Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Startups News and Updates

$3.5 Million is Targeted by New Early-Stage VC Firm “The Fund” to Help with Seed Money for New Business Startups Launching in Australia

While the latest venture for The Fund is not new, it is new to Australia. The Fund found out that Australia is in the lead for early-stage startups and in need of series A and B seed funding. How does The Fund determine their newest contenders? Well, The Fund will open up a new office where a certain place is in need because there are so many new businesses that have started and have shown incredible promise to take off and become a part of the everyday local startup ecosystem. Their latest press release was on June 15th, 2021. Co-founding […]

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$52,525,252 Raised for Trucks Venture Capital Over the Last Year with General Partner Reilly Brennan Sharing the Latest Update to Help Finance Projects Involving Transportation Start-ups

2015 was a big year for Trucks Venture Capital because that’s when the officially started operations as a venture capital firm. Oddly enough not many people have heard of what Trucks vc firm does for transportation in San Francisco, California. Actually, Trucks Venture Capital is located in the Bay Area of San Franciso, California. But what is the big news from Trucks vc? It’s the fact that over the last year $52,525,252 has been raised in funds a while for their new core fund called Trucks Venture Fund 2. The Trucks Growth Fund is hoping to provide much needed funding […]

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The Desana Company is one of the investors who has backed up Scotland’s Start-up Avenue, investors Michael Cockburn, Steve Jeans, and Ro Ramtohul

What is the company Desana? Technically Desana was founded in 2016 but has continued to shed light on other start-up companies (even though Desana is still a start-up company themselves) by becoming investors for Edinburgh’s newest vc firm start-ups. While still registered as a private company, they have raised $550,000 euro’s back in 2019 just with one seed round from Techstart Ventures. Techstart Ventures continues to be the only backing investor. The company is also for profit.  But what does Desana as a company provide? Here is the company’s motto from their website: “On-demand workspace for your people. Anywhere. Enable […]

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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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