Venture Capital

Initialized Capital’s Brett Gibson quit his job as a pizza maker to learn to code. He became a serial startup founder, then met his future colleague Garry Tan at Y Combinator. Tan then brought Gibson to work with him in his startup, Posterous, then Initialized. After earning a philosophy degree …

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) – Herb’N Eden, a natural baths and beauty company, has received $1.2 million in funding to go toward business development. The Douglasville-based, black-owned company closed the deal with Mercantile Venture Capital and The Core Venture Studio in April. Husband and wife team Quinton and Terran Lewis founded …

A Q&A with Nathan Owen, General Partner of Grand Ventures LLC NOTathan Owen moved from software development to venture capital a year ago. Owen previously ran Grand Rapids Blue software developer Medora, which he co-founded in 2007 and left in October 2019, months before the sale of a major business …

No more WWD Fearless Fund, the first venture capital fund created by women of color for women of color, has partnered with peer coaching platform The Cru and the Tory Burch Foundation to provide a total of 75 women of small businesses run by women of color. grants between $10,000 …

[ad_1] As we enter the final quarter of a successful funding year, the record pace of global venture capital funding continues. Subscribe to Daily Crunchbase More than $ 54 billion was invested in more than 2,000 companies around the world in October. This is the fourth highest funding month in …

[ad_1] Conrad Burke, the Bray-born entrepreneur who previously founded Innovalight – a manufacturer of silicon ink for solar panels that was sold to DuPont – launched Meta VC Partners, a venture capital firm backed by Bill Gates and the former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold. Francisco-based Meta VC is raising $ …