Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

Then in 2018, Walter went live with a new company —

Thanks to the growth of fintech, financial services like investing are getting ever more accessible to the wider population of consumers. Now, one of the bigger players pushing the boundaries of that concept is announcing a big round of funding on the heels of strong demand and what it believes are even bigger opportunities ahead.

TRESU INVESTMENT HOLDING A/S ANNOUNCEMENT NO. 09.2021

20.10.2021

Tresu Investment Holding A/S (the “Issuer”) announces that it is soliciting consents (the “Consent Solicitation”) from the holders of its Senior Secured Floating Rate Bonds 2017/2022 with ISIN no. DK0030404967 (the “Bonds”) to approve certain amendments proposed to be made to the terms and conditions of the

Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) is planning a major expansion of its central Indiana operations. The pharmaceutical giant says it will invest $2.1 billion to build two manufacturing facilities in Boone County and create up to

In more than two decades as an angel investor and early-stage company scout, I’ve

Fractal has raised $360 million from TPG in a new financing round and entered the unicorn club as the Mumbai and New York-based AI startup, which counts Google and Wells Fargo among its customers, scales its offerings and begins preparation for an IPO.

The new financing round valued the 21-year-old startup “at well north of

Kim Folsom came up through the engineering ranks in the 80s and 90s before founding the first of six companies, three of which successfully exited. Today, she is the founder and CEO at Founders First Capital Partners, a San Diego startup investment firm that uses a non-traditional approach to funding called revenue-based investment to

Underwear brands are having a bit of a moment in the venture capital world.

Globally, VC-backed underwear and lingerie companies raised $457 million in funding last year—the highest amount in at least five years, Crunchbase data shows. Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand SKIMS and Rihanna’s lingerie brand Savage X Fenty were among the largest

Stacked, a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research, a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.

Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda. Fidelity International Strategic Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase Ventures have minted a new unicorn in India: CoinSwitch Kuber. The two firms have co-led a $260 million investment in the Bangalore-based cryptocurrency trading startup, valuing the young firm at $1.9 billion, they said on Tuesday.

This is a16z’s first investment in India. TechCrunch reported last month — twice — that