Startups, the so-called Deep tech often has a hard time raising capital for a variety of reasons. At the TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, two experienced investors spoke on the subject and advised startups on a challenging fundraising path. Pae Wu and Garrett Winther are both partners at SOSV and lead the fund’s programs … Read more
H venture partner brought together more than 75 consumer and retail industry experts to invest in their first fund raising $ 10 million for science-backed consumer brand startups. Founder and managing partner Elizabeth Edwards (pictured above) founded the Cincinnati-based venture capital company in 2017 after 15 years as a VC with other companies, primarily in … Read more
Barely a week has passed since Facebook began testing ads in Oculus apps, and the initiative has run into trouble. On Monday, one of the few developers involved in the first ad experiment said it was withdrawing from the test. Resolution Games tweeted that it had decided that in-app advertising for its multiplayer shooter game, … Read more
Amazon will soon be a big part of the space economy in the form of its Kuiper satellite internet constellation, but here on Earth its ambitions are more mundane: to get an accelerator going. They teamed up with space-focused VC outfit Seraphim Capital to create a four-week program with (among other things) an AWS credit … Read more
Storm Ventures, a venture firm focused on early stage B2B start-ups, announced this week that it has promoted Pascale Diaine and Frederik Groce to partner with the company. The two new partners have worked their way up over the past few years. Groce joined Storm in 2016 and has invested in SaaS startups like Workato, … Read more