Code First Girls Raises £4.5M in Series A Funding
Code First Girls, a London, UK-based business that supports women into coding education and employment, raised £4.5M in Series A funding. Backers included Active Partners, and female angels such as Michelle Kennedy, Former Director at Bumble and CEO and Founder at Peanut Rona Ruthen, Co-Founder and COO at Stealth and Former VP at Monzo Clare […]
wi-Q Raises £3M in Funding
wi-Q, a Manchester, UK-based digital payments startup, raised £3m in funding. The round was led by Praetura Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to enhance its product offering and expand its international presence. Founded in 2014 and led by Patience Tucker, CEO, wi-Q provides mobile ordering and payment solutions to the hospitality and […]
LiveScore Group Receives £50M Strategic Investment from Ringier AG
LiveScore Group, a London, UK-based media and technology company focused on real-time sports scores, received a £50M investment from Ringier AG. The investment values LiveScore Group’s gaming and media business at £500m. Following the investment, Stilian Shishkov will join the Supervisory Board of LiveScore Group. Shishkov is currently Senior Partner of the Ringier Sports Media Group, […]
PolyAI Raises $40M in Series B Funding
PolyAI, a London, UK-based provider of enterprise voice assistants, raised $40M in Series B funding. The round was led by Georgian with participation from Twilio Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand operations. Founded in 2017 by Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien Wen and […]
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Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. As per Peter Thiel, a killer pitch deck should include the following slides: Problem Solution Market Size Product Traction Team Competition Financials Amount being raised Financial Model Here is the detailed layout of the pitch deck […]
Ceezer Raises €4.2M in Funding
Ceezer, a Berlin, Germany-based marketplace for carbon credits, raised €4.2m in funding. The round was led by Carbon Removal Partners and Norrsken VC with participation from existing investor Picus Capital. The company intends to use to expand its impact and sourcing team and to increase the product offering. Led by Founder and CEO Magnus Drewelies, Ceezer is […]
Delli Raises $7.2M in Funding
Delli, a London, UK-based community-focused food and beverage company, raised $7.2M in funding. The round was led by Balderton and HV Capital. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand operations. Founded by Simon Beckerman, Delli is a community food and drink platform that uses the “drop” model to sell products […]
Zeet Raises $4.3M in Seed Funding
Zeet, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an integrated DevOps and deployment platform for software developers, raised $4.3M in Seed funding. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Race Capital, as well as engineering leaders from AWS, Google, Twitch, Repl.it, Yelp, Sentry and more. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate […]
ZineOne Raises $28M in Series C Funding
ZineOne, a Milpitas, Ca-based martech platform provider, raised $28M in Series C funding. The round was led by SignalFire, with participation from Norwest and other existing investors. Chris Scoggins at SignalFire, has joined ZineOne’s Board of Directors. The company intends to use the funds expand operations and its development efforts. Led by CEO Debjani Deb, […]
ILiAD Biotechnologies Closes $42.8M Series D Financing
ILiAD Biotechnologies, a Weston, FL-based clinical stage biotechnologies company, raised $42.8M in Series D funding. The round was led by Knott Partners. The company intends to use the funds to conduct a Phase 2b Human Challenge study to determine if vaccination with BPZE1 prevents colonization from wild-type Bordetella pertussis infection. In addition to funding continued operations, R&D […]