CEO, Bamboo
Stories naming Blake Cassidy. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Crypto investment app Bamboo has closed a $4 million Series A backed by Orthogonal Trading, Mountain Ash Investment Management and VP Capital, funding Australian growth, product features and a planned US expansion.
Australian crypto micro-investing platform Bamboo hires Josh Thillagaratnam, Colton Dillion and Anna Cheng from Xero, Acorns and Spaceship. Its Series A is only in final stages, so no round is recorded.
Plus Eight has selected eight Western Australian startups from 70 applicants to share a $350,000 investment pool, advancing them to the seed-funding stage after a bootcamp, mentoring and a pitch day.
Fifteen selected startups join Spacecubed's Plus Eight Accelerator Program despite the pandemic, with workshops shifted online and the participants later pitching for funding of between $20,000 and $100,000.