Rev1 Spurs Startup Growth by Closing Capital Gap, Announces First Investment from Pre-Seed Fund
Rev1 continues to be focused on supporting entrepreneurs at the earliest stages through capital and strategic services, and we are proud to have brought together leaders in our community who want to fuel early-stage growth and fill the gap that we all…
Company news: SU grad Kelsey Davis selected for Google for Startups Black Founders Fund
Kelsey Davis, founder and CEO of CLLCTVE, has been selected to join the second cohort of the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund, a $10 million initiative designed for black founders, who are building companies and yet are often locked out of access…
Black founders from Dallas and Frisco receive a six-figure boost from Google’s startup fund
Three North Texas companies are getting a six-figure boost from a Google fund designed to aid Black-founded startups. Google set up the $10 million initiative to address the access to capital problem that many Black founders encounter when they launch…
500 Startups Closes Largest Fund Raised To Date, Announces Rebrand to “500 Global”
Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Firm Expands Strategy Beyond Accelerator and Seed Investments, Doubles Down on Global Thesis SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– 500 Startups, one of the world’s…
VC Daily: Venture Firm 500 Startups Rebrands, Closes Its Largest Fund
Good day. Nostalgics may be disappointed that prominent San Francisco-based venture firm 500 Startups is changing its name to 500 Global. But what is even more striking is that a firm that made investing in companies in their infancy its trademark is now…
Old vs new contest for IDFC Mutual Fund, a startup founder eats humble pie, banking drama, new worries for Congress and more
© Shubhashish MC Insider: Old vs new contest for IDFC Mutual Fund, a startup founder eats humble pie, banking drama, new worries for Congress and more STARTUP FOUNDER EATS HUMBLE PIE Not too long ago, a well-known startup swaggerer met face to face with…
Startups get only one-fifth of the amount from govt’s Rs 10,000-cr ‘Fund of Funds’
© Provided by Business Today Startups get only one-fifth of the amount from govt’s Rs 10,000-cr ‘Fund of Funds’ The government has released a meagre one-fifth of the amount from the Rs 10,000-crore corpus promised for promoting Indian…
Bangladeshi retail tech startup raises $74m from US fund
SINGAPORE — ShopUp, a Bangladesh-based startup that is trying to digitalize mom-and-pop shops in the country, has raised $74.4 million in a round led by Valar Ventures, according to Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority filings seen by…
TransferWise valued at $5bn as New York hedge fund buys stake
TransferWise founder and chief executive Kristo Kaarmann. Photo: TransferWise Financial technology business TransferWise has been valued at $5bn (£3.9bn) in a secondary share sale, confirming its position as one of the most valuable private financial…
Mutual Fund Industry Tries to Figure Out How to Define ESG Funds
(Bloomberg) — The Investment Company Institute, the leading trade association for U.S. mutual fund companies, is racing to define ESG investing to help consumers understand more broadly what they are actually getting from the sustainable and…