London-based Curio, which offers a subscription-based, curated audio content platform has closed a $9 million Series A round led by Earlybird, with Draper Esprit, Cherry Ventures and Horizons Ventures chipping in. Fabian Heilemann, partner at Earlybird, will be joining Curio’s board. Curio says it plans to use the fresh cash to strengthen its position in […]
London-based PitchMe, which offers a skills-based talent marketplace that matches candidates’ soft and professional skills with the right job opportunities, has secured $1.2 million in a seed funding round led by New York-based Starta Ventures and joined by a UK-based family office and a number of angel investors (all unnamed). Used by the likes of […]
Banking technology company Thought Machine has secured an additional $42 million in funding for the series B round of funding it announced last March, which is due to close at a total of $125 million in early August. Eurazeo Growth is leading the extension, with British Patient Capital and Thought Machine customer SEB also coming […]
One Peak Partners, a London, UK-based tech investment firm, is announcing today that it has closed its second growth fund at its hard cap of €443 million, taking the firm’s assets under management to approximately €700 million in total. One Peak was founded by Humbert de Liedekerke and David Klein in 2014, and is primarily […]
UK startup Poplar, which provides a platform meant to significantly lower the bar for the production of 3D and AR campaigns, has secured $2.1 million in seed funding to boost growth. The round was led by Fuel Ventures, and joined by Haatch Ventures, Ascension Ventures and Super Ventures. The fledgling company was founded, and incubated […]
(Editor’s Note: this is an article from Crunchbase News by Christine Hall, syndicated with permission as part of a new content and data partnership.) Compass Pathways’ work on treatment-resistant depression received a big backing from investors. The London-based mental health care company closed a funding infusion of $80 million as part of a Series B […]
Editor’s note: this is a syndicated article from Crunchbase News, written by reporter Mary Ann Azevedo If you’re a parent, you’ve struggled with getting your child to sleep – at least most have. In fact, getting your kid to sleep can be one of the most stressful aspects of being a parent. One company is […]