| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.02.2026 | Following a pre-seed-round, ScyAI launches AI risk intelligence for real assets and insurance |
For manufacturers, energy producers, and companies with large physical asset portfolios, climate risk has become a critical operational concern. Munich Re reports that 2025 saw approximately $224 billion in economic losses from natural cat... |
| 06.08.2025 | NuCicer Raises $11.5M in Series A Funding | NuCicer, a Davis, CA-based company which specializes in chickpea breeding and sustainable ingredient solutions, raised $11.5M Series A funding.
The round was led by Rhapsody Venture Partners, with participation from Leaps by Bayer and a ser... |
| 25.04.2024 | roclub Revolutionizes Remote Healthcare with €4M Seed Funding | Berlin-based company roclub has secured €4M in Seed funding to expand its teleoperations platform for the global healthcare industry. Led by Speedinvest and FJ Labs, with support from Better Ventures and strategic angels, the funding will f... |
| 25.04.2024 | roclub raises €4M for remotely operated diagnostics | roclub has raised €4M for software that allows diagnostic imaging to be operated remotely. Speedinvest led the round with participation from FJ Labs, Better Ventures and strategic angels.
The funding follows a recently announced pre-seed fu... |
| 15.02.2023 | Funga wants to accelerate carbon capture using belowground fungal biodiversity | Funga claims to be the first nature-based carbon removal to be powered by belowground biodiversity restoration. The company just raised a $4 million round.
The company was founded by ecologist and climate scientist Dr. Colin Averill, and it... |
| 14.12.2022 | Oxyle secures CHF 2.8M to scale its water purification technology | |
| 05.03.2022 | Eat Better Ventures Raises Rs 5.5 Crore In Seed Funding | Eat Better Ventures, a healthy snacking brand, has raised Rs 5.5 crore funding in a seed round led by Java Capital and Mumbai Angels.
Shiprocket Ventures, CapierCapital and Plan B Capital participated in this funding round. The seed round a... |
| 03.03.2022 | Eat Better Ventures raises Rs 5.5cr seed led by Java Capital, Mumbai Angels | D2C food brand, Eat Better Ventures, announced that it has raised Rs 5.5 crore funding in a seed round led by Java Capital and Mumbai Angels. Shiprocket Ventures, Capier Capital and Plan B Capital were some of the other participants in the ... |
| 02.03.2022 | Eat Better Ventures raises Rs5.5 crore in funding round led by Java Capital, Mumbai Angels | ETtechEat Better is a Jaipur based brand.
Mumbai: Healthy snacking brand Eat Better Ventures on Wednesday said it has raised Rs 5.5 crore funding in a seed round led by Java Capital and Mumbai Angels.
The round also saw participation from S... |
| 22.02.2022 | Alt protein VC Better Bite Ventures launches $15m fund | An alternative protein venture capital firm targeting Asia-Pacific-based companies has launched with a $15 million fund.
Founded in January 2021 by former Polish e-commerce company Allegro executive Michal Klar and mobile game maker Frenzoo... |
| 07.12.2021 | Stellar Growth Defined Bee’s 2021 Amid Adjustments to “New Normal” | As COVID-19 drags into another year, we feel lucky that from our vantage point we see a silver lining. 2021 was a year in which we, along with much of the world, learned whether we could stand steady on the ever-shifting grounds that have b... |
| 14.09.2021 | Change Foods Moves into Custom State-of-the-Art Facilities at BioCube San Jose | Junior Te’o, COO and David Bucca, CEO
SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) September 14, 2021
Change Foods, a US-Australian precision fermentation dairy start-up, announced it has set up R&D operations inside BioCube San Jose, one of the oldest and... |
| 14.07.2021 | How to Get Funding for Your Eco Business | July 14, 2021 4 min read
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Because it impacts every other humanitarian cause, global warming is arguably humanity’s biggest crisis. With a scorching summer in the Pacific Northwes... |
| 14.04.2020 | 54gene Closes $15M Series A | 54gene, the African genomics research, services, and development company has closed a Series A round of $15M, led by Adjuvant Capital, a life sciences fund backed by the International Finance Corporation, Novartis, and the Bill & Melind... |
| 03.07.2019 | Nigerian healthtech platform 54gene secures $4.5m | Nigerian healthtech platform 54gene has secured a $4.5-million seed round from several investors — including Y Combinator, Fifty Years, Better Ventures, KdT Ventures, Hack VC and Techammer, among others.
The announcement was revealed by Te... |
| 03.07.2019 | Nigerian healthtech platform 54gene secures $4.5m | Nigerian healthtech platform 54gene has secured a $4.5-million seed round from several investors — including Y Combinator, Fifty Years, Better Ventures, KdT Ventures, Hack VC and Techammer, among others.
The announcement was revealed by Tec... |
| 13.10.2017 | Top healthtech VCs are investing heavily in technologies that are advancing value-based care models | What’s the criteria they’re considering? Where are value-based care models working?
Vator teamed up with HP to hold the SplashX: Invent Health event, where we asked some of the most prominent VCs, entreprenuers and members of the health com... |
| 19.09.2017 | What are value-based care models that work? | At SplashX, healthcare investors discussed emerging value based business models
Last Friday, Vator teamed up with HP to hold the SplashX: Invent Health event, where we asked some of the most prominent VCs, entreprenuers and members of the h... |
| 15.09.2017 | At SplashX: Business imperative vs policy incentive | Healthcare investors were asked what they want to see before they invest in value based care
Last night, Vator teamed up with HP to hold the SplashX: Invent Health event, where we asked some of the most prominent VCs, entreprenuers and memb... |
| 06.06.2017 | BookNook Raises $1.2M Seed Round to Facilitate Small Group Literacy Instruction | Reading at an early age is best taught in small groups. That instructional approach is supported by research—and it’s how a new literacy app from BookNook is meant to be used. “We’re all about human-to-human learning,” Michael Lombardo, the... |
| 14.02.2017 | Investing in GoodBusiness | Ted Rheingold Contributor
Ted Rheingold is a profit-from-purpose entrepreneur. He was the founding COO of Tala and founder of the social networks Dogster and Catster.
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companie... |
| 05.01.2017 | Better Ventures closes $21 million fund to back the next Tesla or Patagonia | Oakland-based venture capital firm Better Ventures recently closed its second fund at $21 million according to cofounder and managing director Wes Selke.
The firm was originally founded as an accelerator called Hub Ventures to help social e... |
| 05.01.2017 | Oakland-based Better Ventures raises $21M for second fund | The early stage firm invests in companies that have a social or environmental impact
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO of ... |
| 21.10.2016 | Better Ventures Holds First Close of Second Fund, at $18.24M | Better Ventures, an Oakland, CA-based venture capital firm, has held the first close of its second fund, at $18.24m.
According to a regulatory form filed with the SEC, 55 backers participated in the offering of Better Ventures Fund II, LP, ... |
| 30.06.2016 | Dysh - Vator Splash Spring Class of 2016 Finalist | Check out King's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Spring 2016 cohort Dysh, the free app, launched by Toast Labs, Inc. merges user-generated content and mobile technology to create a conversation around the food, g... |
| 28.06.2016 | ScreenMeet - Vator Splash Spring Class of 2016 Winner | Check out Lilienthal's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Spring 2016 cohort ScreenMeet's license the software as a SaaS monthly/annual subscription between $10 and $25/month depending on which platforms the custome... |
| 24.06.2016 | The History Project - Vator Splash Spring Class of 2016 | Check out Lichtenstein's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Spring 2016 cohort The History Project's Freemium platform is releasing a premium offering in late Q2 that will enable additional back-up of content, with ... |
| 22.06.2016 | Laughly - Vator Splash Spring Class of 2016 | Check out Scott's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Spring 2016 cohort Laugh.ly is launching the first streaming app dedicated to stand-up comedy. The app not only allows listeners to stream comedy from professiona... |
| 24.11.2015 | PreSeed Fireside Chat with Nancy Pfund from DBL Investors | By Rick Moss | Better Ventures: Each month, Better Ventures convenes top leaders in impact investing and entrepreneurship for a fireside chat, networking, and workshops geared towards early-stage companies. We held a PreSe... |
| 12.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 12, 2015 | Symphony raised $100M; Xpenditure closed $5.7M round; EverSport Media secured $4.2M
Gridle, a productivity platform for work, has raised a seed round of $100,000 led by Jyotsna Bapat from IIITBangalore through deal making platform LetsVentu... |
| 24.09.2015 | Uber in Oakland, what does it mean? The tech scene weighs in | Will Uber help kickstart Oakland's tech renaissance, or will it kill what makes the city special?
On Wednesday Uber, the highest valued company in the world, announced that it is coming to Oakland!
The company is buying the Sears building, ... |
| 08.04.2015 | Coworking kitchen for food artisans opening in Oakland | Vator Splash Oakland attendees to get treated to tasty sneak preview on April 23
At Splash Oakland on April 22-23, guests on Day 2, Thursday will have tthe opportunity to enjoy lunch prepared by a selection of local food artisans on the roo... |
| 25.03.2014 | Why I moved Splash to Oakland from San Francisco | To build a culture of entrepreneurship and showcase the East Bay
On May 6-7, Vator will bring our popular Splash tech startup event and competition to Jack London Square on the Oakland waterfront, after four years of holding it successfully... |
