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Meet the investor backing some of your favorite female-founded startups

Female Founders Fund returned its first fund late last year.

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Plenty of people give lip service to investing in women. She's devoted her career to it

Female Founders Fund is now on its third fund and has raised a total of $125 million from LPs including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, and Goldman Sachs.

Fortune

In its tenth year, Female Founders Fund has returned its first fund

Female Founders Fund has returned its first fund after doing a partial secondary sale in women’s health-focused Maven.

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Maven is now valued at $1.7 billion

The women's health company raised a $125 million Series F round.

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Maven color-coded filter system expands to help photographers tell them what they are shooting with

Maven is continuing to push the boundaries of lens filter design, and it has just launched its second Kickstarter campaign

Digital Camera World

Inside Amazon’s plan to dramatically expand fertility benefits to more than 1 million employees

Amazon's partnership with telehealth provider Maven Clinic will expand fertility care access to over 1 million employees.

Fortune

North East deals of the week: key acquisitions, contracts and investments

Companies featuring in this week's deals round-up include Arriva, Orca Cleaning Group, Power Roll, Xinfluence and Camerons Brewery

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Durham solar energy firm Power Roll secures £1m investment to expand operations

The company says its aim is to "revolutionise solar energy" from its North East base

Birmingham Post

Big Interview: British Business Bank launches South West Investment Fund

BusinessLive spoke with chief executive Louis Taylor about how this will work across the different counties of the South West

Birmingham Post

Maven leads £19 million Glasgow build-to-rent development

The former NHS Glasgow headquarters building has lain vacant since 2010

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North East deals of the week: key contracts, investments and acquisitions

Companies featuring in this week's deals round-up include Kinewell Energy, European Metals Recycling, Port of Tyne, Magnitude Biosciences, Kromek, LightOx and Maven Capital Partners

Birmingham Post

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: ‘These are the people who could actually pause AI if they wanted to’

The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power, and why the online safety bill may be unworkable

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Former Bank of Ireland building in South Belfast to be given new lease of life as retail store moves in

The branch closed its doors back in 2021

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Maven Capital Partners to continue managing £20m Finance Durham Fund

The North East firm recently topped £12.5m investments into businesses across the region through the Fund

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Work begins on £19.9 million Dundee student accommodation

The new development on the site of a former fabric factory should be completed by the start of the 2024/25 academic year

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Maven makes £1.25 million follow-on investment in Liftango

Edinburgh-based business will use the money to expand further internationally

Birmingham Post

Castle View Group to grow on back of Maven Capital Partners investment

The County Durham training and recruitment provider has secured investment from two funds managed by Maven

Birmingham Post

North East deals of the week: key contracts, investments and acquisitions

Companies in this week's round-up include North East Screen, Parkdean Resorts, The Storage Place, NunaBio, Tekmar and Melius Cyber

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The Storage Place creates 40 new jobs as investment sparks expansion

The Gateshead warehouse operator is launching in County Durham after a six-figure funding deal

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Companies are missing a big ‘pain point’ for working parents

Nearly half of working parents have access to parental leave after birth, but far fewer have time when they're most likely to take a career pause: when children are toddlers.

Birmingham Post

Data platform firm DiffusionData to open Newcastle office after securing £1m funding

The company has received funding from the North East Development Capital Fund

Birmingham Post

TalkTalk investor Maven Capital Partners to close dedicated Liverpool office a year after first opening

Maven Capital Partners' Manchester office will remain open and its Liverpool team will relocate to a new base

Birmingham Post

Birmingham animation firm Second Homes Studios expanding on funding boost

Second Home Studios is creating 16 new jobs after securing a £250,000 debt funding package

Birmingham Post

Tech-for-good firm GWD secures £750k investment for product development

The Sheffield-based operator specialises in consumer touchscreens and contactless fundraising systems

Birmingham Post

Extra £6.5m secured by tech firm which uses AI to speed up scientific discovery as it eyes US expansion

The Manchester Science Park company was founded in 2014

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