Chicago Ventures doesn't disclose its investments, but Larkins says he's seeing more Midwest startups receive minimal funding in the early stages, as opposed to
raising big funding rounds.
Not exact matches
Thalmic Labs
raised the second
biggest funding round in domestic startup history.
Lacavera's
fund will focus on Series A investments, the term given to the capital
raise that follows an initial seed
round, and will help bridge the
funding gap in Canada by being faster, more flexible and willing to take on
bigger risks.
The Santa Clara, California, company landed a very
big funding round earlier this year,
raising a total of $ 130 million.
Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial aims to
raise $ 9 b in a private
funding round, which would value the company at $ 150b, making it the world's
biggest start - up, ahead of Uber.
AppNexus, a cloud - based software company, is one of the
biggest tech startups in New York City, following the $ 62.7 million
round of series E
funding it
raised in April.
GigaOm reported Snapchat is in the middle of closing a
big round of
funding led by Benchmark Capital, and our sources indicate it's
raising over $ 10 million at a $ 70 million valuation.
In what could be one of the
biggest investments in this space in India, Noida - based Attero Recycling Pvt. Ltd, which is into e-waste disposal and management,
raised $ 16.5 million in its Series C
round led by private equity
fund Forum Synergies (India) in August 2014.
Listed on Crowdcube as a «first» combined debt and equity capital
raise, BrewDog and Equity for Punks marketed the offer as the «World's
Biggest [
funding]
Round.
Cleaning services company Homejoy is shutting down on July 31 after struggling to
raise a
big enough
round of
funding.
The
biggest number of deals in H1 was in angel and A
rounds, but companies in other
rounds of investments, including strategic investments and IPOs, have
raised the same amounts of
funds.
A
round this summer valued the company at more than $ 50 billion, a bit more than Facebook was valued at after its last
big round of private capital
fund -
raising in 2011.
Ant Financial Services Group, the Chinese fintech giant, is planning a
funding round that could fetch a valuation similar to the world's
biggest and oldest banks: The digital payment company is
raising as much as $ 5 billion in equity that may value it at more than $ 100 billion, according to Reuters.
Silicon Valley - based
big data startup Innovaccer Inc has
raised $ 15.6 million in a Series A
round of
funding led by Westbridge Capital Partners, with participation by other angel investors.
At Re / Code, Peter Kafka and Kara Swisher report that Reddit is in the process of
raising «a
big funding round» based on selling «less than 10 percent of the company for more than $ 50 million.»
People Group plans to
raise a
big round of PE
funding later this year.
The most notable
funding round of the month went to pan-African fintech company JUMO, which
raised US$ 24 million to help it expand, while Ghanaian e-health company mPharma also
raised big — to the tune of US$ 6.6 million.
Now it's
raised a
big round of
funding to turn its scrapp
Pop culture - focused social media site Buzznet, based in Los Angeles, has
raised a
big - ish third
round of
funding, as much as $ 25 million, we...
The
biggest funding round to date was
raised by a startup called Circle, which
raised $ 9m last month to develop services that will accelerate adoption of bitcoin by merchants and their customers.
On paper it represents a
big premium on the amount the startup
raised: just under $ 34 million in four
rounds of
funding.