| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.06.2024 | Hona: Law Firm Client Engagement Platform Company Raises $9.5 Million | Hona – a leading client engagement software platform for law firms – announced that it raised $9.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from Ludlow Ventures, Soma Capital, and Y Combinator.
The com... |
| 31.03.2022 | Airing the Dirty Laundry on the Front Porch: Why We Invested in SudShare | A ride to the airport, a walk for the dog, a grocery or meal delivery, or a video birthday message…are all just a phone tap away. With over 2.5 million mobile apps, there’s an endless number of products and services available in our pockets... |
| 27.05.2021 | Airspace Link raises $10M to make drones safer for both operators and communities | Airspace Link is today announcing it raised a $10 million Series A from Altos Ventures, Thales and others. The Detroit, Michigan-based startup anticipates using the additional funds to expand its domestic offering and expand overseas.
CEO M... |
| 19.04.2021 | Detroit VCs weigh in on fundraising and building startups in Michigan and the Midwest | TechCrunch just hosted a small virtual meetup with Detroit startups and venture capitals. Like the one we held last month in Miami, the event was a blast and featured a talk with two local VCs on which startups work in Detroit and how to ra... |
| 19.04.2021 | Diet ID wins TechCrunch’s Detroit City Spotlight pitch-off — watch the event here | TechCrunch just hosted its first pitch-off in Detroit and we’re pleased to announce Diet ID won the event. The company, based in Detroit and founded in 2016 by Dr. David Katz, gives users a clinically tested approach to dietary assessment a... |
| 15.04.2021 | Hear from Detroit VCs on how to raise cash in the Motor City today at TechCrunch’s free Detroit meetup | We hope you can make our virtual meetup in Detroit today. The event is free, and features a pitch-off with Detroit startups, a talk regarding StockX and a panel with Detroit VCs on best practices when fundraising.
This event is the second i... |
| 07.01.2021 | Detroit’s Ludlow Ventures goes for fund four | Venture funds have been springing up everywhere in recent years. But a decade ago, it was far more difficult to build a new venture brand far away from a tech hub like Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston.
One firm that has pulled if off is ... |
| 04.11.2019 | Boulevard Launches With $11M Series A | Boulevard, the technology company transforming the way premium spas and salons do business, today announced it has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round led by Index Ventures with participation from Bonfire Ventures, Ludlow Venture... |
| 20.05.2019 | Shoot My Travel attracts $1.1 million investment | Facebook
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Shoot My Travel, a global marketplace connecting travelers with on-demand professional photographers, has raised a $1.1 million venture capital round. Who’s betting big on the Miami-based ... |
| 21.03.2019 | Ludlow Ventures raises $45M for third fund | Ludlow Ventures raised another $45 million to invest in young startups. The Detroit-based venture firm is today announcing it closed its third fund since the firm’s founding in 2010. Founding and managing partner Jonathon Triest tells TechC... |
| 27.06.2017 | Ludlow Ventures has closed its second fund with $45 million | Ludlow Ventures, a young, early-stage venture firm in Detroit, has closed its second venture fund with $45 million in capital commitments, founder and managing partner Jonathon Triest tells us.
Ludlow’s team, which includes partner Brett de... |
| 27.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, June 27 | CORPORATE INNOVATION TOUR
The following is from the latest print edition of Fortune, where I write a regular column about technology and startups called “Boom with a View.”
Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraH... |
| 20.05.2017 | Why I love the Detroit startup scene | 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!
People often ask me, “Why did you move from San F... |
| 20.05.2017 | Why I love the Detroit startup scene | People often ask me, “Why did you move from San Francisco to, uh, Detroit?” The answer is easy. In 10 years, San Francisco will be as good as it is today, but Detroit will be a roaring city once again, defining a new technology hub at the i... |
| 30.03.2016 | Scentbird raises $2.8 million so you can try luxury perfumes before buying them | Scentbird, a startup that lets users try luxury perfumes for a month before they buy them, announced today that it took in a $2.8 million investment.
Based in New York, Scentbird charges customers $14.95 a month for an 8 millilitre bottle o... |
| 30.03.2016 | Scentbird raises $2.8 million so you can try luxury perfumes before buying them | 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!
Scentbird, a startup that lets users try luxury p... |
| 18.08.2015 | Sandwich’s Adam Lisagor on Producing the Killer Corporate Video | Adam Lisagor, an L.A.-based video producer, has more demand for his corporate videos than he can handle, thanks to the breakout success of product launch videos for Square, Airbnb, and Warby Parker among many dozens of others. Demand doesn’... |
| 19.05.2015 | If Seed is the new A, how helpful are angels? | Semil Shah, Jonathon Triest and Renee Diresta chat about angel investing, party rounds, pro rata
Semil Shah, General Partner of Haystack, moderated the "Meet the active angels" panel at Vator Splash Oakland 2015. On the panel were... |
| 24.04.2015 | Vator Splash Oakland: The most inspiring two days | Thank you to everyone who attended the event! Here's how it played out on Twitter
Vator held its second ever Splash Oakland event on Thursday, and it couldn't have gone better. Not only were the panelists, and all of our presenting companie... |
| 01.04.2015 | Six reasons to come to Splash Oakland, 4/22-4/23 | Hundreds of VCs, top Founders/CEOs, rooftop garden lunch, after-parties, a focus on diversity
Have you seen the future? Oakland will be tomorrow's tech hub and you should be a part of it.
Vator Splash Oakland is right around the corner on A... |
| 06.11.2014 | Detroit Hustle In Silicon Valley | Meet Jonathon Triest. The 32-year-old Detroit native runs Ludlow Ventures and just closed his first venture fund — $15 million. He’s a Detroiter investing directly in Silicon Valley with the sheer gumption of a Midwesterner. “We hunt startu... |
| 08.10.2014 | Product Hunt Gets $6.1 Million Series A Funding From A16Z And Alexis Ohanian | Product Hunt, a community board where people can up vote tech products, officially announced the raise of $6.1 million in a Series A today, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Y Combinator partner and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian took part in t... |
| 13.09.2014 | Product Hunt Raises $6 Million From A16Z | Product Hunt, the aggregation site that many people consider a direct competitor to TechCrunch and other tech blogs due to its ability to surface new tech products and startups, has raised a hefty series A, we’re hearing.
We’ve heard that A... |
| 05.09.2014 | Flywheel Raises $1.2M For Its Designer-Centric WordPress Hosting Platform | The open-source WordPress software runs a huge chunk of all of the sites on the Internet, so it’s no surprise that there’s also a massive ecosystem that has sprung up around the platform. These days, there’s a specialized WordPress service ... |
| 21.08.2014 | Product Hunt Raises $1 Million, Launches iOS App For Hunting On The Go | Product Hunt on Thursday announced it raised a seed funding round of $1 million and launched its iOS app.
The social network for tech products gained buzz earlier this summer as prominent investors, founders and reporters began to use the w... |
| 28.02.2013 | UpTo Raises $1.5M in Second Funding | UpTo, a Detroit, Mich.-based startup that operates an event stream platform, raised an additional $1.5m in second funding.
Backers included Detroit Venture Partners and Ludlow Ventures.
The company intends to use the capital to for key hire... |
| 27.11.2012 | Mobile Madness Motor City: Linkner, Song, & More at Jan. 17 Forum | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
All of you smartphone-toting innovators know it’s true: Five short years since the first iPhones sparked lines around Apple stores, mobile computing has completely transformed... |
| 30.07.2012 | Videolicious Relaunches Its App For Mobile Video Editing, Raises $1.4 Million From Amazon And Others | Last year, we wrote about an app called Videolicious designed to quickly let users create videos without having any editing expertise. The startup has been refining its app since then, and just released a new version to improve automatic vi... |
| 09.04.2012 | Ludlow Ventures: A Family Venture “Without Ego” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ludlow Ventures, the Detroit-based firm, has a motto: “VC without ego.”
Managing partner Jonathon Triest certainly lives up to that ideal of selflessness when describing the i... |
| 22.03.2012 | Flud (Quietly) Relaunches Its Android App | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When we last checked in with Flud, the Web startup had just launched a new-and-improved version of its iPhone app, which allows users to aggregate, curate, and share news cont... |
| 23.02.2012 | Scan Gets $1.7M From Google Ventures And Shervin Pishevar’s Menlo Talent Fund To Make QR Codes Actually Useful | The most impressive thing about Scan is that it, as a humble QR code app, has raised over $1.7 million in seed funding from, wait for it, Shervin Pishevar via Menlo Ventures (leading), Google Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Yuri Milner’s ... |
| 15.12.2011 | Updated Flud Platform Combines News Aggregation and Social Networking | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
According to Bobby Ghoshal, the future of news consumption is in finding new ways for users to interact with content and influence other users’ reading habits, and the develop... |
| 28.11.2011 | A New Deal Flow: Startup Raps For Angel Funding, Venture Firm Responds In Kind | Last week, Erick posted a video in which the founders of a stealth, San Francisco-based startup called Undrip spit some rhymes in an effort to raise seed funding for their new venture. Undrip, which is building a service to better filter yo... |
| 16.05.2011 | Local Q&A Site Hipster Raises $1M From Google Ventures, Lightbank, 500 Startups And More | Local Q&A startup Hipster has raised $1 million in seed funding from some prominent angel Valley investors including Mitch Kapor, Dave McClure/500 Startups, Lightbank, Google Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Max Ventilla, TechStars Dav... |
