Tag: Ventures

WNJ Ventures LAUUNCH! Incubataion Program Batch 1 Graduate: PerksBar

 HR Tech Platform for Employee Engagement, Reward and ESG Initiatives PerksBar (http://www.perksbar.com) is a HR engagement app for employee engagement, reward & ESG initiatives targeted at Corporates & SMEs. PerksBar’s current core proposition includes a peer recognition ...

On EQT Ventures’ $6m investment in Onramper — opening the fiat floodgates for crypto applications

Onramper is on a mission to bridge the current and future financial system by making fiat onramping frictionless thanks to their positioning as a developer-friendly fiat-gateway orchestrator. We are proud to announce that we have led Onramper’s $6 million seed round along with our friends...

The EQT Ventures French Office is hiring a Tech Analyst!

We’re EQT Ventures, a global VC built to partner and support the next generation of global winners across every stage (early seed to explosive growth). Built by former founders and operators, we’re a distributed team following a “local with locals” approach with teams in Stoc...

65 Foundations & Investors Who Fund Education Ventures in Africa

When my Co-Founder and I started an education nonprofit in Kenya, it took us many months to understand who were the most important foundations to talk to. As I built my own list of funders, I watched Metis Fellows and other early-stage education entrepreneurs duplicate the same work. We al...

Embracing Transparency: Economic Inclusion in Venture Capital

The Slauson & Co. approach to venture capital has been based in transparency and inclusivity since our inception. Our foundational belief in these principles was born not just from a sense of compliance or social obligation, but from recognizing and harnessing the immense potentia...

XFactor Ventures takes big bets on the enablers of the bioeconomy boom in the US

The early two-thousands brought us the biofuel boom (and bust). The mid-teens to early twenties brought 3D tissue development of organs — to synthetic biology to make everything from food to materials. As two female founders in the novel biology space, we know something about the investment bo...