Adding on a partner is no joke. Well, at least if you want it to be equal. NextView Ventures announces today that it has raised a $200 million venture fund, its largest to date, split between an early stage vehicle, at $135 million, and opportunity vehicle, at $65 million. The fund also brings Stephanie Palmeri,…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Shortly after the COVID pandemic hit, inspiration struck Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman. The pair had been watching the “mass mobilization” of the epidemiology research community, Abernathey said. “Joe and I were both thinking at the time, ‘We wanted to be part of something with that level of intensity and urgency around climate change.’” Abernathey…
Foxglove, a startup building an infrastructure stack for robotics, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse with participation from Amplify Partners and angel investors including Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. The proceeds bring Foxglove’s total raised to $18.7 million, which CEO Adrian Macneil says is being put…
Elenas estimates that 11 million women in Latin America sell consumer items via catalogs and door-to-door sales methods. It is digitizing that process so they can more easily sell from home. Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to…
Mark Zuckerberg will make his impassioned pleas that the metaverse is a real thing and a valid Next Big Business for Meta (neé The Facebook) on Tuesday. The annual Meta Connect developer conference kicks off with a keynote starting at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT, which is followed immediately by a more technical…
Private social networking app BeReal isn’t known for brand advertising, but early BeReal adopter Chipotle is looking to change that. The brand is celebrating its return of the Boorito, Chipotle’s first time doing the promo since 2019, by giving BeReal users the chance to win 52 free burritos for a year. For one day only,…
Bears hibernate during the coldest months, but there’s nowhere to hide from a bear market during a crypto winter. As the entire sector faces what looks to be a long stretch of uncertainty, young founders must find a way to keep the funds flowing. But how? This timely topic is why we’re thrilled that industry…
I first met Estefania “Tefi” Pessoa on TikTok. I have never seen Tefi IRL nor have we ever had a conversation outside of this interview, but that’s what makes Tefi, or @hellotefi on TikTok and Instagram, so good at what she does: When she popped up on my For You Page I felt like I…
Street Fighter 6’s recent closed beta test has revealed a swathe of awesome accessibility features bound to greatly help those who need them. The Street Fighter 6 closed beta, which ran from October 7 – 10 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, let players try the upcoming fighter online with the currently announced roster…
(Image credit: Future) Microsoft is holding a big hardware event on October 12, and rumors are swirling that we may see some new devices from the company, such as the Surface Pro 9. It’s been around a year since the Surface Pro 8 was launched, so it’s about time that Microsoft released a follow up…