We are excited to welcome Wilya to the 25madison portfolio! Rahil Siddiqui and his team are changing the game at the intersection of manufacturing, supply chain, and HR. We are excited to participate in this round alongside lead investor Ironspring Ventures and others, including Schematic Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, Iron Prairie Ventures, and Motivate Venture Capital. Congrats Rahil Siddiqui and team! We can't wait to see what you do next.
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Amazing to see the progress that Andrew Stroup and Nadav Ullman and the Leverage team have made in bringing visibility to inbound logistics with AI. Leverage #supplychainmanagement #ai
We are very excited to announce a $7M raise led by Chicago Ventures, with participation from Mark Cuban, Las Olas Venture Capital, Remarkable Ventures, Tensility Venture Partners and Florida Funders. The additional capital from world-class investors is a testament to the rapid progress that the Leverage team has made over the past year, and the unprecedented visibility that we are providing to manufacturers across the globe. This fundraise will supercharge our product growth to keep up with the growing demand for the platform and ultimately move us closer to accomplishing our mission to bring long-term sustainability to the global supply chain through end-to-end visibility into purchase orders and shipments. “Global manufacturers are faced with increasingly dynamic supply chains which legacy toolkits are ill-equipped to manage. Leverage fills this gap, giving customers the speed, flexibility and intelligence they need to run efficient operations. We're delighted to help the team extend their efforts," says Chicago Ventures Partner Peter Christman. Read more about our announcement here → https://lnkd.in/egRTHcyE
Leverage Raises $7m to Modernize Global Supply Chains
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Deal activity is picking up in 2024, as Lowenstein Sandler LLP represents Grotech Ventures and Spero Ventures' investment in Base Operations, a cutting-edge SaaS platform. #startups #emergingcompanies #venturecapital #techstartups #techcompanies
Lowenstein Sandler Represents Grotech Ventures and Spero Ventures as Co-Lead Investors in Series A Round for SaaS Platform Base Operations
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Very insightful news - and a great intro video - about the use of sms by a local company, Yourco. It makes me think about how hotel check-in processes utilize sms more often, and how Dugger Dinners can partner w those companies to better commmunicate hotel pet policies and online directories.
I am pleased to announce that we have raised $2 million of venture funding, led by Ground Game Ventures, with additional support from Allos Ventures, Start Something Ventures, Elevate Ventures and Flywheel Fund. Since launching in 2021, we have experienced rapid growth — a 2,668% increase in monthly recurring revenue — and have supported hundreds of customers in manufacturing, construction, transportation, warehousing, agriculture, healthcare, and real estate. We initially built Yourco as a communication solution for my Grandparent’s family print shop. As we acquired additional customers, we quickly realized Yourco was having a transformative impact on SMB, mid-market, and enterprise businesses alike. This investment will allow us to accelerate our growth and product development so that we can continue supporting businesses and their non-desk employees with effective workplace communication and automation tools. To learn more about our latest funding round and recent growth, please check out the full press release:
Yourco Secures $2M in Venture Funding Amid Rapid Growth and Customer Wins
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🙏🏼 Kindness is my strategy - Optimist. Climate, AI & Impact investing - Senior Advisor. NED. Venture Capitalist. Keynote Speaker. Author. Lecturer. 4x Founder. CEO Coach 🦾
🚨 53 Stations is launching an inaugural $190 million fund for early stage startups in the US 🇺🇸 🚨 53 Stations is another great examples of Ollie family owned businesses and family offices are adopting the Ventire Capital investment vehicle for strategic purposes and accelerating innovation. The new fund is supported by the The Pritzker Organization with long time 🕰️ 60 years of business building experience. 53 Station has a single LP which is back by the Pritzker Family and aim to invest in see to series B investments. They approach is to back long term and patient capital to founders who build sustainable and enduring businesses - in they words ‘whatever-it-takes’ service provider🏆 The fund already invested in startups in areas from AI to sustainability including Flux AI and Whisper Aero. Management and founding team include investor with background in operating businesses and venture capital Kelly Goldstein , Kevin King and Jason Pritzker , Joseph Gleberman. #venturecapital #familyoffice #startupfunding #privateequity #newfunds #earlystage https://lnkd.in/gxskmqbZ.
53 Stations Launches Inaugural $190M Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Tech Companies Across the U.S.
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I invest in early-stage startups refashioning legacy industries @ REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund across Data & AI, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing, and Next Generation Supply Chains.
#ObsessivelyEnthusiasticInvestor at REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund. We look for the people we believe are doing the best work in Industrial Transformation; Attempting the impossible. Then we go all-in on them. With obsessive enthusiasm. Join us. #IndustrialTransformation #SupplyChain #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital #DemandTheImpossible
We are happy to announce our oversubscribed pre-seed funding round! This funding will fuel our mission to empower supply chain professionals to gain insights from their existing infrastructure allowing for more efficient warehousing operations and creating a resilient supply chain for the world. The investment was led by an impressive lineup of venture capital firms, including REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund, Geek Ventures, Lofty Ventures, The Council, Blue Impact Supply Chain Ventures, Techstars, New Leaf Ventures, proChain Ventures, Chisos Capital, and EverPresent Ventures, along with contributions from a select group of angel investors including Daren Cotter, Michael Shenouda, Karthik Kunduru and others. Read the announcement on our website: https://lnkd.in/gyGhcFFU Or check out the Biz Journals article covering our funding round: https://lnkd.in/gUV8w6gd Special thanks to all our partners, team members and advisors: Techstars Industries of the Future Accelerator 1871 RIoT - Internet of Things AlchemistX Plug and Play Tech Center Illinois Science and Technology Coalition Bazyl Horsey Matthew Bronstein Alec Groff Oshoke Oyati Werner Stapela Alan Amling Andy Lozano Vineet Khanna
Supply chain tech startup gets $1.1 million
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🎉 I am thrilled to announce our $4M Seed round led by Ironspring Ventures! This also includes participation from Schematic Ventures, Plug and Play Supply Chain & Logistics, Iron Prairie Ventures, Motivate Venture Capital , and 25madison. And there’s more - we have a new name: Wilya ! Our bold new brand (more on this at a later date) will help us better communicate our capabilities as an HR SaaS platform for the supply chain industry. With this latest round of funding and exciting new partners, expect big things ahead from Team Wilya as we accelerate the development and deployment of our software platform and add new features to address the unique human capital challenges in the supply chain. What does not change is our mission, the team and the zeal we carry to solve the number one challenge that manufacturing faces today. Also, if you are at the SHRM Annual in Chicago - do stop by and say hi! #supplychain #manufacturing #flexlabor #startup #flexibility #flexwork #skills
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🚀 Presenting our latest insights from the TOP 50 Corporate Ventures DACH Map! 🌟 Building on our recently published TOP 50 Corporate Venture DACH map, we like to share our major learnings when compared to the 2022 map! 💼🔍 First off, let's talk numbers: over the past two years, we've seen a remarkable surge in the number of corporate ventures, signaling a significant rise in their importance and focus within the ecosystem. 📈 The dynamic landscape reveals quite some volatility – evident in the high proportion of drop-outs since 2022. Part of these stopped their business while others were overtaken by the rapid growth of new ventures! 💥 Now, let's shine a spotlight on a few categories of top ventures in 2024: The 5 largest ventures (in terms of employees): 🌟 ABOUT YOU 🌟 Elli 🌟 cellcentric GmbH & Co. KG 🌟 bank99 🌟 Yuh The 5 fastest-growing ventures: 🚀 1000 Satellites GmbH 🚀 Yuh 🚀 myflexbox 🚀 B. Braun New Ventures 🚀 GeoPura And let's not forget our newcomers! The 5 most recently founded ventures: 🌱 vaibe 🌱 Loady 🌱 Milence 🌱 MIRECO 🌱 faCellitate Looking at the broad picture, the TOP 50 corporate ventures alone are responsible for providing over 3000 jobs – quite an impact already despite many of them only existing for a few years! 💼💪 In conclusion: Corporate ventures and venture building are on the rise and there are many signs that the whole ecosystem will strongly grow in the upcoming years! ✨ If you are interested in learning more about how we support companies like @ÖAMTC in venture building, send us a message! ➡ Download the map and insights: https://lnkd.in/enR_4acf
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HawkTower is a new venture capital firm focused on Underleveraged California. Our mission is to foster innovation and commercialization in critical rising and emerging regions of California, a state that still holds untapped potential as the world's fifth-largest economy. A thriving California, one that continues to grow, compete, and innovate on a global scale, is crucial for America's overall prosperity. Today, our website launched. We are also excited to announce additions to the team and advisory, including: Bill Sherrod, EdD, a 29-year Navy veteran and former Strategic Advisor to the President of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), has joined HawkTower as a Venture Partner. Bill, who initially joined us as an advisor in February, has quickly become an indispensable part of our team. His extensive experience in dual-use technology, advanced air mobility, and more brings HawkTower a wealth of knowledge and expertise. Vittoria Lecomte is a new Venture Partner. Tori is a former Forbes 30 Under 30 and an investment banker at Barclays in their Technology, Media, and Telecom Group. She was lead analyst on the Fitbit (now part of Google) and GoPro IPOs. Before joining HawkTower, she was the founder and CEO of Sesh which had a successful exit to Caraway. HawkTower is thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with Tesserakt Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Central California. This collaboration, at a time of critical opportunity for emerging California, will drive cohesion in the marketplace. Daniel Emilio Sabzehzar (Venture Partner) and Phoenix Skeahan (Operating Partner) will join HawkTower, enhancing our sourcing, diligence, and portfolio support capabilities. Lenny Mendonca, a Turlock native, is a new advisor. He served as Governor Newsom's Chief Economic and Business Advisor and is also a Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company, where he founded the firm's U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. Walt Duflock, head of innovation for the Western Growers , is also a new advisor. Walt is a partner at a 5th-generation family farming operation in Monterey County. In addition to 30 years of experience at Silicon Valley tech startups, Walt and his team at WGA are extraordinary thought leaders in the AgTech ecosystem. Our technical advisory capacity is significantly strengthened with the support of Alexander Wolf, Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz, Amy Fleischer, Dean, the College of Engineering California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), and Rakesh Goel, Dean, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced. HawkTower is confident in the entrepreneurial acumen and potential of each of these universities (as well as NPS, UC Davis, Fresno St., and others). I'm humbled to share these updates with you as we continue to grow our firm out in the open with your input.
HawkTower | VC for Underleveraged California
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AgTech Ecosystem - sharing this update from Danny Bernstein, founder of HawkTower, an investment firm focused on driving innovation and commercialization in key strategic regions of California, including Monterey County. Danny's metrics are driven by both investment returns and economic development wins. See below for some of the more notable recent wins: 1) Bill Sherrod joins as Venture Partner with a focus on advanced air mobility. Vittoria Lecomte joins as Venture Partner with analyst experience on Fitbit and GoPro IPOs. 2) HawkTower has a strategic partnership with Tesserakt Ventures, an early stage VC firm in Central California. Daniel Emilio Sabzehzar and Phoenix Skeahan join HawkTower as Venture Partner and Operating Partner respectively, to help with sourcing, diligence, and portfolio support. 3) Lenny Mendonca is a new advisor (formerly served as Governor Newsom's Chief Economic and Business Advisor and is also a Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company). 4) I have also joining Team HawkTower as an advisor, focused on AgTech innovation that can drive California economic development. HawkTower's first investment was in Farm-ng. Farm-NG is exactly what funds like HawkTower are looking for - strong team with a very cool platform product and 100% locally based at their Watsonville HQ location. Farm-NG has growth opportunities across multiple grower segments, solid partnership and distribution opportunities, and will use the capital to continue to evolve their product and go-to market strategies. 5) HawkTower is working with engineering advisors from UC Santa Cruz, Cal Poly, and UC Merced. All of them recognize the opportunity the region represents that HawkTower is working on investing in. These advisors will strengthen the pipeline to keep local talent in the area and make sure the HawkTower investments have access to local talent early and often. Each of these items represents great progress from Danny - together it shows the momentum he and the team are building. If you're a startup looking for an introduction to Danny, please DM me and I am happy to help. If you're an investor looking for a discussion with Danny, same offer. #economicdevelopment #venturecapital #cacentralcoast
HawkTower is a new venture capital firm focused on Underleveraged California. Our mission is to foster innovation and commercialization in critical rising and emerging regions of California, a state that still holds untapped potential as the world's fifth-largest economy. A thriving California, one that continues to grow, compete, and innovate on a global scale, is crucial for America's overall prosperity. Today, our website launched. We are also excited to announce additions to the team and advisory, including: Bill Sherrod, EdD, a 29-year Navy veteran and former Strategic Advisor to the President of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), has joined HawkTower as a Venture Partner. Bill, who initially joined us as an advisor in February, has quickly become an indispensable part of our team. His extensive experience in dual-use technology, advanced air mobility, and more brings HawkTower a wealth of knowledge and expertise. Vittoria Lecomte is a new Venture Partner. Tori is a former Forbes 30 Under 30 and an investment banker at Barclays in their Technology, Media, and Telecom Group. She was lead analyst on the Fitbit (now part of Google) and GoPro IPOs. Before joining HawkTower, she was the founder and CEO of Sesh which had a successful exit to Caraway. HawkTower is thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with Tesserakt Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Central California. This collaboration, at a time of critical opportunity for emerging California, will drive cohesion in the marketplace. Daniel Emilio Sabzehzar (Venture Partner) and Phoenix Skeahan (Operating Partner) will join HawkTower, enhancing our sourcing, diligence, and portfolio support capabilities. Lenny Mendonca, a Turlock native, is a new advisor. He served as Governor Newsom's Chief Economic and Business Advisor and is also a Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company, where he founded the firm's U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. Walt Duflock, head of innovation for the Western Growers , is also a new advisor. Walt is a partner at a 5th-generation family farming operation in Monterey County. In addition to 30 years of experience at Silicon Valley tech startups, Walt and his team at WGA are extraordinary thought leaders in the AgTech ecosystem. Our technical advisory capacity is significantly strengthened with the support of Alexander Wolf, Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz, Amy Fleischer, Dean, the College of Engineering California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), and Rakesh Goel, Dean, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced. HawkTower is confident in the entrepreneurial acumen and potential of each of these universities (as well as NPS, UC Davis, Fresno St., and others). I'm humbled to share these updates with you as we continue to grow our firm out in the open with your input.
HawkTower | VC for Underleveraged California
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Founder & CEO @ mediaforgrowth | Media for Equity Data Platform and Advisory | Forbes 30U30
🤔 What do VCs and angel investors think about #mediaforequity? 10 years ago, many investors weren't too keen on these deals, thinking that if your company was involved in one, it might not be very investable 😢 Over the past decade, we've seen numerous successes across Europe, and these wins have shifted investor perspectives on these deals. If you're facing pushback from board members, it's not because of the venture model, but rather a lack of understanding of what a diverse media stack can really do for a growth-stage consumer startup. ✋ If you're experiencing roadblocks or just want to chat about this, feel free to reach out. I have plenty of examples and insights that could help! Here are some of the startups that have raised #mediacapital and the VCs that co-invested alongside media companies include: Mous - Piper & Channel 4 Ventures Feel - Wellness, Reimagined - Fuel Ventures 🚀 & ITV AdVentures Btomorrow Ventures what3words - Hambro Perks & Channel 4 Ventures 4, GMPVC German Media Pool NotCo - The Craftory & TelevisaUnivision COAT Paints - True. & Channel 4 Ventures Grover - Mirae Asset Global Investments (LG Electronics Growth Fund) & GMPVC German Media Pool Deskera - Jungle Ventures & Brand Capital International MAXWELLIA - Praetura Ventures & Channel 4 Ventures bloobloom - dmg ventures & Pembroke VCT
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