Venture Capital

Online rehab real estate lending marketplace Fund That Flip said Wednesday it has raised $11 million from growth equity firm Edison Partners. What To Know New York-based Fund That Flip, which launched in 2014, provides short-term loans to developers seeking to buy, renovate and flip residential...

Japanese global conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp - ADR (OTC: SFTBY) introduced a mega investment fund that is bigger in scope than its first $100-billion Vision Fund, The Wall Street Journal reported. What Happened SoftBank's new megafund, Vision 2, is investing about $...

Imagine deciding to sit out on an investment that ended up yielding 100,000% returns. Those five zeros are not typos, and that scenario is no hypothetical: just ask John Doerr, the chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. Doerr has made many strong investments in his career, including...

A look at Freight futures, a predictive tool to protect against volatility. And Kevin Hill brings us the most notable venture capital deals of 2019 so far. Image sourced from Pixabay

Singapore-based passenger transport giant ComfortDelGro has invested in three startups in the areas of on-demand bus technology, fleet management and autonomous vehicle safety testing, the company announced on Tuesday, June 4. The early-stage investments are the first to be made by ComfortDelGro...

Following the inaugural Founders Camp in 2018, Chattanooga-based Dynamo VC has announced its 2019 program supported by headline sponsors Chick-fil-A, Covenant Transportation (NASDAQ: CVTI), Schneider National Inc (NYSE: SNDR) and FreightWaves. The event will bring together stakeholders from the...

Schulte Group has launched INNOPORT, a venture capital unit that invests in global maritime startups. "We want to build bridges and open doors wherever possible," said Yiannis Sykas, INNOPORT chief and director of strategy and product development at Bernhard Schulte Ship management, in a release...

More and more transportation and logistics companies are choosing to sell to private equity (PE) groups because of the value-add provided by PE firms and the increasing expense and burden of public markets. That was one of the main messages articulated by the participants in Stifel's "...

On this episode of the Fintech Focus Podcast we’re journeying overseas with Monica Brand Engel, co-founder and partner at Quona Capital. Quona is a VC fund focused on emerging markets fintech, and Monica talks to us about the challenges in different fintech markets around the globe, how they...

Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ: KHC) has announced the launch of a $100-million venture capital fund, Evolv Ventures. Kraft Heinz, the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world, said the fund will invest in emerging tech companies that are transforming the food industry. The company has...

This story is the second in a multipart series by Benzinga on the state of the fintech sector in 2018. Click here to read an IBM CTO's thoughts on the collaboration between banks and fintech startups. As one of the pre-eminent venture capitalists in the fintech space, Canaan Partners'...

Even Financial, a fintech company that acts as a recommendation provider for personal finance websites, announced an $18.8 million Series A funding round on Tuesday. This brings the company’s total funding to $25 million since its launch in 2015. The Series A round was led by GreatPoint...

Thousands of startups around the globe are working on disruptive solutions that make travel and mobility more efficient, frictionless, and interconnected. As our recent analysis on the state of Travel & Mobility Tech around the Globe has shown, the rate of innovation in this sector has grown...

In an office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Maureen Miller Brosnan is working on a $224-million problem. The figure represents the difference between the estimated $627 million in funding that venture capitalists need to raise to support the growth of Michigan’s new and existing startups in the next...