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Mar 9, 2023

Thesis Spotlight: Crypto Gaming (3/X)

Oct 13, 2022

Thesis Spotlight: Virtual Worlds

Sep 20, 2022

Thesis Spotlight: Crypto Gaming (2/X)

Aug 4, 2022

Gaming Will Accelerate Mainstream Adoption of Crypto

Aug 4, 2022

Thesis Spotlight: Crypto Gaming (1/X)

Jun 29, 2022

Funding the Future of Venture Capital

Jun 29, 2022

Super Angels

Apr 18, 2022

Leading Creative Juice’s Series A

Mar 31, 2022

Acrew Appoints Maitree Mervana Parekh to Principal

Feb 14, 2022

Lauren Kolodny talks Defi on Bloomberg

Feb 1, 2022

Acrew Thesis Spotlight: Fintech & Web 3.0

Sep 28, 2021

Dear VC, It’s Time to Disrupt Ourselves

Jul 29, 2021

La Haus: Revolutionizing Real Estate in Latin America

Jul 28, 2021

Lolli: Bitcoin for All

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OUR Press

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Mar 7, 2023

America’s Best Startup Employers

Feb 28, 2023

Former founding member of Visa’s crypto team helps Portal Labs land $5.3M in funding

Feb 9, 2023

Branch Launches Condo Insurance to Strengthen Its Bundled Offering

Jan 10, 2023

Vishal Lugani on TechCrunch: A timeline for startup M&A processes: Key steps and factors to consider

Dec 9, 2022

I left a high-powered job at Google to launch my own startup, and I've never been happier

Nov 30, 2022

Ford Credit plans commercial vehicle insurance for Ford Pro customers powered by Pie Insurance

Nov 30, 2022

Bitcoin storage company Casa to launch Ethereum wallets as demand rises post-FTX collapse

Nov 21, 2022

BREAKING: LOLLI PARTNERS WITH DUNKIN' TO OFFER BITCOIN REWARDS

Nov 15, 2022

ShopShops & Bloomingdale's Outlet Announce Virtual Holiday Shopping Experience

Nov 9, 2022

Anything World raises $7.5M to assist content creators using AI-based animation

Nov 3, 2022

Goldman Sachs seeks to impose order on expanding crypto universe with classification system

Oct 18, 2022

Crypto Gaming Startup Stardust Raises $30 Million Despite Slump

Oct 12, 2022

The 5 behind-the-scenes stars of the creator economy of 2022

Oct 12, 2022

Vanta lands $40M to automate cybersecurity compliance

Oct 6, 2022

Theresia Gouw: The 50 Over 50 Interview

Oct 4, 2022

The Fintech 250: The most promising fintech companies of 2022

Sep 27, 2022

Arthur.ai machine learning monitoring gathers steam with $42M investment

Sep 21, 2022

Pie Insurance Announces $315 Million Series D Round of Funding

Sep 13, 2022

Forbes Reddit’s Ohanian Leads $54 Million Doodles Capital Raise

Sep 13, 2022

Tech Entrepreneur Isa Watson Shares a New Mantra for Battling Hustle Culture

Sep 12, 2022

Payments Bootcamp: Integrated Payments for SaaS Companies

Jul 29, 2022

What Is Crypto Staking?

Jul 26, 2022

Evident Raises $14 Million to Reduce Third Party Insurance-Related Risk for Enterprises

Jul 15, 2022

Stanford Commencement Address - Theresia Gouw

Jul 8, 2022

DEUNA enters Latin America’s crowded one-click checkout sector flush with $37M

Jun 23, 2022

Cryptoys banks a16z funding to build NFTs for kids

Jun 9, 2022

HYCU® Secures $53 Million Series B to Fuel Hypergrowth for New SaaS-based Service

Jun 9, 2022

HYCU® Secures $53 Million Series B to Fuel Hypergrowth for New SaaS-based Service

Jun 8, 2022

Branch snags $147M at a $1.05B valuation, showing that thorny insurtech market not impervious to growth

Jun 7, 2022

Chime, Creative Juice & Plaid named in The Fintech 50 2022, Forbes

Jun 3, 2022

BrainChip partners with Edge Impulse for a platform that mimics the brain

May 24, 2022

Readying Your Business for the Web3 Wave with Vishal Lugani

May 24, 2022

Viewpoint: Boston has a SaaS problem

May 16, 2022

Spot2 Raises $4.2 Million To Speed Up Commercial Real Estate Leasing In Mexico

May 11, 2022

Lolli users can new earn 10% in bitcoin rewards when you eat at Shake Shack with Lolli's New Card Boosts!

May 9, 2022

Casa announces new API, raises $21 million Series A funding

May 5, 2022

Curebase Secures $40M Series B

Apr 25, 2022

Kettle heats up battle against climate change

Apr 12, 2022

Grain lands $16M led by Tiger Global to turn virtual meetings into ‘libraries’

Apr 12, 2022

18 Investors And VC Firms Funding Innovative Startups In The Creator Economy And Influencer Industry

Apr 12, 2022

Silverfort nabs $65M with a ‘holistic’ approach to protecting ID management across IT silos and legacy systems

Apr 6, 2022

Coin Metrics Raises $35M for Crypto Data Provision

Apr 6, 2022

Coin Metrics Raises $35M for Crypto Data Provision

Apr 5, 2022

Creative Juice Expands Pool for Financing Creators to $50 Million; Songfinch Raises Seed Round

Apr 5, 2022

Creative Juice is flowing with a $15 million Series A and a $50 million boost to its investment fund

Apr 4, 2022

Fintech and fertility care startup raises $25M

Mar 28, 2022

The Drivers I Look for in Making Security Investments | Mark Kraynak

Mar 24, 2022

A Leave of Absence Is Worth It in the Long Run

Mar 15, 2022

How Canada’s crackdown made the case for Bitcoin self-custody

Mar 14, 2022

Paceline introduces cash-back credit card that doubles your rewards for working out

Mar 14, 2022

Bazaar raises $70 million from Tiger Global and Dragoneer to digitize Pakistan’s retail

Mar 10, 2022

Theresia Gouw to Deliver 2022 Commencement Speech

Mar 10, 2022

System | Announcing the Public Beta of System

Mar 8, 2022

Paceline | The 10 most innovative wellness companies in 2022

Feb 24, 2022

Canela Media Becomes One Of The Largest Funded Latino-Owned Companies After Securing $32 Million In A Series A Funding Round

Feb 22, 2022

The Most and Least Diverse Venture Capital Firms

Feb 14, 2022

Today Banked announces $20 million Series A funding round led by Bank of America.

Feb 10, 2022

Neo.Tax raises $10M to help startups access R&D tax credits

Feb 1, 2022

You Say You Want A Revolution...in SaaS Data Protection

Jan 27, 2022

Tanzanian fintech NALA raises $10M seed to build Revolut for Africa

Jan 19, 2022

Fintech Klar raises $70M for digital banking services

Jan 12, 2022

Observable Announces $35.6 Million Series B Funding

Jan 5, 2022

Alto raises $40 million to help individuals make tax-savvy investments in assets like crypto and artwork

Jan 3, 2022

FinTech Silicon Valley Lauren Kolodny, Founding Partner Acrew Capital

Dec 21, 2021

Carats & Cake Raises $19.3 Million to Transform How Venues Do Business

Dec 21, 2021

Brands in a new web paradigm

Dec 17, 2021

Global Mentor Network - You Gotta Believe, Theresia Gouw

Dec 15, 2021

Papaya raises $50M to give you a way to pay bills via its mobile app

Dec 10, 2021

Meet the 55 rising-star VCs who shook up the industry in 2021, according to other VCs

Dec 8, 2021

Was 2021 a tipping point for startups’ board diversity?

Dec 7, 2021

Swisscom Ventures investing tens of millions of dollars in Cato Networks

Dec 1, 2021

Forbes 30 Under 30 2022 — Maitree Mervana

Dec 1, 2021

Forbes 30 Under 30 2022 — Asad Khaliq

Dec 1, 2021

A Startup Dives Into the Social Token Pool; TikTok Expands Tipping

Dec 1, 2021

Aqua Security Acquires Argon, the Leader in Software Supply Chain Security

Dec 1, 2021

More Money, More Decisions

Nov 19, 2021

Kettle: Reinsurance to cover Americans against climate change

Nov 12, 2021

Kendra Ragatz, Investing in Sustainability, Inclusivity, and Diversity | LA Blockchain Summit

Oct 12, 2021

Meet the 55 rising-star VCs who shook up the industry in 2021, according to other VCs

Oct 9, 2021

Edge Impulse Announces Series B Funding, Scaling Edge ML for Developers and Enterprises Everywhere

Aug 24, 2021

Pakistan’s B2B marketplace and digital ledger platform Bazaar raises $30 million

Jun 29, 2021

Augtera Networks raises $13M to apply AI to networking

Jun 24, 2021

Fitness-Rewards Startup Paceline Raises Nearly $30 Million in Series A Round led by Acrew Capital

Jun 1, 2021

System raises $10m Series A led by Acrew Capital

Apr 13, 2021

Acrew's Lauren Kolodny featured on The Forbes Midas Brink List

Mar 31, 2021

HYCU raises $87.5M to take on Rubrik and the rest in multi-cloud data backup and recovery

Mar 25, 2021

Pie Insurance raises $118M for data-driven workers’ comp coverage

Mar 24, 2021

Ketch raises $23M to automate privacy and data compliance

Mar 24, 2021

Data Privacy is a Human Right: Why We’re Investing in Ketch

Mar 24, 2021

Pacaso raises $75M, goes from launch to unicorn in 5 months

Mar 2, 2021

StartupGrind: Acrew's Lauren Kolodny & The Story Behind Chime's Meteoric Rise

Mar 2, 2021

SALT Talks: Early Stage Venture Capital with Acrew Capital Founders Lauren Kolodny & Theresia Gouw

Feb 7, 2021

Two new efforts could widen the pool of people investing directly in venture funds

Feb 4, 2021

Acrew Capital's idea to make the next Facebook or Google more diverse

Feb 4, 2021

Announcing Acrew’s Diversify Capital Fund

Feb 3, 2021

Acrew Capital's new fund aims to provide diverse investors the opportunity to build wealth

Jan 14, 2021

The Block and its Networks

Dec 15, 2020

Watch Acrew's Theresia Gouw at the 2020 Forbes Power Women’s Summit

Dec 10, 2020

Arthur.ai snags $15M Series A to grow machine learning monitoring tool

Nov 23, 2020

Video mentoring platform Superpeer raises $8M and launches paid channels