seed capital

FEBE Ventures launches $75M second fund

FEBE Ventures’ name stands for “For Entrepreneurs By Entrepreneurs,” and true to form, it is continuing to support seed-stage startups with the launch of its second fund. Targeting $75 million,

Runway raises $2M seed, launches its ‘air traffic control’ system for mobile app releases

Runway, a startup that emerged from the challenges that faced Rent the Runway’s first iOS team, is now exiting beta and launching its service that simplifies the mobile app release cycle —

Customer engagement platform Dixa raises $105M Series C led by General Atlantic

European customer engagement platform Dixa has raised a Series C funding round of $105 million, led by growth equity investor General Atlantic. Existing investors Notion Capital, Project A and Seed Ca

Templafy raises $25M Series C led by Insight partners to deal with enterprise documents

Back in 2018 Templafy — which had come up with a way for enterprises to more easily make templates out of standard documents (yes, it’s a thing) — raised an additional $15 million from existing

Tonsser wants to discover the soccer star of tomorrow

Copenhagen-based <a target="_blank" href="http://tonsser.com/">Tonsser</a> is on a mission to discover the soccer star of tomorrow. The startup has been quietly toiling away building a vertical social

Motosumo Turns Your Smartphone Into A Sports Tracker Without Need For Additional Gadgets

Copenhagen-based <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mo2tion.com">Motosumo</a> has spent the last three years developing "gait analysis" systems based on body mounted sensors coupled with its own algo

Plytix Bags €500K Seed For Image-Based Product Analytics

Born out of ex-Googler Morten Hellesøe Poulsen's own frustration with the limitations of Google Analytics, Copenhagen-based <a target="_blank" href="http://www.plytix.com">Plytix</a> offers a way for

After Raising $1.3M On Indiegogo, Airtame Closes $1.4M Seed Funding To Scale Up Wireless HDMI Dongle

Investors are wont to follow. It therefore shouldn't be a surprise to see <a target="_blank" href="http://airtame.com">Airtame</a> pick up a VC round of funding.

Shipbeat Is A “Logistics-As-A-Service” To Solve E-Commerce Delivery Woes

Denmark's <a target="_blank" href="http://shipbeat.com">Shipbeat</a> plans to offer an API that aggregates the services of leading parcel delivery companies, such as UPS, Fedex, Royal Mail, Deutsche P

Meet Genesis Angels, A New $100M Fund For AI And Robotics, Co-Founded By Investor Kenges Rakishev And Chaired By Israel’s Ex-PM

For those startups in newer areas like robotics, artificial intelligence and augmented reality who complain that VCs are too focused on consumer internet companies, help is at hand: <a target="_blank"

From Silicon Valley To Europe: Is The U.S. Series A Crunch Affecting European Startups?

Q: Is Silicon Valley’s Series A crunch causing a chill in Europe? A: Yes and no. A lot has been written about the Series A crunch/palpable chill in Silicon Valley that’s making founders p

You Don’t Need A Prototype To Raise A Seed Round

<strong>Editor's note:</strong> <strong>Editor's note:</strong> <em>Mike Hirshland is the founder of <a target="_blank" href="http://resolute.vc/">Resolute.VC</a>, a seed-stage venture capital firm

Twilio, Lytro, card.io, BackType Backer K9 Raises New $40M Seed Fund

Attention entrepreneurs: <a target="_blank" href="http://http://www.k9ventures.com/">K9 Ventures</a>, an early-stage VC fund that has backed some of the more exciting startups to hit the world in the

Cabiedes & Partners launch first angel fund in Spain – It's a pretty big deal!

<img class="shot" title="Spain" src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/Picture-217.png" alt="" width="190" height="163" />Anyone who is seriously involved in startups and online busines