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| 24.10.2024 | Highnote Raises Additional $2.5M in Funding | Highnote, a NYC-based audio collaboration platform, raised an additional $2.5M in funding.
Backers included Dropbox Ventures, Afore Capital, Character Capital, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and Precursor Ventures, as well as angel investors fro... |
| 11.10.2024 | ClaimSorted raises $3M to expedite insurance claim processing | ClaimSorted, a company dedicated to simplifying claims processing for insurers, has secured $3 million in pre-seed funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Firstminute capital, with participation from YCombinator, Precursor Ventures, an... |
| 26.09.2024 | Edera: Secure-By-Design Kubernetes And AI Solution Closes $5 Million (Seed) | Edera, the world’s only secure-by-design Kubernetes and AI solution, announced it has raised $5 million in a seed round led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures, with participation from FPV Ventures, Generationship, Precursor Ventures, and Ro... |
| 19.09.2024 | Edera: Secure-By-Design Kubernetes And AI Solution Secures $5 Million (Seed) | Secure-by-design Kubernetes and AI solution Edera announced it has raised $5 million in a seed round led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures with participation from FPV Ventures, Generationship, Precursor Ventures and Rosecliff Ventures. And... |
| 04.09.2024 | Flex Raises $3.2M Seed Funding | Flex, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a solution for direct-to-consumer health and wellness brands to begin accepting HSA and FSA payments online, raised $3.2M in Seed funding.
Backers included Y Combinator, SV Angel, Precursor, Liqui... |
| 06.06.2024 | Alinia AI: Pioneering Safe Deployment of Generative AI | Alinia AI, a Barcelona-based alignment platform, has secured $2.4 million in Pre-Seed funding to revolutionize the safe and controlled deployment of generative AI in the enterprise landscape. Led by CEO Ariadna Font Llitjós and COO Carlos M... |
| 05.06.2024 | Alinia AI raises $2.4M for safe deployment of generative AI | Alinia AI, an alignment platform that enables companies to safely and controlled deploy generative AI, guided by their policies and business, has raised $2.4 million in Pre-Seed funding.
Significant adoption of generative AI is underway, bu... |
| 05.06.2024 | Alinia Raises $2.4M in Pre-Seed Funding | Alinia, a Barcelona, Spain-based provider of an alignment platform for companies, raised $2.4M in Pre-Seed funding.
The round was led by Speedinvest and Precursor, with participation from KFund and angels including Clem Délangue and Thom Wo... |
| 05.03.2024 | South Asian news startup The Juggernaut is struggling to stay afloat amid fundraising woes, disenchanted staffers, and a CEO in "constant crisis," ex-employees say | This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.
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| 16.10.2023 | A VC who funds creator companies at the seed stage shares advice for founders raising money and the challenges facing startups in the next year | Charles Hudson is the founder of the VC firm Precursor Ventures Charles Hudson This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 04.11.2022 | Guaranteed’s Funding Nears $10M on Journey to Improve End-of-Life Care | “It was the two-year anniversary of my dad’s death. And this might sound strange, but for the very first time, I thought about everything that happened leading up to his death — anytime before that, I’d only been able to think about how he ... |
| 31.05.2022 | Precursor Ventures’ first hire just spun out to start her own venture firm | Sydney Thomas, who was the first hire at Precursor Ventures, a seed and early-stage focused fund that backs first-time founders, is starting her own venture firm. The investor is going from principal at the firm she joined 6 years ago to th... |
| 08.02.2022 | Why Luke Cooper is launching a history-minded, Black founder-focused VC fund | With his newest venture, Luke Cooper is learning from the mistakes of history to create a fund through which Black inventors can be celebrated (and paid) in their time.
The Baltimore entrepreneur is starting a venture capital fund with a go... |
| 08.02.2022 | Kraftful wants to lift the veil with analytics for makers of smart home hardware | You can’t swing an outdated Python manual in this town without hitting half a dozen app analytics suites, but the same cannot be said if you’re a product manager hoping to figure out where you lose customers for smart home hardware. Ex-IFTT... |
| 13.12.2021 | Honeycomb, a private social app for families, raises $4M seed round | A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Now out of private beta, the app offers families a way to curate and share... |
| 10.11.2021 | Rad AI raises $25M to reduce radiologist burnout | The company's two products help automate tasks, and help with patient follow-up
Physician burnout was a problem long before COVID hit, but the pandemic threw it into overdrive: half of health care workers say their mental health has suffere... |
| 25.10.2021 | Heart to Heart raises $750K to bring sweet, sweet flirtation to your ear holes | Radio has long been described as the most intimate of media. Quips about putting radio on the internet aside, the persistent popularity of podcasting and the cockamamie climb of Clubhouse shows that audio-based platforms will continue to ec... |
| 08.07.2021 | Intellimize raises $30M Series B to deliver high converting websites for results-focused marketers | Intellimize married the best of marketing’s creative thinking with machine learning to deliver 1,500 more leads in the last 90 days, and the pace of improvement is accelerating.
SAN MATEO, Calif. (PRWEB) July 08, 2021
Intellimize, the leade... |
| 31.03.2021 | Spotify jumps into the live audio game, acquires LA-based Betty Labs | Stockholm-based, love ‘em or hate ‘em music platform Spotify has signaled their entry to the love audio game through the acquisition of Los Angeles based Betty Labs.
Spotify did not disclose the terms of the deal.
Betty Labs is the name beh... |
| 19.03.2021 | The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3 years in the making) | Nathan Beckord Contributor
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| 15.02.2021 | Scott Galloway Usually Gets It Right—But Not About Section 1202’s Tax Break For Qualified Small Business Stock | Section 1202 offers startup investors 0% capital gains on their investments.getty |
| 11.12.2020 | Five Predictions For Early Stage Startups In 2021 | getty |
| 10.12.2020 | 51 VCs Who Want To Invest In Women, Black And Latinx, And LGBTQ+ Founders | Erica Chidi, co-founder and chief executive officer of Loom, speaks during the 2020 Makers ... [+] Conference in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. The event gathers industry leading females for roundtable discussio... |
| 30.11.2020 | Salut raises $1.25M for its virtual fitness service | This morning Salut, an app-based service that allows fitness trainers to host classes virtually, announced that it has raised $1.25 million in a new financing event. The round was led by Charles Hudson, an investor at Precursor Ventures.
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| 30.10.2020 | Teampay adds $5M to its Series A at higher valuation after growing ARR 320% growth since the round | What do you call the grey area between a Series A and a Series B? In 2020, when the money is taken on opportunistically, you call it a Series A-1 extension, according to Teampay. Even if the new capital was raised at a new, higher valuation... |
| 07.10.2020 | Crunchbase data shows dismal funding landscape for Black and Latinx founders | 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!
Black and Latinx founders aren’t receiving an equ... |
| 07.10.2020 | Crunchbase data shows dismal funding landscape for Black and Latinx founders | Black and Latinx founders aren’t receiving an equitable share of venture capital funding, according to a Crunchbase report. The report highlights just how drastic the funding disparity is: Since 2015, the top 10 venture firms have invested ... |
| 27.08.2020 | Register for our last pitch-off next week on September 2 | It’s time again to start warming up your pitching arm. Our next Pitchers & Pitches session takes place next week on September 2. Register today!
Pitchers & Pitches sessions combine critique and competition with a focus on helping ea... |
| 17.08.2020 | Founders can raise funding before launching a product | It’s possible to raise VC funding even if you haven’t built a real product, according to Charles Hudson, founder and managing partner at seed-stage firm Precursor Ventures. It’s just very, very difficult.
I interviewed Hudson during TechCru... |
| 12.08.2020 | Tune in now to watch 5 startups compete at Pitchers & Pitches | Ever hear the expression, “every master was once a disaster?” Now apply that to developing a well-crafted pitch. It takes practice and honest feedback to make a masterful pitch, and that’s exactly what you’ll get when you participate in our... |
| 07.07.2020 | 8 Black investors discuss the intersection of race, tech and funding | Since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of four police officers heightened awareness about racial justice, the experiences of Black people in tech — and the industry’s lack of racial diversity — are getting new attention.
In the tech... |
| 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 ... |
| 10.06.2020 | Potential down market could temper VCs’ promise of more diversity | Venture hiring by definition is exclusive. Legally, investors have to be able to fork out their own capital, ranging from hundreds of thousands to multi-millions, to join as a partner of a fund, meaning to be a senior partner typically requ... |
| 23.04.2020 | Extra Crunch Live: Join Charles Hudson for a look at today’s seed-stage landscape right now | Earlier this week, we kicked off our Extra Crunch Live series with an interesting chat with Cowboy’s Aileen Lee and Ted Wang. Today, we will be back at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST/10 p.m. GMT with a new guest: Charles Hudson, the general partner ... |
| 01.04.2020 | ‘A perfect storm for first time managers,’ say VCs with their own shops | Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an angel investor but even put himself or herself in business as a fund manager.... |
| 01.04.2020 | Could Covid action spur climate action? Packaged food company Planet FWD thinks so. | Countless consumer goods companies are reeling from the impact of Covid-19, as shelter-in-place orders deter customers, supply chains buckle, and workers are sent home or laid off. Companies are being forced to radically rethink strategies ... |
| 04.03.2020 | Charles Hudson’s Precursor Ventures Targets $40M For Its Third Flagship Fund, Filings Show | 19 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
On Tuesday afternoon, Precursor Ventures filed paperwork with the SEC disclosing its intent to raise as much as $40 million for its third flagship venture capital fund.
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| 06.12.2019 | Raising VC in Silicon Valley as a female POC | Nathan Beckord Contributor
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| 25.11.2019 | Rad AI Raises $4M to Automate Repetitive Tasks for Radiologists Through Machine Learning | – Rad AI raises $4M in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund to transform radiology with the latest advances in AI to save radiologists 60+ minutes a day.
– By streamlining existing workflow and automating ... |
| 22.10.2019 | Medinas Raises $5M to Expand Pre-Owned Medical Equipment Marketplace | – Medinas close $5M seed funding round led by NFX to expand pre-owned medical equipment marketplace and asset management software for hospitals.
– Pre-owned medical equipment marketplace and asset management software has helped hospitals re... |
| 18.09.2019 | Afore Capital raises second pre-seed venture capital fund | As expectations from seed investors intensify, a new stage of investment has established itself earlier in the venture-backed company life cycle.
Known as “pre-seed” investing, one of the first legitimate outfits to double down on the stage... |
| 12.09.2019 | Incredible Health Raises $15M to Transform The Way Nurses Get Hired | – Incredible Health raises $15M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to solve America’s looming health care labor crisis.
– Founded in 2017 by a former physician and an MIT alum from a family of nurses, the company has pioneered a... |
| 12.08.2019 | Announcing the Disrupt SF 2019 agenda | Disrupt SF 2019 is set to be the biggest and best Disrupt yet. We’ve got a little something for everyone, including space chats with Lockheed Martin’s Marillyn Hewson and Blue Origin’s Bob Smith, a word from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, a firesid... |
| 04.03.2019 | Precursor Ventures just raised a second fund to zero in on pre-seed-stage startups | Precursor Ventures, a 3.5-year-old, seed-stage investment firm in San Francisco, just closed its second fund, with $31 million in capital commitments, roughly double what it raised for its debut effort in 2017.
Somewhat amazingly, it has 75... |
| 12.12.2018 | Out of $85 Billion in VC Funding Last Year, Only 2.2 Percent Went to Female Founders. And Every Year, Women of Color Get Less Than 1 Percent of Total Funding. | December 12, 2018 15+ min read
“You’ve clearly got what founders are made of, but I hope you're not planning to get pregnant anytime soon.”
As the co-founder of comprehensive maternity healthcare company Mahmee, CEO Melissa Hanna is an expe... |
| 04.04.2018 | FBN Challenger AgVend Raises $1.75m for National Expansion | Minneapolis and San Francisco-based agribusiness marketplace startup AgVend has raised a $1.75 million seed round to expand its retail platform for agricultural inputs and services. The round was led by Drew Oetting, partner at 8VC, a San F... |
| 16.10.2017 | Butterfly Raises $2.4 Million in Seed Funding | Butterfly, an employee intelligence and management coaching software, announced that it has raised a $2.4 million seed round investment from leading venture capital firms and angel investors.
Participating in the oversubscribed round are: D... |
| 16.10.2017 | Butterfly Raises $2.4 Million in Seed Funding | Butterfly, an employee intelligence and management coaching software, announced that it has raised a $2.4 million seed round investment from leading venture capital firms and angel investors.
Participating in the oversubscribed round are: D... |
| 15.10.2017 | Precursor Ventures to Raise $25M Second Seed Stage Venture Capital Fund | Precursor Ventures, a San Francisco, CA-based seed stage venture capital firm, is to raise its second fund.
Per an SEC filing, Precursor Ventures II, L.P., is seeking to raise $25m. No funds have been raised, yet.
Led by managing partner Ch... |
| 06.10.2017 | Butterfly nabs $2.4M seed round to improve managers with targeted tips | Nobody likes corporate trainings. Nobody.
In fact, one of life’s puzzles that eludes me most is how a person could enjoy corporate trainings enough to spend their time designing and running them. Perhaps only with disdain for the status quo... |
| 19.06.2017 | Why Stackshare is quietly becoming a secret weapon for developers and Silicon Valley CTOs | On Stackshare, Airbnb lists over 50 services in its “stack,” Slack lists 24, and Spotify lists more than 31; these stacks are collections of different pieces of software that each company is using to run their operations, and range from inf... |
| - | Here's an exclusive look at the 12-page pitch deck that startup Scenery, a 'Figma for video editing,' used to raise funding led by Greylock | Mike Folgner and Ryan Cunningham of Scenery Greylock Partners This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Scenery is a collaborative video-editing platform designed for the new era of... |
