12/15/2023 8:02:47 PM Sale of Silicon Valley Bank’s old venture capital arm hits a snag By Louden Richason Two front-runners had been vying for SVB Capital: a duo of Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital and Atlas Merchant Capital, and San...
5/23/2023 2:04:48 PM Crypto funding skyrockets +330% WoW, with 16 startups raising over $246m By FinTech Collective Crypto funding skyrocketed more than 330% this week, with approximately 16 firms raising more than $246 million. Comparatively, last...
7/23/2021 2:50:58 PM Allocate banks $5m to open up venture capital fund access By FinTech Collective San Francisco based provider of a platform that enables investors to discover and invest in high-quality venture funds raised $5m in...
7/23/2021 1:50:48 PM Crypto venture studio Thesis raises $21m to keep building By FinTech Collective Florida based crypto venture studio raised $21m in Series A funding with participation by ParaFi Capital, Nascent, and Polychain Capital.
7/15/2021 7:15:25 PM Some UK VC firms opening funding rounds to individual investors By FinTech Collective Venture capital company Forward Partners is joining Draper Esprit and Augmentum in opening early-stage funding rounds and public...
7/15/2021 2:06:44 PM Funding to Black startup founders quadrupled in past year, but remains elusive By FinTech Collective Funding to Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. hit nearly $1.8 billion through the first half of 2021 — a more than fourfold increase...
7/9/2021 10:01:38 PM StepStone Group significantly bolsters Its Venture Capital and Growth Equity platform By FinTech Collective This week, StepStone Group announced the acquisition of Greenspring Associates. The combined team of over 70 venture capital and growth...
4/10/2020 5:01:54 PM SoFi acquiring Galileo in $1.2b deal, resulting in a ‘4x’ return for investor Accel By Faisal Kawar Last October, Accel led a $77m Series A in Galileo. The startup was profitable and previously bootstrapped for 19 years. Sources familiar...
4/3/2020 10:06:14 PM Venture-Backed Startups Can Access SBA 7(a) Loans - See the Details By Carlos Alonso Torras Most lawyers read the affiliate provision in the CARES Act to mean that any VC-backed startup would need to affiliate with all the other...
3/7/2019 9:59:27 PM Omidyar spins off flourish By FinTech Collective Omidyar Network, the impact investment firm created by Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar, is spinning off its fintech investment practice into...
1/4/2019 5:49:54 PM Union Square Ventures secures $429M across two new funds By Sean Lippel New York based venture capital firm has submitted paperwork that will see it raise $190m in its 5th early stage fund, and the remainder...
12/19/2018 9:32:02 PM Polychain Capital raises $175m venture capital fund By FinTech Collective Polychain, which is widely considered the largest crypto hedge fund, has announced it is getting into traditional equity. Firm founder...
11/6/2018 2:40:46 PM A venture capitalist is running for Congress in farm country By FinTech Collective Recode provides an overview of one of the nation's most competitive congressional battles. Josh Harder, a former VC for Bessemer, faces...
7/27/2018 8:06:36 PM Scoop: Inside Google's Venture Capital "Machine" By FinTech Collective Google Ventures leverages an algorithm called "The Machine" when making investment decisions. The algo accounts for a broad variety of...
1/12/2018 6:57:00 AM Bono’s Fund Makes Its First Fintech Investment, Backing Acorns By FinTech Collective Bono's Rise Fund has made it's first fintech investment with Acorns, joining Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Durant as backers. Bono co-founded...
12/8/2017 3:58:46 AM Design a stock option plan with benchmarks for every role By Gareth Jones What a useful tool! Thank you Index Ventures who analyzed over 4,000 option grants from more than 200 startups across the US and Europe -...