Portfolio Company News
Nov 2023:
Oct 2023:
- Properly acquired by Pine Financial (with assets acquired by Compass)
- EarthAI finds first molybdenum deposit for mining
- Axiom Space signs partnership with UK Space Agency
- Emerge to bundle virtual touch hardware with Sony smart TVs
- NewHomesMate (fmr. PropertyMate) expands to Atlanta – now in 13 cities
Sept 2023:
- Security Today names QuSecure the top new product of the year in quantum cybersecurity
- goTenna announces $99M IDIQ contract with US Customs and Border Patrol for mesh networking
Aug 2023:
July 2023:
- Bright raises $31M Series C for solar in Mexico
- Epibone starts clinical trials for lab-grown knee cartilage
June 2023:
- Emerge partners with Disney on multi-sensory communication device for the home
- Cabinet Health launches sustainable medicine packaging in CVS
- Unspun launches 3D weaving fashion platform
- Poolbeg Pharma announces new flu drug targets with help from CytoReason
- Future Startup profiles Priyoshop, the leading B2B supplier for Bangladesh SMBs
May 2023:
- Pipedream pilot with Wendy’s for underground delivery to curbside mobile order pickup
- Axiom Space completes second successful space mission to ISS
- Dimensional Energy and Boom Supersonic announced sustainable aviation fuel deal
April 2023:
- Shopify sells logistics unit to Flexport
- Lynk in deal with Rogers for satellite SMS service to mobile phones
March 2023:
- New Flexport CEO from Amazon – Dave Clark aims to repeat e-commerce marketplace growth with Shopify partnership
- Jeeves launches Jeeves Pay – moves beyond credit cards for global B2B payment solutions
- Jumbotail raises $9M in debt financing
- Droneseed creates parent company Mast Reforestation, acquires CA’s largest tree seed supplier
- Leia launches Lume Pad 2 at SXSW for glasses-free 3D
- QuSecure unveils first quantum-secure satellite communications link
- How the Nike-veteran-backed HILOS aims to solve footwear waste
- DressX raises $15M Series A for digital fashion
Feb 2023:
- Kushki’s path to unicorn status in LATAM
- Rain AI speaks with Forbes about ChatGPT
- Maxar secures access to Umbra’s SAR satellite constellation
- Lynk sending texts from space on CNBC
- Cabinet Health gets a deal on Shark Tank for sustainable OTC medicine
- Bamboo secures digital license for trading from Nigeria’s SEC
- Notable Labs to merge with VBL Therapeutics, a Nasdaq public company
- Netflix teams with SandboxVR for Squid Game VR experience
- Lal10 launching 7 locations to digitize textile factories across India
Jan 2023:
- Cytoreason to license IBD model to Sanofi
- Rejuvenation Bio: Mice live longer after genetic reprogramming
- NorthOne teams with Bancorp on real-time payments
- Quaise Energy: Microwave drilling sounds like science fiction
- DressX on CNN for metaverse fashion
- Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company revolutionizes generic drug pricing
- SFA Therapeutics gets IND clearance for NASH indicati0n
2022:
- Yassir raises $150M Series B led by Bond
- Contraline announces first patients implanted with male contraceptive
- Kushki acquires Billpocket
- Carta acquires UK’s Capdesk
- Walmart takes first steps towards launching digital bank with One
- ZeroAvia aquires Hypoint
- Sony PlayStation acquires Repeat.gg
- Homelight acquires Accept
- Flexa acquires Drop Party
- 3D Systems acquires Volumetric
- 30 second deliveries from PipeDream Labs Building a Hyperloop for packages.
- Earthgrid aims to rebuild US infrastructure with robots digging tunnels using plasma torches
- Wave Engine raises $3.5M to build a new jet engine with no moving parts
- Pacaso partners with RE/MAX on vacation home co-ownership
- Yummy, the superapp for Venezuela and Bolivia, raises $47M
- Treinta, digital bookkeeping app for SMBs, raises $46M – the largest Series A in Columbia history
- Bristow Group signs LOI for 100 autonomous VTOL aircraft from Elroy Air
- Prometeo launches first LATAM direct account to account digital payments widget
- Renewable nitrogen fertilizer pioneer Nitricity raises $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures
- Atmos lands $12.5M Series A to design custom dream homes online
- BillionToOne secures $125M Series C led by Hummingbird Ventures for its non-invasive prenatal test
- Mudafy raises $10M in Series A led by Founders Fund to become the Redfin of Mexico
- Orbillion Bio partners with Solar Biotech to bring lab-grown Wagyu beef to market