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| 15.01.2026 | Project Eleven raises $20M to prepare cryptoasset blockchains for the quantum era
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Castle Island Ventures led the r... |
| 14.01.2026 | Project Eleven: $20 Million Series A Raised To Build Post-Quantum Migration Tools For Digital Assets | Project Eleven, a company focused on post-quantum security and migration for digital assets, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Fin Capital, Variant, ... |
| 08.06.2020 | Temasek leads $46m Series B for Ascus Bio’s microbe-based animal feed additives | The US animal health market generates around $10 billion in sales each year, according to the Animal Health Institute, and makes up roughly one-third of the global market. It is on pace to reach $73.6 billion by 2027. Although increased spe... |
| 25.04.2019 | Grocery delivery startup Honestbee is running out of money and trying to sell | Honestbee, the online grocery delivery service in Asia, is nearly out of money and trying to offload its business.
The company has held early conversations with a number of suitors in Asia, including ride-hailing giants Grab and Go-Jek, ove... |
| 25.09.2018 | The death of once high-flying VC funds | They all started with the best of intentions. Formation 8 talked about bringing “smart enterprise” to the corporate world. Social Capital talked about how to “fix capitalism” and Binary Capital wanted to “affect global behaviour change.” Ro... |
| 11.05.2017 | Nectar launches ultrasound-equipped pour spouts to save bar owners money | Restaurants depend on the sale of alcoholic beverages for 60 percent of their revenue. This means that knowing what happens to liquor after it’s put on the shelf behind the bar is critically important to bar owners. Today, connected-device ... |
| 14.04.2017 | Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan | A cute, robotic language tutor called Musio, has made it from crowdfunding campaign to full-fledged product with a debut in stores this week in Japan. Priced at JPY 98,000 (about US $900), Musio is now sold online through SoftBank’s marketp... |
| 07.02.2017 | When Oscar was young: the early years | With $727 million in VC and a reported $2.7 billion valuation, Oscar still seeking profits
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Founder & C... |
| 16.01.2017 | Joe Lonsdale moves forward with 8VC’s new fund and more | Joe Lonsdale has had his fair share of ups and downs in recent years. Investors don’t seem to mind. Nearly a year ago, they quietly provided Lonsdale’s newest, early-stage venture firm, 8VC, with $425 million in funding for its debut fund, ... |
| 09.12.2016 | Formation 8 founder Jim Kim and longtime VC Paul Lee partner on a new fund called Builders | Jim Kim, who most recently co-founded the venture firm Formation 8, is launching a brand-new venture firm called Builders that looks to be raising a $200 million fund, judging by a recent SEC filing. His co-founder is Paul Lee, who left the... |
| 08.12.2016 | Joe Lonsdale pours $4.55M for alcohol IoT startup Nectar | Nationally, bars today lose billions of dollars from improperly managed alcohol inventory. These losses add up quickly as a result of oversized pours, spills and even theft.
Nectar, a stealth connected-device startup operating out of a Palo... |
| 18.09.2016 | The government technology pitch | Luke Fretwell Contributor
Luke Fretwell is co-founder and CEO of ProudCity.
Crisis has a history of dictating government technology disruption. We’ve seen this with the anticipation of Soviet Union aerospace and military dominance that spar... |
| 01.06.2016 | SevenFifty Raises $8.5M Series A | SevenFifty, the online platform for wholesale alcohol sales, today announced that it has closed a $8.5M Series A round of funding led by Formation8, with participation from additional investors including Pritzker Group VC. The investment re... |
| 30.03.2016 | Andreessen Horowitz invests $9.2 million in a Kenya based startup | Share this article:
Branch, a Silicon Valley startup based in Kenya has received an investment of $9.2 Million from renowned venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The Series A equity funding will allow for expansion into the new markets... |
| 30.03.2016 | Branch.co raises $9.2 million to bring financial services where banks don’t go | San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round.
Branch’s free-to-download Android app i... |
| 07.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 7, 2016 | Guardant Health raised $100M; Founders Fund invested $52M in NuBank; Sisense received $50M funding
IQuity Labs, a Nashville, TN-basedbiotechnology company specializing in diagnostic tests for autoimmune disease and related conditions, secur... |
| 12.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 12, 2015 | TigerText raised $50M; Eyefluence secured $14M; Flexe landed $4.4M
Flexe, provider of on-demand warehousing, today announced that it has raised $4.4 million in seed funding, which added to $1.9 million in previous investments brings the sta... |
| 05.11.2015 | Venture firm Formation 8 announces split | The news comes the same week that sexual harassement charges against Joe Lonsdale were dropped
One of the biggest reasons startups fail or break up is team dynamics or lack of dynamics. It looks like the same thing happens to venture capita... |
| 04.11.2015 | Formation 8 Axes Plans For Third Fund, Lonsdale Now Raising $400M For “8 Partners” | We’ve heard about consolidation in the word of startups; today comes some news about a thinning of the ranks among VCs. Formation 8 — the VC firm co-founded by Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo and Jim Kim — is winding down its investment ... |
| 04.11.2015 | Seattle startup Context Relevant cuts staff after ‘deep operational review’ | Chris Kelley. Photo via Context Relevant
Seattle startup Context Relevant — a heavily-funded big data analytics company backed by Madrona Venture Group — has cut a significant portion of its workforce following what recently-appointed CEO C... |
| 27.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 27, 2015 | Taris Biomedical raised $32M; SimilarWeb scored $25M; Spigit secured $13M
Real-time consumer engagement app OnePulse has closed a $1.07 million seed investment round, led by AngelLab, D5 Capital and the London Co-Investment Fund along with ... |
| 21.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 21, 2015` | Arvinas bagged $41.6M; Clavis Insight received $20M; Adjust landed $17M
LeanTaaS, a Silicon Valley healthcare SaaS provider, today announced its first institutional funding round of $3 million led by Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc... |
| 15.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 15, 2015 | Quip secured $30M; OpenGov raised $25M; Niantic landed $20M
OpenGov, which allows local governments to bring their data to the cloud, has an additional $25 million, it announced on Thursday The oversubscribed funding round included existing... |
| 01.10.2015 | Farm-to-Fridge Online Market Farmigo Scores $16m Series B Amid Food E-Commerce Rush | An online farmers’ market pioneering a “farm-to-fridge” platform to connect city dwellers with local food sources nearby, has attracted investment from venture capital firms in its Series B round of funding.
Farmigo, which is headquartered ... |
| 01.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 1, 2015 | General Assembly raised $70M; Neon Therapeutics secured $55M; Dolly landed $8M
Social Finance (SoFi for short), a lending startup has raised a monster round of funding, taking $1 billion from SoftBank, with existing Third Point Ventures and... |
| 15.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 15, 2015 | Compass closed $50M funding round; Emarsys raised $33M; Enevate secured $30M
Desktop Genetics has secured an investment of £1.37 million ($2.15 million) that will enable it to commercialise its proprietary DESKGEN genome editing software pl... |
| 11.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 11, 2015 | EverStream Solutions received $50M; Unified secured $30M; Abra raised $10M
European data science-as-a-service provider Big Data For Humans has secured a $1.2 million seed funding round led by EC1 Capital with further investment from Firesta... |
| 27.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 27, 2015 | Yuneec bagged $60M; MediBeacon landed $22.4M; Remerge closed $3M
Mobile App Retargeting startup Remerge today announced a $3 million Series A round led by Point Nine Capital, along with Valor, VC Fonds Technologie Berlin, German Startups Gr... |
| 20.08.2015 | From Fit4D to Zephyr Health, a roundup of 4 digital health fundraises | In an emailed statement CEO William King said it would use the funding to invest in research and development and commercialization. It has also strengthened its analytics tools, data systems and design.
In an interview with 33 Voices, CEO W... |
| 31.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 31, 2015 | Light landed $25M; Iwoca secured $20M; Fuisz Media closed $10M
CarSpring, a London, UK-based online marketplace for pre-owned cars, raised $3.3 million in Series B funding. The company intends to use the funds for expansion throughout Europ... |
| 30.07.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. GitHub confirms that it has raised $250M, led by Sequoia Capital
Source code repository software company GitHub has raised a... |
| 30.07.2015 | Formation 8 and Foxconn bet $25M on this startup’s high-quality smartphone camera | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cameras are standard in smartphones these days, b... |
| 30.07.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 30.07.2015 | Formation 8 and Foxconn bet $25M on this startup’s high-quality smartphone camera | Cameras are standard in smartphones these days, but they’re still incredibly limited when compared to the average DSLR.
Light, a startup developing multi-lens cameras for smartphones, wants to raise our expectations. The company announced t... |
| 29.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 29, 2015 | Twilio closed $130M; Mereo BioPharma secured $119; AltspaceVR raised $10.3M
AltspaceVR, a software company that uses virtual reality to provide a new communication platform, raised a $10.3 million round of funding. Investors in the round in... |
| 22.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 22, 2015 | Events.com has now raised a total of $17M; Darktrace landed $22.5M; Kinetic Social closed $17.5M
Events.com has raised a new round of funding. The size of the round was undisclosed, but it was led by Arctaris and with participation from La ... |
| 22.07.2015 | Home-cooked Meal Kit Delivery Company Serves Up $35m Series B | Food delivery services are continuing to capture the attention of the venture capital community after home cooking meal kit delivery service Plated closed a $35 million Series B round last week. Existing investors Formation 8 and Greycroft ... |
| 16.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 16, 2015 | Immunocore raised $320M; Zeta Interactive closed $125M; Flipagram landed $70M
Private equity firm iTech Capital has invested $3 million in TradingView, a social fintech platform that unites traders and investors from around the world. iTech... |
| 18.06.2015 | Как устроен стартап-рынок Южной Кореи: инвесторы, акселераторы и лидеры рынка Статьи редакции | Евгений Ким, предприниматель и основатель стартапа EZIK, разрабатывающего приложение для решения бытовых трудностей за границей, рассказал ЦП о том, как устроена инновационная экосистема Южной Кореи. Сам Ким живёт и работает в Корее с 2012 ... |
| 11.06.2015 | In The U.S. Smart Home Market, Don’t Rule Out China | Jim Kim Contributor
Jim Kim is founder and managing partner at Formation 8.
It’s no secret that the smart home is a hot industry generating big-time buzz from VCs and large technology companies alike. The dream of a fully automated and conn... |
| 06.05.2015 | Zanbato Raises $8M in Series B Funding | Zanbato, Inc., a Mountain View, CA-based financial technology company whose platform facilitates private placement workflows and connectivity in private securities markets, raised $8m in Series B funding.
The round was led by AITV (Accelera... |
| 14.04.2015 | Algal Scientific Closes $7M Series B | Algal Scientific, an algae-loving Plymouth, MI based company, closed a $7M Series B round on March 31st, receiving investments from Formation 8, Evonik Industries and Independence Equity.
Algal Scientific was conceived in 2008. Inspired by ... |
| 31.03.2015 | Algal Scientific Scores $7M Series B, Expands in Animal Health | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Algal Scientific, a Plymouth, MI-based startup focused on developing algae-based chemicals to improve animal feed and human nutrition, announced this week that it has raised a... |
| 27.02.2015 | Smart Motorcycle Helmet Maker Skully Lands $11 Million In Series A To Start Manufacturing The AR-1 | Not long after closing on one of the most successful campaigns in the history of Indiegogo and landing another $1.5 million in seed capital, SKULLY, the motorcycle helmet with a heads-up display, has raised $11 million in Series A funding.
... |
| 03.02.2015 | Casetext Raises $7M in Series A Funding | Casetext, a Palo Alto, CA-based free legal research website where users can read legal texts annotated by a community of practicing attorneys, raised $7m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation fr... |
| 03.02.2015 | Guardant Health Secures $50 Million In Series C To Help More Doctors Track Cancer In Real Time | Guardant Health announced today that it has raised $50 million in Series C funding for its biopsy-free blood cancer screening test Guardant360. This puts the total funding for the medical technology startup at $90 million. Lightspeed Ventur... |
| 13.01.2015 | Venture capital sees best fundraising year since 2007! | In 2014, venture capital firms raised a total of $29.8 billion, from 254 funds
Venture capital is back, baby!
After a down year in 2013, in which the amount of capital raised by U.S. venture capital firms dipped, it came roaring back in 201... |
| 06.01.2015 | Formation 8 Hires Flextronics Exec Lior Susan To Lead Hardware Investments | Venture firm Formation 8 has been on a bit of hiring spree recently, bringing on multiple partners and advisors over the past few months. Today it’s announcing Lior Susan will be joining the firm to help lead its investments in the hardware... |
| 17.12.2014 | Khosla Ventures is raising a new $400M seed fund | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventur... |
| 17.12.2014 | Khosla Ventures is raising a new $400M seed fund | Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures is looking to keep backing early-stage startups. The firm is raising a $400 million seed fund, according to a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In June, the fi... |
| 08.12.2014 | Formation 8 Closes Second Fund, at $500M | Formation 8, a Palo Alto and San Francisco, CA-based technology investment firm, closed its second fund, at $500m.
Fund II will continue to back entrepreneurs who are building industry-transforming companies by leveraging Formation 8’s netw... |
| 05.12.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/5/14 | Stripe, 4th Office, Eternal Sun, ad2games, Glide, Nestio, Lesson.ly, MarketInvoice, Weaveworks, QLL
Seed stage
Real-time real estate platform Nestio raised a $1.6 million funding round led by Freestyle Capital with participation from RiverP... |
| 03.12.2014 | Formation 8 Closes Its $500 Million Second Fund | Formation 8, the investment firm founded by Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo and Jim Kim, has closed its second fund, the company is announcing today. The new fund will give Formation 8 another $500 million to make investments in startups anywhere f... |
| 07.10.2014 | Formation8 is raising $500M for its second fund | Formation8, the venture capital firm co-founded by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, is a raising a second fund.
The firm doesn’t appear to have brought in any of the money yet, but it’s aiming for $500 million, according to a filing to the... |
| 07.10.2014 | Formation8 is raising $500M for its second fund | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Formation8, the venture capital firm co-founded b... |
| 02.10.2014 | Glow raises $17 million for fertility tracking business to line up global expansion | Since PayPal co-founder Max Levchin started the company a little more than one year ago, Glow’s fertility tracker has been used for a little more than 25,000 pregnancies. It has also grown staff numbers from five to 22 since the summer 2013... |
| 23.09.2014 | Radius Raises $54.7 Million To Transform Marketing Intelligence | It’s easy to say that most executives in the $50 billion world of business-to-business marketing would kill for a tool that can analyze customer data and figure out exactly who to market to and when to pitch them. San Francisco-based Radius... |
| 19.09.2014 | Veteran Venture Capitalist Pierre Lamond Joins Formation 8 As An Advisor | After leaving Khosla Ventures after its last fund, Silicon Valley icon Pierre Lamond has resurfaced in a new role. The veteran venture capitalist has taken an advisory position at Formation 8, the three-year-old venture firm founded by Joe ... |
| 13.09.2014 | Technologists’ Duty Can Go Beyond For-Profit Industries | Joe Lonsdale Contributor
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Editor’s note: Joe Lonsdale is a general partner at Formation 8.
Early last year, I wrote an article explaining how our team views the concept of duty for leade... |
| 08.09.2014 | Mobile Healthcare Startup Wellframe Secures $8.5M Series A | Boston-based Wellframe announced Monday it has raised an $8.5 million Series A, led by DFJ. The financing comes just five months after the startup secured $1.5 million, and will be used to bolster the growth of its mobile platform, designed... |
| 08.09.2014 | Wellframe gets $8.5M Series A for mobile personal care | Combining mobile, big data and AI to improve rehabilitation services
I'm old enough to have parents, in-laws, and extended family undergo treatment for cancer, heart attacks and other ailments and observe how arcane the flow of information ... |
| 11.08.2014 | Collective Health Wants To Replace The Health Insurance Industry With A Software Program | “Did you know you can actually negotiate and get a better deal at the doctor’s office if you offer to pay up front?” co-founder and CEO of Collective Health Ali Diab asks.
He’d broken his foot and had to go to the doctor for an MRI that wou... |
| 22.07.2014 | MoneyTree Reports $121M in MI Venture Deals Last Quarter | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Venture Capital investors had a very active second quarter of 2014, according to the latest MoneyTree report. VCs invested almost $13 billion in 1,114 U.S. startups during the... |
| 05.05.2014 | Algal Scientific’s Breakthrough Animal-Health Discoveries Draw Investor Interest | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Algal Scientific, a Northville, MI-based startup focused on improving animal feed and human nutrition as well as wastewater treatment, said last week that it has raised $3 mil... |
| 14.12.2013 | Oculus VR Raises $75M in Series B Funding | Oculus VR, an Irvine, CA-based virtual reality technology company, raised $75m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, and Formation 8. In conjunction with the fu... |
| 13.12.2013 | Oculus VR Nets $75M In Series B Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz | Oculus VR has turned Kickstarter success into what is fast-becoming one of the most interesting startups in the US today. Following a $16 million series A round, the company has announced that they have now closed an additional round of fun... |
| 11.12.2013 | Utilidata Secures over $20M in Series B Financing | Utilidata, Inc., a Providence, RI-based supplier of voltage optimization and digital automation systems for the electric utility industry, secured more than $20m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Formation 8 Partners and Saudi Ara... |
| 07.11.2013 | Building Robotics Raises $1.14M in Seed Financing | Building Robotics, an Oakland, CA-based developer of software for people in commercial buildings, raised $1.14m in seed financing round.
Backers included Claremont Creek Ventures, Google Ventures, Formation 8, Navitas Capital, Red Swan Vent... |
| 17.10.2013 | Meet DataElite, a new Silicon Valley fund for data science startups | The Big Data trend is showing no signs of letting up, with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley getting behind a new fund called DataElite.
The Silicon Valley-based fund aims to be a YCombinator of sorts, but specifically for big dat... |
| 17.10.2013 | Meet DataElite, a new Silicon Valley fund for data science startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Big Data trend is showing no signs of letting... |
| 08.10.2013 | Grabit Raises Series A Funding | Grabit, Inc., a Santa Clara, CA-based industrial automation and material handling solutions company, raised a Series A funding of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Formation 8, with participation from ABB Technology Ventures and NIKE... |
| 16.09.2013 | Shmoop Closes Funding Round | Shmoop, a Mountain View, California-based publisher of digital curriculum and test prep, raised an undisclosed amount of funding.
The round was led by Formation 8, with participation from Gordon Crawford. As part of the investment, the comp... |
| 23.08.2013 | RealScout Raises $1.1M in Seed Funding | RealScout, a Sunnyvale, CA‐based real estate technology company, raised $1.1m in seed funding.
Backers included DCM‘s mobile‐focused A‐Fund, Formation 8, and angel investor Ken DeLeon.
The company intends to use the funds to expand further ... |
| 12.06.2013 | RelateIQ Launches With $29M From Formation 8, Dustin Moskovitz And More To Be Your Next-Gen Relationship Manager | Last summer, word started to trickle out about a young, stealth startup called RelateIQ that was rumored to be one of the more ambitious players among the new (and expanding) class of Big Data startups. Adam Evans and Steve Loughlin had fou... |
| 01.05.2013 | Spice Global to co-invest in tech companies with Silicon Valley-based VC firm Formation 8 | BK Modi-controlled Spice Global, a $2 billion diversified conglomerate with interests in mobility solutions, healthcare and entertainment, has committed an undisclosed amount in Formation 8, a Silicon Valley-based and early-growth venture c... |
| 20.04.2013 | Formation 8 Raises $440M for First Fund | According to a filing with the S.E.C. (read here), Formation|8, a Palo Alto, CA-based venture capital firm with a presence in Asia, raised $440m for its first fund.
Formation 8 backs early growth smart enterprise and energy technology compa... |
| 18.04.2013 | Formation 8 Raises Its First Fund Of $448M To Plug Silicon Valley Startups Into Asian Conglomerates | Formation 8 wants to bring venture capital back to its roots: investing in solutions to hard technology problems that could change the world. It just raised its first fund of $448 million — but with a twist. Formation 8 plans to draw on its... |
| 20.01.2013 | The Silicon Valley Elite Need A Culture Of Duty | Editor’s note: Joe Lonsdale is a General Partner at Formation 8, an early growth technology fund. He is co-founder of Palantir and Addepar, and is also proud to be behind other successful mission-driven technology companies. Follow him on T... |
| - | Glow raises $17 million for fertility tracking business to line up global expansion | Fertility tracking business Glow raised $17 million in a Series B round to support the global reach of its apps to help women track their fertility and follow the development of their unborn child, according to a company’s statement and blo... |
| - | From Fit4D to Zephyr Health, a roundup of 4 digital health fundraises | It has been a frenetic week of digital health fundraising news. From customized programs for diabetes patients delivered by a personal coach to estimating blood loss during surgery, here’s a roundup of how much companies raised and what kin... |
| - | A company is making Elon Musk’s Hyperloop a reality: Hyperloop Technologies, inc. | From Hyperloop Technologies’ Twitter
The Hyperloop is a new mode of transportation detailed in a white paper by tech billionaire Elon Musk and with the help of informal teams of engineers from the two companies he leads; Tesla Motors and Sp... |
