Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Startups News and Updates

Co-Founders Mariano Kostelec, Marta Palmeiro, Miguel Santo Amaro, and Sergio Pereira Raised a Total of $6.6 Million for Their 2019 Fintech Start-Up StudentFinance

Table of Contents What does StudentFinance do? StudentFinance was founded into 2019, although the official launch was not until early 2020. As of May 2021, the company is avidly hiring new people since there is only around 1-10 employees not counting the founding members. Now the big kicker is that even though this Fintech vc firm is incredibly new, 17 investors have already showed interest and ended up funding the $6.6 Million total to launch StudentFinance even further. The lead investors were Giant Ventures and Armilar Venture Capital. What does StudentFinance do? On StudentFinance’s website there are 3 separate sections […]

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Moonfire Ventures Early Start-up Funding Round of $60 Millon Shows Promise Thanks to Mattias Ljungman

Mattias Ljungman who was the former co-founder of Atomico, ended up becoming the founder of Moonfire Ventures… that is after he left Atomico. Which puts Moonfire Ventures founding year at December 2019. With this still being a relatively very new vc firm, Moonfire recently had an announcement shared that the $60 Million of their first seed fund will combine remote investing with Big Data.  But partners Mike Arpaia and Candice Lo are helping to build this firm from the bottom up and it shows how well they can shake up the sleepy European vc market. Moonfire Ventures currently has 5 […]

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