Adrian Johnson

TLDR: Polsinelli PC has added a new shareholder to its venture capital and emerging growth companies practice in Denver. The new hire is a former Morrison & Foerster attorney with experience in

TLDR: Grafana Labs raises $270M in an extension of Series D round TickPick secures $250M investment to fuel ticket marketplace growth Chris Metinko covers the top 10 funding rounds for the week

TLDR: Female founders who are perceived as attractive have an easier time raising funding from investors. Female startup founders face greater challenges than male counterparts in raising venture capital due to unconscious

TLDR: Venture capital funding in biopharma reached $9.2 billion in Q2 2024, the highest quarterly level since 2022. Emerging technologies like CRISPR, oncolytic virus therapies, obesity treatments, and AI-driven platforms are attracting

TLDR: Fintech startup Axio raises $20 million funding from Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund New funds will be used for growth, scaling lending operations, and introducing more credit products Fintech lending startup Axio

TLDR: Nine CVCs have joined Tokyo Metropolis’s startup matching initiative. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has selected Asahi Kasei, Kashiwabara, Canon Marketing, Kirin, J Front, KHI, ShoPro, Sekisui, and Denka as corporate partners

TLDR: Chinese smart household appliance producer Dreame Technology launches a corporate venture capital arm called Empyrean Venture with a $1.5bn target to back AI and robotics startups. The initiative consists of a

TLDR: Paul Price has left IBM Ventures after more than a decade in various innovation and M&A integration roles. Price was most recently the UK leader of IBM Ventures Innovation Hub. Paul

TLDR: Investors are pouring capital into clean concrete startups, with over $750 million in venture funding raised in the past few years. Fortera, a developer of low-carbon cement technology, closed the biggest

TLDR: Earlybird Venture Capital has restructured into two entities, Earlybird and Earlybird Health, to provide more focused support to portfolio companies. The decentralized family of funds structure will be managed by independent