Alastair Goldfisher
Early-stage investor Canvas Ventures has tapped the longtime operator and investor Mike Ghaffary as its fourth general partner, joining GPs Paul Hsiao, Gary Little and Rebecca Lynn. At Canvas, Ghaffary will focus on investing in consumer tech, software, and marketplaces, online and mobile platforms that connect buyers and sellers for products and services. He told […]
San Francisco-based Transposit, provider of an API composition platform that helps developers compose disparate APIs, announced it raised $12.2 million in a Series A round led by Sutter Hill Ventures. SignalFire and Unusual Ventures also participated in the round.
In early February, Procter & Gamble spun the VC world around when it paid a reported $100 million for This Is L, the mission-driven producer of personal-care products for women. The deal for the upstart femtech, which donates products to underserved markets, was surprising for at least a couple of key reasons: It was founded […]
San Jose, California-based Functionize, creator of a cloud-based software testing solution, announced it has raised a $16 million Series A round led by Canvas Ventures. The round included undisclosed investors. As part of the funding, Canvas General Partner Gary Little has joined the board.
500 Startups Japan announced that it has raised its next fund under the new brand name of Coral Capital. The $45 million fund will involve the same people and continue to invest in seed-stage startups in Japan. The firm raised an oversubscribed $35 million fund for its inaugural effort in 2017 under the 500 Startups name. Founding Partner and CEO James Riney said in a blog post that the new fund was raised in less than three months.
Salesforce Ventures, the corporate investment arm of Salesforce, announced it has launched the Australia Trailblazer Fund, a $50 million fund to back Australian startups. This is the CVC's third regional fund in the last year year, following the launch of a Canada Fund in May and a Japan Fund in December of last year.
Seed-stage focused Susa Ventures, an early investor in unicorns Flexport and Robinhood, aims to raise $140 million for two funds, according to a pair of regulatory filings. Susa, based in San Francisco’s Mission District, is seeking $90 million for its third main seed fund and $50 million for its first opportunity fund. The opportunity fund […]
Andreessen Horowitz, which invests from seed to late in consumer and enterprise tech, brought David George on board as its first general partner dedicated solely to late-stage investing. The Stanford University Business School graduate most recently was with growth investor General Atlantic for seven years. In a blog post, a16z Managing Partner Scott Kupor said […]
Seed-stage investor 500 Startups, which is expected to soon begin fundraising for its fifth global fund, promoted Tim Chae to general partner. Co-Founder and Managing Partner Christine Tsai said Chae will oversee the San Francisco-based investment team and the seed-accelerator program, and will work closely with the organization’s 14 thematic funds worldwide. That includes the […]
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Jobcase, which operates a platform for the blue-collar-oriented workforce, announced it raised $100 million in growth equity led by Providence Strategic Growth. The company last year closed an $11.5 million round led by Providence and has now raised about $118 million total. Jobcase was founded in 2015 by Frederick Goff, a onetime trader and hedge fund manager who previously was CEO of Percipio Capital Management.