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Sapphire Ventures Welcomes New Vice Presidents Demi Obayomi and Abhishek Lahoti to the Firm News provided by Share this article Share this article PALO ALTO, Calif., March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sapphire Ventures, a leading venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies of consequence, today announced that Demi Obayomi and Abhishek Lahoti have joined the firm as vice presidents.  Demi Obayomi, Vice President, Sapphire Ventures  Demi Obayomi supports Sapphire Ventures' investments in Series B through IPO enterprise technology companies. Prior...

astorya.vc also participated in the round. The Zelros AI business platform offers insurers, bancassurers, and policyholders a more efficient, fluid, and personalized way to distribute and receive products and services. The platform continuously learns, adapts, and improves its capabilities in real-time, offering insurance advisors and agents a streamlined and semi-automated experience from product/service needs discovery and sales to underwriting. It also allows insurance providers to offer policyholders fully automated, advisor-free subscription options. This enables incumbent industry lead...

Venture capital firms are forming blank-check companies at a torrid pace. They have the potential to buy startups they're already invested in, in order to take them public. It's not illegal to buy companies where they have an interest, but it raises a potential conflict. These days, more venture capital firms are either forming their own special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, or having internal conversations about doing so. A SPAC would let them launch a startup onto the public markets, even one from their own portfolios. Peter...

HowGood empowers consumers' shopping choices by providing key environmental and social impact metrics. HowGood, an SaaS data platform for the food and personal care industries, has raised a $6 million investment round in its mission to help retailers and investors deepen their environmental and social impact to attract the growing number of eco-conscious consumers. Through in-depth, ingredient-level insights into factors like greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, labor risk, animal welfare, health and toxicity, and other key impacts, HowGood data powers strategic decision-ma...

HowGood Announces $6 Million In Funding News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- HowGood, a SaaS data platform with the world's largest sustainability database for the food and personal care industries, today announced it has raised a $6 million investment round led by Contour Venture Partners, with participation from FirstMark Capital, Danone Manifesto Ventures, Trailhead Capital and others. The funding will accelerate the rapid development of HowGood's Latis sustainability intelligence platform, which provides instant, ingredient-level...