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| 07.05.2025 | Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian negotiated their daughter’s $7-a-week allowance: ‘Good things come when you work for it’ | Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian are each millionaires — but that doesn’t mean they’re trying to raise entitled children.
Williams and Ohanian give their 7-year-old daughter Olympia a modest weekly allowance, Ohanian, 42, said in a video ... |
| 17.01.2025 | Breaking Barriers: Innovations in Fertility and Women’s Health | In the realm of health, two recent initiatives shine a light on the pressing need for accessible care. The BIVF Foundation and Teal Health are tackling significant challenges in fertility and cervical cancer screening. Both organizations ar... |
| 16.01.2025 | Teal Health Raises $10M, Launches the First At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening | What You Should Know:
– Teal Health, a women’s health company dedicated to eliminating cervical cancer, announced today it has raised an additional $10M in seed funding led by Emerson Collective and Forerunner, with continued support from e... |
| 31.10.2024 | Championing innovation: 10 sports legends fuelling European innovation | What better way to expand your brand than by partnering with renowned athletes who bring global reach, influence, and a reputation for excellence? Over recent years, many of the world’s most celebrated sports figures have ventured beyond th... |
| 23.09.2024 | Rebelstork: Baby Gear Returns Recommerce Marketplace Raises $18 Million (Series A) | Rebelstork, which is North America’s largest and most trusted baby gear returns recommerce marketplace, announced a new round of investment that will help the company to build on its innovative solution to the baby gear industry’s pressing ... |
| 23.09.2024 | Serena Williams: 2% funding for women sounds like an “embarrassing mistake” | Source: Tegan Jones article-article-body
“If women and people of colour aren’t on [a company’s] cap table, why would you invest in them?” Serena Williams asked during a conversation with veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher at HubSpot’s Inb... |
| 19.09.2024 | Rebelstork Raises $18M in Series A Funding | Emily Hosie, Founder and CEO of Rebelstork (CNW Group/Rebelstork)
Rebelstork, a NYC-based baby gear returns recommerce marketplace, raised $18M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Maveron Ventures with participation from Serena Ventur... |
| 24.05.2024 | Andela Celebrates a Decade of Impact | Share this:
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| 07.07.2023 | The A-List Investors: Top Celebrities Diving into the World of Startups | USA ~
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Remember when Captain America (played by Chris Evans) challenged Iron Man (played by Robert Downey Jr.) in the Avengers movie (2012), saying, “Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?” Tony Stark, without miss... |
| 19.01.2023 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Sollum Technologies nabs $30m; phantom carbon credits & food delivery shutdowns | Sollum Technologies raised the largest funding round this week, for its programmable LED lighting for greenhouses. Multus Biotechnology also secured funding, while The Guardian and others unveiled an investigation into a nonprofit for what ... |
| 01.11.2022 | Nigeria: Serena Williams' Investment Shows That Nigeria's Technology Sector Is Attractive - but Things Can Be Better | Nigeria is the leading African destination for foreign direct investments in technology startup businesses. Between 2015 and 2022, Nigerian technology startups have secured funding totalling just over US$2 billion. This is the highest amoun... |
| 12.09.2022 | Serena Williams-Backed Juno Medical Raises $12M to Expand Tech-Enabled Healthcare Clinics | What You Should Know:
Juno’s Healthcare Clinic Model & Costs
Unlike recent trends in concierge medicine and digital health, Juno’s model is designed to work with nearly all types of insurance—including commercial plans, Medicare and Med... |
| 10.09.2022 | Serena Williams' VC partner shares how to win an investment from their $111 million fund | Serena Williams and Alison Rapaport Stillman. Serena Ventures This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 24.08.2022 | Serena Williams will discuss her expanding focus on VC at TC Disrupt | Yes, you read that right. Serena Williams, widely recognized as the greatest of all time (GOAT) to ever step onto a tennis court — or any other playing field — will join us onstage at TC Disrupt on October 18–20.
In her first interview sinc... |
| 12.08.2022 | Serena Williams is leaving tennis to become a full-time venture capitalist. Here’s why. | Serena Williams announced that she was leaving tennis to focus on venture capital investing.
Williams launched VC firm Serena Ventures in 2014 and has invested in over 60 companies.
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| 07.07.2022 | Black Tech Week Announces Serena Williams As Keynote Presenter for July conference | Serena Williams, Managing Partner of Serena Ventures “Black Tech Week is a movement in support of the success of ecosystems being built by Black founders,” said Serena Williams, Managing Partner of Serena Ventures.
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| 26.04.2022 | Lillii RNB Closes $3 Million Seed Round with Funding from Serena Ventures and Aperture Venture Capital to Accelerate Growth | Lillii RNB Investors “I am happy to support and invest in Women like Barbara and companies like Lillii RNB Inc, who are addressing a huge need for Retail brands, says Serena Williams. “This investment is in line with our vision of a world w... |
| 03.03.2022 | Serena Ventures Raises $111M First Fund | Serena Ventures, a San Francisco, CA-based early stage venture capital firm, raised its $111m first fund.
Founded in 2014 and led by Serena Williams and Alison Rapaport Stillman, Serena Ventures aims to ignite “change by investing in opport... |
| 01.02.2022 | Nestcoin raises $6.45m pre-seed three months after launch to drive crypto adoption in Africa | Share this article:
Venture capital activity in the global Web3, crypto, and blockchain space last year was massive. While interest in the space has increased steadily since 2012, 2021 holds the record for biggest investments to date.
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| 27.01.2022 | Esusu becomes unicorn with SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $130M funding | More than 100 million Americans spend an average of $1,100 (over $1.4 trillion per year) on their largest monthly household spend: rent. But reports say 90% of these people don’t get credit for paying their rent on time.
On a sub-level, ove... |
| 16.12.2021 | Serena Williams to keynote eMerge Americas | Facebook
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Do success stories get any more inspiring than this? Serena Williams, the celebrated tennis champion, entrepreneur, fashion designer and venture investor, will share insights on her entrepreneurial journey ... |
| 13.05.2020 | Jay-Z, Serena Williams-backed Kopi Kenangan scores $109m in Sequoia-led Series B round | Indonesian ‘new retail’ coffee chain Kopi Kenangan has raised $109 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India. Local existing investor Alpha JWC Ventures also participated in the round, alongside new backers including Singapor... |
| 16.05.2019 | Retail Zipline raises $9.6M from Emergence and Serena Williams | Retail Zipline, a startup aiming to improve communication between retail stores and corporate decision makers, announced today that it has raised $9.6 million in Series A funding.
CEO Melissa Wong previously worked in corporate communicatio... |
| 25.04.2019 | To Help Boost Female-led Startups, More Women Join Investor Ranks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Houston—Men have long leveraged their networks to succeed in business, and the tech industry has been no exception. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now crea... |
| 22.04.2019 | Tennis star Serena Williams has launched a venture firm for investing in women, people of color, and young entrepreneurs | (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
Serena Williams, one of the top tennis players, has publicly launched a venture fund called Serena Ventures.
The venture-capital firm focuses on early-stage investments in companies led by women and pe... |
| 22.04.2019 | Vaping Startup Pax Labs Raises $420 Million in Funding: Term Sheet for Monday, April 22 | A UNICORN THAT VAPES
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| 22.04.2019 | Serena Williams Unveils Serena Ventures | Tennis champion Serena Williams has officially unveiled her venture capital firm.
Launched in 2014, Serena Ventures aims to back companies that embrace diverse leadership, individual empowerment, creativity and opportunity across an array o... |
| - | Serena Williams is leaving tennis to become a full-time venture capitalist. Here’s why. | Serena Williams. Getty/Clive Brunskill
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Serena Williams announced that she was leaving tennis to focus on venture capital investing.
Williams launched VC firm Serena Ventures in 2014 and has invested in over 60 companies.
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| - | Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian keep their start-up investments 'separate' — even though they're married | When tennis legend Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian first met at a cafe in Italy in 2015, the conversation quickly turned to business.
Today, the duo is married — with a daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. — and both ha... |
| - | Here are 49 Black women who raised $1 million or more in VC funding last year | Ami Colé founder Diarrha N'Diaye Katherine Pekala This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Fewer than 200 Black women have ever raised $1 million or more in venture-capital funds.
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| - | Joe Montana prepares for biggest windfall as a venture capitalist ahead of GitLab’s $10 billion IPO | Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures invested in GitLab at about a $12 million valuation, after the software company came out of the Y Combinator accelerator program.
GitLab is poised to hit the Nasdaq on Thursday at a valuation that could top $... |
| - | Serena Williams invests in rent-reporting fintech Esusu | Serena Williams has committed an undisclosed amount to Esusu, citing its mission to serve underserved populations.
Esusu reports rent payments to major credit bureaus allowing renters to build a credit history.
Founders say the $10 million ... |
