Rise Capital is a global investment firm that focuses on making expansion-stage investments in Internet businesses in the most prominent Emerging Markets. We back industry-leading businesses run by world-class entrepreneurs who attack large addressable market opportunities. Leveraging our experience as Emerging Market Internet operators and investors, we strategically guide these businesses to scale.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2013
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Series A
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| 27.04.2022 | Ex-Tiger Global, Goldman Sachs exec’s VC firm launches in India | InvestmentsNewsStartups Deepti Sri · 2d ago · 2 min readEx-Tiger Global, Goldman Sachs exec’s VC firm launches in India San Francisco-based VC firm Rise Capital has launched operations in India through its Global Fund III as part of the com... |
| 10.07.2021 | VCBay Weekly News Roundup – Ecommerce startups MaxAB, Furlenco and many others raise fresh funding | Welcome to VCBay Weekly News Roundup. Here are some important developments in the startup space and major funding rounds this week – |
| 06.07.2021 | Egypt-based e-commerce marketplace MaxAB raises US$ 40M | MaxAB, an Egypt-based B2B e-commerce marketplace that connects food and grocery retailers to suppliers, raised US$ 40 million in a Series A funding round on 5 July 2021. |
| 20.02.2020 | The rise of the winged pink unicorn | Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor Share on Twitter Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an angel investor and bestselling author of nine books that have been published in more than a dozen countries. An early employee at Twitter, she was called “The Woman Who ... |
| 24.05.2019 | Nigeria’s Gokada raises $5.3m Series-A round led by Rise Capital | On-demand motorcyle ride-hailing startup Gokada has announced that it has raised a $5.3-million Series-A round led by San Francisco-based Rise Capital. The Lagos-based startup said in a statement today that Adventure Capital, First MidWest... |
| 24.05.2019 | Nigeria’s Gokada raises $5.3m Series-A round led by Rise Capital | On-demand motorcyle ride-hailing startup Gokada has announced that it has raised a $5.3-million Series-A round led by San Francisco-based Rise Capital. The Lagos-based startup said in a statement today that Adventure Capital, First MidWest ... |
| 22.05.2019 | Jobberman co-founder, Ayodeji Adewunmi joins Gokada as co-CEO, as the company raises $5.3m Series A | Share this article: This article was published in December 2019. Adewunmi has since left Gokada. News circulated last month about Ayodeji Adewunmi’s resignation from Jobberman, a company he co-founded in 2009, while in University, with two ... |
| 27.08.2018 | Online tutoring marketplace, Prepclass secures significant Series A funding | Share this article: Techpoint can confirm that online tutoring marketplace, Prepclass has just raised a new Series A funding round. The round, which was finalised earlier in the month of August, is backed by Rise Capital, an American group ... |
| 20.12.2017 | Interview with Diego Fischer, co-founder and CEO of InstaCarro | How Latin American startups are on the rise and what companies are doing to capitalize in the area Latin America is quickly becoming an area that is drawing the interest of both startups and venture capitalist. What started with VOX Capital... |
| 22.07.2016 | Rise Capital Seeks to Raise up to $50M for Second Venture Capital Fund | Rise Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based venture capital firm, is seeking to raise up to $50m for its second fund. According to a regulatory form filed with the SEC, Rise Capital II LP has not raised funds yet. Led by Yasin Nazar and Tom Ter... |
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