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| 01.12.2025 | “Which AI models recommend us?”: Searchable raises €4.5 million to help teams understand their brand in the AI age | London-based startup Searchable has raised €4.5 million (£4 million) in funding at a €45 million (£40 million) valuation to power the next frontier of digital marketing: visibility within AI search platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
The... |
| 22.09.2025 | Invisible Technologies: $100 Million Raised For AI Infrastructure For The Enterprise | Invisible Technologies, a leading enterprise AI software platform, recently announced a successful funding round, raising $100 million to enhance its growth. The funding was led by Vanara Capital, a newly established investment management f... |
| 18.09.2025 | Invisible Technologies Secures $100M, Achieves $2B+ Valuation | Invisible Technologies, an NYC-based AI software and data platform, secured $100 million in new funding. This round catapults its valuation beyond $2 billion. Vanara Capital spearheaded the investment, bringing Invisible's total capital rai... |
| 17.09.2025 | Invisible Technologies Raises $100M in Funding | Invisible Technologies, a NYC-based AI software platform provider for the enterprise, raised $100M in growth funding
The round was led by Vanara Capital, with participation from Princeville Capital, HOF Capital, Freestyle VC, Rocketeer Mana... |
| 24.07.2025 | Dash Bio: $11 Million Closed To Advance Bioanalysis Platform | Dash Bio (see Pulse 2.0 profile), a bioanalysis company specializing in rapid and scalable drug development, has announced an additional $11 million in funding, bringing its total to $17.5 million. Led by The Aligned Fund, investors include... |
| 23.07.2025 | Dash Bio Raises $11M in Funding | Dash Bio, a Newton, MA-based preclinical and clinical bioanalysis company, raised $11M in funding.
The round was led by The Aligned Fund, with participation from Freestyle Capital, Cybernetix Ventures, Swift Ventures, LifeX Ventures, Drive ... |
| 19.02.2025 | Keebler Health Secures $6 Million to Revolutionize Risk Adjustment in Healthcare | In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, Keebler Health has emerged as a beacon of innovation. The Durham, North Carolina-based company recently secured $6 million in seed funding, bringing its total funding to $7.8 million. This inves... |
| 18.02.2025 | Keebler Health Raises $6M to Transform Risk Adjustment with AI-Powered Platform | What You Should Know:
– Keebler Health, a provider of AI-native risk adjustment solutions for healthcare providers, today announced a $6 million seed funding round led by Freestyle Capital with participation from MBX Capital, New Stack Vent... |
| 31.07.2024 | A Robust Seed Market Creates Its Own Dilemmas In A Slower Funding Market | 8 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
In the first half of 2024, U.S. seed funding reached $6.4 billion, which is flat compared to H2 2023 and down from $7 billion in H1 2023.
However, through the downturn following the 2021 market peak,... |
| 13.06.2023 | How to pitch me: 10 investors discuss what they’re looking for in June 2023 | Let’s explode a few myths.
For starters: The tech industry is not a meritocracy. There’s a direct correlation between the size and strength of your network and your chances of success.
Second: It’s relatively easy to connect with reputable ... |
| 31.08.2022 | How to fundraise a Series A | Jenny Lefcourt Contributor
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Editor’s note: Jenny Lefcourt is a TechCrunch Live guest on August 31, 2022 where, along with Gui... |
| 25.05.2022 | Idiomatic bets on contextual AI as it grows its voice-of-customer platform | Many of today’s organizations base their business decisions largely on structured data such as credit card transactions and earnings reports. This type of data is often easy to search for and analyze, existing in predefined formats that hel... |
| 18.09.2021 | 1 change that can fix the VC funding crisis for women founders | Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor
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Claire Diaz-Ortiz is a venture capitalist and author of nine books that have been translated into 11 languages. Her next book is on women founders and funders. An early employee at Twitter, Wir... |
| 24.12.2020 | US seed-stage investing flourished during pandemic | As the United States entered its first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, there were wide expectations in startup land that a reckoning had arrived. But the expected comeuppance of high-burn, high-growth startups fueled by cheap capital provided b... |
| 02.11.2020 | How To Raise Capital During Covid-19: Advice From VCs And Entrepreneurs Who Have Raised Over $300 Million In The Pandemic | Raising Startup Capital During the Pandemic.Engin Akyurt |
| 04.05.2020 | Daily.co raises $4.6M video chat API service | API-powered startups are having a good year, with Plaid’s mega-exit to Visa still fresh in mind. And digital video-powered startups are also having a good year, as the world stays home more than before and work shifts to a more remote-frien... |
| 07.01.2020 | 6 VCs explain why seed investors now favor enterprise startups | Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
Today we’re digging into seed-stage companies, the vanguard of the venture market. In particular, we’re trying to underst... |
| 25.04.2019 | Y Combinator Startup Meru Health Raises $4.2M to Advance Digital Clinic for Mental Health | Meru Health, a Y Combinator company currently participating in the Texas Medical Center TMCx Accelerator in Houston has raised $4.2 million in seed funding from Freestyle Capital, Bonit Capital, Y Combinator, Lifeline Ventures, and IT-Farm.... |
| 12.02.2019 | The founding story of Patreon | It’s May 7, 2013 and Jack Conte is, in his own words, “totally exhausted, slash, totally wired, in that really weird in-between zone.” He has spent 18 hours per day for the last 50 days building a replica of the Millennium Falcon set from “... |
| 17.04.2018 | Developing rapid response services for real estate agents, Agentology bags $12 million | Startups like Zillow and Trulia have reshaped the real estate market by giving consumers their 24-hour covetable, clickable window into shoppable home sales — and the other players in the real estate marketplace are struggling to catch up.
... |
| 03.07.2017 | Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself | Tens of millions of Winamp users are still out there.
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| 19.04.2017 | How Freestyle Technology landed a $5.8 million deal with South Korea as it starts preparations for an IPO | [Left] Mohan Jesudason
A Victorian tech company specialising in Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for global markets has secured a $5.8 million deal with South Korea that will see its smart water systems deployed in 24,000 households by th... |
| 11.04.2017 | Freestyle Capital raises $90M, promotes Jenny Lefcourt | Lefcourt, who joined in 2014, is now an equal partner with founders Dave Samuel and Josh Felser
It's no secret that venture capital is overwhelmingly male. A study from CrunchBase last year found that, among the top 100 VC firms, only 54 ou... |
| 11.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, April 11 | BIG COMPANY DISEASE
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| 11.04.2017 | Freestyle Capital Closes Fourth Fund, at €90m; Jenny Lefcourt Joins as Partner | Freestyle Capital, a San Francisco Bay Area-based early stage venture capital firm, closed its fourth fund, at €90m.
In conjunction with the close of the fund, Jenny Lefcourt joined the firm as a full and equal partner.
Co-founded in 2009 b... |
| 10.04.2017 | Freestyle Capital raised a new $90 million fund and promoted Jenny Lefcourt to general partner | Freestyle Capital has raised its fourth fund to invest in early-stage startups. This time around the firm is increasing the fund size to $90 million and promoting Jenny Lefcourt to general partner.
Freestyle was founded by Josh Felser and D... |
| 05.04.2017 | Cendana Capital — which funds 15 top seed-stage groups — just raised a ton of capital | Michael Kim is pretty much killing it.
Seven years ago, when he first approached investors with the idea of creating a fund-of-funds that would invest in seed-stage, or so-called micro VC, funds, they were cool to the idea. In fact, it took... |
| 19.01.2017 | Founders, don’t trust your venture capitalists… or should you? | Josh Felser Contributor
Josh Felser is a seed investor/serial entrepreneur. He co-founded Freestyle (early-stage VC), Spinner (sold to AOL), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) and @hashtagclimate.
The quick answer is sometimes — and always with... |
| 23.06.2016 | Narvar raises $22 million to help internet retailers deliver physical goods without frustrating customers | Battery Ventures led a $22 million, Series B investment in Narvar Inc., a company helping internet retailers keep their customers happy post-purchase, meaning until their packages are delivered, and if need be, successfully returned for an ... |
| 10.05.2016 | Are Post Seed rounds more prominent today? | It's not just venture capital investments in a slump, it's a reshuffling of where the money goes
Editor's Note: Our annual Vator Splash Spring 2016 conference is this Thursday, May 12, 2016 at the historic Scottish Rite Center in Oakland. S... |
| 09.05.2016 | Fear and loathing in Silicon Valley? | We will ask the tough questions about the state of the VC landscape at Vator Splash Spring on May 12
Editor's Note: Our annual Vator Splash Spring 2016 conference is around the corner on May 12, 2016 at the historic Scottish Rite Center in ... |
| 18.04.2016 | Gradescope: AI for Grading and Assessment |
“I love grading” — I doubt those words have ever been uttered in earnest! The only times I’ve ever heard them or even used them is with a healthy dose of sarcasm. Lot’s of people (me included) will say “I love teaching,” but that love for... |
| 26.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 26, 2016 | AppCard raised $20M; Vicampo closed third financing round; CREXi secured $4.3M Seed funding
An online store for party supplies, Funcart, raised $70,000 in its first round of funding from a group of HNIs. Launched in March 2015 by Funcart is... |
| 26.02.2016 | Founder’s Co-op invests in Giftbit, a B2B digital gift card company | Giftbit co-founders Leif Baradoy and Peter Locke.
Founders’ Co-op, a Seattle-based early-stage venture fund, has invested in Giftbit, a company that specializes in digital gift card campaigns for enterprise clients.
Based in Victoria, BC, a... |
| 01.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 1, 2015 | AppDynamics raised $158M; Symic secured $25M; Deskbookers announced $1.6M funding
Deskbookers, an online platform for booking work and meeting spaces, today announced that it has secured $1.6 million in seed funding from Point Nine Capital ... |
| 05.08.2015 | UXPin raises $5M in series A Funding | UX collaborative design platform with Polish origin attracts $ 5M in venture capital
UXPin, a Gdynia-based provider of a SaaS design platform, has announced the completion of a $ 5 million funding round led by True Ventures, with participa... |
| 26.05.2015 | Vator Splash Oakland 2015 Finalist - Countable | Check out Bart Myers' presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Oakland 2015 finalist Countable is a platform where users can learn about issues, influence their representatives in government, and rally their community and... |
| 22.05.2015 | Vator Splash Oakland 2015 Finalist - ShowKit | Check out Anthony Kelani's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Check out CEO and Co-Founder of Showkit Anthony Kelani's, presentation on stage and the judges feedback during the Vator Splash Oakland 2015 competition. ShowKit is t... |
| 15.05.2015 | Vator Splash Oakland 2015 Finalist - Cloudstead | Check out Jonathan Cobb's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Oakland 2015 finalist Cloudstead is a private cloud platform that seamlessly integrates an unlimited number of applications, giving users massive privacy ... |
| 15.05.2015 | Vator Splash Oakland 2015 Finalist - Britehub | Check out Adam Kuperman's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Oakland 2015 finalist BriteHub: Supply chain management tools to make your day more efficient. We are the trusted, safe, easy-to-use cloud based manufactu... |
| 12.05.2015 | Vator Splash Oakland 2015 Finalist - CrowdStreet | Check out Tore Steen's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Oakland 2015 finalist CrowdStreet provides real estate operators, funds and private equity companies a full-service marketplace solution for presenting inves... |
| 07.05.2015 | Splash Oakland 2015 People's Choice Award Winner | Check out ShareRoot's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Oakland, ShareRoot won the People's Choice Award. Here's the video of Noah Abelson ShareRoot founder, giving the winning presentation.
ShareRoot is an inno... |
| 07.05.2015 | Wag! Closes $2.45M Seed Funding Round | Wag!, a Los Angeles, CA-based app that provides dog owners with instant access to quality dog walkers, closed a $2.45m seed round of funding.
The round was led by Freestyle Capital, with participation from Greylock, Crunchfund, Dave Morin’s... |
| 05.05.2015 | Thesis Couture's Splash Oakland 2015 winning pitch | Check out Dolly Singh's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Oakland 2015, Thesis Couture took home the gold. Here's the video of Dolly Singh, Thesis Couture founder, giving the winning presentation.
Thesis is the ... |
| 03.04.2015 | Freestyle Capital Closes Third Fund | Freestyle Capital, a Silicon Valley-based seed stage fund focused on Internet software startups, closed its third fund.
Freestyle Fund III reportedly raised $60m.
In addition to the announcement, serial entrepreneur Jenny Lefcourt joined th... |
| 12.09.2014 | Before $100 Million Raise, Square Was In Talks With Apple | According to a filing obtained by VCExperts, Square has raised another $100 million in capital. The company authorized 6.4 million Series E shares, according to the document, at a per-share price of $15.46.
Square has raised incredible amou... |
| 30.05.2014 | WeddingChannel Co-Founder Jenny Lefcourt Joins Freestyle | It was 1998, and Stanford Business School student Jenny Lefcourt and her fellow female co-founder wanted to raise money for an e-commerce-meets-retail idea they had around weddings. They were thrilled when they convinced a well-known VC at ... |
| 05.02.2014 | UXPin Picks Up $1.6M Round Led By Freestyle Capital To Democratize Design | This morning UXPin announced the completion of a $1.6 million funding round led by Freestyle Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and IDG Ventures. UXPin is an online design tool designed to build a middle ground between pro... |
| 20.11.2013 | After 15 years of llama-whipping, AOL shuts down Winamp for good | The Dulles-based Winamp team, as of 2012.
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| 09.09.2013 | Micro-VC Freestyle.VC Raises $40 Million For Second Fund | Freestyle.VC, the micro-VC firm founded by serial entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel, has raised $40 million for its second fund. The firm’s inaugural fund, raised in 2011, totaled $27 million. Along with the new fund, Samuel and Fel... |
| 13.07.2013 | Sweat Equity: From Co-Founders To Co-Investors, Freestyle.VC Invests More Than Just Cash | When Freestyle.VC co-founder and investor Josh Felser walked into the TechCrunch office a few weeks ago, you could tell something was on his mind. He was in the midst of sorting through a hiccup one of his portfolio startups was having with... |
| 31.05.2013 | Ask A VC: Freestyle’s Dave Samuel On The Secrets To A Great Co-Founder Partnership And More | In this week’s Ask A VC episode, Freestyle Capital’s Dave Samuel joined us in the studio to discuss his investment philosophies and more.
Samuel also talked about how and why his co-founder relationship with Josh Felser has been so successf... |
| 07.05.2013 | Chute Raises $7M in Series A Funding | Chute, a San Francisco, CA-based platform to leverage real-time visual content, closed a $7m Series A equity round.
The round was led by Foundry Group, with participation from existing investors Freestyle Capital and U.S. Venture Partners.
... |
| 06.05.2013 | Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Freestyle Capital’s Dave Samuel And Redpoint’s Chris Moore | After a brief hiatus for TechCrunch Disrupt, Ask A VC is back this week with two all-star guests in the investing world. First up we have Freestyle Capital’s Dave Samuel. Later in the week, Redpoint Partner Chris Moore will be joining us in... |
| 12.03.2013 | Crushpath raises $6M for a way to pitch your stuff | Social+Capital Partnership leads round, with participation from Charles River Ventures
Over the weekend, I was speaking to a painter on TaskRabbit, a site to find people to hire for simple tasks. Funny thing is, he didn't have a TaskRabbit ... |
| 17.01.2013 | Who Should—and Shouldn’t—Become A Tech Investor? Freestyle Weighs In | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a former entrepreneur in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of investments.
Or to put it another way: If you’re a 30-ye... |
| 31.07.2012 | 9GAG Raises $2.8M in Seed Funding | 9GAG, a San Francisco-based online comedy community, has received $2.8m in seed funding.
The round was led by Freestyle Capital and True Ventures, with participation from First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners and existing backer 500 Start... |
| 21.06.2012 | “In the Studio,” Freestyle’s Josh Felser Takes a Hands-On Approach to Seed Investing | Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil
“In the Studio” opens its doors this week to an entrepreneur who co-founded, built, and sold his two startups to large technology com... |
| 05.01.2012 | At Freestyle, Investing Is A Family-Friendly Alternative to Startup Life | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Josh Felser has three kids. Dave Samuel has four. You won’t hear any highfalutin business-speak from these former tech entrepreneurs about why they started Freestyle Capital, ... |
| 29.11.2011 | Get Satisfaction Makes Customer Support Less Robotic-And More Strategic | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Get Satisfaction, the San Francisco-based builder of freemium online customer support communities, has one of those longest-overnight-success-ever stories. Founded in 2007 by ... |
| 18.11.2011 | Impermium Raises $8M in Series A Funding | Impermium, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a service for fighting social web spam, has raised $8m in a Series A funding.
The round was led by Highland Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors including The Social+Capit... |
| 17.09.2011 | The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other Big Themes From TC Disrupt SF | TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on sleep and digest what just happened. In no particular order, here are my thematic takeaways from this yea... |
| 12.09.2011 | Freestyle Capital Closes Fund I at $27M | Internet technology veterans Josh Felser and Dave Samuel have formally launched Freestyle Capital, a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investments in consumer and web-based enterprise technology startups.
The firm, which ... |
| 12.09.2011 | New VC firm Freestyle Capital launches with $27M | The firm already has an impressive portfolio and will focus on early-stage startups
Pitches at the ready. There’s a new fund in town: Freestyle Capital, a new VC firm that will focus on early-stage startups. And to get the ball rolling, Fre... |
| 12.09.2011 | Freestyle Capital Now More Formal With $27 Million Fund | For the past few years, longtime entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel have been investing in seed and early-stage startups under the name “Freestyle Capital”. Now that a few of the nearly 30 companies in their portfolio are starting to... |
| 12.09.2011 |
Founders of Sony's Crackle Start Venture Fund
| The founders of Crackle, the online streaming video and movie site owned by Culver City-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, have announced a new venture capital fund. According to Josh Felser and Dave Samuel, the founders of Crackle, they ha... |
