Venture Capital

(Image courtesy of mitri Mais Inc) For the second time this week, a venture capital firm has announced a nine-figure fund focused on the video game sector, more evidence of...

Despite some eye-catching deals in the last year, venture capital funding for media remains well below the 2015 and 2017 peaks, according to data shared with Press Gazette by Pitchbook....

Power Corp.’s POW-T venture capital arm Portage Ventures has closed a sixth round in one of the world’s largest VC funds focused on early-stage fintech companies, raising US$616-million from both...

Who do you ask for money when your company's mission is to bring back the woolly mammoth? Hollywood icons, blockchain elites, TikTok stars and venture capitalists, of course.An unlikely coalition...

The world's robot workforce is on the move.No longer limited to their stationary posts on assembly lines and in warehouses, autonomous robots are increasingly fleet-footed—making their way up and down...

Good Morning,As an investment banker, Raj Snehil Juneja got first-hand insight on how startups, in their eagerness to raise their next round of funding, were lacking in many areas or...

But Spark also had a dominant strand of Hollywood DNA. One of its founding partners was Dennis Miller, a former Turner Broadcasting and Sony Pictures exec, and another founder, Todd...

ElevationSpace, a Sendai, Japan-based space startup, raised $2.7M in Seed funding. Backers included Genesia Ventures, Plug and Play Japan, Innovations and Future Creation, Leave a Nest Capital, MAKOTO Capital and...

AI-powered smart supply chain management platform Calico has received $2.1 million in a seed funding round led by the Serena Williams-founded VC firm Serena Ventures. “We’re excited to partner with...

Sign up for dot.LA’s daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.Despite Black- and Latinx-led startups raising record amounts of funding in 2021,...