Author Archives for Maria Eliseeva
June 16, 2021 2:13 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
London, UK, 10 June 2021 — Mercaux, a leading SaaS company, offering a single platform to digitize physical retail, today announced that it has secured €1.5 million in new debt financing from Flashpoint Venture Debt. Mercaux helps transform retail stores from simple point... View Article
May 26, 2021 2:15 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
IVI has closed a new funding round of $250 million from both external investors and current shareholders. The group of new investors was led by VTB and includes Invest AG and Millhouse. Flashpoint Venture Capital, Baring Vostok and the Russian... View Article
May 12, 2021 1:01 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
Construction is one of the largest industries in the world creating $1.3 trillion of structure a year, and while everything around us seems to be disrupted by new technologies, construction remains highly undigitized compared with other sectors. This match between huge markets... View Article
April 29, 2021 2:16 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
New financing to fuel Company’s manufacturing of the world’s thinnest and lightest waveguide displays, enabling all-day-wearable AR glasses for consumers, while delivering large eyebox, unobstructed real-world view, and unmatched AR experience. Dispelix, a global leader in Waveguide Displays for Augmented... View Article
April 27, 2021 2:20 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
Guesty, Flashpoint portfolio company since 2016, raised a $50 million Series D funding round. The Tel Aviv-based company has now raised a total of $110 million. The new round was led by Apax Digital Fund with participation from the AMI Opportunities Fund,... View Article
April 27, 2021 2:18 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
Chili Piper, which has a sophisticated SaaS appointment scheduling platform for sales teams, has raised a $33 million B round led by Tiger Global. Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. This brings the company’s... View Article
February 10, 2021 1:03 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
Israel has one of the strongest entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide. However, it is not so advanced yet in narrowing its gender gap amongst founders. This article will provide you with a snapshot of the good and the bad of female entrepreneurship... View Article
February 9, 2021 1:06 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
Venture Capital is an industry that is built on funding innovation. But how has the industry itself evolved since its inception? Short Overview VC 1.0 — The Origins of the Industry Venture Capital (VC) is a form of early-stage financing... View Article
September 8, 2020 1:08 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
Why is customer churn important? In every business, customers are one of your most important assets. It is always much easier to sell to existing customers than to new ones, so keeping your hard-earned customer should be a priority at... View Article
July 9, 2020 2:57 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
As venture debt continues to emerge as an alternative asset class allowing technology company founders to raise capital, we continue sharing our experience and expertise with founders about the benefits and use cases of venture debt. In case you haven’t... View Article
April 15, 2020 1:14 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
COVID-19 pandemic was a shock to the global economy as well as individuals, businesses and investors. We launched this survey to identify the immediate impact of the pandemic that VCs and startups are exposed to and will repeat it in... View Article
August 14, 2019 2:22 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
The investment round was led by Vostok New Ventures, with participation from its existing investors: Flashpoint and Addventure. We are delighted to see the tremendous growth and global expansion of Dostavista. With the current investment and its unique same-day crowdsourced... View Article
April 24, 2019 2:23 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
New York— April 24, 2019 — Flashpoint Venture Capital led a $3 million seed funding round into Chili Piper, the Buyer Enablement tech pioneer. The round will support the development of new solutions focused on “Buyer Enablement” — enabling businesses... View Article
March 30, 2019 2:26 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
March 21, 2019 — Guesty.com, Israeli based portfolio company of Eastern-European venture capital fund Buran VC, announced the closing of a US$35 million investment led by Viola Growth with participation from other international VCs: Vertex Ventures, Journey Ventures, Kingfisher Investment Advisors,... View Article
March 30, 2019 2:25 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
March 27, 2019 — GuruShots, an Israeli based startup, announced the closing of a US$5 million Series A round led by Buran Venture Capital, a Central and Eastern European fund. Existing investors, Altair (in which Roman Abramovich is an investor)... View Article
April 26, 2018 2:47 pm
Published by Maria Eliseeva
Guesty, a Tel Aviv based Startup that provides an end-to-end property management platform, announced today that it has raised $19.75 million in Series B funding. The round was led by TLV Partners who joined existing investors Magma VC and Buran... View Article
