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📣 Big News 🎉 We're thrilled to announce a $2.5m investment round led by the amazing team at Fuel Ventures 🚀. This investment will supercharge our sustainability platform that enables banks, fintechs and payment companies to plug planet positive impact into their products as we continue to empower customers to have a tangible and meaningful impact on our world. Joining Fuel in this round, alongside our our existing investors, are Mishcon de Reya LLP and Sorven Capital who all see the scale of impact ekko can bring. Here is what our CEO & Co-Founder, Oli Cook, said today “This fundraise is a recognition of the huge potential of ekko’s business, and the resonance of our mission. Welcoming investors of such calibre as Fuel Ventures, Sorven Partners and Mishcon de Reya, is hugely encouraging. ekko is a very scalable business, and we’re looking forward to seeing the wider influence that this raise will have on our product growth and impact partners, too. The time to act for our climate and nature is now. With this raise, we aim to be the disruptor in the market and enable banks, fintechs, and payment providers to empower their customers to have a tangible and meaningful impact on our world.” ✉ If you work in a bank, fintech or payment company and want to bring sustainability to your customers then get in touch! 🔗 In Comments Oli Cook Manish Vara Simon Toller Etienne Smith Jamie Clarke Majda Dabaghi Viviane Leezer Kimberley Waldron (Fintech PR) Ellie Kirkman James Doyle CIPR Ryan Woods Nikita Kanyal Oli Hammond 🚀 Mark Pearson Shiv Patel Michael Burnett Christina L. Nick Mann Dan Sinclair Zaheer Nabi Chris Keen Mark Philip-Sorensen Graham Selley Nils Philip-Sørensen #fintechforgood #investment #greentech

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Investors are investing. Founders are getting funded. 2024 is turning out to be a much better year for preseed/seed funding. Sentiment is improving, investors feeling more confident and founders are upping their game. At Glenluna Ventures we closed 6 deals throughout 2023. This week we closed our 3rd of the year so far (yay team!). So why am I posting a selfie with the super brilliant Amna Saleem-Walters on this post? Because fund-raising is *HARD*. With a capital 'aitch (or Haitch for those of us from Ireland 🇮🇪). Founders need to be resilient, respond to the market and pivot if neccessary. Amna Saleem-Walters has done that and more. She's working on a great pivot that I am genuinely excited about and really disrupts large markets. Most of all - it's super ambitious and as #linkedinfam knows - I'm all about #unlockingambition. Founders - be resilient. Pivot if you need. Be like Amna Saleem-Walters.

Does investing in women ACTUALLY drive strong returns? 📈👩💼💰 We're on a mission to prove we can build one of the best early stage venture funds ever BY investing in women ✨ and here's how it's going so far ✨ Across our portfolio of two funds we manage nearly $57M = 49 founders across 28 portfolio companies Our first (still young) $21.5M fund of 16 investments now boasts a collective valuation of nearly $1.2 billion — an increase of 4.3x from our initial entry prices, having raised over 50x our initial investment in follow-on capital Two of Canada’s largest Series B's last year (Arteria AI and ODAIA) were in this fund Close to half of the companies have already progressed from seed to Series B and beyond, significantly outperforming industry benchmarks closer to 1 in 6 Since mid-2022, we’ve been deploying capital out of Fund II, of which 4 of the first companies we invested in have already raised 12x our initial invested capital in follow-on And our first ever US-based seed recently announced an oversubscribed $15M USD Series A (Max Retail) I believed in Michelle McBane's thesis when I joined StandUp Ventures 4 years ago, but my conviction has only grown over time We now have offices in Vancouver 🌊 , Toronto 🍁 , and Montreal 🥐 , and have freshly closed oversubscribed and unannounced deals in each of these cities If you invest in the very best founders - your portfolio should be FILLED with women - end of story Thank you to VCCI for recognizing the merit of our work (alongside Pender Ventures, Amplify Capital, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, TandemLaunch Inc.) with an early commitment to our next fund 🎉 See the inspiring Michelle McBane talk at the announcement this week below #venturecapital #founders #women

Getting an investment is hard in this economy. Banks are keeping investors' money warm and comfy. However, the following list of venture funds is still looking for new companies to work with, and they are coming to the Mobidictum Conference. In alphabetic order: -500 Emerging Europe -Apps Ventures -Atanova Ventures -Boğaziçi Ventures -Laton Ventures -Ludus Ventures -Play Ventures -PlayGate Ventures -ScaleX Ventures -WePlay Ventures There will be a side event where you can meet with the investors on the spot. Are you an investor and coming? Let us know. #mobidictum

🚀 We are very excited to announce that Moffin has successfully secured a seed round led by Accion Venture Lab! 🚀 This investment marks a significant milestone in our journey and we are more equipped than ever to bring innovative solutions to our clients and drive growth. #Startup #Funding #VentureCapital #Innovation #Tech #Growth #Moffin #AccionVentureLab

We’ve finally launched Kynzy and our first asset class Gold! It’s always exciting to start a new journey, and more so when it’s starting a venture with potentially high positive impact on society. This one has a special place to my heart, it’s the translation of a vision I had almost 10 years ago in Singapore when I met Robin Lee, our now Chairman, who had a few months earlier left the World Gold Council to start HelloGold, Asia's mass-market fractional ownership gold platform. This translated into a collaboration through PalmTree Ventures to support financial inclusion in MENA, and our participation in the DIFC FinTech Hive accelerator in 2019. Fast forward through the pandemic and the startup roller-coaster, here I am walking the footsteps and starting Kynzy. It was also a decade ago that I made another encounter with my co-founder Ali Elgamal, while we each took our own entrepreneurial journeys, our paths re-crossed and our collaboration builds on a common belief in the great value assets can provide when innovation is used to increase their accessibility and their leverage. At Kynzy (كِنزي), in Arabic “my treasure”, we aim to give everyone access to tangible assets and asset-like ownership. Whether global and ubiquitous as Gold is, or unique and market specific. We aim at helping our customers extract the most of this ownership and in the process protect their efforts in offering a better future for their families. So what’s next? We have quite an exciting pipeline, whether in the markets we aim to serve, new asset classes to launch, partnership in the works, or new products built on the assets owned by our customers. #Kynzy #GoldInvestment #WealthGrowth #FounderObsession #GoodImpactIsWorthIt 

Dear Startups, Trying to raise funds from UK-based investors? We identified the most active early-stage investors of the UK so that you don't have to. Check out SFC Capital, Octopus Ventures, Ascension, Fuel Ventures 🚀, LocalGlobe, Mercia Asset Management PLC and Haatch Add more in the comments if we missed any, Share within your community for good karma! #VentureCapital #StartupFunding #Investment #EarlyStage Innovate UK UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) UK Startup Week

OpenseedVC, a new operator-led fund seeking to be the first investors in seasoned operators starting their technology companies across Africa and Europe, has officially launched, announcing the first close of its $10 million angel-style early stage fund. Maria Rotilu, founder and general partner of OpenseedVC commented: “The experience seasoned operators bring in terms of business building, combined with the dynamism and hustle that founders possess, is the focus for OpenseedVC.” Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/d38G--Ex * Subscribe to Africa Private Equity News’ monthly Dealmaker’s Log for a database of the reported investment deals, exits and fundraising closes. Click here for more information: https://lnkd.in/duy5dWPs

This industry has a strong tendency to glamorise the VC/startup journey, so it's always a breath of fresh air to hear fund managers like COTU Ventures's Amir Farha share candidly about the struggles...! Even with his 10+ year track record of investing in MENA bigwigs like Careem and Fresha via his previous fund BECO Capital, closing COTU's $54m debut fund was still hard. Fund managers in emerging markets have to overcome far steeper hurdles -- and for good reason, but venture tech optimists like Amir Farha still do it anyway. More in this DealStreetAsia story below: