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Extremely jazzed to see investors from across the capital stack supporting Reindustrialize — the summit all about accelerating American manufacturing (Detroit, June 25-26) I was going to make a cool graphic with all the logos, but alas, I'm racing against the clock before it's Fortnite Thursday with my sons. So here's the full list of investors who are confirmed / have requested invites to Reindustrialize: 29 South 3cubed Ventures 640 Oxford 7percent Ventures a16z Abstract Ventures Acequia Capital Actuator Capital AE HorizonX Ventures Alumni Ventures America’s Frontier Fund Anomaly Fund Apollo Defense Assembly Ventures Atento Capital Bain Capital Ventures Basis Set Bedrock BetterWay Bluewater Ventures BlueYard Capital BOND Booz Allen Ventures Bosch Ventures BoxGroup Brave Capital Calibrate Cathay Innovation Costanoa Ventures CREO Cubit Capital Decisive Point Deepwater Detroit Venture Partners Diaspora Ventures Discipulus Ventures dvx ventures Earthrise Ventures Eden Global Partners Encore Venture Labs Fontinalis Partners Frontsight Fulcrum Venture Group General Catalyst Generational Partners Giant Step Capital Grid Capital Ground Up Ventures Hanwha FutureProof Ventures Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Hawktail HBC Investments Heroic Ventures House Of Ventures Impatient In-Q-Tel Individual investor Industrious Ventures Insight Partners Iron Prairie Ventures Ironspring Ventures J2 Ventures Khosla Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Long Range Development Group Ludlow Ventures MaC Venture Capital Marlinspike Marque Ventures MBX Capital Mercury Narya Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross NATO Innovation Fund New North Ventures Newark Venture Partners Newlab NVNG Advisors nvtbl Ventures Outlander VC Oxcart VC Pennant Investors Point72 Ventures Porsche Ventures Prima Materia Quiet Capital Raw Materials Refinery Ventures RTX Ventures Sequoia Capital Scout VC Shield Capital SIP Capital SkaraVC Snowpoint Ventures Soundproof Ventures Space VC Squadra Ventures SRI Ventures Starburst Ventures Steel Atlas Story Ventures Syndicate 708 Tamarack Global Teamworthy Ventures Teewinot Ventures The Engine Accelerator @ MIT The Fund CXO the Seafloor Minerals Fund TMG True Ventures Upfront Ventures Victory Six Advisors Vy Capital Yamaha Motor Ventures If you're in gov't / dod and care about the future industrial base, I specifically encourage you to join this first of its kind opportunity to plug into the multiverse of manufacturing 🇺🇸🥂 #Reindustrialize 📽 : Aaron Slodov Kate Moon Austin Bishop Paul Kwan Jordan Blashek Falon Donohue Gregory M. Bernstein Joshua Steinman 🇺🇸

🔥 We're thrilled to announce the partnership between Dealroom, Cogito Capital, Uniqa Ventures, and Vestbee for the "Central and Eastern European Startups 2024" report. This much-anticipated report will have its exclusive unveiling at the CEE VC Summit in exactly one week! ⏰ ➡️ Learn more and apply for an invitation here: https://lnkd.in/dnr-i-h8 👏Meet co-authors of the Central and Eastern European Startups 2024 report Dealroom.co, founded in Amsterdam in 2013, is the foremost data provider on startup, early-stage, and growth company ecosystems in Europe and around the globe delivering transparency, analysis, and insights on venture capital activity. UNIQA Ventures is a CEE-focused venture capital fund specializing in Fintech, Proptech, and Insurtech. Backed by UNIQA Insurance Group, it empowers innovative companies, offering strategic guidance, networks, and industry insights to accelerate their growth and shape the future of industries in the region. Cogito Capital Partners, based in Warsaw and New York, invests in later-stage tech B2B companies with Central European roots and global expansion potential. Focused on Enterprise Software, Fintech, and Healthtech, Cogito acts as a bridge between Europe and the USA, offering hands-on support to the portfolio companies as they venture into the US market. Vestbee is Europe's leading all-in-one platform and community for startups and investors, providing an extensive suite of tools and infrastructure designed to streamline the fundraising process, enhance deal sourcing, and support the management of open innovation, acceleration programs, and startup-investor matchmaking. Looking forward to meeting all our Partners and fund managers in Warsaw soon: Ewa Chronowska - Vestbee, Next Road Ventures Staffan Helgesson - Creandum Chris Wade - Isomer Capital Marcin Hejka - OTB Ventures Ertan Can - Multiple Capital Jocke Martelius - AlphaQ Venture Capital Bakhrom I. - Molten Ventures Julian von Eckartsberg - Burda Principal Investments Tomas Pacinda - KAYA VC Pedro Santos Vieira - 500 Global Maciej Cwikiewicz - PFR Ventures Ozan Sonmez - Molten Ventures Aleksander Mokrzycki, CFA - PFR Ventures Aman Ghei - Finch Capital Marcin Kurek - Market One Capital Kristjan Laanemaa - Karma Ventures Zuzanna Czapinska - HV Capital Maciek Gnutek - Credo Ventures Merve Zabci - Logo Ventures ... ➡️ Check out more details and apply for an invitation here: https://lnkd.in/dnr-i-h8 #CEEVC #Startups2024 #Vestbee #Dealroom #Innovation #StartupEcosystem

New record: 100 AI investors are coming to the sold-out Llama Lounge 11, easily over $100,000,000,000 AUM in the room. 400+ AI founders have been selected to attend and network. Bad news: Over 300 are on the waitlist. Only approved guests will gain admittance. Good news: we have 4 more events planned later this year in SF. We are doing our very best to accommodate the extreme demand. 1 Blitzscaling Ventures 2 1infinity Ventures 3 500 Global 4 500 Emerging Europe 5 57Blocks Capital 6 65 Equity Partners 7 99 VC 8 Acorn Pacific Ventures 9 Ascend Ventures 10 AIX Ventures 11 Alchemist Accelerator 12 Alumni Ventures 13 AMINO Capital 14 AV8 Ventures 15 Amity Ventures 16 Archangel-1 17 Beta University 18 Bee Partners 19 BMW i Ventures 20 Bootstrap Labs 21 Cathay Innovation 22 Coelius Capital 23 Costanoa 24 Counter Culture Ventures 25 DCM Ventures 26 Dell Technologies Capital 27 Dragon Heart Holdings 28 Embedding VC 29 Envisionx Capital 30 FalconX Ventures 31 Fintech Next 32 Foothill Ventures 33 Fortitude Ventures 34 FPV Ventures 35 Galaxy Ventures 36 General Catalyst 37 GenLab AI Studio 38 Georgian 39 GIC: Gov of Singapore Investment Corp 40 Greylock 41 Hanwha Asset Management 42 Hard Yaka 43 Hitachi Ventures 44 Indeed Corporate Ventures 45 Informatica Corp Dev 46 Insight Partners 47 Intel Capital 48 InMotion Ventures | Jaguar Land Rover 49 J2 Ventures 50 JLL Spark 51 J-Ventures 52 Kapor Capital 53 KIC (Korea Investment Corporation) 54 Laidlaw & Company 55 Lobby VC 56 Lone Pine Capital 57 Monochrome Capital 58 Mujeres Invirtiendo 59 NEC X Venture Studio 60 Next47 61 NexParadigm Capital 62 Next Legacy Partners 63 NTTVC 64 OMERS Ventures 65 Omni Venture Labs 66 Ontario Teachers Pension Plan 67 Open Core Ventures 68 Pear Ventures 69 Peterson Ventures 70 Point72 Ventures 71 Plug And Play 72 Premji Invest 73 Presidio Ventures 74 Progression 75 Propel VC 76 Qualcomm Ventures 77 Race Capital 78 Raine Ventures 79 Redwood Collective 80 Ringcentral Corporate Ventures 81 Schaeffler Corporate Venture 82 Scrum Ventures 83 SHACK15 Ventures 84 shuckerVC 85 SoftBank Group Corp 86 Stellantis Ventures 87 Tau Ventures 88 Theory Forge Ventures 89 Threshold Ventures 90 Transhuman Capital 91 True Ventures 92 Upscaler VC 93 Vibranium VC 94 VSC Ventures 95 VU Venture Partners 96 Waterway Ventures 97 Woven VC 98 XY Ventures 99 Yamaha Motor Ventures 100 Yellow Rocks

Are you a Danish entrepreneur looking for funding? Then check out the awesome mapping of the Danish VC space by Gilion 💪 A bit of "🍍 in own juice" (as we say in 🇩🇰), but great to see that Antler is the most searched for VC in Denmark 🌶🌶 However MUCH MORE AWESOME to see a growing ecosystem with now +30 potential VC in investors for entrepreneurs to seek funding from 🚀 Below is the full (unedited) list - but definitely also read more about these firms in the great the article (link in comments); 10x Founders 2150 Accelerace Blazar Capital Brand New Ventures byFounders Centripetal Climentum Capital Dreamcraft Ventures Export and Investment Fund of Denmark Emblem Founderment Founders Heartcore Capital Heartland Inventure Investio KOMPAS VC Look Up Ventures LoveMondays Morph Capital NOON Ventures Nordic Alpha Partners Nordic Eye Venture & Growth Capital Nordic Makers North Ventures North-East Venture Novo Holdings People Ventures Planetary Impact Ventures PreSeed Ventures Promentum Equity Partners Scale Capital Seed Capital Denmark Ugly Duckling Ventures Unconventional Ventures Upfin.vc Verdane volvér.vc Adding a few additional great investors here as well that wasn't on the original list (but know that Gilion will add them next time); Accelerace (accelerator) Alliance VC Alfa Ventures (proptech) Aura Ventures Blackwood BII (biotech / accelerator) Copenhagen United Cows Capital Crowberry Capital Eir Ventures (biotech) Keystones (angel network) Kost Capital Likeminded Lottrup & Co Lundbeckfonden Ventures (biotech) Footprint Firm Maersk Growth (CVC) Node.vc Nordic Secondary Fund (secondaries) Proptechfonden (protech) Regeneration.vc Rockstart Seedrs (equity crowdfunding) Sound Bioventure (biotech) Soundinvest Sunstone Life Science Ventures (biotech) Underground Ventures Unridden Ventures Who else should be added to the list? Let's go 🌶🌶

❗Female founders, grab my list of VCs, Accelerators and Angel Investors organized by location, dedicated to supporting you. These organizations are creating innovative funding approaches and have backed some of my clients. I'll update this list monthly to help with your fundraising efforts and connect with the right investors. → VCs in North America: Emmeline Ventures Reinventure Capital Female Founders Fund BAD BITCH EMPIRE CAPITA3 Halogen Ventures Amplifyher Ventures Seed to Harvest Fuze Fund Lumo Labs HearstLab The Venture City Minerva Verse Baukunst Rogue Women Vitalize VC Storytime Capital StandUp Ventures Panache Ventures Chloe Capital The 98 Golden Seed VC Curate Capital Sandpiper Ventures ICI Fund How Women Invest Rethink Impact, LP LDR Ventures Amplifica Capital Plum Alley Coyote Ventures @360 Venture Collective Milemark Capital Mindshift Capital GingerBread Capital Brilliant Minds Chai Ventures The51 → VCs in Europe: Fund F by Female Founders Bethnal Green Ventures Mustard Seed  Ada Ventures  Pink Salt Ventures  Sie Ventures  Unconventional Ventures Diversity-X Borski Capital T Privileges Ventures Auxxo Revaia Atlantic Bridge Dart Ventures Identity VC Alvicus Tilia Impact Ventures Two Magnolias Well Street Pitango Seeder Fund Green Generation Fund Encourage Ventures We Are Jane Venrex Ship2B Ventures Leanox Impact Capital Aspira Partners 3 Sisters Venture → VCs in Africa Five35 Ventures Enygma Ventures Aruwa Capital ShEquity → Angel Investors in Europe Awaken Angels Encourage Ventures Women Angels 4 Steam Arya Women Investment Platform Hanswomengroup The Angel Initiative Joanna Invests Feminvest HERMESA Alma Angels Angel Academe Female Investors Network → Angel Investors in North America She's Independent Investments The Firehood Citrine Angels Angel Hive Coralus Sofia Fund Thousand Faces Angel Program → Angel Investors in Australia Scale Investors Pty Ltd → Global Accelerators/Incubators: Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Founder Institute - Female Founder Initiative Female Foundry → Accelerators/Incubators in Europe: FemTech Lab Seedcamp Zinc SISTA Magic Sauce Tech Nordic Advocates Avant Now Grace Accelerator HHL Digital Space Open Accelerator Female Founders Fundraising Academy Tech4Eva Purposeful Profits Impact Hub Barcelona Businettes Impact Shakers SIBB Digital Transition Incubator → Accelerators in North America 43North Next Sequence® WCB Accelerator ABCT eLab The Accelerator Centre → Accelerators in Africa ShEquity Key Fundraising Tips: ⭕ Develop a funding strategy that suits both your business and personal needs. ⭕ Utilize your network for warm introductions to potential investors. ⭕ Build significant traction to enhance your funding chances in today's market. ⭕ Stay resilient, protect your mental health, and keep pushing towards your goals. ➡️ I've hit the mention limit. If you're a VC, Angel investor or accelerator that supports female founders and would like to be featured, please drop a comment or send me a DM.

💰 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 $𝟏𝟒𝟕 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝟐𝟕 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 💰 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 🔶 Noccarc raised $2 Mn in a funding round led by the IAN. 🔶 Ascend Capital has raised ₹50 crore from InfoEdge Group and Asha Ventures 🔶 Scrut Automation has raised USD 7.5 million in a funding round led by MassMutual Ventures, Lightspeed and Endiya Partners. 🔶 SCANDALous Foods (ADITOF) Foods has raised INR 3 crore Indian Angel Network (IAN), KRS Jamwal and Mrunal Jhaveri, Arjun Vaidya of V3 Ventures, Ajay Mariwala, MD of VKL and FSIPL, and Sushma Gupta. 🔶 Segwise raises $1.6 Million from powerhouse Ventures, Antler India, Blume Ventures, Everywhere Ventures, Saka Ventures, Untitled Ventures 🔶 Illumine-I raised $2 million from Anicut Capital 🔶 Moove has secured $10 million in debt funding from Stride Ventures 🔶 Frubon raises undisclosed amount from Fireside Ventures, Pi Ventures and others. 🔶 PocketATM raises $400K from Indian Express Commercial Ventures, Samir Modi of Modicare, Himanshu Nautiyal from Fractal Analytics, Nirav Mehta from Morgan Stanley, 🔶 Happi Planet raised $1 million from Fireside Ventures 🔶 Beautywise raises undisclosed amount from Fireside Ventures & Multiply Ventures 🔶 IDC Kitchen has raised INR 1.5 crore from Velocity 🔶 Metalbook has raised $15 million from Rigel Capital, FJ Labs, Axilor Ventures, Fundamental, Stride Ventures, Trifecta Capital. 🔶 Attentive.ai AI has bagged $7 million from Vertex Ventures, Peak XV Partners and InfoEdge Ventures. 🔶 Astrotalk has raised $20 million in Series A from New York-based venture capital firm Left Lane Capital. 🔶 Explurger has raised $4.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Affle (India) Limited 🔶 AyeKart Fintech has raised $6.5 million from Omnivore, Siana Capital and UNLEASH Capital Partners. 🔶 Freo has raised debt funding from the SIDBI(Small Industries Development Bank of India). 🔶 Amber has raised $21 million from Gaja Capital, Lighthouse Canton, and Stride Ventures . 🔶 Supertails has raised $15 million in equity funding led by RPSG Capital Ventures , Fireside Ventures, Saama, DSG Consumer Partners, and Sauce.vc. 🔶 Captain Fresh raised $25 million from British International Investment and Nekkanti Seafoods Group as well as a few family offices. 🔶 Veera has raised $6 million led by Ayon Capital , 6th Man Ventures, Folius Ventures, The operating Group and iSeed Ventures, LLC. #investmentbanking #startupindia #fundraise #indianeconomy Arjun Ghose Utham Gowda 

[NEWS] Thayer Ventures and Derive Ventures combine for new platform 💼💡 Prominent early-stage venture capital firms Thayer Ventures and Derive Ventures have combined to form a new platform called Thayer Investment Partners (TIP). Founded in 2009 and 2022 respectively, Thayer Ventures and Derive Ventures both invest in early-stage travel and hospitality. Thayer focuses on technology within the global travel and transportation industry, while Derive invests in the "advancement of travel, experiences, hospitality, and real estate." 🌍🏨 The new platform, TIP, will leverage the experience of both firms to invest in a new generation of innovative startup companies. The leadership team includes Chris Hemmeter from Thayer Ventures and Tyler Carrico and Mike Scott from Derive Ventures. Lee Pillsbury will continue as Managing Director of TIP. Hemmeter said, “This is a transformative moment for Thayer’s portfolio companies, for our industry partners and for investors.” 💡 📖 Read the full article HERE > https://lnkd.in/gFhnwHir #VentureCapital #TravelTech #HospitalityInnovation #ThayerVentures #DeriveVentures #StartupInvesting #TravelIndustry #Investment

RESOURCES FOR FEMALE FOUNDERS: Looking for funding? Here's a list of #VCs, #accelerators, #angelinvestors, and other funding resources. h/t to Sarah Anto, MBA, CPA for this regular posting. If you don't already, you should follow her. #foundersjourney #athenacxo #athenahive #showherthemoneymovie #femalefounders

Llama Lounge 11 (The AI Startup Event Series in SF) is now Sold Out! URL in comments Breakdown: - 500 total registrants - 480 AI Founders (our core community) - 83 Investors (see below) - 10 AI startups on the demo floor (1 slot open) - 2 Amazon Experts at the Ask The Experts table - 1 Loud Conch Shell If you're on the waitlist, space may free up. We have 4 more SF events planned for the rest of the year. AI investors: VCs, Corporate Venture, estimated $100,000,000,000 AUM in the room: -Blitzscaling Ventures -500 Global -500 Emerging Europe -57Blocks Capital -65 Equity Partners -99 VC -Acorn Pacific Ventures -Ascend Ventures -AIX Ventures -Alchemist Accelerator -Alumni Ventures -AMINO Capital -AV8 Ventures -Amity Ventures -Beta University -BMW i Ventures -Cathay Innovation -Coelius Capital -Costanoa -DCM Ventures -Dell Technologies Capital -Dragon Heart Holdings -Embedding VC -Envisionx Capital -FalconX Ventures -Fintech Next -Foothill Ventures -Fortitude Ventures -FPV Ventures -Galaxy Ventures -General Catalyst -GenLab AI Studio -Georgian -GIC: Gov of Singapore Investment Corp -Greylock -Hanwha Asset Management -Hard Yaka -Hitachi Ventures -Indeed Corporate Ventures -Insight Partners -InMotion Ventures | Jaguar Land Rover -J2 Ventures -J-Ventures -Kapor Capital -Laidlaw & Company -Lobby VC -Lone Pine Capital -Monochrome Capital -Mujeres Invirtiendo -NEC X Venture Studio -Next47 -NexParadigm Capital -OMERS Ventures -Omni Venture Labs -Ontario Teachers Pension Plan -Open Core Ventures -Pear Ventures -Point72 Ventures -Presidio Ventures -Propel VC -Qualcomm Ventures -Race Capital -Raine Ventures -Redwood Collective -Ringcentral Corporate Ventures -Schaeffler Corporate Venture -Scrum Ventures -SHACK15 Ventures -shuckerVC -SoftBank Group Corp -Stellantis Ventures -Tau Ventures -Theory Forge Ventures -Threshold Ventures -Transhuman Capital -True Ventures -Upscaler VC -Vibranium VC -VSC Ventures -VU Venture Partners -XY Ventures -Yamaha Motor Ventures -Yellow Rocks

🚀 Most Active Venture Capital Investors Based in Michigan Michigan's venture capital ecosystem is fueling innovation across healthcare, tech, and consumer services, with Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Grand Rapids emerging as dynamic startup hubs. Here’s a look at the top investors driving growth: - Annox Capital – Led by Bob Mylod - Arboretum Ventures – Led by Jan Garfinkle, Thomas Shehab, MD, MMM, Dan Kidle, and Tim Petersen - Augment Ventures – Led by Sonali Vijayavargiya - Banana Capital – Led by Turner Novak - Beringea – Led by Charlie Rothstein, Michael Gross, and William Blake III - BioStar Capital – Led by Louis A Cannon, MD, FACA, FACC, FACP, FSCAI - eLab Ventures – Led by paul brown, Doug Neal, and Bob Stefanski - Fontinalis Partners – Led by Chris Cheever, Laura Petterle, and Chris Stallman, CFA - GM Ventures – Led by Zach Kirkman and Anirvan Coomer - Grand Ventures – Led by Tim Streit - Huron River Ventures – Led by Ryan Waddington - ID Ventures – Led by Martin Dober, Patti Glaza, Lee Rawlings - Ludlow Ventures – Led by Jonathon Triest - Plymouth Growth – Led by Jeff Barry - Red Cedar Ventures – Led by David Washburn - RPM Ventures – Led by Adam Boyden, Tony Grover, and Marc Weiser 📧 Discover more about Michigan’s VC investors at Startup Researcher NAI, and subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news and insights. #Michigan #VentureCapital #Startups