BeliMobilGue, a used car sales platform in Indonesia, has fueled up with a $10 million Series round for the race to dominate the automotive market in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The company was started in 2017 as a joint venture between Europe’s Frontier Car Group (FCG) and Intudo Ventures, a VC firm focused on Indonesia. BeliMobilGue said […]
View More BeliMobilGue raises $10M for its used-car sales platform in IndonesiaCategory: Balderton Capital
After challenger banks comes the wave of anti-fraud startups
The sheer scale of global financial crime is not to be underestimated. The UK’s National Crime Agency recently observed that it’s “in the hundreds of billions of pounds” annually, and that’s just in the UK. In the US, domestic financial crime, excluding tax evasion, generates approximately $300 billion of proceeds each year for potential laundering. […]
View More After challenger banks comes the wave of anti-fraud startupsKaia Health gets $10M support for AI-powered management of chronic pain
Kaia Health, a self-styled digital therapeutics” startup, has pulled in $10 million in Series A funding for an app-based approach to chronic pain management. The idea is to offer an alternative to painkillers, using mobile technology to deliver what the founder describes as multimodal, “mind body therapy” for musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders — comprised of guided […]
View More Kaia Health gets $10M support for AI-powered management of chronic painSophia Genetics bags $77M Series E, with 850+ hospitals signed up to its “data-driven medicine”
Another sizeable cash injection for big data biotech: Sophia Genetics has announced a $77M Series E funding round, bringing its total raised to $140M since the business was founded back in 2011. The company, which applies AI to DNA sequencing to enable what it dubs “data-driven medicine”, last closed a $30M Series D in fall 2017. […]
View More Sophia Genetics bags $77M Series E, with 850+ hospitals signed up to its “data-driven medicine”Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform
Contentful, a Berlin- and San Francisco-based startup that provides content management infrastructure for companies like Spotify, Nike, Lyft and others, today announced that it has raised a $33.5 million Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from OMERS Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors General Catalyst, Benchmark, Balderton Capital and Hercules. In […]
View More Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platformBalderton’s $145M ‘secondary’ fund will give shareholders in European scale-ups the chance to exit early
In what looks like a European first, the London-based early-stage venture capital firm Balderton Capital is announcing that is has closed a new $145 million “secondary” fund dedicated to buying equity stakes from early shareholders in European-founded “high growth, scale-up” technology companies. Dubbed “Balderton Liquidity I,” the new fund will invest in European growth-stage companies […]
View More Balderton’s $145M ‘secondary’ fund will give shareholders in European scale-ups the chance to exit earlyThe war over music copyrights
VC firms haven’t been the only ones raising hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in a booming market. After 15+ years of being the last industry anyone wanted to invest in, the music industry is coming back, and money is flooding in to buy up the rights to popular songs. As paid streaming subscriptions […]
View More The war over music copyrightsSimple Feast raises $12M from Balderton and 14W to expand its weekly meat-free meal-box deliveries
The vast majority of environmental experts say that avoiding meat and dairy is the single most important, and most impactful action, you can take to reduce your personal impact on Earth. Why? Because of the sheer amount of carbon pumped into the atmosphere from the process of meat production. Many would agree it’s also pretty […]
View More Simple Feast raises $12M from Balderton and 14W to expand its weekly meat-free meal-box deliveriesWonga investors inject £10M so cash-strapped payday lender can fund claims
If you were at Disrupt London four years ago you may remember more than a little awkwardness during an investor panel when two VCs that had invested in European payday loans firm Wonga declined to comment on what had gone wrong at their portfolio company in the wake of a £220M write down. Yesterday Sky News reported that those same […]
View More Wonga investors inject £10M so cash-strapped payday lender can fund claimsBalderton Capital closes new $375M fund to invest in Series A-stage European startups
More VC money sloshing around Europe: In what was probably one of the worst kept secrets in European VC, London-based Balderton Capital is announcing a new $375 million fund. I understand that it actually closed earlier this year, however, and I’m told has already been used to make ten investments. Read More