May Edition — Oriient Raises $11M Series A for its Indoor Positioning Service Oriient, the indoor positioning platform that powers Instacart shoppers to gather their orders in hundreds of stores in North America, announced its $11 million Series A round, which brings its total funding to $16 million. “When we set out to build Oriient, our vision was to create the world’s first…

March Edition — Oriient Partners With Instacart to Optimize Shopper’s In-store Experience Oriient has partnered with Instacart, the leading online grocery platform in North America providing the grocery giant with its Indoor GPS technology. This technology powers Instacart’s searchable store map, guiding shoppers to the precise location of every item they are looking for. The success of grocery delivery depends on its…

February Edition — It has been a heavy week, and it’s been hard to think of much else other than what’s going on right now in Ukraine. Much like the pandemic from which we are still recovering, this global crisis has once again shown how easy it is to take what we consider…

January Edition — Five Sigma Announces Extension of Series A Investment From Aquiline Technology Growth Five Sigma, an industry-disrupting claims management solution, has announced an extension of its Series A round from Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG), bringing the company’s total funding to date to over $20 million. “The insurance claims landscape is changing, and we are excited to be at the forefront of this transformation…

November Edition — Justt exits stealth with $70M in funding to help online merchants fight false chargebacks Justt, formerly AcroCharge, exits stealth with $70 million in total funding. The startup, co-founded by Ofir Tahor and Roenen Ben Ami, is empowering online merchants to fight false chargebacks, a market that is exploding as ecommerce experiences unprecedented growth. …

October Edition — VOOM Raises $15 Million to Provide Insurance to More Mobility Vehicles Mobility Insurance company, VOOM, announces their round of $15 million as they expand their innovative pay-per-mile insurance from drones to motorcycles, light aircrafts, rideshares and delivery drivers. “VOOM, as an ‘insurtech 2.0’ pioneer, is fundamentally changing the risk model itself. Our expertise is in areas of mobility where the risk…

September Edition — Five Sigma raises $12 million Series A Insurtech startup, Five Sigma, has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by 83North and featuring existing investors F2 Venture Capital and Pipeline Capital. The data-driven, cloud native insurance claims management platform was founded in 2017 and enables insurance firms to handle customers’ claims better and faster. Oded…

I have been following the case of the infamous Elizabeth Holmes ever since those jaw-dropping WSJ articles hit the news, and with her trial in full swing and my newfound experience in the VC world, what better time to reflect on this bizarre tale of fame, fortune, and fraud of…

August Edition — 4M Analytics Raises $11 Million Series A to Continue Mapping the Subsurface 4M Analytics, the company mapping the under earth, announced the completion of an $11 million financing round. Using a combination of remote sensing, AI, and computer vision, 4M is able to map countless miles of man-made infrastructure buried in the subsurface. …