Adrian Johnson

“`html TLDR: J2 Ventures raises $150 million for its new Argonne Fund. The oversubscribed fund focuses on technology startups with civilian and government applications. J2 Ventures, a deep tech venture capital fund,

TLDR: Praetura Ventures invests in ad tech company Lunio to tackle fake traffic in online advertising Gendo, an AI platform for architects, raises £860K pre-seed to transform visualizations Every week, Maddyness brings

TLDR – Secondary stake sales and buyouts dominated large deals in the start-up sector in the first half of 2024. – Total funding for start-ups declined by 3.8% compared to the same

TLDR: J2 Ventures, managed by US military veterans, secures $150 million for its second fund The company focuses on civilian and military goods, specifically military healthcare J2 Ventures, a Boston-based company managed

Article Summary TLDR: PE, VC funding slows down in the first half of 2024 Secondary deals become prominent Key Points: Secondary stake sales and buyouts dominated large deals in the startup space

TLDR: Latin American startups raised US$2.18bn in investments in the first half of the year. Chilean remittances-focused fintech Retorna raised US$1.2mn in a seed round led by Impacta VC. In the first

TLDR: Key points: Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) was founded by Bill Gates and other billionaires 8 years ago to fund transformative technologies for climate change mitigation. A large percentage of BEV’s investments

TLDR: Gelomics raises $2.2 million in pre-seed funding for animal-free medical research The investment will support market expansion and job creation A biotech startup called Gelomics has secured a $2.2 million pre-seed

TLDR: Private equity firms like Quadrant and Federation Asset Management are increasingly investing in later stage startups, causing friction in the VC community. VCs are concerned about the aggressive deal terms being

Tl;dr: Grosvenor, a UK property company, makes its first investment in a VC fund by investing in Noa, a VC fund focused on technologies reducing greenhouse gas emissions in real estate and