ChurchSearch, 11 Tribes, and more

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Welcome to this week's edition of Faith Factor’s newsletter, a weekly overview of Christian-related startup and VC news and content. Note: we’re trying to grow our Twitter- give us a follow here!

Startup of the Week: ChurchSearch

Founded in 2022 by UT Austin student Trenton Balcombe, ChurchSearch is a platform designed to help college students find and get connected to the churches near their school. Many Christian students can struggle to find the right church for them in college, especially when faced with a wide array of Google links and websites that often lack clear information. To solve that, ChurchSearch aims to provide its users with information on each church’s preaching style, environment, congregation size, ministry and more. Through this, students can more easily find a church that fits and get plugged in more quickly. So far, the startup has received funding through Forty Acre Founders, and was also featured on Poets & Quant’s website. They plan to launch in Austin this August, and expand to other cities afterwards. To learn more about ChurchSearch, visit their website or follow Trenton on Twitter.

Faith-Based News

Startups

• Faithful Groups, a faith-based online small group community, raised an undisclosed amount of funding

• 11 Tribes Ventures, a Chicago-based early stage fund, announced that they are raising a new $40 million fund (link)

• Fakespot, which helps consumers identify fake online reviews, was acquired by Mozilla (link)

Opportunities

• Seed investment opportunity for Pangea, an FX risk platform (link)

• Series A investment opportunity for Trillion, a renewable energy startup (link)

Incubators, Programs and Competitions

• None this week

Impact News

Startups

• NVision, a healthcare imaging startup, raised a $30 million Series A (link)

• Apex, which manufactures spacecraft designed to ferry satellites efficiently to space, raised a $16 million Series A (link)

• Aledade, a network of primary care providers aiming to reduce costs to consumers, raised a $260 million Series F (link)

• DexCare, which offers a platform for health systems to accurately predict and meet patient demand, raised a $75 million Series C (link)

• Fero Labs, an industrial manufacturing optimization startup, raised $15 million (link)

• Rose Rocket, a trucking logistics startup, raised a $38 million Series B (link)

• KoBold Metals, an AI-powered mineral exploration company, raised $195 million (link)

• Caraway, a telehealth provider focusing on mental and reproductive health services, raised a $16.8 million Series A (link)

• bNovate Technologies, developer of bacteria monitoring devices for water, raised $13.3 million (link)

Around the Network

Select Articles

• Student Entrepreneur Finds Community in Religious Startup

• Let There Be Lite: Offline Bible App Launches in Africa, Asia

Select Podcasts

• From Doctor to Entrepreneur to Venture Capitalist: A Journey of Faith and Problem Solving

Job Boards

All Levels

• Praxis Job Board

• Sovereign’s Capital Job Board

• Y Combinator Internship Program

• Andreessen Horowitz Job Board

• Bessemer Venture Partners Job Board

• General Catalyst Job Board

• New Enterprise Associates Job Board

See you next week!