| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.07.2024 | The AI Revolution: Transforming Search Engines and Pharmaceutical Research | In the digital age, two industries are undergoing seismic shifts: search engines and pharmaceutical research. Both are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to redefine their landscapes. The competition is fierce, and the sta... |
| 22.07.2024 | Can AI increase the pace and quality of pharmaceutical research? VeriSIM Life says yes | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
We’ve already seen how AI can be used to help uncover the structure of proteins and discover new materials, so it... |
| 06.06.2024 | Eyebot Secures $6M Seed Funding Led by Alleycorp and Ubiquity Ventures to Roll Out Automated, Self-Serve Vision Tests for Leading Eyewear Brands | Eyebot announced the closing of a $6M seed funding to further bolster its innovation in the vision care industry.
Next generation technology, delivering a 90-second self-serve vision test, making corrective eyewear accessible to everyone
BO... |
| 04.06.2024 | Elemind’s neurotech headband puts you to sleep when you want | GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playi... |
| 29.04.2024 | Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Nomination of Myrtle Potter and Ross Fubini to Board of Directors | BOSTON, April 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biosecurity, announced the nomination of Myrtle Potter and Ross Fubini for election as independent di... |
| 17.04.2024 | Bureau Introduces 'Money Mule Score' to Tackle Rising Identity Theft in the BFSI Segment | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Bureau, a pioneering fraud and identity decisioning platform, has introduced ‘Money Mule Score,’ a cutting-edge solution that empowers financial institutions, NBFCs, and fintech companies to proactively detect pot... |
| 28.03.2024 | Metaview raises $7M for AI hiring software | London-based AI hiring software company Metaview has raised $7M for its LLM-enabled software that automates summary and analysis of job interviews. The funding will be directed predominantly towards product development as well as hiring mor... |
| 20.07.2023 | Zelt's platform consolidates the vendors and processes of the employee lifecycle - it raises $3.5 million in Seed funding | Zelt’s HR self-service platform gives companies a central place to manage all their HR, IT and financial operations across the employee lifecycle - automating the HR, payroll, onboarding and expenses processes.
The UK-based start-up has rai... |
| 20.07.2023 | UK-based Zelt raises $3.5M seed funding to streamline HR, payroll operations | Read this article in:
HR startup Zelt announced on Thursday that it had secured $3.5M (€3.13M) in seed funding from Episode 1 Ventures, Village Global, and notable angel investors Charlie Songhurst, Mandeep Singh, Felix Leuschner, and Danie... |
| 18.07.2023 | Il mercato del Venture Capital a giugno 2023 | Nel secondo trimestre del 2023, sono stati investiti 81 miliardi di dollari di venture capital a livello globale, in calo dell’11% rispetto al primo trimestre.
Delle tre regioni, l’EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) ha mostrato la magg... |
| 06.06.2023 | London's GetHarley builds on its solid foundation with $52 million funding for 'healthier skin' platform | London-based start-up GetHarley is helping consumers get healthier skin with its global online gateway to ‘world-class clinicians’ and medical grade skincare products. It matches customers with its 1000+ growing network of clinicians to off... |
| 28.02.2023 | Crstl Announces $4.4 Million led by Mastry Ventures to Enable Brands to Diversify From DTC into Retail & Online Marketplaces | With our product offering, we are eliminating the hassles and complications brands inevitably face when transacting with retailers and online marketplaces as they diversify away from DTC.
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) February 28, 2023
Crstl, the S... |
| 03.03.2022 | Hubuc cierra su 1ª ronda de €9M liderada por Wndrco y Runa Capital. Acuden también YCombinator, Village Global y BA | 03/03/2022
HUBUC CIERRA SU PRIMERA RONDA DE €9 MILLONES LIDERADA POR WNDRCO Y RUNA CAPITAL. ACUDEN TAMBIEN YCOMBINATOR, VILLAGE GLOBAL Y BUSINESS ANGELS.
HUBUC ha cerrado su primera ronda de €9 millones liderada por las firmas de capital ... |
| 24.02.2022 | Offering any and all brands managed embedded financial services, Y Combinator alum HUBUC raises $10 million | Barcelona-based embedded financial services startup HUBUC has raised $10 million in a seed round. The new funding will be used to bolster the company’s European footprint, strengthen the compliance team, continue product development and fur... |
| 17.12.2021 | Bureau Unveils Secure Transactions for Global Emerging Markets with Easy ID Verification and Guaranteed Fraud Protection | “We are excited to see Bureau’s growth and ambition to become the gold standard to ensure that people and businesses can truly trust one another enough to transact safely, and deliver digital and financial inclusion.”
SAN FRANCISCO and BANG... |
| 14.12.2021 | Ecommerce rollup startup Evenflow raises undisclosed amount in Pre-Series A round | Advertisment
"E-commerce in India is still in its infancy, primed to grow exponentially in the coming years. We are just starting with the vision to build everyday sellers into category-defining brands - not only in India but also int... |
| 14.12.2021 | WattCarbon raises $1.5 million to enable 24/7 Carbon Free Energy tracking | We want to make it possible for any organization to plan and implement an energy decarbonization initiative.
LAFAYETTE, Calif. (PRWEB) December 14, 2021
Lafayette, CA, based WattCarbon announced that it has closed a $1.5 million pre-seed ro... |
| 13.10.2021 | These are the top 53 voices in Silicon Valley teaching you everything you need to know about how to invest in VC and startups | All-in podcast/youtube This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Unlike other types of institutional investors, venture capitalists love to share business know-how.
Some have develo... |
| 21.04.2021 | GlydeApp, Inc. Raises Funding from Village Global to Expand Use of its Contactless Dining Platform | Samir Peshori, co-founder Glyde App Inc. outside VentureLInk@NJIT Not only has this app helped stop the spread of COVID-19, but also with the hit that we took from a financial aspect, Glyde has helped reduce overhead cost.
NEWARK, N.J. (PRW... |
| 02.04.2021 | Reykjavik-based nanotech Nanom raises $3 million in seed funding, aims to make batteries last 9x longer | Icelandic firm Nanom (previously Greenvolt) has raised $3 million in seed funding in their goal to apply nanotechnology to existing nickel-iron and lithium-ion batteries. In doing so, the company claims to add 9x the energy density, recharg... |
| 25.03.2021 | Sardine Launches First Fraud Prevention as a Service (FaaS) for Next-Gen Crypto and Digital Financial Institutions | Sardine Sardine is the first fraud prevention as a Service (FaaS) solution truly built for digital businesses, helping companies scale and grow with zero fraud.
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) March 25, 2021
Sardine today launches the first fraud pre... |
| 18.02.2021 | Lang.ai cierra una ronda de €1,66M ($2M) liderada por Village Global. Acuden también Acceleprise, Oceans Ventures, Alumni Ventures, 2.12 Angels, GTMFund y Lorimer Ventures | 18/02/2021
LANG.AI CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €1,66M ($2M) LIDERADA POR VILLAGE GLOBAL. ACUDEN TAMBIÉN ACCELEPRISE, OCEANS VENTURES, ALUMNI VENTURES, 2.12 ANGELS, GTMFUND Y LORIMER VENTURES.
Lang.ai ha cerrado una ronda de €1,66M ($2M) liderada ... |
| 15.12.2020 | This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off | You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital, a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. XYZ says it has already backed 22 startups whose founders came out of the dat... |
| 31.07.2019 | Kenya’s Sokowatch expands to Uganda, Rwanda after $2.5m seed round | Nairobi based B2B ecommerce platform Sokowatch has expanded to Rwanda and Uganda after it secured a $2.5-million tranche of seed funding in February.
Sokowatch — which was founded in 2013 by CEO Daniel Yu and COO Josh Middleman — enables in... |
| 31.07.2019 | Kenya’s Sokowatch expands to Uganda, Rwanda after $2.5m seed round | Nairobi based B2B ecommerce platform Sokowatch has expanded to Rwanda and Uganda after it secured a $2.5-million tranche of seed funding in February.
Sokowatch — which was founded in 2013 by CEO Daniel Yu and COO Josh Middleman — enables i... |
| 24.06.2019 | Bill Gates reveals why Warren Buffett was an invaluable source of support during the stormiest period of his career | Advertisement
Bill Gates recently sat down for an interview at an event hosted by venture capital firm Village Global.
In the interview, Gates credited fellow billionaire Warren Buffett as one of the people who has been the most instrumenta... |
| 22.06.2019 | Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time” | At a recent event hosted for founders by the venture firm Village Global, one of its most prominent investors, Bill Gates, sat down with Eventbrite cofounder and CEO Julia Hartz to discuss founding a company and the tough decisions necessar... |
| 12.02.2019 | Evisort Announces $4.5 Million in Seed Funding Led by Village Global and Amity Ventures | BOSTON & SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Evisort, anartificial intelligence (AI) contract management company servicing customers like Stack Overflow and Travelzoo, announced today that it raised $4.5 million in seed funding led... |
| 02.11.2018 | Village Global’s accelerator introduces founders to Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt and more | Village Global is leveraging its network of tech luminaries to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.
The $100 million early-stage venture capital firm, which counts as limited partners (LPs) Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Facebook’s Mark Z... |
| 11.09.2018 | The Ultimate Guide to the Best Business Podcasts | This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune’s newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here.
I recently asked Term Sheet readers for their recommendations of the best business podcasts that they listen to on the subway. As one ... |
| 27.07.2018 | Kenyan B2B ecommerce platform Sokowatch raises $2m in seed funding | Nairobi based B2B ecommerce platform Sokowatch has reportedly raised $2-million in a seed round led by Africa-focused early stage venture firm 4Dx Ventures.
The investment was first reported by US tech publication TechCrunch yesterday (26 ... |
| 27.07.2018 | Kenyan B2B ecommerce platform Sokowatch raises $2m in seed funding | Nairobi based B2B ecommerce platform Sokowatch has reportedly raised $2-million in a seed round led by Africa-focused early stage venture firm 4Dx Ventures.
The investment was first reported by US tech publication TechCrunch yesterday (26 J... |
| 02.07.2018 | These 50 founders and VCs suggest 2018 may be a tipping point for women in tech: Part 2 | On Friday, we featured 25 founders and VCs who are having a notable 2018 — and who happen to be women. Herewith, 25 more who deserve some kudos for getting it done in the first half of this year. This list, meant to highlight the growing nu... |
| 21.06.2018 | Venture into Hardware with Lemnos and Bumblebee | Want to learn more about the future of robotics and how Lemnos picks its portfolio companies? Listen to the latest Venture Stories by Village Global, featuring Lemnos partner Eric Klein and Bumblebee Spaces CEO and co-founder Sankarshan Mur... |
| 16.03.2018 | Village Global raises $100M seed scout fund from Zuck, Bezos… | It takes a village to grow a startup, so Village Global is offering access to a deep network of top tech execs to lure founders to its seed fund. Today, Village Global announced it’s raised $100 million for that fund that was first unveiled... |
| 27.01.2018 | Scout networks are latest VC salvo in war for founders | Founders are extraordinarily busy, even for their own investors. A decade ago, they might have had relationships with a handful of VC partners as they scaled their businesses and raised additional rounds of capital.
Today, it is hardly rare... |
| 25.09.2017 | Zuck and Bezos back seed stage scout fund Village Global | Product Hunt’s first employee Erik Torenberg is ready to fund fresh new startups, not just reveal them to the world. Today is the soft launch of Village Global, a seed and pre-seed early stage venture capital fund looking to connect entrepr... |
| - | Bringing people together for lifelong learning, The Garden blooms with £3 million | At a time when expertise is under attack worldwide, and misinformation is rife, creating a space for genuine intellectual inquiry is even more vital.
Taking up the challenge head-on, UK-based innovative learning platform and community for t... |
| - | Revenue-based financing platform Vitt emerges from stealth with $15 million pre-seed raise | Add another player to the revenue-based, non-dilutive financing game, as London/Berlin-based Vitt emerges from stealth today and has announced a $15 million (equity and debt) pre-seed funding round. The platform provides SaaS companies the ... |
| - | Offering any and all brands managed embedded financial services, Y Combinator alum HUBUC raises $10 million | Barcelona-based embedded financial services startup HUBUC has raised $10 million in a seed round. The new funding will be used to bolster the company’s European footprint, strengthen the compliance team, continue product development and fur... |
| - | Helping scaleups scale better, interview optimiser Metaview raises $6 million | London-based Metaview has raised $6 million in a seed funding round. The startup is pioneering the interview intelligence category and provides customers with transcripts, analytics, and automated training tools to help interviewers up thei... |
| - | Berlin’s culinary creator platform The Plate raises $1.3 million in pre-seed funding | Time for some real talk here folks: over the past 17 months, we’ve all learned a thing or two about cooking. And the creator economy. But now that the world is slowly emerging back to some sense of normal, does that mean that those skills a... |
| - | Reykjavik-based nanotech Nanom raises $3 million in seed funding, aims to make batteries last 9x longer | Icelandic firm Nanom (previously Greenvolt) has raised $3 million in seed funding in their goal to apply nanotechnology to existing nickel-iron and lithium-ion batteries. In doing so, the company claims to add 9x the energy density, recharg... |
