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Failup Ventures is a Finnish-American venture capital fund based in New York and Helsinki. We invest in early-stage startups with strong, mission-driven teams. The typical initial investment is $200K-$1M with the capability to follow up with larger tickets. Failup was founded by three young exited founders and angel investors, with experience in building and investing in over 40 startups. Our LPs consist of some of the world’s most successful startup founders including several unicorns founders.
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Failup Ventures Julkaisi tämän uudelleen
We’re #hiring for a Venture Capital Intern at Failup. Know anyone who might be interested?
We’re #hiring for a Venture Capital Intern at Failup. Know anyone who might be interested?
Failup Ventures is proud to lead itselectric's latest funding round with Uber.
🎉 itselectric, a Brooklyn-based electric vehicle curbside charging company, today announced its $6.5M seed round. The raise was led by Failup Ventures and Uber. With participation from Halogen Ventures, Partnership for New York City, Pulse Fund, Newlab, Gratitude Railroad, Tale Venture Partners, The Equity Alliance, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) Impact Fund, and The Helm and will support deployments across seven cities in the United States in 2024, including Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit, Jersey City, and San Francisco. With fresh funding, itselectric’s curbside charging infrastructure will also help support Uber’s goal of helping rideshare drivers go electric. 🌎 2023 was the hottest year on record with transportation being the third largest contributor of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. But transportation is also a sector where the choice to drive electric will create a collective difference. Our mission is to make charging easy, convenient, and affordable not only for drivers, but for cities, providing the pathway for everyone to go electric. “itselectric has designed an innovative public charging solution that addresses the infrastructural barriers that cities face in the deployment of electric vehicle curbside charging,” said Topias Soininen, general partner at Failup Ventures. “Their thoughtfully designed chargers are a highly scalable solution that will rapidly bring curbside charging to the millions of city drivers who park on the street and contribute to the nationwide adoption of electric vehicles.” "We are thrilled to invest in itselectric as part of our push for an all-electric future,” said Camiel Irving, GM of Uber US & Canada. "Electric rideshare drivers cut emissions up to four times more than regular motorists, but many lack off-street parking and home charging options. itselectric is innovating to address this and expand overnight curbside charging, helping more drivers confidently go electric, ease range anxiety, and boost earnings potential." “itselectric is revolutionizing urban infrastructure,” said Jesse Draper founding partner, Halogen Ventures. “Their mission to bring highly accessible curbside charging combined with economic benefits to urban communities, offers an innovative solution for a problem we need to urgently solve. We’re incredibly excited about itselectric as they expand across cities to make sustainable transportation a reality across the nation” Read the full story in Fortune https://lnkd.in/e7DuKYNf
Failup Ventures is proud to lead the pre-seed investment to ConfidentialMind and support them in their mission revolutionizing enterprise generative AI beyond the Cloud
🔒 🧠 I am happy to announce ConfidentialMind’s €1.5M pre-seed round led by Failup Ventures with support from Innovestor, Founders' Edge, and top data industry angel investors. The round consists of a €1M equity investment and a €0.5M loan from the Finnish government. This round helps us to get started on our mission to revolutionize enterprise generative AI beyond the cloud. Much of the talk with generative AI has been about the cloud, but there is a new race starting in the edge and in the data centers where much of the most valuable corporate and sovereign data resides. The systems that enable AI in data centers are traditionally difficult to build and maintain. We make development and deployment of generative AI models and applications in enterprise and government data centers as easy – or in some cases even easier – than in the cloud. Some say that Europe has lost its way and has no role in AI. We disagree. We think there is a critical mass of open source model innovation and AI talent in Europe and Finland. Our role is to contribute world-class software infrastructure and components that enterprises and governments can use to integrate generative AI on their own terms. Build once, deploy anywhere. I invite all of you to join us on this journey. During the coming months we will publish more of our work to contribute back to the community. It has been a wild ride that started in an office, where we had to use winter clothes inside because it was too cold. Now we are beginning to collaborate with some of the leading organizations in the world. Jesse Heikkilä, Oscar Andersin, Topias Soininen, Hannu Jungman, Henry Nilert, Pekka Ylitalo, Ali Omar, ilkka Hiidenheimo, Daniel Fried, Jonathan Scudder, Markus Oksanen, Jan Goetz, Juha Vartiainen, Sofokus Ventures, Eljas Linna, Stefano Chiavegati, Elena Gilotta LL.M. CIPP-e, Mark Faris, Michel Faris, Sylwia Barthel de Weydenthal (she/her), Henrikki Makynen, Joel-Oskar Raisanen Severi Tikkala, Esko Vähämäki, Henri Dahl, Raido Linde, Dan Zi, Lucas Björklund
Failup Ventures Julkaisi tämän uudelleen
We're thrilled to announce our Seed Round of 6 million euros by LINCE CAPITAL, Indico Capital Partners, Failup Ventures, Boost Capital Partners, our earliest investor Olisipo Way and many others. We'll continue our international expansion across Europe at full speed 🚀
TECH WEEK by a16z is taking over NYC June 3-9 and we're excited to be hosting a Fundraising mixer with HOF Capital and The MBA Fund on June 4th. Join us here: https://lu.ma/zl4tbz4k #NYTechWeek
Kauppalehti wrote about Failup's venturing to New York and how Finland reached an important milestone with the fund. Topias Soininen represents our New York office and supports the fund's portfolio companies in the US. https://lnkd.in/eCXSbkiD
💬We're excited to announce the launch of Failup Ventures and our new early-stage fund of 50M€ with a first closing of over 30M€. 🇺🇸🇫🇮 Failup Ventures is a Finnish-American venture capital fund based in New York and Helsinki. Failup is the first Finnish VC fund to have a core foothold in the US as well as the Nordics. We back early-stage startups with strong, mission-driven teams that positively impact society, work, health, or the environment. 🧩We are excited to support companies working in Future of Work, Software Infrastructure, Dynamic Marketplaces, Future of Consumption and Commercial Climate Tech. You can read more about our themes at failup.com/about. We also invest in other sectors where the teams are aligned with our values. 🛠️ We believe in first-hand entrepreneurial experience and grassroots work. Before Failup Ventures, our team has together built and invested in nearly 40 startups as founders and angel investors. We understand the joys and challenges of building a company and are excited to turn that experience into support for our entrepreneurs. 🏒We look forward to paving the way for next-generation of founders with our fund run by next-generation investors, and are thrilled to have some of the brightest entrepreneurs backing us as LPs. Our first investments in Foundernest, Ever, and Vested Health exemplify our mission. We're thrilled to be part of their journey. A huge thank you to our fund investors, entrepreneurs, and advisors for your trust! - Failup Team Jesse Heikkilä & Oscar Andersin & Topias Soininen