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Portfolio 447
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 28.08.2026 | Numeral | numeral.com | - | United Sta... |
| 07.08.2026 | SuperKalam | superkalam.com | - | - |
| 07.08.2026 | Monumint (... | monumint.com | - | United Sta... |
| 24.07.2026 | Scape | scape.app | $3.2M | Sweden |
| 10.07.2026 | Sorcerer | sorcerer.earth | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Undermind | undermind.ai | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Lumius | lumius-imaging.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | NovaFlow | novaflowapp.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Cactus | cactuscompute.com | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Delve | getdelve.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | elvex | elvex.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Kalam (YC ... | kalam.in | $2M | India, Kar... |
| 10.07.2026 | Scape (fka... | reworks.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | malibou (Y... | malibou.co | - | France, Il... |
| 10.07.2026 | Musa | musa.app | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Dexter | getdexter.co | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Complif | complif.com | - | Argentina,... |
| 10.07.2026 | dScribe AI | dscribeai.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Zeon Syste... | zeonsystems.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Proxima He... | proxima.health | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Duranium | duranium.co | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Airweave | airweave.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Ergo | joinergo.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | AnythingLL... | anythingllm.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Offstream | useoffstream.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Stardex (f... | stardex.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Third Chai... | usethirdchair.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Powder | powderfi.com | $5M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Andoria | andoria.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Stempad | stempad.io | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Promptless | gopromptless.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Plan0 AI | plan0.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Casco | casco.com | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Tuesday La... | tuesdaylab.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Deepshard ... | preorder.itsalltruffles.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | GovAI (fka... | govai.com | - | Canada, On... |
| 10.07.2026 | Arnata (fk... | arnata.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | A1Base | a1base.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | OmniAI | getomni.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Distro | distro.app | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Trata | trytrata.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Voker | voker.ai | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Valur | valur.io | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Solum Heal... | getsolum.com | - | Colombia, ... |
| 10.07.2026 | Klaimee | klaimee.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Pave Robot... | pave-robotics.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | SubImage | subimage.io | $4.2M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | AthenaHQ | athenahq.ai | $2.2M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | Momentic | momentic.ai | $18.7M | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | DesignBase... | designbase.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.07.2026 | PermitPort... | permitportalapp.com | - | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Reform | reformhq.com | - | United Sta... |
| 17.01.2024 | AgentsForc... | agentsforce.com | - | Israel, Te... |
| 17.01.2024 | Minded AI ... | mindedai.com | - | - |
| 10.01.2024 | Quindar | quindar.space | $2.5M | United Sta... |
| 10.01.2024 | Pirros | pirros.com | $2M | United Sta... |
| 10.01.2024 | TeamOut | teamout.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.01.2024 | Numeral | numeralhq.com | $18M | United Sta... |
| 10.01.2024 | Octo AI | getocto.ai | $500K | Israel, Te... |
| 08.11.2023 | LifestyleR... | lifestylerx.io | - | Canada, On... |
| 08.11.2023 | Motion | motionapp.com | $30M | Canada |
| 14.09.2023 | JinTech | example.com | - | United Sta... |
| 15.08.2023 | SuperKalam... | shaktimaan.ai | $2M | - |
| 16.12.2022 | Lexica (fk... | lexica.art | - | - |
| 14.12.2022 | celeri | celeri.app | $2.6M | Argentina,... |
| 18.11.2022 | The Essent... | theessential.com | - | United Sta... |
| 26.10.2022 | Momentu (Y... | momentu.co | - | Colombia, ... |
| 26.09.2022 | Worksuite ... | worksuite.com | $3.7M | United Sta... |
| 26.09.2022 | Ready Educ... | readyeducation.com | - | United Sta... |
| 26.09.2022 | Anagram | anagram.care | $9.1M | United Sta... |
| 26.09.2022 | mintplex.e... | mintplex.xyz | - | United Sta... |
| 18.07.2022 | SimpleHash | simplehash.com | - | - |
| 18.07.2022 | WeReno (YC... | wereno.com | - | Canada, On... |
| 18.07.2022 | Campfire (... | campfire.to | - | Canada, On... |
| 05.07.2022 | Tesorio | tesorio.com | $27M | United Sta... |
| 17.05.2022 | Pigeon | usepigeon.io | $2.5M | United Sta... |
| 16.05.2022 | Mainstay | mainstay.com | - | United Sta... |
| 25.04.2022 | Florida St... | pixelgg.com | - | - |
| 25.04.2022 | Quickcard | quickcard.com | - | - |
| 25.04.2022 | Florida St... | floridastreet.xyz | - | United Sta... |
| 25.04.2022 | Momence | momence.com | - | United Sta... |
| 22.01.2022 | RouteThis | routethis.com | - | Canada, On... |
| 15.12.2021 | webapp.io | webapp.io | - | Canada, On... |
| 23.10.2021 | Aizon | aizon.ai | $20M | United Sta... |
| 15.10.2021 | FORT Robot... | fortrobotics.com | $56.9M | United Sta... |
| 23.09.2021 | Ribbon | ribbonexperiences.com | - | United Sta... |
| 22.09.2021 | Inversion | inversionspace.com | $54M | United Sta... |
| 22.09.2021 | Talus Bio | talus.bio | $16M | United Sta... |
| 22.09.2021 | Ontop | ontop.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 22.09.2021 | Toku (YC S... | trytoku.com | $64.45M | United Sta... |
| 22.09.2021 | jestor | jestor.com | - | United Sta... |
| 22.09.2021 | Dots (YC S... | dots.community | - | United Sta... |
| 22.09.2021 | Meetingbir... | meetingbird.com | - | United Sta... |
| 22.09.2021 | Pactima | pactima.com | - | Canada, On... |
| 22.09.2021 | Govly | govly.com | $9.5M | United Sta... |
| 22.09.2021 | GamerPay | gamerpay.gg | $2M | Denmark, C... |
| 08.09.2021 | Rendalo Ma... | rendalomaq.com | - | Chile, San... |
| 26.06.2021 | Mindbloom | mindbloom.co | - | United Sta... |
| 22.04.2021 | Responde A... | respondeai.com.br | - | Brazil, Ri... |
| 20.04.2021 | Zerobroker... | zerobroker.com | $6.5M | - |
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News 135
| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.08.2022 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q2 2022 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: |
| 30.04.2022 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q1 2022 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: |
| 27.01.2022 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q4 2021 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: |
| 25.11.2021 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q3 2021 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: |
| 07.08.2021 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q2 2021 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: |
| 19.05.2021 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q1 2021 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: |
| 19.05.2021 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q4 2020 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: |
| 21.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q3 2020 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| 04.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q2 2018 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| 04.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q1 2020 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| 04.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q3 2019 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| 04.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q3 2018 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| 04.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q2 2020 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| 04.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q4 2019 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| 04.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q4 2018 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| 04.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q2 2019 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| 04.10.2020 | FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q1 2019 | We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: |
| - | Transparent VC, Episode 5: Fundraising 101 | What are the basic tips and tricks to raising a round of financing? We’ll take you through our best practices and learnings regarding fundraising that we’ve built out over the last 4.5 years, speaking with thousands of founders, and parti... |
| - | Startup Investor Guide: Diversification | Most investors opting into startup investing should limit startups to less than 15% of their total portfolio, probably much less, and should make at least 10 investments, probably much more. Diversification can reduce the impact of negative... |
| - | Product-focused Founder Turned Sales Leader Shares How Founders Can Fuel Sales Success | Most startup founders, especially technical ones, aren't too interested in selling. They want sales, of course, as all founders certainly understand that sales will ultimately make their product successful or unsuccessful. But some founders... |
| - | Catching Up with Andrew Vilcsak, Engineer at Airbnb | Back in June 2014 we sat down with Andrew Vilcsak of Airbnb and spoke to him about his experience leading mobile development for the thriving rental service. Now, over a year later, we chatted with Andrew again, catching up on Airbnb’s rela... |
| - | The Best Hardware Startups Build Communities And Software | A cliché that everybody acknowledges with a smile in tech circles: Hardware is hard. But that declarative statement is being challenged. Creating anything great is hard, but creating great hardware has become easier. Yes, it's hard to buil... |
| - | Big Companies Aren't Geared For Innovation | When my co-founder and I built the first version of Aisle50, we were eager to start marketing it to potential clients. In our case, those companies were large consumer packaged goods companies, such as General Mills and Procter & Gamble... |
| - | FundersClub Partnership Returns Data: Jan 20, 2015 Update | This is an update to our previous posts and reflects our data as of 1/20/15. Previous entries are a 9/8/14 post (which reflected our data as of 7/25/14) and a 2/17/14 post (which reflected our data as of 1/25/14). Since our launch, the Fun... |
| - | If Everybody Thinks It's A Good Idea, It's Probably Not: A Conversation With Niko Bonatsos | There exists loosely held wisdom that anybody older than 20 won’t be able to spot or understand the next big movement or application within social media. The age gap in users for Snapchat illustrates this perfectly. For a company with a fa... |
| - | Big Companies Act More Like Startups So People Don't Leave: Kleiner Perkins' Mike Abbott | The preferred landing spots amongst strivers and high achievers in college were once mostly old blue chip companies in predictable spaces: investment banking, consulting, law. But startups have become part of the zeitgeist with young people... |
| - | Mattermark Scores Investors - FundersClub Ranks #2 | Mattermark, an independent data platform which is quantifying growth signals of 200,000+ private companies, released a report this week featuring an “Average Mattermark Score” for startups in a venture capital portfolio. With more than six ... |
| - | The Biggest Lesson Accelerators Impart To Startups: This Isn’t A Finish Line | Christopher Steiner co-founded Aisle50, YC S2011, which was acquired by Groupon in early 2015. Most early-stage startups, when confronted with the choice of partaking in an accelerator program or skipping it, make the decision to join. It'... |
| - | To Get Funded, Have Vision And Understand Your Market | This piece is adapted from a conversation between FundersClub CEO, Alex Mittal, and Charles Hudson, founder of Precursor Ventures. We have edited for clarity and brevity. You can watch the entire live interview on Facebook. As the startup ... |
| - | International Cities with Venture Capital Momentum, and Emerging Hubs | FundersClub reviews thousands of technology startups every year, and as a VC, has backed a global portfolio of top startup founders. Our insights come from our network of top startup founders and startup investors, and from our own experien... |
| - | How Technology is Rapidly Reshaping The World of Angel Investing | No...I didn’t see them on demo day. In fact, I’d never actually met them. But along with roughly 95 other investors, I played a small role in enabling a team of young entrepreneurs to hit the ground running and grow their business. I’m t... |
| - | FundersClub Catalyst: Free Apps, Bots, and Content to Run your Startup | In our quest to find, fund, and support the world's best startups, FundersClub connects with thousands of small and large startups every year. From their experiences and our own, we know what helps companies succeed: moving fast, removing f... |
| - | Running Dynamic Offsite Meetings Can Bolster Your Startup - Here’s How | Christopher Steiner co-founded Aisle50, YC S2011, which was acquired by Groupon in early 2015. Offsite meetings have become standard fare in workplace culture. Big companies, medium-sized companies, and startup-sized companies rely on offs... |
| - | My two [million] cents (pt. 1): A founder’s time is worth 5-figures… per hour | This is part one of a two-part post on the value of founder time. In part two I share my thoughts on what the value of founder time means for our ecosystem and how to act accordingly, which you can read here. Sanity check: I realize that f... |
| - | Transparent VC, Episode 2: Liquidation Preference | Liquidation preference is an interesting part of deal making that's not often talked about, but it can have a substantial impact particularly earlier on in a business' life. In episode two of Transparent VC, our team will speak to the histo... |
| - | Why investors need to practice lean startup principles too | There has been an increase in startup quality due to the now-legendary improvements in process espoused by Steve Blank, Alex Osterwalder, and their lean startup principles. Yet legions of angel and seed investors have not upgraded their kn... |
| - | Work on Startups Early In Life, Get Technical If You’re Not. A Chat With Garry Tan—Founder, VC and Former YC Partner | Garry Tan has been a trusted advisor to hundreds of founders that have come through Y Combinator, including both authors of this piece. When Garry dedicated time to meet with YC founders, there was always a scramble to get into the queue. ... |
| - | Mining Teenagers’ Minds For An Edge In Venture Capital: A Conversation With Arielle Zuckerberg | Many people have tried to make a science out of spotting the next social app that will accelerate from zero users to 10 million in a few months. Almost all of those people have failed. Picking winners from the social media bin has always b... |
| - | FundersClub June Digital Magazine | DISH Becomes World’s Largest Company to Accept Bitcoin By Rachel Abrams, NYT DealBook US satellite service provider DISH Network has announced that it will start accepting bitcoin payments later this year. Coinbase will serve as the pay... |
| - | Working From Home Can Be A Productive Perk, But It's Best Done With Some Rules | Most offices, whether at a big company or at a startup, allow employees to work at home from time to time. It's not exactly a perk, but it does allow people to better manage work and their lives, as neither of those things adhere to perfect... |
| - | FundersClub's Stance on General Solicitation | This week we’ve seen numerous articles in the tech press covering the SEC’s lift of an 80-year ban on what is known as general solicitation. The lift of the ban allows entrepreneurs, online fundraising and investment platforms, and other is... |
| - | Tech's Smart Money, Dumb Money and Worst of All: Malignant Money | Entrepreneurs raising funds from angels or venture capitalists often focus on the difference between "smart money" and "dumb money." Founders go after "smart money," that is, investors who can provide strategic... |
| - | Taming A Massive Market Through an API with Shippo’s Laura Behrens Wu | Laura Behrens Wu co-founded Shippo with Simon Kreuz. The platform provides businesses with an API to ship anything, anywhere while optimizing on costs and speed. It was one of the first solutions providing a modern API across all of the dis... |
| - | Investor's Guide to Chatbots | FundersClub reviews thousands of technology startups every year, and as a VC, has backed a global portfolio of top startup founders. Our insights come from our network of top startup founders and startup investors, and from our own experien... |
| - | Transparent VC, Episode 3: To Raise with Convertible Debt or Equity, That is the Question | Episode 3 of Transparent VC dives into whether seed stage companies should raise a convertible debt round or an equity round. The FundersClub Venture Team discusses these two common ways young startup companies raise capital and look at w... |
| - | The Best Time To Invest In Startups? Always. | Keeping a balanced investment portfolio has long been standard practice within the financial industry, with good reason. Rebalancing forces investors to sell assets that have outperformed, and to buy more of the holdings that have underperf... |
| - | Hardest Part Of AI Is Cleaning Up Your Data - Tips From Experts | As more tools become available to create AI models, it has become easier for companies to harness the power of machine learning for their applications. What once required deep domain expertise to execute has been made easier by libraries an... |
| - | As Uber Shows, Growth Hacking Should Have Limits | Christopher Steiner co-founded Aisle50, YC S2011, which was acquired by Groupon in early 2015. In some ways Uber has operated as a flawless, well-managed machine of a large company: gobbling up markets, expanding its product, catering to t... |
| - | Entrepreneur Spotlight: Felicia Curcuru | The FundersClub Spotlight Series features notable entrepreneurs, investors and members from our community who are making a big impact in the startup world. Their stories highlight their extraordinary passion, determination and commitment to... |
| - | What The Marine Corps and Startup Investing Have In Common | Landon Thorne runs a private investment company, Midas Advisory Group, in South Carolina. Through that, Thorne currently oversees his family’s long-standing LP relationship at Greylock Partners, and he has been a Member of the Investment Pa... |
| - | From the Rockies to the Valley — Justin Darcy’s Trail into Tech | Justin Darcy is currently the Rockies ISV & Alliances lead at Salesforce. His background includes experience as a founder and leader in B2B sales. He’s an early FundersClub member (joining back in 2012) and has a personal portfolio of o... |
| - | How To Get Data For AI Applications - Tricks and Tactics | Any engineer who has taken the first steps of learning to work with AI methods has confronted the foremost challenge of the space: sourcing enough high quality data to make a project viable. Sample sets of data can be had, of course, but wo... |
| - | Startup Investors Guide: Angel Investing Etiquette | Investing in early-stage startups has grown from being the small province of a very few to a far larger category of investment. The U.S. angel investment market grew to $24.6 billion in 2015, independent of traditional venture capital and i... |
| - | How to Repel DDoS Attacks | A series of attacks on on key internet infrastructure brought down a slew of major websites and applications—Twitter, Etsy, Github, Spotify, Reddit, and Netflix, among others—on Oct. 21. The attack went on in waves throughout the day, disru... |
| - | AI Can Make Anything a Commodity, Even Creativity | Christopher Steiner co-founded Aisle50, YC S2011, which was acquired by Groupon in early 2015. We earlier acknowledged that AI isn't actually artificial intelligence. The modern tech lexicon accepts AI as a group of computer-driven methods... |
| - | The 7 Keys To Spotting Superior Sales Talent | Telling the difference between an elite salesperson and one who will prove below average can be tricky. Things that many people assume to be strong signals with sales people—gregariousness, competitiveness, willingness to pick up the phone—... |
| - | Introducing FundersClub Venture Points | It is well known that startup investors who add the most value to the ecosystem are not just those who invest money, but investors who help improve their portfolio companies, bring strong dealflow to their network of co-investors, and refer... |
| - | FundersClub Series A Checklist | With a decent idea, a good team and some grinding, many founders can put together a seed round of up to $2-3 million. Series A rounds, however, usually involve institutional venture investors that set the bar higher. Building a company to ... |
| - | Member Spotlight: Andrew Vilcsak, Engineering Manager at Airbnb | A mobile engineering manager and the fourth engineering hire, Andrew Vilcsak has spent the past four years helping Airbnb become the huge success that it now is: a company now covering over 34,000 cities in 190 countries and with a massive ... |
| - | How To Name Your Startup | Christopher Steiner co-founded Aisle50, YC S2011, which was acquired by Groupon in early 2015. Yahoo and its owner Verizon, also the owner of AOL, recently announced that many of Yahoo's and AOL’s signature properties—Yahoo Sports, Yahoo F... |
| - | Angel Investing and Playdates | When I jumped into angel investing, it never occurred to me that it would be good for my two year old’s social life. In 2008, fresh out of business school, I was hired to run deals for an angel-investing club in Washington, DC. I was thril... |
| - | Digging into the true origins of startups with Y Combinator’s Jared Friedman | Now a Partner at Y Combinator, Jared left pursuing a Computer Science degree at Harvard in 2007 to co-found Scribd, a leading digital library subscription service for e-books, audiobooks, and comic books. Jared has been an active FundersClu... |
| - | Evaluating a Startup: How Aydin Senkit Makes Investment Decisions | I had the pleasure of interviewing Aydin Senkut, Founder of Felicis Ventures, at the UPROUND Conference on Sept. 12. In the past five years, 47 Felicis backed start-ups have been acquired by firms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Groupo... |
| - | What I Learned From Funding 55 Companies in 16 Months With $10M | Reposted from personal blog We launched FundersClub on July 25, 2012 as part of the Y Combinator Summer 2012 batch. Since then, I have co-led the Investment Committee, which does the first pass curation of companies for our platform, with ... |
| - | The right time to IPO? It's complicated. | FundersClub reviews thousands of technology startups every year, and as a VC, has backed a global portfolio of top startup founders. Our insights come from our network of top startup founders and startup investors, and from our own experien... |
| - | New Features: Enhanced Profile Pages and Custom URLs | FundersClub has now invested in 100 companies. Such growth and diversification has only been made possible by our global community of over 11,000 accredited investors. To build on this momentum, we’re excited to share some new features whic... |
| - | Eight Years of FundersClub [INFOGRAPHIC] | This week, the FundersClub community celebrates its 8th year anniversary. We are honored to be able to support intrepid founders and startups who are working tirelessly to build the future. We’ve put together a visual to help you explore ... |
| - | Fundraising Tips For First-time Startup Founders | Many first-time entrepreneurs obsess about fundraising, and worse, let it take priority over what actually matters–building product and talking to customers. Having raised more than $30M of angel and venture capital across three of my own s... |
| - | A Critical Investor Skill: Understanding Growth Rates | Christopher Steiner was a co-founder at Aisle50, YC S2011, acquired by Groupon in early 2015. Founders will always try to find the angle from which their startup looks best. The narrative and direction of a pitch is set and controlled by f... |
| - | The Current State of Virtual Reality | Even techies are tired of hearing about VR revolutions that will render all other entertainment, communications, UI-UX, and research activities lame and unbearably two-dimensional. It may feel like we've been at the edge of the VR breakthro... |
| - | What To Do When an Outage Brings Your Site or App Down | Amazon's S3 cloud storage, a ubiquitous and indispensable resource for many companies and developers, experienced some acute outages earlier this week, shutting down thousands of popular apps and websites, and severely hobbling others. The ... |
| - | A Guide to Co-founder Fit | FundersClub reviews thousands of technology startups every year, and as a VC, has backed a global portfolio of top startup founders. Our insights come from our network of top startup founders and startup investors, and from our own experien... |
| - | New Feature: Investing in Startups via a Tax-Advantaged, Self-Directed IRA | FundersClub has rolled out a new feature that allows accredited individuals to invest in startups via a tax-advantaged, self-directed IRA account. A "self-directed" IRA means that you have complete control over selecting and direc... |
| - | Want to be a VC? Work at a Startup. Conversation with Spark VC's Megan Quinn. | As the profile of venture capitalists has risen in our society, more young careerists and students, those in high school and college, have put this profession on their radars, declaring it to be their job of choice, their chosen career. Mo... |
| - | Female Founders: A Growing Force | The data don't lie: startups with women founders fare better than those without them. A First Round Capital study of its own investments showed that companies with a female founder performed 63% better than investments with all-male foundin... |
| - | Talent and Commitment: My Approach to Angel Investing | I don’t fund a startup based on its idea or its business model. So what criteria do I actually use? First of all, I want to stress that I don’t expect to make money from angel investments. I invest (more like donate) to give back to the sta... |
| - | My two [million] cents (pt. 2): If founder time is worth 5-figures per hour, here’s how to act accordingly | This is part two of a two-part post on the value of founder time. In part one, I posited “in the best businesses, founder time is worth >$10K in equity value per hour.” You can read that post and the underlying assumptions here. Now, I’... |
| - | FundersClub Returns Data: 41.2% Unrealized Net IRR in the first 18 months | On January 25, 2014, FundersClub celebrated its 18 month anniversary. Since our launch, we’ve invested $12M in 60 stellar founding teams and their companies across a variety of technology industries around the world. The capital came from o... |
| - | Announcing Accelerate III: Our First Fund Targeting 500 Startups Companies | We recently closed our first fund as a limited partner in 500 Startups. This is our third fund in the Accelerate Series, our theme-based multi-company funds specifically dedicated to top startups in incubators and accelerator programs. Acc... |
| - | Blockchain’s Massive Potential: A Conversation with Joey Krug | Blockchain, or some derivation of it, figures to play a major role in the future of many of the most consequential industries. From land and real estate titles, to stock, options and derivatives trading and clearing, to perhaps even some sw... |
| - | Founders’ Guide: 7 Tips for Raising your Seed Round from Angel Investors | FundersClub reviews thousands of technology startups every year, and as a VC, has backed a global portfolio of top startup founders. Our insights come from our network of top startup founders and startup investors, and from our own experien... |
| - | Playing with LEGOs to Building Industry-Leading Products, with Ayush Agarwal | You studied Software Engineering at University of Michigan and interned with Google as a software engineer, but professionally, you’ve focused on product management. What led to that initial shift? I’ve always loved engineering and buildin... |
| - | An Investigation Into The Relationship Between SEO And Stock Price | Editor's note: This post comes from Kevin Indig, who heads up SEO at Atlassian. Kevin's views and conclusions on this topic are his own. Google has enormous power over companies that depend on organic traffic. One Google penalty can turn o... |
| - | How We Successfully Raised Our Series A Online | Earlier this year, our Y Combinator startup SendHub tried to raise its Series A. Despite monthly revenue in the mid-5 figures and a 25 percent monthly growth rate, we were shunned by over 50 VCs. So we turned to crowdfunding platforms to ra... |
| - | Introducing Network Search for FundersClub founders | Scaling startup introductions and making them more accessible As software continues to eat the world, it is also eating VC. At FundersClub, we build software and leverage network effects to best discover, vet, fund, and support promising s... |
| - | Where ESPN Falters, Startups And Content Creators Can Prosper | Last fall Tony Kornheiser made the decision to end his popular radio talkshow's 25-year association with ESPN and start his own podcast, independent of ESPN and completely off the radio airwaves. Kornheiser's voluntary decision to move his ... |
| - | Founder's Guide to All-Hands Meetings | FundersClub reviews thousands of technology startups every year, and as a VC, has backed a global portfolio of top startup founders. Our insights come from our network of top startup founders and startup investors, and from our own experien... |
| - | College students should work summers...but not always for somebody else | College students looking for ways to build and burnish their resumes before entering the job market often get consumed with piling up as many experiences at blue-chip companies as possible. Clearly, this approach makes a lot of sense, and i... |
| - | Meet the 16 Startups in the Latest Accelerate Series - Y Combinator Summer 2013 Batch | We recently closed an additional fund in the Accelerate Series, our theme-based multi-company funds dedicated to the best startups in incubators and accelerator programs. The Accelerate Series II, our second fund dedicated to Y Combinator c... |
| - | Keeping Engineers Engaged And Happy Is Critical - Here's How To Do It | Christopher Steiner is the founder of ZRankings, and Aisle50, YCS11, which was acquired by Groupon in 2015. In the history of the U.S. economy, particular classes of workers rarely have had a run so prodigious and extended as the current r... |
| - | Founder's Guide to Automation | FundersClub reviews thousands of technology startups every year, and as a VC, has backed a global portfolio of top startup founders. Our insights come from our network of top startup founders and startup investors, and from our own experien... |
| - | For Now, AI Tinkering Has Outpaced The Cloud | For what seemed like a decade, tech observers, when explaining the phenomenon of startups in lectures or blog pieces, would recite a narrative about the ever-decreasing costs of building software applications and making them available to th... |
| - | Most Startups Still Opt For Dot-Com Domains, But That’s Changing At Y Combinator | Christopher Steiner co-founded Aisle50, YC S2011, which was acquired by Groupon in early 2015. The quest to secure a dot-com domain name has led thousands of startups to choose names that barely resemble real words or have any connection t... |
| - | 5 Questions for Entrepreneurs to Ask Before Accepting Investment | The Reverse Pitch (Short Version) The mental image that forms when one imagines an entrepreneur raising investment capital is that of an entrepreneur coming into the posh offices of a Sand Hill road venture capital firm and pitching using ... |
| - | Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal | Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that wer... |
| - | Major Internet Service Providers Are Fueling Their Own Disruption | Christopher Steiner co-founded Aisle50, YC S2011, which was acquired by Groupon in early 2015. By lobbying the federal government to tear down privacy rules—and likely finding success, with a bill now having passed the House and Senate—the... |
| - | FundersClub turns 3! | On July 25 2012, FundersClub launched the world’s first online venture capital platform to discover, fund, and support the world’s top startups. As FundersClub celebrates its 3-year anniversary, we are privileged and thrilled to share our... |
| - | The Best Term Sheets Align Interests Of Founders And Investors | When anybody hands over several million dollars to a couple of people—often exceedingly young ones who may have just met, having only shared a handful of conversations with them, it's unsurprising that the cash may come with strings attache... |
| - | Learn, Pivot, Innovate: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Peter Kazanjy, Co-founder of TalentBin | Presently an active startup investor on FundersClub, Peter Kazanjy is also part of what we here at FundersClub fondly call the FC Mafia, our tight-knit family of portfolio founders. TalentBin, a portfolio company Peter and his co-founder Ja... |
| - | FundersClub Returns Data: 47.9% Unrealized Net IRR in the First Two Years | This is an update to our previous post on 2/17/14, which reflected our data as of 1/25/14. On July 25, 2014, FundersClub celebrated its two year anniversary (you can see our update here). One piece of the update was our unrealized returns,... |
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| 27.07.2026 | Scape Raises $3.2M in Seed Funding | Scape, a Stockholm, Sweden-based developer of an AI-native intelligent email platform, emerged from stealth mode after raising $3.2m in seed funding. Backers included Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and FundersClub, angels Max Junestrand, S... |
| 24.07.2026 | Y Combinator startup Scape emerges from stealth with $3.2M to rethink email | More than one billion professionals spend most of their workday in email: an interface that hasn't changed in 25 years. Scape, founded by two 23-year-old Swedes, today emerges from stealth and launches an intelligent email inbox. Scape has ... |
| 23.07.2026 | The quest to kill Gmail finds a new AI challenger | For decades, email has been where work piles up. Now, two 23-year-old Swedes are asking: What if the inbox could start checking things off? That's the vision behind Scape, a desktop email app that wants to do the work buried inside messages... |
| 22.07.2026 | Klaimee raises $5.5 million | Klaimee, Klaimee Founded: 2026 Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States Total Funding: $500K See full company profile "> a San Francisco-based startup certifying and insuring autonomous AI agents, announced $5.5 millio... |
| 21.04.2026 | AppZen targets accounts payable bottleneck with new AI agent service center Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies | Autonomous finance platform company AppZen Inc. today launched AP Inbox Service Center, a new accounts payable service that deploys eight prebuilt artificial intelligence agents to automate how finance teams handle vendor email. The new ser... |
| 24.03.2026 | US funds for founders? Start here | - |
| 08.08.2025 | FORT Robotics Fuels Future of AI Safety with $18.9 Million Capital Injection | FORT Robotics just closed an additional $18.9 million in Series B funding, lifting its total capital to $60.5 million. This significant investment, led by Tiger Global, propels the company's mission: delivering robust safety and security so... |
| 08.08.2025 | FORT Robotics: $18.9 Million Series B Raised For Building Intelligent Machines | FORT Robotics, a company specializing in safety and security solutions for intelligent machines, announced the close of an additional $18.9 million in its Series B funding round. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from ne... |
| 07.08.2025 | FORT Robotics Raises Additional $18.9M in Series B Funding | FORT Robotics, a Philadelphia, PA-based provider of a safety and security solutions for intelligent machines, raised additional $18.9M in Series B funding. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Prime Movers Lab, Mark Cu... |
| 07.03.2025 | Navigating the Tax Maze: Numeral's $18 Million Leap Forward | In the ever-evolving landscape of e-commerce and software as a service (SaaS), sales tax compliance can feel like a labyrinth. Enter Numeral, a San Francisco-based startup that has just secured $18 million in Series A funding. This financia... |
| 07.03.2025 | Momentic Raises $3.7M in Seed Funding | Momentic, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI-powered software testing platform, raised $3.7M in Seed funding. The round was led by FundersClub (FCVC), with participation from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, AI Grant, and Karman Ven... |
| 06.03.2025 | Momentic's $3.7M Seed Funding: A New Era in Software Testing | In the fast-paced world of software development, testing is often the Achilles' heel. It’s a necessary evil, a hurdle that developers must leap over to deliver quality products. Momentic Inc. aims to change that narrative. With a fresh infu... |
| 06.03.2025 | Numeral: $18 Million (Series A) Secured For Helping Companies With Sales Tax Compliance | Numeral, a company handling the intricacies of sales tax compliance for e-commerce and SaaS companies, has secured $18 million in Series A funding led by Benchmark Capital with participation from existing seed investors Uncork Capital, Y Co... |
| 04.03.2025 | Momentic Raises Seed Round to Help Developers Accelerate Product Delivery with Automated QA | Momentic, the first AI end-to-end testing platform for developers, announced today that it has raised a $3.7M seed round from FundersClub, General Catalyst, Y Combinator and AI Grant along with prominent angels Aaron Levie (Box), Kulveer Ta... |
| 04.03.2025 | Momentic raises $3.7M to redefine software testing with AI Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep, an... | Momentic Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered testing and quality assurance platform for software developers, said today it has raised $3.7 million in seed funding. FundersClub, General Catalyst, Y Combinator and AI Grant participated i... |
| 04.02.2025 | Cybersecurity startup Riot raises €28.9 million to expand globally and double headcount by 2026 | Riot, a Paris-based cybersecurity software platform, announced today a €28.9 million Series B financing round to fuel product development, open two new offices, and double headcount by 2026. The funding round was led by venture capital firm... |
| 03.02.2025 | Employee cybersecurity startup Riot nabs $30M in funding Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep, and ... | Riot Security Inc., a startup that helps enterprises improve the cybersecurity posture of their employees, has raised $30 million in funding to support its growth efforts. The Paris-based company said in its announcement of the deal today t... |
| 30.07.2024 | Powder: Fintech Company Closes $5 Million In Funding | Powder, a fintech company that creates generative AI agents to automate time-consuming tasks, enabling wealth management firms to focus on serving clients and growing their businesses, announced that it has closed on a $5 million seed round... |
| 10.02.2023 | In Denmark’s largest ever Seed round, Reshape Biotech bags €7.5M to build automated lab robots | Copenhagen-based Reshape Biotech, a company that builds lab robots to automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists, announced on Thursday, February 9, that it has raised $8.1M (nearly €7.55M) in Denmark’s largest-ever Seed funding round. ... |
| 09.02.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: JOKR’s back with $50m, Plenty nabs $20m indoor ag grant, Mewery debuts microalgae meat | Despite ongoing setbacks for the instant grocery sector, JOKR returned to the headlines this week with new funding. Vertical farming startup Plenty was also in the news with a new grant for R&D. Czech startup Mewery put a new spin on th... |
| 16.03.2022 | How the Cameroon Angel Network invests in startups | On a cool evening in the summer of 2016, a group of friends in Cameroon were having a nice time over a bottle of wine. After a while the conversation drifted to the topic of investments and the opportunities that abound in the country. As t... |
| 13.02.2022 | Zach George: From Wall Street to investing in African startups | 2010 was a watershed moment in football. For the first time, the World Cup was hosted by an African country. 3.2 billion people watched the matches from their homes while 3.18 million fans attended the matches live in South Africa—Zach Geor... |
| 11.02.2022 | Zach George: From Wall Street to investing in African startups | 2010 was a watershed moment in football. For the first time, the World Cup was hosted by an African country. 3.2 billion people watched the matches from their homes while 3.18 million fans attended the matches live in South Africa—Zach Geor... |
| 09.12.2021 | Capria ventures’ playbook on backing local funds and startups | When it was time to pick a name for their investment company, Jack Knellinger, Dave Richards, and Will Poole knew it had to be one that’d always be relevant to what they do. So, after a bit of back and forth, they arrived at “Capria”, which... |
| 11.11.2021 | Angel Investors: The Key Details & 5 Best Investment Networks | Struggling to find financing is one of the harshest realities of startup life - with several businesses essentially starting from scratch. According to a 2019 study from SCORE, 42% of entrepreneurs are bootstrapping, starting with less than... |
| 30.04.2021 | How to attract large investors to your direct investing platform | David Teten Contributor Share on Twitter David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. More posts by this contributor Should you give an anchor investor a stake in your fund’s management company? H... |
| 08.10.2020 | Angel Talks #1. Vladimir Gidirim. How investors get access to the best deals What is the best deal? What is the investor’s problem? 7 criteria | Angel Talks #1. Vladimir Gidirim. How investors get access to the best deals |
| 08.10.2020 | Angel Talks #1. Владимир Гидирим. Как инвестору получить доступ к лучшим сделкам Что такое лучшая сделка В чем проблема инвестора? 7 критериев... | Angel Talks #1. Владимир Гидирим. Как инвестору получить доступ к лучшим сделкам |
| 19.09.2020 | San Francisco based Outschool raises USD 45M from Light Venture Partners | Outschool an online education platform, has announced on 18th September 2020, that it has received USD 45 million funding from Light Venture Partners. |
| 08.09.2020 | Munich based Demodesk bags €6.7 million from Balderton Capital to scale its intelligent online sales meeting software | US and Germany based startup Demodesk, which revolutionizes customer meetings and online sales announced on 3rd September, 2020, that it has secured €6.7 million in a financing round. This round was led by Balderton Capital. |
| 05.07.2019 | Time we focus more on startups founded by those of African origin [Opinion] | Over the last couple of weeks, Ventureburn has sampled a diverse array of views to a question this writer has long wondered about. The question itself is one of identity, “What is an African startup?” To some it is an irrelevant question. T... |
| 05.07.2019 | Time we focus more on startups founded by those of African origin [Opinion] | Over the last couple of weeks, Ventureburn has sampled a diverse array of views to a question this writer has long wondered about. The question itself is one of identity, “What is an African startup?” To some it is an irrelevant question. ... |
| 22.04.2019 | Ukrainian startup raises $1.1 million in Silicon Valley to “commoditize legal services” | AxDraft, a Ukrainian document automation startup, has raised $1.1 million from a pool of US investors. According to Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA, these investors included the online VC firm FundersClub and their affiliate FCVC, SCM Advisors, ... |
| 19.04.2019 | Ukrainian AxDraft attracts $1.1mln in investments valued at $10mln | Ukrainian AxDraft attracts $1.1mln in investments valued at $10mln 19 April, 2019, 11:59 Майя Ярова --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> Ukrainian legal-tech startup AxDraft closed a roun... |
| 19.04.2019 | Ukrainian AxDraft attracts $1.1mln in investments valued at $10mln | Ukrainian AxDraft attracts $1.1mln in investments valued at $10mln 19 April, 2019, 11:59 Maia Yarova --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> Ukrainian legal-tech startup AxDraft closed a ... |
| 19.04.2019 | Ukrainian AxDraft attracts $1.1mln in investments valued at $10mln | Ukrainian AxDraft attracts $1.1mln in investments valued at $10mln 19 April, 2019, 11:59 Maya Yarova Ukrainian legal-tech startup AxDraft closed a round of funding to the tune of $1,110,000. The project was valued at $10 million during the ... |
| 17.10.2018 | YC Top Companies List - 2018 | We’re excited to share a list of Y Combinator’s top companies. The top 100 YC companies are listed by valuation1 (including the top 12 exits), as of October 16, 2018. We put this list together to help people get to know some of the fastest... |
| 17.10.2018 | YC Top Companies List – 2018 | We’re excited to share a list of Y Combinator’s top companies. The top 100 YC companies are listed by valuation1 (including the top 12 exits), as of October 16, 2018. We put this list together to help people get to know some of the fastest... |
| 24.05.2018 | Waggl lands $7M in Series A financing to engage employees | The voice of the employee heard via Waggl "The more businesses know about their employees — who’s being recruited, hired and promoted — the easier it is for them to set targets for inclusion and diversity," writes Melinda Gates, i... |
| 30.11.2017 | Latin American startup, Instacarro, raises $22.5 million in a Series A funding round | With the country's $50B used car market booming, Instacarro connects sellers with used car dealers Instacarro, the Latin American startup that allows users to sell their used cars within hours, has finalized a Series A funding round totally... |
| 17.11.2017 | 5 reasons businesses are struggling with large-scale AI integration | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Artificial intelligence is an important vehicle f... |
| 17.11.2017 | 5 reasons businesses are struggling with large-scale AI integration | Artificial intelligence is an important vehicle for companies looking to automate processes, reduce the cost of operation, or fuel innovation. Despite the positive influence AI-supported activities have on business, a successful implementat... |
| 27.07.2017 | For Some Startups, Skipping VC Money Preserves What Really Matters | Plenty of startups will tell you that bigger equals better. It's easy to get into an IPO-measuring contest. That's why we care about unicorns, and after they got old, decacorns. No even blinks when they hear 2017 venture activity has alread... |
| 14.06.2017 | What it takes to build a billion-dollar internet business from scratch in Nigeria | Share this article: This article is over 3 years old. In 2004 and 2005 respectively, Mark Zuckerberg and Seun Osewa each conceived an online business idea. Both so much believed in their dreams that they decided to drop out of school to pur... |
| 13.06.2017 | Bain Capital Leads $17.5M Series B for ShipBob | ShipBob, a technology company that streamlines fulfillment for e-commerce businesses, today announced $17.5 million in new funding to fuel growth and expand its software platform. The Series B financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures with... |
| 08.03.2017 | FundersClub experiments with the full-service online VC model at scale | Slowly disproving stereotypes, the online VC has established itself as a viable tool for tech finance. But while the model has made money for investors, the industry still faces perceptions of selling money for money’s sake, without much ca... |
| 08.02.2017 | Octane Lending Revs Up Finance Arm, Closing Series A-2 Round | Octane Lending Inc. is off to the races — and quickly closing a Series A-2 funding round that opened Jan. 9 — after launching startup Roadrunner Financial. |
| 02.02.2017 | FoundersClub Responds: Each Immigrant FC Founder Creates 159 US Jobs | In a recent post, FoundersClub Christopher Steiner reflected on current concerns with the US’ newest president and hostile immigration policy, “The last five days have led to a great deal of introspection across industries regarding relatio... |
| 24.01.2017 | Business expense management platform Spendesk raises €2 million | Paris-based fintech startup Spendesk has raised €2 million in a seed round from Kima Ventures, FundersClub, and several angel investors including Edward Lando, Nicolas Steegmann, and Frédéric Montagnon. During March and June of last year, S... |
| 12.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, January 12 | TRANSPARENCY COCKTAIL Transparency: Over the past four years, FundersClub, an online venture capital firm, has invested in 217 companies. It has had 19 exits. Today the company published a quarterly breakdown of its returns in an effort to ... |
| 17.12.2016 | S Korean cosmetics startup Memebox raises $60m in Series C extension round | Premium South Korean cosmetics startup Memebox announced it had raised a $60 million Series C extension round led by new and existing investors that include Goodwater Capital, Altos Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Mousse Partners, Formation Grou... |
| 20.10.2016 | Online VC FundersClub launches Network Search to better connect its 18,000 members | Network effects in venture capital are no joke. Sure, people want to close rounds with brand name funds like Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz because they validate startups. But perhaps more importantly, companies become more likely to succe... |
| 30.09.2016 | Trocafone unlocks Latin America’s smartphone market selling certified, pre-owned phones | Sometimes it’s a startup business, and not political power, that grows out of the barrel of a gun. At least, that’s the story behind Trocafone, a Brazilian startup that just raised $7 million for its services buying, refurbishing, and re-se... |
| 09.09.2016 | Here’s Why You Should Expand Your Startup to Chicago | When launching a successful startup, funding is only part of the equation. Once you have the capital you need, positioning your company so it can deliver returns is the next step. And when your startup reaches this step, location is key. If... |
| 01.08.2016 | Top 13 U.S. Cities for Raising Startup Capital | Get ready to not be surprised: We have a look from Funders Club at the top cities in America that founders can find startup capital in, and they're about what you'd expect. The Bay area is the winner by a large margin, with New York and Bos... |
| 08.06.2016 | Why Your Startup Should Eat a Debt Sandwich | I’ve given this talk at various Techstars programs quite a few times now, and most recently gave it in L.A. at our awesome Healthcare Accelerator in partnership with Cedars-Sinai. I always do this talk off-the-cuff (no slides) to keep it in... |
| 27.04.2016 | Dear VCs, there’s something you need to know about raising funds this year | Elizabeth “Beezer” Clarkson Contributor Elizabeth “Beezer” Clarkson is managing director of Sapphire Ventures. More posts by this contributor Venture capital in 2017 is when the rubber hits the road for returns Why founders should care wher... |
| 30.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 30, 2016 | Zavante closed $45M Series A funding; MapD secured $10M; Invoca closed $30M Series D funding Invoca, a marketing platform for call analytics and automation, closed a $30 million Series D round of funding led by Morgan Stanley Alternative In... |
| 28.03.2016 | Pedro Sorrentino e FundersClub, investimento americano para startups brasileiras | Conheça um dos mais brilhantes talentos brasileiros no Vale do Silício. De empreendedor a investidor, agora de olho no mercado brasileiro. Pedro Sorrentino já foi empreendedor e vice-presidente da Associação Brasileira de Startups, mora no ... |
| 24.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 24, 2016 | Polypid closed $22M; NoBaker raised $10M funding; ClearMetal closed $3M Seed funding Paysa, provider of market salary data, raised $4 million in seed funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Milliway Ventures, and other private investo... |
| 22.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 22, 2016 | Qubit landed $40M Series C investment; Taskbob secured $4.5M; Chainalysis raised $1.6M funding Topgolf Entertainment Group (TEG), a parent company of Topgolf, Topgolf Media and Topgolf International, secured a sizable minority investment by... |
| 05.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 5, 2016 | Snagajob raised $100M; FunnelWise completed $7M Series A round; Revolut secured $4.8M funding Wevr, a virtual reality community and provider of a VR media player, raised $25 million in new funding from HTC, Samsung Ventures, Evolution Media... |
| 05.02.2016 | Simplex Raises $7 Million for Credit Card Bitcoin Buying Service | Simplex An Israeli bitcoin startup focused on enabling bitcoin purchases with credit cards has closed a $7m Series A funding round. Backing Simplex are bitcoin mining firms Bitmain and Cumberland Mining, and FundersClub, a crowdfunding plat... |
| 25.01.2016 | Aircall Grabs $2.75 Million For Its Powerful Phone Customer Support Service For Teams | French startup Aircall just raised a $2.75 million round led by Balderton Capital, with FundersClub and business angels also participating. As a reminder, Aircall was part of our Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF 2015, started at eFound... |
| 25.01.2016 | Aircall Raises $2.75M in Seed Funding | Aircall, a Paris, France-based online phone system built for teams, raised $2.75M in seed funding. The round was led by Balderton Capital with participation from US-based angels and FundersClub. The company will use the funds to accelerate ... |
| 13.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 13, 2016 | Zerto secured $50M; Syros Pharmaceuticals closed $40M financing; Shape Security raised $25M funding Bolste, provider of a business collaboration platform, announced today that it is launching its business operating system (BOS) one month af... |
| 20.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 20, 2015 | Le Tote secured $15M; MindTickle landed $12.5M; Hover raised $6M funding Hover has announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A financing round. Alsop Louie Partners led the round with participation from existing investors, includi... |
| 18.11.2015 | Why early stage investors need to adopt ‘The Lean Start-up’ | Not only start-ups but also early stage investors should adopt the lean start-up paradigm. Todays practice; investors take weeks for letting external due diligence teams re-calculate prognoses and stipulate every imperfection in all legal d... |
| 12.11.2015 | Surgery recovery coach developer raises $1.1M (Updated) | The app can be personalized to the type of procedure and the hospital’s care plan. It is a mix of reminders, multimedia education content, progress tracking tools and feedback for self management. It also provides a way for providers and ad... |
| 25.09.2015 | August snaps 12-month streak of $1B in early-stage funding | With $986 million, it was the first time early stage funding was less than $1B since July 2014 Just when you thought $1 billion was the new standard of monthly investment into early-stage financing, the numbers tipped backwards. After July ... |
| 27.11.2014 | Purse.io Closes $300k Funding to Expand Amazon Discount Service | Update (17:40 27th November): Updated with comment from Bobby Lee, Roger Ver and StrongVC. _______________________________________ Purse.io, a San Francisco-based startup that allows people to buy items on Amazon using bitcoin, has closed a... |
| 26.09.2014 | With Plans of Investing $100M Next Year, Israel’s OurCrowd Forges Its Own Path in Equity Crowdfunding | In the fast-emerging space of equity crowdfunding, Silicon Valley insiders are pretty familiar with players like AngelList. But there’s actually a startup crowdfunding site out of Israel with a veteran team that has a good deal of momentum ... |
| 21.07.2014 | Unbabel Raises $1.5M | Unbabel, a San Francisco, California- and Lisbon, Portugal-based advanced translation platform combining artificial intelligence with crowd translation, raised $1.5m in funding. Backers included Jared Fliesler of Matrix Partners, Kevin Rose... |
| 15.07.2014 | FundersClub’s New “Partnerships” Let You Start A Venture Capital Fund Or Invest In One | FundersClub democratized angel investing with its equity crowdfunding marketplace. Two years later, it wants to do the same for launching a fund or being a limited partner by licensing out its backend system for legally doing venture deals ... |
| 18.05.2014 | Why investors need to practice lean startup principles too | There has been an increase in startup quality due to the now-legendary improvements in process espoused by Steve Blank, Alex Osterwalder, and their lean startup principles. Yet legions of angel and seed investors have not upgraded their kno... |
| 14.04.2014 | Investing in emerging market startups? | 10 things to keep in mind Investing in emerging markets comes with its own unique challenges, but the rewards can be well worth the extra effort. I’ve lived in 11 countries and visited a few dozen more as an investment professional. After s... |
| 01.04.2014 | Startup funding: Embrace bad ideas, no business model | It's really hard to use a data-driven approach for angel investing In early 2010 my husband Keith, and I were having dinner with two of our old Yahoo! co-workers at a taqueria near Downtown Mountain View. One of them was Brian Action, who h... |
| 18.03.2014 | Backed By Boost VC And Tim Draper, Globevestor Helps Startups In Emerging Markets Get Funded Online | Entrepreneurs in India’s nascent but fast growing startup ecosystem are realizing that getting an early investor who appreciates their idea is increasingly becoming difficult. Sometimes it’s even tougher than finding their first paying cust... |
| 19.02.2014 | Globevestor matches global-minded investors with emerging market startups | Emerging market startups, especially those at the pre-revenue mark, continue to find access to early-stage capital (US$150 000 to US$1.5-million) challenging. At the same time, global-minded angel investors in Europe and the US are looking ... |
| 19.02.2014 | Globevestor matches global-minded investors with emerging market startups | Emerging market startups, especially those at the pre-revenue mark, continue to find access to early-stage capital (US$150 000 to US$1.5-million) challenging. At the same time, global-minded angel investors in Europe and the US are looking ... |
| 27.01.2014 | FundersClub unveils Venture News — a community news site for investors (exclusive) | Investing in startups requires a lot more than just giving money. FundersClub launched “Venture News” today, which founder Alex Mittal described as “Hacker News for private investors.” The goal is to create a place where private investors c... |
| 15.10.2013 | LaunchAngels Hopes to Consolidate Crowdfunding for Startup Investors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Crowdfunding for startups is starting to attract more professional investment managers. LaunchAngels, a Boston-based fund for individual investors, is seeking its first $1 mil... |
| 04.09.2013 | 11 Things You Need to Know Before Choosing An Angel Investor | The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world's most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free vir... |
| 17.08.2013 | FundersClub (YC S12) goes invite-only | “Democratizing venture capital” sounds great until equity crowdfunding fills startup financing rounds with amateur angels who don’t add value. So while other funding platforms open the floodgates to any accredited investor, and eventually a... |
| 16.08.2013 | FundersClub Ditches Dumb Money By Going Invite-Only | “Democratizing venture capital” sounds great until equity crowdfunding fills startup financing rounds with amateur angels who don’t add value. So while other funding platforms open the floodgates to any accredited investor, and eventually a... |
| 17.07.2013 | FundersClub (YC S12) now shares carried interest with members on startup investment referrals | As barriers around general solicitation come crashing down, FundersClub is looking at new ways to stay on top. The startup released a new feature today that rewards members of its community for making referrals. FundersClub will share 10 p... |
| 16.07.2013 | FundersClub braces against general solitication by rewarding investors for referrals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! As barriers around general solicitation come cras... |
| 16.07.2013 | FundersClub braces against general solitication by rewarding investors for referrals | As barriers around general solicitation come crashing down, FundersClub is looking at new ways to stay on top. The startup released a new feature today that rewards members of its community for making referrals. FundersClub will share 10 pe... |
| 10.07.2013 | SEC Lifts Ban On General Solicitation, Allowing Startups To Advertise That They’re Fundraising | The SEC has just voted 4 to 1 in favor of implementing section 201(a) of the JOBS Act, which lifts the ban on general solicitation and permits startups, venture capitalists, and hedge funds to openly advertise that they’re raising money in ... |
| 10.07.2013 | Secret's Out: Now You Can Tell the Whole World You're Raising Money for Your Business | July 10, 2013 5 min read Raising money for your business? Shout it from the rooftops. For the first time, it's allowed. The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted four to one that it will overturn the ban on publicly advertising tha... |
| 12.06.2013 | FundersClub Backs 11 Y Combinator-Incubated Startups with $1.1M | FundersClub, an online venture capital firm, closed its first fund dedicated to top startup incubator and accelerator programs. The fund supports 11 startups from Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 batch, with $1.1m in capital invested by FundersCl... |
| 11.06.2013 | FundersClub investor reach widens to 6,000-plus | The crowdfunded VC startup also unveils names of the YC startups in its latest fund FundersClub, a new online venture capital firm, has now crossed 6,000-plus investors on its platform. For those not familiar with this Y Combinator-backed s... |
| 11.06.2013 | FundersClub Nets $1.1M Investment In Y Combinator Startups | FundersClub has closed the first fund in their “Accelerate Series.” The fund offered early-stage investment opportunities in companies participating in the Winter 2013 class of Y Combinator. This new fund gave accredited investors the sough... |
| 26.04.2013 | Strikingly (YC W13) raises $1.5M from SV Angel, Index Ventures, FundersClub | Strikingly, the do-it-yourself (DIY) website creation service, has raised a $1.5 million seed round. The investments came from prominent venture capitalists including SV Angel, Index Ventures, Funders Club, Infinity Venture Partners, and In... |
| 25.02.2013 | Funding Daily: Red carpet reflections | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! There were many highlights from last night’s Acad... |
| 09.01.2013 | Proving The Value Of Crowdfunding, Soldsie Raises $425K And Hires One Of 72 Investors Via FundersClub | Online venture capital firm FundersClub is pioneering equity crowdfunding and today demonstrated the value of bringing on dozens of investors rather than a handful. E-commerce startup Soldsie just raised $425,000 from 72 investors through F... |
| 21.12.2012 | Coinbase Raises $165K via FundersClub | Coinbase, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that is developing a wallet for the digital, decentralized currency bitcoin, has raised $165k in funding. Thirty-one investors have backed the company via FundersClub. Led by founder and CEO Brian... |
| 17.12.2012 | Virool Grabs Funding | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Virool, which is pioneering the concept of social video advertising, raised $509K from Founders Club. >> Click here for more funding data on Virool >> To export Virool funding data to PDF and Excel, click ... |
| 17.12.2012 | Virool Raises $510K | Virool, a San Francisco, CA-based social video advertising startup, has raised $509,800 in funding via the online venture capital platform FundersClub. Investors in the company include TMT Investments (read here) Y Combinator, 500 Startups,... |
| 22.10.2012 | FundersClub (YC S12) raises $6M seed round to change startup funding | If you need more proof that FundersClub wants to radically change startup funding by letting non-VCs invest, it just closed a $6 million seed round… There are still questions about its legality, but investors include A-listers YC, First Rou... |
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