Tag: Felicis Ventures
Renegade Partners rolls out its hotly anticipated debut fund with $100 million
Renegade Partners — a Bay Area-based venture firm cofounded by veteran VCs Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek — is taking the wraps off a $100 million debut venture fund that’s been capturing the imagination of the business press since almost its conception in late 2019. The effort is interesting for…
Read MoreInsuretech startup Counterpart raises $10M in funding round led by Valor Equity Partners
Insuretech startup Counterpart, has raised $10 million in funding led by Valor Equity Partners. Also participating was Susa Ventures and Felicis Ventures. Counterpart works in the ‘management liability’ insurance market. Counterpart will also partner with Markel Specialty, a specialty insurance division of Markel Corporation, to offer its management liability insurance…
Read MoreFelicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque on the value of simple pitch decks
Even though Kevin Busque is a co-founder of TaskRabbit, he didn’t get the response he was hoping for the first time he pitched his new venture to Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut. Nonetheless, he said the outcome was one of the best things that could have happened. “I’m kind of glad…
Read MoreKyklo raises $8.5M to bring electrical distributors online
Kyklo, a startup that helps wholesale distributors of electrical and automation products launch e-commerce stores, is announcing that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding. The industry may sound a bit arcane, but it’s one that founders Remi Ducrocq (Kyklo’s CEO) and Fabien Legouic (CTO) know from having worked…
Read MoreJeremy Conrad left his own VC firm to start a company, and investors like what he’s building
When this editor first met Jeremy Conrad, it was in 2014, at the 8,000-square-foot former fish factory that was home to Lemnos, a hardware-focused venture firm that Conrad had cofounded three years earlier. Conrad — who as a mechanical engineering undergrad at MIT worked on self driving cars, drones and…
Read MoreCybersecurity insurance startup Coalition raises $90M Series C
This morning, Coalition announced that it has closed a $90 million Series C. The funding comes around a year after the cybersecurity insurance startup raised a $40 million Series B that TechCrunch covered at time. The startup’s new, larger funding round was led by Valor Equity Partners and included participation from…
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