Venture Capital

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...

The following post is from the Lufthansa Innovation Hub Thousands of startups around the globe are working on innovative solutions that make travel more efficient, frictionless and interconnected. In order to shed light on the accelerating innovation dynamics in the Travel & Mobility Tech...

"Value over number" seems to be the mantra guiding venture capital funds these days, or that's what is revealed by Statista. Despite an ongoing drop in the number of deals, spending by venture capital funds remains on track to be the highest since the turn of the millennium, according...

Benzinga recently had the chance to discuss investments and investors in the cannabis industry with Micah Tapman, managing director and partner of CanopyBoulder, a seed-stage investment program and mentorship-driven business accelerator for startups in the cannabis industry. In addition to the more...

Benzinga recently spoke with IguanaFix’s Matias Recchia. The co-founder and CEO of one of the most successful startups in Latin America discussed the challenges of building a successful business in the region; of servicing large-caps like Anheuser Busch Inbev NV (ADR) (NYSE: BUD), Starbucks...