December 5, 2022
Chronicle Tech News
QualSights Raises Just Under $8 Million For IoT AI Consumer Research Platform
FINSMEs reports that the tech platform provider had raised $7.7 million in a round led by 4490 Ventures. Founder and CEO Nihal Advani created QualSights as a platform for consumer insights. [...]
May 26, 2021
BusinessWire
Tiv Launches From Stealth With $3.5M Series Seed Round To Create The Leading Payments Platform For Gamers
Tiv, a new payments platform dedicated to the gaming community, today launches out of stealth mode and announces the close of a $3.5 million series seed round of venture capital funding led by 4490 Ventures. [...]
May 12, 2021
FinSMEs
Cortex Raises $6M In Series A Funding
Cortex Intel, a Washington, DC-based building analytics software company, raised $6M in Series A funding. The round, which brought $11M in total funding to date, was led by 4490 Ventures. [...]
April 23, 2021
Venture Capital Journal
Why Institutional Investors Should Double Down On VC
Dan Malven of 4490 Ventures says VC investing is a game of skill, but it’s a lucrative skill. VC firms’ outperformance is much more broadly distributed than previously understood. [...]
December 24, 2020
The Business Journals
Archive Dive: The In-Depth Conversations And Articles From Inno In 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, we thought we’d revisit some of the more interesting conversations and topics we covered at Wisconsin Inno this year, from startups pivoting their businesses due to the Covid-19 pandemic, to the innovators working on [...]
December 16, 2020
Forbes
The Next Decade’s Investment Opportunity: Data As The Fourth Pillar
Throughout the history of commerce, from ancient-era merchants to 19th-century whaling ships to modern corporations, companies have used three main pillars to create strategic differentiation: people, processes and technology. The past decade has been different. [...]
December 15, 2020
What I Found
Interview With Brian Platz | Fluree
Co-CEO of Fluree, an open source semantic graph database that guarantees data integrity, facilitates secure data sharing, and powers connected data insights. [...]
December 14, 2020
Crain's Chicago Business
UPshow CEO Named Crain’s 2020 Rising Tech Star
UPshow co-founder and CEO Adam Hirsen has been named one of Crain’s 2020 Rising Tech Stars. The list honors 25 up-and-coming business people making incredible strides in the tech industry. [...]