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Trustmary secures USD2.2m funding to drive growth in Europe and North America

Trustmary, a testimonial marketing platform, has closed its first funding round of USD2.2 million to drive growth both in North America and Europe.  The investment will be used to further intensify the company’s market entry while also strengthening marketing and development teams in both the European headquarters in Finland and

Piva Capital adds to team

Piva Capital, a VC firm that’s backs ‘visionary’ founders and emerging technology companies transforming industry, has appointed Mark Gudiksen as the firm’s second Managing Partner and Roxanne Tully has joined as an Investor.  Founded in 2019, Piva Capital believes emerging companies need investors who are global, fast-moving, engaged, supportive, and

BioInnovation Institute launches Venture Lab programme

BioInnovation Institute (BII), an international commercial foundation with a non-profit objective incubating and accelerating world-class life science research, has announced the first cohort of participants in the Venture Lab acceleration program for early-stage companies.  Comprising a pan-European spread of start-up initiatives and university research projects, the seven ventures are developing

Vala British Ventures EIS to plug funding gap for homegrown start-ups

Vala Capital, a venture capital firm, has launched a new tranche for its EIS portfolio – targeting fast-growth British start-ups with strategies to scale quickly and become the next generation of British unicorns. Innovative small companies are key to the UK’s post-pandemic recovery, yet there is a significant funding gap

Animal-free cheese producer Formo raises USD50m in Series A funding round

Precision fermentation company Formo has closed a USD50 million Series A financing round led by EQT Ventures, with Elevat3 Capital and Lowercarbon Capital as co-leads. The round also saw participation from Lionheart Ventures, Happiness Capital, and Albert Wenger. Additionally, existing investors Agronomics, CPT Capital, Good Seed Ventures, Grazia Equity, and

X-Margin raises USD8m in Series A funding round

X-Margin, a specialist in applying privacy-preserving technology to credit and financial market risk, has raised USD8 million in a Series A funding round where Coinbase Ventures, HashKey Capital and Spartan Group were major investors.  Bixin Ventures, Miranda Ventures (Bybit), Gemini, Primitive Ventures and Kenetic Capital also participated in the funding

Sprinque raises EUR1.7m

Sprinque, an Amsterdam-based checkout platform for B2B merchants and marketplaces offering a SaaS payment solution tailored to businesses’ needs, has raised EUR1.7 million in funding from Volta Ventures, Force Over Mass and a renowned group of angel investors and payments industry executives. Sprinque built a digital checkout infrastructure to make

L’ATTITUDE VENTURES to in invest more than USD100m in US Latino entrepreneurs

L’ATTITUDE 2021 will once again feature Match-Up, a national stage that matches US Latina/o entrepreneurs with unparalleled visibility, institutional capital, and strategic global partners. Match-Up is hosted and anchored by L’ATTITUDE VENTURES (LAT VC), a venture fund that invests exclusively in early-stage US Latino entrepreneurs. LAT VC has raised over

GED Capital invests in three startups through VC fund Conexo

Independent Iberian alternative assets manager GED Capital has added three new technology startups to the portfolio of its Conexo Ventures fund – Vonzu, Pridactect and Feedzai.  Conexo Ventures has injected EUR1.5 million into Vonzu, a software company for logistics and delivery.  Pridatect, meanwhile is a company in the Legal-Tech sector

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