Merian Ventures is delighted to announce that Venture Partner Priya Guha MBE will be chairing the Digital Revolution Challenge of the BCC’s National Business Council.
Read MoreMerian Ventures portfolio company Honeycomb.io, a leading observability platform used by high-performing engineering teams to investigate the behavior of cloud applications, has raised a $50M D Round. Read the full press release here.
Read MoreNew research from Mckinsey and Company focuses on gender and ethnic diversity in PE firms, capturing regional differences in the state of diversity in private equity and discussing the role of institutional investors as a catalyst for change.
Read MoreMerian Ventures is delighted to announce that Venture Partner Priya Guha MBE has joined the Investment Governance Board of Future Planet Capital.
Read MoreFour Tech Rocketship Awards winners were announced at Web Summit in Lisbon, representing a a breadth of sectors from BioTech to Artificial Intelligence to AgriTech. Big congratulations to all winners!
Read MorePopulus, the industry-leading platform for cities to manage new mobility and fleet services, raised $11M in Series A funding. Populus will use this new capital to make key strategic hires and scale its curb and mobility management platform to additional cities around the world.
Read MoreProvenance, the global leader in sustainability marketing technology, has raised $5m to accelerate its goal to empower 1 billion citizens to choose products that match their values.
Read More“A record proportion of startups are being founded by women, according to the latest figures from a government-commissioned review."
Read More“If you’re a female founder, your odds of getting funding are… not ideal. Just 1.1% of Europe’s venture deals this year went to all-women founding teams, according to Dealroom. But a new wave of female founder-focused funds are now emerging in Europe, hoping to balance the scales.”
Read More“Venture firms in the U.S. founded by women are on track to raise more than $7 billion in 2021— almost $1 billion more than the prior peak of 2019 and up 59 percent so far year over year, Crunchbase data shows.”
Read MoreMerian Ventures is delighted to announce that Venture Partner Priya Guha has been appointed a non-executive director to the UK Research and Innovation Board
Read More“Nothing good lasts forever — especially good, but perishable food. Enter Apeel Sciences, which is on a quest to improve the shelf life of avocados and other fruits and vegetables in retail chains. Aided by a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the California-based startup launched in 2012 with the aim of cutting down on global food waste and improving sustainability.”
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Understanding the difference between sponsorship and mentorship is key to ensuring that women and members of historically marginalized communities (HMCs) are fully supported in their careers. Mentorship involves direct support of a protégé, while sponsorship focuses on others’ impressions of that person.
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To target the female funding gap, Ada Ventures and Merian Ventures are partnering with London & Partners, HSBC UK, Wilson Sonsini and FieldHouse, to launch Beyond HERizons, a new 12-month programme from Silicon Valley Comes to the UK designed specifically to support the investment journey of female founders. The Beyond HERizons inaugural cohort will support fifteen incredible female entrepreneurs for a full year, with a programme designed to support access to investment.
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In a op-ed printed by The Telegraph, Merian Venture’s founder Alexsis de Raadt St James and Imperial College London President Alice Gast, together argue that supporting women in tech will be essential to recovery from the pandemic. They present arguments for business, governments, and universities to step up and do more to drive change. “Women have been disproportionately affected by the economic fallout of the pandemic. This is in part because they are underrepresented in industries that have continued to grow.”…
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A target for carbon neutrality is the must-have centrepiece for your brand’s sustainability communications strategy. But as organisations queue up to add their net zero strategies to the pile, a number of common pitfalls are emerging. These mistakes threaten not only the integrity of their communications, but the future of our planet.
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Honeycomb.io, a Merian Ventures portfolio company,has introduced Refinery, their latest solution to help enterprises refine their observability data at scale. Managing large, complex applications means dealing with potentially hundreds of billions of events per month.
Refinery collects 100 percent of telemetry data and provides multiple ways to observe only the events that best represent important system changes, resulting in a high-fidelity debugging experience while also controlling costs.
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The beauty industry isn’t good at opening up when it comes to ingredients and impact. But the ‘values shopper’ cohort is growing, and brands need to step up to meet their expectations. Supply chain transparency is a difficult issue for brands.
Provenance, a Merian Ventures portfolio company, believes every product should come with accessible, trustworthy information about origin, journey and impact. Through Provenance’s Transparency Framework, we’re helping beauty brands deliver exactly this.
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