Thalamos Raises $1M in Seed Funding
Thalamos, a London, UK-based provider of a platform digitizing the Mental Health Act, raised $1m in seed funding. Backers included Ascension’s Conduit Impact EIS Fund, angels including Syndicate Room, and investors from a private Seedrs crowdfund. Hadley Diest, Investment Manager at Ascension, will join Thalamos’ board as an independent advisor. The company intends to use the […]
ApniBus secures its pre-seed funding from Antler India
ApniBus, an intercity bus platform for Bharat, has raised pre-seed funding led by Antler India. Goodwater Capital and angels such as Neeraj Singh and Ashish Mohapatra also participated in the round. Sumit Gupta, Apni Bus co-founder, said, “The Tier 3 and Tier 4 intercity travel markets are enormous and ripe for disruption.” Coming from a […]
EV Startup–3eco & Its Parent 3ev raises $ 4 million in funding from Credence
Credence, a new age startup for potential based education loans, invested a total of $4 Mn in 3ev an electric vehicle startup and its parent company 3eco Systems’ Pre-Series A funding rounds. From this, $2.5 million has been invested in 3ev, while the remaining $1.5 million is for 3eco. Nitesh Arora, government director at Credence […]
Manufactured Raises $13M in Debt and Equity Funding
Manufactured (MFD), a Culver City, CA-based manufacturing, finance and distribution company, raised $13m in debt and equity funding. The backers were Tenacity Venture Capital and TriplePoint Capital. The company, which has raised $16m in total funding, intends to use the funds to expand its inventory financing solution for consumer brands. Led by Pranay Srinivasan, CEO and Founder, Manufactured helps companies source, finance […]
Merak Ventures launches a $100 million debut fund to back early-stage startups
According to Manu Rikhye and Sheetal Bahl, creators of the sector-agnostic, early-stage venture capital (VC) firm, Merak Ventures is raising its first fund with a target corpus of $100 million. In the next three to four years, the fund will invest in 18 to 20 firms. Merak will provide seed funding to business-to-business (B2B) and […]
Spacetech Startup Pixxel raises Undisclosed funding from Accenture
Indian space-tech startup Pixxel has received an undisclosed strategic investment from Accenture Ventures, the investment arm of the multinational IT services company. After Canadian firm Radical Ventures led Pixxel’s $25 million Series A fundraising round, which was revealed in March 2022, Accenture Ventures is now the second global fund to have invested in an Indian […]
OneSignal Raises $50M in Series C Funding
OneSignal, a San Mateo, CA-based customer engagement platform provider, raised $50M in Series C funding. The funding, which brought total funding since founding to more than $80m, was led by BAM Elevate, an investment division of Balyasny Asset Management, with participation from Nimble Partners and existing investors SignalFire and Zach Coelius. They will join OneSignal’s other […]
Learnsoft Closes USD16.7M Series A Funding
Learnsoft, a San Diego, CA-based technology leader meeting the training needs of highly regulated service industries, raised USD16.7M in Series A funding. The round was led by Elsewhere Partners. Michele Perry, an Elsewhere Partners operating advisor, will take on the role of Board Chair, alongside Chris Pacitti and Sloane Child of Elsewhere Partners, who will […]
JOMBONE CLOSES $3.3 MILLION TO MODERNIZE THE BLUE-COLLAR STAFFING INDUSTRY
The blue-collar staffing space is dominated by multinational, legacy, publicly-traded players like Manpower, Randstad, and Adecco, which have seen a lot of success matching employers with job-seekers. But according to Jombone co-founder and CEO Sumit Sahdev, the sector has been working “in an antiquated fashion” for decades, relying on inefficient, expensive, and highly manual processes to find, […]
SUREBRIGHT RAISES $3.2 MILLION CAD TO REINVENT RETAIL INSURANCE
Insurtech startup SureBright has secured a $2.5 million USD ($3.2 million CAD) pre-seed round to hire more staff and build out its embedded insurance and warranty solution. The startup’s solution enables any e-commerce merchant to begin selling insurance and warranty products in their stores in under 15 minutes. SureBright has already embedded its app with three Shopify […]