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Menlo Ventures , the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, closed a new $450 million venture capital fund aimed at investing in early stage companies focused in the consumer, enterprise and so-called frontier technologies markets. The move is designed to put the VCs closer to where the action is. “Our

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MARCH 31, 2020

San Francisco-based Princeville Capital has announced a $50 million investment in Russian online retailer Ozon, which is partly owned by the Russian-based conglomerate Sistema. Ozon said Emmanuel DeSousa, managing partner at Princeville Capital, joined its board following the transaction. million, according to Reuters.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Opendoor , a San Francisco-based startup that offers a one-stop-shop for buying and selling real estate, is negotiating to go public with a California blank-check company, Bloomberg reported. Opendoor is in advanced talks with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II, according to Bloomberg sources. On Friday (Sept.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s global corporate venture capital fund, announced Tuesday (March 19) its appointment of Chris Gottschalk as a senior adviser to lead the $200M fund’s strategic direction in the U.S. Prior to Blumberg, Gottschalk worked at Menlo Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Started in 2017 by the founders of Brazilian payments processor Pagar.me , Brex’s investors include Y Combinator Continuity, Ribbit Capital, Greenoaks, DST Global, Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. The San Francisco-based company also participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2017 batch.

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JUNE 29, 2020

“We are excited to partner with Shift and its world-class management team as it leverages its technology platform to disrupt the $840+ billion used car market,” said Daniel Cohen, chairman of the board of directors of Insurance Acquisition Corp. Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Facebook Co-founder Eduardo Saverin has closed out $406 million for B Capital, his venture capital fund, according to a report. B Capital’s first fund close was in last February for $360 million, and consulting firm BCG was a major backer. Saverin is known for his Facebook connection, but he has since renounced his U.S.

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MARCH 5, 2019

According to a report in CNBC , the San Francisco startup said the Series D round of venture funding was led by DST Global , as well as new investors Coatue, General Atlantic, ICONIQ Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group. Chime isn’t the only challenger bank to raise capital in recent months. now has a valuation of $1.5

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AUGUST 23, 2020

DoorDash , the San Francisco-based prepared food delivery service, is planning to go public by year’s end, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. Palantir Technologies Inc., and Unity Technologies Inc. The startup raised about $2 billion from investors, including SoftBank and venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.

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JULY 26, 2020

Four years ago, the eCommerce giant’s venture capital fund invested in the Seattle-based company and gained access to the technology startup’s finances and other confidential information. Daniela Braga , founder and CEO of DefinedCrowd Corp., a data platform for artificial intelligence (AI), has a beef with Amazon Inc.,

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Despite wide-ranging economic uncertainties and a challenging investment environment, venture capital (VC) firms and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are actively raising or seeking fresh funds for investment in the payments space. It also plans to invest in companies where technology is a clear differentiator.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Aurora, a self-driving car technology company, has raised upwards of $530 million in a series B financing round led by Sequoia Capital, with a large investment from Amazon and T. The company has expanded rapidly since it was founded in 2017, with offices in Palo Alto, Pittsburgh and San Francisco.

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APRIL 28, 2017

venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 Analysts said the industry has seen its highest venture capital activity since Q1 of 2016, fueled by focus on late-stage investment rounds. This week’s B2B venture capital roundup is quite indicative of these trends. According to KPMG’s U.S.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Ripple , the blockchain company, announced news on Wednesday (April 11) that it has invested $25 million of its XRP cryptocurrency in Blockchain Capital’s $150 million fund Blockchain Capital Parallel IV. Blockchain Capital is the premiere fund for any project looking to get off the ground in the blockchain space.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

15) announcement, according to the outlet, “We will bring on additional partners, but less because of capital reasons and more because of a need to have strategic relationships as we scale toward our broader vision.”. Aurora, which has offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco as well as Pittsburgh, has grown quickly since its 2017 founding.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As blockchain tech gains commercial traction, a growing number of companies want to use it to reimagine the capital markets infrastructure that powers the trade of stocks, bonds, and other securities. The chart above shows the core blockchain tech being used by projects and corporates working on DLT applications for capital markets.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

It was a busy time for B2B venture capital this week, and while funding ranged across verticals from expense management to SaaS, there was a clear theme in investment rounds: high-tech data analytics. Intel Capital, California Technology Ventures, Tesi, SmartFin Capital and Open Ocean also participated in the round.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

One Medical , a conglomerate of technology-driven primary care offices backed by Google’s Alphabet , has filed an initial public offering (IPO), One Medical announced on Friday (Jan. One Medical is backed by technology and management firm 1Life Healthcare and will trade under the symbol “ONEM.”

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MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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MAY 22, 2018

Emergence Capital has raised a $435 million fund to invest in companies that use artificial intelligence (AI) to help people increase their work productivity. Founded in 2003, San Francisco-based Emergence’s early thematic investments were in SaaS and industry-focused Cloud companies, as well as in technology for field and remote workers.

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JULY 31, 2020

Colin Walsh got lots of laughs five years ago when he talked of his intention to launch a financial technology (FinTech) startup. the San Francisco-based online bank, had the last laugh. Since then, the skepticism has evaporated and the CEO of Varo Money Inc. , Last month, Varo closed on a $241 million Series D funding round.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) wants to amend rules so that companies can go public through a direct listing, and raise capital from public market investors at the same time. As it stands now, companies cannot raise capital with a direct listing. Both companies were able to do this due to sufficient capital on their balance sheets.

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MARCH 28, 2019

San Francisco-based DocuSign has invested $15 million in Seal Software , a contract discovery and analysis startup, to help with the development of artificial intelligence (AI) that can read and analyze contracts, according to reports. DocuSign has been investing heavily in AI and machine learning technologies recently.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The remaining $10 million came as unannounced follow-on financing from early investors, including BDC Capital and Blumberg Capital. The most recent funding will be used to capitalize on growth, including scaling up operations in new markets, said Trulioo, and to grow headcount to 200 people from the present roster of 130 individuals.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

“With its combination of technology and banking expertise, solarisBank is a great partner for us to offer central services along the value chain for digital assets. ” In fact, the job grew 33 times faster than other positions this year, with demand highest in San Francisco, New York City and Atlanta.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

To bolster its subscription business, San-Francisco-based Recurly has notched $19.5 million in funding led by F-Prime Capital along with participation from Polaris Partners, Silicon Valley Bank and Greycroft. Tony Allen, a former platform and architecture engineer, joins as chief technology officer.

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MARCH 28, 2019

Along any avenue of technology, there is hope … and there is hype … and then there is reality. Investors seem sanguine, as financing in the sector from venture capital firms, as estimated by Autonomous Research, has topped $5.4 Sloan said that though the technology has been “interesting … it’s been slow to roll out.”.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The round was led by Initialized Capital, with continued participation from CRV and Y Combinator, and new investors including Draper Associates. In addition, Garry Tan, co-founder and managing partner at Initialized Capital, and Devdutt Yellurkar, general partner at CRV have both joined Standard’s board. “The

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JULY 7, 2020

Founded in 2012, nCino has raised $213 million in venture-backed funding, according to Crunchbase, the San Francisco provider of business data about private and public companies. nCino said it works with more than 1,100 financial institutions (FIs) globally, with assets ranging in size from $30 million to $2 trillion. .

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The investment was led by GPI Capital, and it brings the company’s total funding amount to date to almost $1 billion. Last month, Postmates announced that it was testing robot delivery in San Francisco. Marble, a San Francisco robot-delivery company, also applied to deliver within city limits. and after 6:30 p.m.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Underwriters of the deal include Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, UBS Investment Bank, SberCIB, VTB Capital and RenCap, according to the F-1 filing. In March, San Francisco-based Princeville Capital announced a $50 million investment in Ozon. The IPO could raise at least $500 million. markets. “I

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Capitalizing on Africa’s growing payments market, Flutterwave will serve as the African payment provider for Worldpay’s clients. The Series B funding round was co-led by Greycroft & eVentures with additional participation from VISA, CRE Venture Capital, FIS and Green Visor, Forbes reported.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

PullString , a San Francisco maker of technology that enables people to design and publish voice-activated apps, was acquired by Apple. It has raised roughly $44 million in venture funding including from CRV, Greylock, True Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and First Round Capital, reported Axios.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Three big Silicon Valley venture capital firms want to invest in Telegram ’s initial coin offering (ICO), The Financial Times reported. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark and Sequoia Capital have each told the messaging startup that they want to invest $20 million, according to three individuals familiar with the deal.

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APRIL 30, 2020

The FinTech company, based in both San Francisco and Nigeria, secured the venture capital (VC) investment from Worldpay , which has also struck a strategic partnership with the firm. At the time, Flutterwave said it would use the funding to further build out its technology and continue expanding throughout Africa.

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MAY 25, 2016

San Francisco-based wealth management technology company SigFig announced on Tuesday (May 24) that it raised a $40 million funding round from a slew of VCs and financial institutions. The firm said its new capital will be used to accelerate the expansion of its team and robo-advisor technology platform.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

12), Inntopia said it is integrating Affirm’s installment payment technology into its software booking platform, enabling customers to book travel and then pay off their bill through bi-weekly or monthly installments. In a partnership unveiled on Thursday (Nov.

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