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Common Trust, offering an employee ownership buyout option for small business owners, raised $2.6 million in seed funding.

Chexy, described as Canada’s pioneer payments platform enabling tenants to garner rewards through regular on-time rent payments, has announced both its launch and a pre-seed funding round that has netted the company $1.3m CAD.

The brother vs. brother Super Bowl is paying off for Wave Sports + Entertainment.

A Silicon Valley company looking to remove the vagaries and hassle from sprucing up homes before they hit the market has earned the attention of venture capitalist firm QED Investors.

QuickNode announces that they've raised $60M in a Series B round led by 10T to further power global blockchain adoption.

Getting a handle on food costs at an independent restaurant is a constant challenge for owners. Zitti’s co-founder Dante DiCicco is coming at this problem, but from a unique standpoint: as a restauranteur.

Thoughtful employers and leading insurers are empowering people to pay for care by offering a new benefit called a Health Payment Account

Nelo’s app is the first of its kind in the region, where customers can shop and pay in installments at their favorite stores like Mercado Libre, Amazon, and Liverpool

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Super Mojo, Inc. (“Supermojo”) today announced the launch of its financing platform designed to make digital assets more accessible for the next wave of users. The platform facilitates point-of-sale financing to improve the NFT purchase experience and collateralized lending for improved post-sale liquidity. Supermojo’s initial focus will be on partnering with marketplaces and storefronts that serve the $25B NFT market (DappRadar).

E-commerce platform Gander announced today the closing of a $4.2 million seed round co-led by Harlem Capital and Crossbeam Venture Partners.

Victor Bornstein, founder and CEO of Justpoint, told TechCrunch that his company is leveraging artificial intelligence to create efficiencies for both prospective plaintiffs and attorneys, initially in personal injury. It is currently working with over 1,000 law firms.

Zitti - a first-of-its-kind payment and credit platform built for food industry management and vendors–launched today to transform food industry operations by giving small-to-medium-sized restaurants and foodservice providers the same advantages experienced by larger chains.

Health systems managed detection and response startup Scope Security today announced it has raised $20 million in new funding to develop its cybersecurity solutions designed to address the complexity of the healthcare ecosystem.

The Los Angeles-based startup Spotter wants to help creators scale their channels faster by offering them large sums of upfront cash in exchange for the future ad revenue from their existing uploads.

London-based Gravitiq is buying and scaling Amazon marketplace brands in the digitally-native, consumer e-commerce healthcare sector. The company announced today $55 million of seed investment in a mix of equity and debt.

Blockchain Development Platform QuickNode Raises $35M, Led by Tiger Global

Nelo, a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, began offering buy now, pay later services to Mexico earlier this year.

With the promise of an interconnected virtual world coming into focus and user-crafted gaming content exploding, Infinite Canvas is looking to apply lessons learned from the esports boom to the metaverse

New York City-based Amazon aggregator D1 Brands raised $123 million in Series A funding.

E-commerce roll-up companies are big in the United States, and Wonder Brands wants to be that for Latin America. The Mexico-based company closed on $20 million in seed funding, co-led by ALLVP and Mountain Nazca, with participation from CoVenture, Crossbeam, Victory Park Capital, GFC, QED (Fontes), Korify Capital and Endeavor Catalyst.

Benitago Group, a startup looking to build a big portfolio of Amazon brands, is announcing that it has raised $55 million in new funding — most of it in the form of credit lines to fund acquisitions, plus an equity investment.

1v1Me raised a pre-seed round to help people play games to earn money.

Crossbeam Founder and General Partner Ali Hamed breaks down how Amazon aggregators are structured and operate, as well as the three super powers Amazon sellers have, and why there’s only $8bn in funding for a market doing $50bn in EBITDA

The best VC firms in the world take contrarian deals and turn them into consensus deals by funding them, and in return, applying their signal to their portfolio company.

Sakib Jamal reflects on his first 6 months in venture investing with Crossbeam.

As headlines and stories emerge around the challenges some Amazon TPS (third-party seller) aggregators are facing, many founders, investors, and employees are wondering, what is going on in this space that was just recently exploding with growth?

Sam Gordon and Brandon Osian of Venture Pill interview Alex Notis, Investor at Crossbeam Venture Partners. Tune in to hear Alex discuss what drew him into the world of startups and venture capital, as well as his experience at Crossbeam Venture Partners.

Aaron DeBevoise is the CEO of Spotter. We cover YouTube's evolution, why it nailed monetization in a way competitors didn't, and how Spotter helps the world's most influential creators.

Ali Hamed is the Founder of CoVenture a $2 billion investor across the capital stack of technology start-ups reinventing the economy of the future. Ali first appeared on the show three years ago when CoVenture’s assets were around $100 million.

While many venture capitalists might hope to fund the next Amazon or Shopify, Crossbeam is a new firm focused on backing the startups built on top of these platforms. And it recently closed its $25 million first fund.

Crossbeam Venture Partners launched its debut $20 million fund at what many would have considered the worst possible time — March 2020.