re-entry vehicle and team expansion efforts.
Spa... |
24.11.2024 | Inversion Space Transportation Company Raises $44 Million (Series A) | Inversion—a company pioneering precision delivery on-demand from space to anywhere on Earth—announced a $44 million Series A funding round co-led by Spark Capital and Adjacent, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, Kindred Ventu... |
22.11.2024 | Faircraft: Lab-Grown Leather Company Raises $15.8 Million | Faircraft, a pioneer of lab-grown leather utilizing unique and patented tissue engineering techniques, announced a $15.8 million funding round. The funding round was backed by internationally-renowned investment funds, including Kindred Ven... |
21.11.2024 | The Rise of Sustainable Innovation: Faircraft and ChapsVision Lead the Charge | In the heart of Paris, two startups are rewriting the rules of their respective industries. Faircraft and ChapsVision are not just companies; they are pioneers. They are reshaping the future with sustainable practices and cutting-edge techn... |
21.11.2024 | The Future of Food and Fashion: Innovations in Sustainability | In a world where sustainability is no longer optional, two companies are stepping up to the plate. Bel Group and Faircraft are leading the charge in their respective fields. They are not just responding to consumer demand; they are reshapin... |
21.11.2024 | French Cultivated Leather Startup Faircraft Secures €15M to Meet Demand for Ethical Materials | France’s Faircraft, a cultivated leather startup based in Paris, announces it has raised €15 million to expand its team and scale up operations to meet the increasing demand for sustainable materials.
Faircraft was founded in 2021 by CEO Ha... |
21.11.2024 | Paris-based Faircraft raises €15 million to expand lab-grown leather production | Faircraft, a French startup focusing on lab-grown leather through cellular agriculture, has raised €15 million in a funding round led by investors including Kindred Ventures, Cap Horn, BPI, Alliance for Impact, and Entrepreneur First.
The c... |
21.11.2024 | Faircraft Raises $15.8M in Funding | Faircraft, a Paris, France-based a provider of a lab-grown leather using patented tissue engineering techniques, $15.8M in funding.
Backers included Kindred Ventures, Cap Horn, BPI, Sake Bosch, Entrepreneur First, Alliance for Impact, and H... |
12.11.2024 | Northflank Secures $22.3 Million to Simplify Developer Workloads | In the fast-paced world of technology, developers often find themselves wrestling with complex infrastructure instead of focusing on what they do best: writing code. Northflank, a London-based startup, aims to change that narrative. With a ... |
11.11.2024 | Northflank: Developer Workload Platform Company Secures $22.3 Million | Northflank, a developer workload platform, announced $22.3 million in new funding, including a $16 million Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) and a $6.3 million seed led by Vertex Ventures US. Additional investors participating in ... |
11.11.2024 | Exclusive: Northflank scores $22.3 million to make cloud infrastructure less of a nightmare for developers | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Northflank, a London-based cloud deployment platform, announced $22.3 million in new funding today to help compan... |
28.06.2023 | Seed, pre-seed specialist Kindred Ventures scores $312m across new flagship fund, first opportunity vehicle | |
26.06.2023 | Kindred Ventures foresees a ‘massive explosion of startups’ courtesy of AI | Last week, we talked with Kindred Ventures, a small, nine-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that, despite investing in a lot of nascent startups — more than 100 to date — takes a generalist approach, investing in AI, cl... |
07.01.2022 | DeFi platform Goldfinch raises $25m to continue emerging market lending | Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto) led a $25 million funding round that will help Goldfinch continue to offer uncollateralised DeFi loans to businesses in emerging markets.
Removing the crypto collateral requirement unlocks a new level of b... |
07.01.2022 | DeFi platform Goldfinch raises $25m to continue emerging market lending | Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto) led a $25 million funding round that will help Goldfinch continue to offer uncollateralised DeFi loans to businesses in emerging markets.
Removing the crypto collateral requirement unlocks a new level of bo... |
21.10.2021 | Vitaance cierra su 2ª ronda de €3M liderada por Kindred Ventures. Acuden también Softbank, Astorya, ShillingVC, K Fund y fondos y BA de la industria aseguradora | 21/10/2021
Nota de prensa
VITAANCE CIERRA UNA RONDA DE FINANCIACIÓN DE €3 MILLONES PARA IMPULSAR SU CRECIMIENTO.
● Kindred Ventures, Softbank, Astorya, Shilling y K Fund, entre otros fondos, han participado en la ronda de financiación
●... |
11.03.2021 | South Africa’s FlexClub adds $5M to seed round to scale its car subscription marketplace | The traditional process of buying, insuring and financing cars across emerging markets can be challenging, and it defeats the purpose of building an all-around car shopping experience. Today, FlexClub, a South African company, has been prov... |
01.02.2021 | Kindred Ventures just closed its second fund with $100 million in capital commitments | Two years after launching its $56 million debut fund, Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund founded by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, has closed its second fund with $100 million in capital commitments... |
17.08.2020 | Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans | All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. Tech futurists have long warned about humans being replaced by life-li... |
12.06.2020 | Lo Toney has some ideas about how to (really) bring VC into the 21st century | Last week, we suggested that for a truly diverse venture industry, the limited partners that provide investing capital to VCs — institutions like universities and hospital systems — need to start incorporating diversity mandates into their ... |
12.03.2020 | Heartbeat Health Raises $8.2M Series A to Expand Delivery of Best-in-Class Virtual Cardiovascular Care | |
12.03.2020 | Heartbeat Health raises $8.2M for its virtual cardiovascular platform | The company provides telemedicine visits, discovery events and AI-powered coaching
[Editor's note: Future of Behavioral and Mental Health with BetterHelp, Headspace, Ginger.io, Providence Hospitals, UnitedHealthcare Optum, Khosla Ventures, ... |
18.11.2019 | Steve Jang & Kanyi Maqubela form or fund as Kindred Ventures | Venture capitalists often mutter, “I haven’t seen anything I like lately.” Founders frequently complain that “investors are back-seat drivers who won’t get their hands dirty.” A $56 million fund with a fresh approach is aiming to address bo... |