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Zillionize Invests in 8vdx – Founder Friendly Acceleration Capital

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Daniel Lewis

8vdx is the new home for venture debt. The team have sought to revolutionize the way in which founders seek their capital, providing the first tech-enabled venture debt marketplace for startups. At 8vdx the mission is simple; provide founders with, …

Tpaga, Columbian fintech, raises $10m in Series A to expand its products, team and users.

Posted on March 2, 2022 by John Owens

The Tpaga superapp allows its users to open digital savings accounts with multiple services. These services include paying bills, managing income, money transfers, investments as well as a credit service. Tpaga now services over one million users and is looking …

Flutterwave attracts $250m in Series D funding to further its cross-border payment platform.

Posted on February 15, 2022 by John Owens

Flutterwave has seen massive growth over the past few years in its cross-border payments platform. 900k businesses globally use Flutterwave to process payments in 150 countries using local and international cards, mobile wallets, bank transfers as well as using its …

STOKE Space Technologies raises $65M in Series A Funding to Make Space Access Sustainable and Scalable

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Adam Skelton

STOKE is developing a fully and rapidly reusable space launch vehicle that will provide low-cost, on-demand access to and from any location in orbit. Today they announced the close of a $65 million funding round that the company will use …

Zillionize invests in Heimdal – Decarbonizing the construction industry around the world

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Billy Lundie

This is the first in a series of new posts to give founders more insight into how and why we chose to invest in some of our companies. First up we will cover our recent investment in Heimdal.

As the …

Rippling – Manage employees payroll, benefits, devices, apps raises $250M in Series C funding

Posted on October 21, 2021 by John Owens

We’re excited to share that Rippling, a portfolio company that Zillionize invested in during the YCombinator W17 batch, has announced that they have raised $250m in Series C funding.

Rippling lets companies effortlessly manage their employees’ payroll, benefits, …

Brave Care – Pediatric primary, urgent care and telehealth startup raises $25m Series B alongside announcing key strategic partnership.

Posted on October 7, 2021 by John Owens

Brave Care is a group of kid-only primary and urgent care clinics that create a comfortable environment for little ones and reduce the stress and cost of emergency medicine for parents. Zillionize invested in Brave Care during the YCombinator S19 …

Zillionize Invests in TransAstra Corporation – Unleashing Industry in Space

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Mathew Vandervoort

Founded by space technology pioneer Joel Sercel, TransAstra Corporation provides revolutionary orbital logistics to help unleash industry in space.

With many proprietary inventions, TransAstra Corporation plans to build and fly space tugs from their position in orbit to their …

Zillionize Invests in Cloudthread – Cloud cost efficiency. Engineering first.

Posted on September 6, 2021 by Billy Lundie

Founded by ex-Lyft, Citrix and EA engineers, Cloudthread is an analytics platform that helps engineering teams build cost-efficiently in the cloud. Building on deep learnings from creating cloud cost management systems at scale, Cloudthread uses that expertise to help organizations …

Zillionize invests in Turion Space – Space debris removal, satellite servicing, and asteroid mining.

Posted on September 1, 2021 by John Owens

Turion Space, founded by an ex-SpaceX, Skunk Works, ATA, and Electroimpact team. Ryan Westerdahl, Tyler Pierce, and Patryk Wiatr formed Turion Space to tackle the ever-growing issue of space debris and the complex logistics of in-orbit satellite …