Leading immersive video app 360VUZ secures $5.8M in Series A funding from VCs and strategic investors
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Series A round is led by Shorooq Partners, and joined by a number of well-known venture capital firms including KBW Ventures, 500 Startups, Media Visions, Visions Ventures and Hala Ventures 360VUZ, the immersive virtual mobile app secured a US$5.8 million in a Series A investment round from leading VCs such as Shorooq Partners (lead investor), […]
BlueNalu Secures $20 Million in Series A Financing
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New investors to the round include KBW Ventures led by Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed BlueNalu, a leading innovative food company producing seafood directly from fish cells based in San Diego, California, today announced the successful completion of its $20 million Series A round of funding. This financing will enable BlueNalu to develop a good manufacturing […]
Biotech startup TurtleTree Labs announces pre-seed round with leading VCs
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The pre-seed round was led by Lever VC with K2 Global and KBW Ventures joining the round and backing TurtleTree Labs’ first raise TurtleTree is the world’s first company using technology to create real milk from animal cells, with no animal required The raise will be used to onboard more scientists to the TurtleTree team […]
Casper files for IPO in New York
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Online sleep company Casper has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. Valued at $1.1 billion at its most recent fundraising round in 2019, New York-based Casper has a full portfolio of 27 engineered sleep products, including mattresses, pillows and bedding, all of which are developed in-house by the company’s […]
KBW Ventures participates in the 2019 Reducetarian Summit
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KBW Ventures team members accompanied founder and Chief Executive Officer, Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, to the 2019 Reducetarian Summit. The annual event, staged at The Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC, took place from September 27th – 29th, 2019, and featured celebrated American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer as the keynote speaker. The Summit, now in its […]
The National: Saudi’s Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed on his Dubai venture and the future of food in the Middle East
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Article images: courtesy The National In this exclusive interview, Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud talks about his latest Dubai venture, the rise in popularity of plant-based protein and the food industry of the future When Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud first decided to go vegan, a domino effect was […]
Misk and 500 Startups celebrate their first Demo Day
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Photos: Misk and 500 Startups Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud attends the first Demo Day staged by Misk and 500 Startups Misk and 500 Startups celebrate the Demo Day of the first batch of the joint Misk 500 Startups MENA Accelerator on May 13, 2019, featuring 19 innovative companies spanning a […]
Geltor’s latest biodesigned ingredient used as key ingredient in top-rated cosmetics product
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Award-winning biodesign startup Geltor continues to gain traction with its biodesigned ingredients. Through the ingredient’s sale to large-scale South Korean cosmetics manufacturer Kolmar, Geltor’s HumaColl21™ has now been incorporated into one of Asia’s most widely touted products. AHC’s Ageless Real Eye Cream for Face, endorsed and lauded by numerous online B2B and consumer sources as […]
Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed to participate in Bloomberg Live’s Venture Forward
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KBW Ventures, Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, will participate in Bloomberg Live’s upcoming event dedicated to venture capital on August 1, 2019, in San Francisco, California. Staged under the theme of “The Shift in Global Capital Flows & High Tech”, the event’s subject matter promises a […]
Zipline named to influential CNBC annual Disruptor 50 list of companies poised to change the world
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Zipline, operators of the world’s only drone delivery system at national scale to send urgent medicines and biological materials needed for medical facilities including blood and vaccines, was featured in the prestigious CNBC annual 2019 “Disruptor 50″ list. In addition, the company just announced US$190 Million in funding “to wildly accelerate our progress toward providing […]
Prince Khaled attends seminar with Draper University’s Saudi Arabian students of entrepreneurship
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Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud recently visited Draper University in Silicon Valley, US, for a seminar with the institution’s Saudi Arabian students. The students were all enrolled in the Spring Hero training program, which is a result of a collaborative effort between the MiSK Foundation and the Saudi General Authority for Small […]
Sports For All: Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud Announced as Chairman of the Saudi Mass Participation Federation
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HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, Chairman of the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee (SAOC), has appointed HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud as President of the Saudi Mass Participation Federation (MPF). Source: Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee Under the mandate of “Sports For All”, the MPF is responsible for promoting and enabling […]