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Funding News 11.9.22

Lending fintech Plend gets £40mn to unlock affordable credit – Affordable lending fintech Plend has raised £40mn in funding – including angel investment from the founders of UK fintech juggernauts Monzo and Starling Bank. The London-based firm is on a mission to create an alternative to traditional credit that takes into account a consumer’s full credit picture. […]

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Funding News 11.8.22

HEMANEXT ANNOUNCES CLOSE OF SERIES B EQUITY FUNDING ROUND – Hemanext Inc., a leading innovator in blood processing, storage, and transfusion technology, today announced the successful first close of its Series B fundraising round. Taken together with the exercise of outstanding warrants, this close brings an additional $18 million of equity capital from noted global private investors with deep finance and healthcare expertise. To date, the company […]

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Funding News 11.7.22

Runwise Raises $19M in Series A funding Led by Fifth Wall – Runwise, a leading building control company, today announced that it has raised $19 million in Series A funding, led by Fifth Wall with participation from several large real estate owners including Rudin Management, SOJA Ventures (The Swig Family / Halstead / Brown Harris Stevens), and The Strykers of Friedman Management […]

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Funding News 11.3.22

Cover Genius Raises $70M in Series D Funding to Further Expand Embedded Business Model – Cover Genius, the global insurtech for embedded insurance, today announced it has raised $70M USD in Series D funding in a round led by Dawn Capital, with participation from new investor, New York-based Atlas Merchant Capital, and existing investors including […]

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Funding News 11.2.22

Money Fellows secures USD 31 mln in Series B funding round – Egypt-based fintech Money Fellows has raised USD 31 million in series B funding to grow its portfolio of services and expand across Africa and Asia. The investment round was led by CommerzVentures, Middle East Venture Partners, and Arzan Venture Capital, having as additional participants Invenfin […]

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Funding News 10.31.22

Classera raises $40 million Series A round led by Sanabil – Classera, a global edtech e-learning company focused on emerging markets, has successfully raised $40 million in a Series A round, the largest in edtech globally for a company with no prior funding. The round also mark’s the largest funding round ever in edtech, in […]

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Michigan Women Forward accepting applications for pitch competition

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – Women business owners across Michigan are encouraged to apply for a chance to win a $10,000 grand prize through the Michigan Women Forward March 2023 business plan and pitch competition WomenUP & Pitch. The nonprofit is a funding opportunity for women who are looking to start or grow an existing for-profit […]

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Funding News 10.28.22

PreVeil Announces Series C Funding Round Led by PSG – PreVeil, a provider of cloud based end-to-end encrypted email and file collaboration solutions, announced today that it has raised a $20M Series C funding round led by PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with software and technology-enabled services companies to help accelerate their growth. […]

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Funding News 10.25.22

Grafbase Announces $7.3M in Funding to Build the Data Platform of the Future – Grafbase, the data platform for developers, today announced that it has raised $7.3M in total funding. The company’s fresh $5M seed round was led by Next47, a global venture capital firm investing in category-defining B2B companies. The funding round also saw participation from Alven, Uncorrelated Ventures, and a […]

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WV Business Plan Competition

West Virginia Business Plan Competition now taking entries – Aspiring entrepreneurs in West Virginia have the opportunity to turn their business idea into reality. The West Virginia Business Plan Competition, hosted by the WVU John Chambers College of Business and Economics and Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is seeking entries at the high school, […]