| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.09.2024 | XP Health: $33.2 Million (Series B) Closed To Modernize Vision Care | XP Health, a company focused on modernizing vision care with a digital-first vision care platform, announced a new $33.2 million Series B infusion of capital. This funding round was led by global fintech VC firm QED Investors with other pro... |
| 15.04.2024 | AlleyCorp's $250M Fund: A Game-Changer in the Tech Venture Capital Scene | AlleyCorp, led by serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan, has closed a $250 million fund, marking a significant milestone for the NYC-based tech venture capital firm. This new fund, backed by a select group of LPs, signals AlleyCorp's evolution int... |
| 11.04.2024 | Ex-PayPal CEO Schulman joins Valor Capital | Former PayPal and American Express boss Dan Schulman is joining Valor Capital Group, the cross-border venture fund focused on bridging the US and Latin American technology markets.
Schulman, who left PayPal last year after a nine-year stint... |
| 23.06.2023 | The 2023 Valor Open raises $175,000 for Travis Manion Foundation | DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (PRWEB) June 23, 2023
The 2023 Valor Open, hosted by Flag of Valor, held on Monday June 12 at
Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, VA, raised $175,000 for Travis Manion Foundation,
one of the leading veteran service ... |
| 25.04.2023 | BREAKING: Brazil’s Arado (née Clicampo) secures $12m to streamline the country’s agribusiness supply chain | Brazil-based agribusiness marketplace Arado (formerly known as Clicampo) has raised $12 million in an oversubscribed Series A round. Acre Venture Partners led the round with participation from Syngenta Group Ventures and Globo Ventures as w... |
| 06.01.2023 | Brazilian Health Insurance Company Sami Secures $18M | What You Should Know:
Sami, a health insurance startup that aims to revolutionize the Brazilian private health care system, today announced it raised $18 million USD in a Series B round led by Redpoint eventures and Mundi Ventures.
Other in... |
| 28.09.2022 | XP Health Raises $17.1M Series A to Transform Vision Benefits for Insurance Carriers, Companies and Employees | “We have a game-changing offering for how people access and experience employee benefits - with an ultimate goal to positively impact hundreds of millions of lives through high-quality, accessible and affordable health benefits.”
SAN CARLOS... |
| 28.09.2022 | Virtual-first eye care company XP Health raises $17.1M | The company uses AI and augmented reality to allow employees to try on glasses as home
Vision care is important, yet having it covered has often required a person to have separate insurance provided by their employer. It's a system that doe... |
| 16.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Little Leaf Farms bags $300m, Wonder lands $340m to cook meals curbside | Mega-rounds this week went to controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company Little Leaf Farms and food delivery concept Wonder. Magic Spoon, best known for its “high-protein, low carb” cereal, finally landed in retail (and raised more fu... |
| 15.06.2022 | BREAKING: Clicampo raises $7.5m to digitize trade between Brazil’s farmers and retailers, reduce inequalities | Brazilian ag marketplace Clicampo has closed a $7.5 million seed round for its digital platform that connects the country’s farmers and food producers directly with retailers and restaurants, removing intermediaries and driving more of the ... |
| 09.06.2022 | Building credit platform on blockchain tech, Belgian startup Credix adds €11.32 million to its coffers | In countries with rapidly emerging economies such as Brazil, bank loans are hard to come by and excessively expensive. For personal, credit card, or student loans, interest rates can reach 100 per cent per year. This has led to thousands of... |
| 14.02.2022 | Valor Resources : completes oversubscribed Placement to raise $3.4m | ASX Announcement
14 February 2022
ASX:VAL
VALOR COMPLETES HEAVILY OVERSUBSCRIBED
PLACEMENT TO RAISE A$3.4 MILLION
HIGHLIGHTS
The Company has secured commitments for a A$3.4m placement via CPS Capital.
Proceeds from the Placement will be use... |
| 20.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Consumer foodtech players Flipdish, Yumi & La Vie raise large rounds | One of this week’s biggest fundings went to Flipdish — a US startup providing software that powers payments, online ordering, and delivery for foodservice enterprises — which netted a massive $100 million in a round led by Chinese tech gian... |
| 19.01.2022 | Agrolend aims to connect Brazilian farmers with much-needed credit after $21m raise | Brazil’s Agrolend has raised a total of $21 million in new funding for its farmer-focused fintech platform.
Valor Capital Group led a $14 million Series A round that also included participation from Continental Grain Company, SP Ventures, P... |
| 18.08.2021 | Valor Leads $1.1M Investment in Brand Platform SHO.AI | Valor Ventures announces its investment in SHO.AI, Valor’s 19th investment in fast-growing software based in the Southeast. With offices in Cape Girardeau, MO, Paris, France, and New York, NY, SHO.AI is led by co-founders CEO Sho Rust, Mich... |
| 09.03.2021 | XP Health Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021 | XP Health
PALO ALTO, Calif. (PRWEB) March 09, 2021
XP Health, the world’s only artificial intelligence-powered vision benefits platform covering employees and their families, has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the W... |
| 08.03.2021 | San Francisco based cryptocurrency platform Eco raises US $ 26 million | Eco, a California based global cryptocurrency platform announced early in March 2021 that it has raised US $ 26 million in one of its funding rounds that was led by a16z Crypto. |
| 05.02.2021 | Communication Platform, Rocket.Chat secures $19 million investment | A Brazil-based open source communication platform, Rocket.Chat just raised $19 million series A investment announced on the 3rd of February, 2021. The round was led by Valor Capital Group with strong contributions several venture capitals i... |
| 03.02.2021 | Rocket.Chat raises $19M for its open-source approach to integrated enterprise messaging | Chat platforms like Slack have been game-changers when it comes to what business users want and expect out of their work communications. Today, a company that’s aiming to move the goalpost again with an integrated, open-source alternative i... |
| 21.01.2021 | XP Health Launches with $5M in Total Seed Funding to Deliver a New Standard for Vision Benefits to Employers | XP Health logo "XP Health brings the world’s only AI-powered vision benefits directly to employees and their family members, making it easier and more affordable for all employees to get frames from the world’s leading designers, and h... |
| 21.01.2021 | XP Health, which uses AI to provide vision benefits to employees, raises $5M | The company works with companies like Zoom, Chegg, and Sequoia Consulting Group
At some point, for some reason, it was decided that eyes and teeth didn't count as "healthcare," an if you wanted them covered it required having sepa... |
| 27.10.2020 | PatternAg raises $15m to crunch soil DNA data | Organisms cluster beneath a field’s surface by the billion. What are they up to down there in the dirt? Which ones help crops grow – and which ones kill them?
Frankly, we only have a tiny fraction of a clue. But crop scientists are getting ... |
| 01.04.2020 | Endeavor selects Migo’s Ekechi Nwokah to join organisation | Nigerian Ekechi Nwokah, the CEO of US-based fintech startup Migo is one of seven entrepreneurs to join Endeavor, a non-profit organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.
Endeavor said in an announcement on Monday ... |
| 01.04.2020 | Endeavor selects Migo’s Ekechi Nwokah to join organisation | Nigerian Ekechi Nwokah, the CEO of US-based fintech startup Migo is one of seven entrepreneurs to join Endeavor, a non-profit organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.
Endeavor said in an announcement on Monday... |
| 14.01.2020 | Insight: How Migo’s credit-as-a-service innovation attracted clients in Brazil | Helping emerging enterprises and individual borrowers access reliable credit is good business. When your model also helps banks guarantee recurring returns, chances are you’ll get business requests from various zip codes.
That’s the two-sen... |
| 03.12.2019 | Fintech startup, Migo secures $20 million series B funding as it expands to Brazil | Share this article:
Migo, formerly Mines.io, a credit-as-a-service digital platform in emerging markets, has completed a series B equity round of $20 million led by Valor Capital Group, a Brazil-focused venture capital firm.
This financing ... |
| 03.12.2019 | Credit platform Migo closes $20m Series-B round ahead of Brazilian expansion | US-based fintech startup Migo (formerly known as Mines.io) has closed a $20-million Series-B round led by Brazil-focused venture capital (VC) firm Valor Capital Group.
Migo’s platform enables companies to offer credit to their customers, a... |
| 03.12.2019 | From Mines to Migo: Nigerian credit startup raises $20m for Brazil expansion | Migo, the credit startup formerly known as Mines, has raised $20m in a Series B round which will now see it expand to Brazil.
The company’s move into the south American country is motivated by similarities in market opportunity with Nigeria... |
| 03.12.2019 | Credit platform Migo closes $20m Series-B round ahead of Brazilian expansion | US-based fintech startup Migo (formerly known as Mines.io) has closed a $20-million Series-B round led by Brazil-focused venture capital (VC) firm Valor Capital Group.
Migo’s platform enables companies to offer credit to their customers, au... |
| 02.07.2019 | From seed to Series A: Scaling a startup in Latin America today | Nathan Lustig Contributor
Nathan Lustig is an entrepreneur and managing partner at Magma Partners, a seed-stage investment fund in Santiago, Chile.
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Latin America is the next stage in the race for dominance in ... |
| 19.04.2018 | Valor Capital Raises $56.8M Toward Second Venture Capital Fund | Valor Capital Group has raised $56.8 million toward a $100 million second venture capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
The fund raised the capital from 50 LPs. The firm, which focuses on Brazilian and U.S. startups, is run by p... |
| 19.04.2018 | Valor Capital Raises $56.8M Toward Second Venture Capital Fund | Valor Capital Group has raised $56.8 million toward a $100 million second venture capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
The fund raised the capital from 50 LPs. The firm, which focuses on Brazilian and U.S. startups, is run by p... |
| 18.10.2017 | High-end Brazilian job recruitment marketplace Revelo raises $4.6 million | Revelo, a job marketplace that puts the responsibility on companies to contact candidates, has raised $4.6 million in its latest financing.
The company, unlike traditional job boards, puts high-end, high-profile Brazilian job seekers at the... |
| 20.07.2016 | CargoX raises $10M Series B for trucker marketplace | Zero-waste economy sees yet another entrant trying to make the trucking industry more efficient
The trucking industry, still vital to transporting goods across our globalized world, has attracted yet another tech startup to its doorstep. An... |
| 16.03.2016 | Startup de logística recebe aporte de US$ 2,5 milhões da Qualcomm Ventures e outros investidores | A Mandaê acaba de receber uma rodada de investimentos de US$ 2,5 milhões (R$ 10 milhões) da Qualcomm Ventures, com participação dos investidores Monashees+ e Valor Capital Group. Essa rodada eleva os investimentos totais da startup para US$... |
| 16.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 16, 2016 | Pivot3 bagged $55M; Menlo Ventures led Series B funding in Usermind; CrowdStreet raised $3.5M
CrowdStreet, one of the finalists at Vator Splash Oakland 2015, raised $3.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Rally Ventures, with... |
| 12.02.2016 | Tencent, Felicis Ventures lead $10m Series A investment in AI startup Diffbot | Premium
Chinese Internet major Tencent has partnered with Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) firm Felicis Ventures to lead a $10-million Series A round into artificial intelligence (AI) technology venture Diffbot. Other participating inves... |
| 21.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 21, 2015 | Marilyn Monroe Spas received $20M; Navigating Cancer raised $10M; Vurb secured $2M
C4 Imaging LLC, a company that develops innovative medical devices that enable clinicians to personalize patient treatment through accurate, image-guided pro... |
| 24.09.2014 | Udacity Raises Fresh $35M to Expand the ‘University of Silicon Valley’ | Silicon Valley companies often clamor about the shortage of qualified STEM workers--particularly those in the computer science and engineering ranks. Sometimes, competition gets so fierce that they allegedly collude in illegal “non-poaching... |
| 24.09.2014 | Its Audacity Undiminished, Udacity Raises $35 Million To Train A New Generation of Developers | As its push to transform education through technology begins to show results, massively open online course provider Udacity is announcing a fresh $35 million financing from a global group of investors to take its vision worldwide.
Earlier t... |
| - | Exclusive: AlleyCorp raises a $250 million fund, taking on external investors for the first time | AlleyCorp has already incubated MongoDB, Gilt Groupe, Business Insider, and Zola. But the firm, led by longtime serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan, aspires to more.
“The role model for us is actually a Venrock or a Bessemer,” Ryan told me over ... |
| - | Empreendedor ajudou brasileiro a consumir, agora ajuda a economizar | O norte-americano Benjamin Gleason já está no Brasil há seis anos. Durante os dois primeiros, trabalhou com consultoria na McKinsey. Depois, foi Diretor Geral do GroupOn Brasil e CFO do Groupon América Latina. Em maio de 2013, fundou com Th... |
| - | Newcomer fintech Quansa raises a $3.6 million Valor Capital Group-led round to scale in Brazil | Portuguese Mafalda Barros and Uruguayan Gonzalo Blanco lived in Chile and worked at McKinsey when they met. They went to do a Master’s at Stanford University and last year when they were graduating, they took advantage of the entrepreneursh... |
| - | Startup de logística recebe aporte de US$ 2,5 milhões da Qualcomm Ventures e outros investidores | A Mandaê acaba de receber uma rodada de investimentos de US$ 2,5 milhões (R$ 10 milhões) da Qualcomm Ventures, com participação dos investidores Monashees+ e Valor Capital Group. Essa rodada eleva os investimentos totais da startup para US$... |
| - | Brazilian startup Caju raises $2.45 million in a round led by Valor Capital Group | The startup allows employees to adjust their benefits according to their needs and company rules;
Caju serves about 400 companies and 15,000 employees.
Caju, a Brazilian startup platform that gathers corporate benefits such as Food Ticket, ... |
| - | Dolado, a free digital platform focused on digitizing SMEs in peripheral regions raises $2.2 million from Valor Capital Group | Founded in 2016, Dolado emerged to support small retailers who have not followed the wave of digitization in recent years and who have suffered most with the economic crisis led by the COVID-19 pandemic;
The seed round also included Global ... |
