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The Green Coffee Company, which touts itself as “Colombia’s largest coffee producer,” closed on $25 million in Series C equity funding.
Coffee is big business, with the global market valued at an estimated $493 billion. In addition to legacy producers you see in the coffee aisle, smaller operations have...
Positive Ventures, a São Paulo–based venture capital firm, secured $25 million in capital commitments for its impact fund. This represents a tripling of its previous fund, raised three years ago.
The firm, which also has an office in San Francisco, invests at the pre-seed and seed stages in Latin...
Livestream shopping may not be as popular in the U.S. as it is in other parts of the world, but BOND founders Maddie Raedts and Sam Robinson believe they’ve cracked the code with an inspiration-driven shopping platform that focuses on creator influence rather than product-led.
To Raedts and Robinson,...
Ceci Kurzman has spent much of her career building and investing in brands and serving as one of the few Black female board members for companies, including Lanvin, Revlon and Warner Music+.
While investing on behalf of some clients interested in beauty and personal care, Kurzman saw a gap...
It’s WWDC 2023 keynote time! Each year Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developer Conference with a few hours of just straight announcements, generally covering things from OS to watchOS to new and updated gadgets. Here’s how to tune in — someone even created a BINGO game.
By now, you’ve...
Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. While there is always a lot going on in the world of fintech, this week felt a little subdued overall — at least when it came to funding rounds. But there was definitely still...
Much in the way that AngelList and CircleUp have helped U.S. startups with angel investing, HackCapital wants to do the same for Europe’s impact solution-focused startups.
Co-founders and industry angel investors, Arman Anatürk, Camille Bossel and Emilie Dellecker launched the Switzerland-based entity out of stealth Tuesday to join similar...
There are nearly 186,000 dentist businesses in the U.S., and at any given time, they are replenishing supplies. The process of doing so was traditionally fragmented, with offices relying on between three and seven suppliers, on average.
This means someone sits at the computer with tabs open to vendor...
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