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Mastering Finance: From College Dropout to Successful Entrepreneur with Chris Miles Investments News Podcasts 

Mastering Finance: From College Dropout to Successful Entrepreneur with Chris Miles

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Ever wonder how the masters of finance manage to retire not once, but twice? Our guest today, Chris Miles, a financial expert from Utah, will not only answer that question but will also walk you through his journey from being a college dropout to a successful entrepreneur. Miles pulls back the curtain on the world of passive real estate investing, revealing... Read More
Fujifilm investing 4.5 billion yen in INSTAX film production Investments 

Fujifilm investing 4.5 billion yen in INSTAX film production

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FUJIFILM Corp. announces a ¥4.5 billion investment into its Ashigara Site at the Kanagawa Factory in Japan to reinforce production facilities for INSTAX films. The latest move will increase the company’s production capacity for INSTAX films by approximately 20%. The production facilities to be built under the new investment are set to go operational in stages, starting in the autumn... Read More
AI video app Captions raises $25 million In Series B funding Investments 

AI video app Captions raises $25 million In Series B funding

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Captions, an AI-powered creative studio, announced the company has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins, and other investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and SV Angel also participated, bringing the total capital raised to date to $40 million. The Captions video editing app debuted on the Apple App Store in January 2021. Within six months,... Read More
Shutterfly announces early settlement of the exchange offer Investments News 

Shutterfly announces early settlement of the exchange offer

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Shutterfly LLC announced it has closed its previously announced refinancing transaction. Earlier this year, news reports showed debt holders of the privately-held Shutterfly were seeking better terms after poor 2022 results. Details are in the press release below: Shutterfly, LLC (the “Company,” “we,” “our” and “us”) today announced that, on June 9, 2023, Shutterfly Finance, LLC, a subsidiary of the... Read More
Shutterfly restructures debt Investments News 

Shutterfly restructures debt

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Shutterfly, LLC announced the launch of a debt exchange offer and consent solicitation for eligible noteholders, as detailed here in the press release. The announcement follows reports that Shutterfly has been struggling to service its debt on lagging sales. The U.S.’s leading personalized photo products company, Shutterfly replaced its CEO last week. Pursuant to a Transaction Support Agreement entered into... Read More
INX International makes investment in Gooten Investments News 

INX International makes investment in Gooten

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INX International Ink Co. announced it has completed an investment agreement in Gooten, the technology and fulfillment company based in New York, New York. This deal will help Gooten expand its print-on-demand manufacturing network and capabilities globally while enabling INX to accelerate its strategy in digital printing, according to the announcement. INX International Ink Co. is the third largest producer... Read More
EQT Growth to acquire GotPhoto Acquisitions Investments 

EQT Growth to acquire GotPhoto

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Stockholm-based EQT Growth fund has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake of GotPhoto Company from its founders, existing angel investors, and management team, who will remain minority owners. GotPhoto’s management team, including its CEO, Benedikt Greifenhofer, will continue to lead the company, building on its strong track record of growth, the announcement stated. As part of the transaction,... Read More
U.K. personalized product startup Merchr gains £350,000 investment Investments 

U.K. personalized product startup Merchr gains £350,000 investment

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A new print-on-demand U.K.-based merchandise platform named Merchr has swung into production at a Greater Manchester facility after securing £350,000 in an oversubscribed pre-seed fundraising round, according to several news reports. The latest investment in Merchr exceeded its initial target of raising £250,000. Merchr was set up by an experienced team backed by Martin Varley, a senior executive in the... Read More
AI-powered video-editing startup Capsule raises $4.75 million seed Investments 

AI-powered video-editing startup Capsule raises $4.75 million seed

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AI-powered video-editing startup Capsule announced it raised $4.75 million in a seed round, brining the total funding to $6.75 million. The round comes on the heels of the recent beta launch of the generative AI-powered video editor. The company will use the investment to make key hires in engineering, product design, marketing, and to rapidly commercialize the product. Investing in this round... Read More
GlossAi raises $8 million seed round Investments 

GlossAi raises $8 million seed round

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GlossAi, creators of an AI-driven video generator that allows organizations to rapidly create multi-audience content at scale using generative AI capabilities, announced a successful $8 million seed round. Led by New Era Capital Partners with participation by Guidestar ventures, 97212 Ventures, MindCET Ventures, Ginossar Ventures, Maccabee Ventures, Rafi Gidron, Zipris Family, Barak Goldstein, and more, this investment will allow GlossAi... Read More
Fiery spins out of EFI Investments News 

Fiery spins out of EFI

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Fiery, which provides leading Digital Front End (DFE) technology for production and industrial printing, announced it has been separated from Electronics For Imaging, Inc. and established as a separate company that will operate independently while remaining owned by EFI’s owner, Siris Capital Group LLC. Toby Weiss, long-time Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of Fiery, will continue to lead the... Read More
Imaging Solutions acquires major share in Xpozer Investments News 

Imaging Solutions acquires major share in Xpozer

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Imaging Solutions AG (ISAG) in Switzerland has acquired a major share in the Dutch company Xpozer for a strategic partnership. Xpozer offers a patented mounting system for easily hanging and switching poster-size prints. The mounting system has a unique tensioning technology to keep the photo prints perfectly flat while giving a clean presentation without any borders or frames. Currently, Xpozer... Read More
Condé Systems becomes an employee-owned company Acquisitions Investments 

Condé Systems becomes an employee-owned company

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Sublimation and heat-transfer supplier Condé Systems Inc. announced its employees are now the owners of the company through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Condé Systems is a leading supplier of sublimation and digital heat-transfer equipment, supplies, products, and education. As a 100% ESOP-owned company, all of Condé’s stock is now held in trust by the ESOP exclusively for the... Read More