Fintech startups raised $34B in 2019
Financial services startups raised less money in 2019 than they did in 2018 as VC firms looked to back late stage firms and focused...
DSP Concepts raises $14.5M for its Audio Weaver platform
DSP Concepts — a startup whose Audio Weaver software is used by companies as varied as Tesla, Porsche, GoPro and Braun Audio — is announcing...
Investors in LatAm get bitten by the hotel investment bug as Ayenda raises $8.7 million
Some of Latin America’s leading venture capital investors are now backing hotel chains. In fact, Ayenda, the largest hotel chain in Colombia, has raised $8.7...
Atomico raises new $820M fund to back ‘mission-driven’ European founders at Series A and beyond
Atomico, the European venture capital firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström, has announced that it has closed its fifth fund — “Atomico V” — giving...
SumUp launches Mastercard-powered ‘SumUp Card’ for business payments
SumUp, the London-based fintech company that enables small businesses to take card payments via its device and online, is launching its own pre-paid card in...
Black haircare startup Naza Beauty just raised $1 million from Alexis Ohanian’s Initialized Capital
As we all saw in Oscar-winning short film Hair Love, black hair is beautiful, but it’s also notoriously difficult to manage. One of the first...
Startups Weekly: A pre-IPO list of unicorn companies that also generate lots of revenue(!)
My colleague Alex Wilhelm has been researching the companies that are both getting impressive valuations and also generating annual recurring revenues of around $100 million on more. These...
Tesla locks in stock surge with $2B offering at $767 per share
Tesla has priced its secondary common stock offering at $767, a 4.6% discount from Thursday’s share price close, according to a securities filing Friday. Tesla said...
Married co-founders are a startup’s secret weapon
If I was running Clearbanc by myself, it probably would have gone off the cliff eight times at this point,” says Clearbanc co-founder Andrew D’Souza. ...
climate businesses gets a billion dollar boost with new KKR fund
KKR, the multi-billion dollar, multi-strategy investment firm, has closed on over $1.3 billion for companies focused on social and environmental challenges. KKR Global Impact...