Markets Working With Data In Latin America: Challenges And Strategiescrunchbase.com - Guest Author Guest post by Geoffrey Michener, CEO and Founder of Dataplor, a company that helps global companies succeed in emerging markets by providing …
Success Proust Goes Tech With Maia Bittner, Co-founder of Chime-Owned Pinchcrunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas For Maia Bittner, the daughter of “hippies,” her love for technology started with eBay. And it didn’t hurt it that she found out what that e-commerce …
Supermarkets Last Week In Venture: Just A Couple Of Rounds In The Grocery Spacecrunchbase.com - Jason D. Rowley Hello and welcome back to Last Week In Venture, the weekly roundup of deals which may have flown under your radar.Let’s take a look at a few of the …
Cloudflare Cloudflare And SmileDirectClub End Their First Week As Public Companies Miles...crunchbase.com - Alex Wilhelm Hello from the end of trading here on the East Coast where two companies have closed their first week as newly-public entities. For Cloudflare and …
Startups Where Do Startups Live The...crunchbase.com - Jason D. Rowley A startup’s job is to move fast and make things. If it takes outside investment from venture capitalists, it’s also under the mandate to grow quickly …
Cloudflare Cloudflare Opens At $18 Per Share On First Day of Tradingcrunchbase.com - Sophia Kunthara Cloudflare’s stock opened at $18 per share on its first day of trading on the public markets, 20 percent higher than the pricing it set on Thursday. …
Canada Canada’s Element AI Raises $151M Series B As Country’s Startup Scene Heats...crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Montreal-based Element AI, which develops artificial intelligence-powered software solutions, announced this morning it has raised US$151.4 million …
WeWork Tracking WeWorks Up-And-Down Valuation Since...crunchbase.com - Alex Wilhelm After The We Company promised to shake up its corporate governance before its IPO today, the company’s valuation took yet another cut. The …
WeWork WeWork Shakes Up Its Governance As It Works To Salvage...crunchbase.com - Alex Wilhelm Morning Markets: WeWork is making a number of reasonable changes to its governance. A good question is how its governance structure got so messed up …
Cloudflare Cloudflare Prices Shares IPO At $15 Per...crunchbase.com - Sophia Kunthara Online security and content delivery company Cloudflare priced its shares at $15 per share on Thursday afternoon, $1 per share above its raised range. …
Venture Capital Bee Partners Raises $43M For Its Third Pre-Seed...crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Pre-seed VC firm Bee Partners announced today it closed a new $43 million fund. The raise marks the San Francisco-based venture firm’s third fund …
Venture Capital Akeneo Closes $46M In New Capital, Reports History Of Rapid Revenue Growthcrunchbase.com - Alex Wilhelm Akeno, a France-based SaaS company working in the “product experience management” space, announced today that it raised a new $46 million round. The …
Juul Fresh Off New Funding And FDA Woes, Juul Pushes Into...crunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas As the FDA and Trump Administration crack down on Juul, a San Francisco vaping company, has expanded into China, according to notices posted on two …
IPOs SmileDirectClub’s Stock Opens At $20.55, 11% Under Its IPO...crunchbase.com - Sophia Kunthara DIY teeth straightening company SmileDirectClub’s shares opened at $20.55 on its first day of trading on the public markets. SmileDirectClub set a …
Nursing Algorithms Won’t Replace Nurses, But $15M Says They Can Help Hire Themcrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Incredible Health, a startup that developing a hiring platform for nurses, has raised a $15 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz …
Oculus VR Surveillance-Defense Company Anduril Reportedly Reaches Unicorn Status As a16z Cuts Late-Stage Checkscrunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Anduril, a defense company founded by ex-Facebook VR executive Palmer Luckey, is working to be on the border of innovation. Literally.Subscribe to …
IPOs Despite WeWork, IPO Momentum Looks Goodcrunchbase.com - Alex Wilhelm Morning Markets: A quick note on the current health of the IPO markets.Yesterday a few things happened that are worth noting. First, Cloudflare raised …
Protein Cricket Protein In Mind, These Founders Just Raised $5.5M For...crunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Years ago, founders Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz went from college roommates at Brown University to building their first startup: Exo Protein, which …
Airbnb Mapping Airbnb’s Corporate Investment Strategy: Atlas Obscura And Beyondcrunchbase.com - Jason D. Rowley Airbnb led Atlas Obscura’s recently-announced Series B round, which netted the media and events company $20 million in fresh financing, and a new …
IPOs SmileDirectClub Reportedly Prices IPO Above Range At $23 Per...crunchbase.com - Sophia Kunthara At-home teeth straightening startup SmileDirectClub priced its shares at $23 on Wednesday, ahead of its initial public trading date, according to a …
Dallas, TX Dallas-Based Startup Raises $11M To Bring Online Goods To Your Neighborhoodcrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo In an era where so many people are going online to buy everything from razor blades to environmentally-friendly shoes, Neighborhood Goods is taking …
Boston, MA Boston’s August Includes Its Biggest Cybersecurity Round Yet (And Chickpeas)crunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas About seven-and-a-half years ago, Cybereason, a security startup that wants to defend against cyberattacks and threats, was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. …
Philanthropy Work Life Ventures Comes Out Of Stealth With $5M And Backing From...crunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Fresh out of stealth, Work Life Ventures is a new $5 million fund to invest in seed stage, work-focused SaaS startups. The fund is backed by notable …
Tencent Tencent-backed Chinese Used Goods Marketplace Zhuanzhuan Raises $300M Series Bcrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Chinese online used goods trading marketplace Zhuanzhuan announced last night that it has raised a massive $300 million Series B from its parent …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCloudflare Cloudflare Boosts IPO Range To $14 Per Share, Raising Max Val To...crunchbase.com - Alex Wilhelm Morning Markets: As expected, Cloudflare is targeting a higher per share price in its impending IPO. Let’s calculate its new valuation, and then ask …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIPOs Peloton To Peddle Shares At $26 to $29 In Bid To Raise Up To $1.2B In Its IPO Cyclecrunchbase.com - Sophia Kunthara Peloton is looking to raise up to $1.16 billion in its debut on the public markets, pricing its equity between $26 and $29 per share according to an …
UberEATS Uber’s Layoffs Continue As Cost Cutting Reigns At The Former Unicorn...crunchbase.com - Jason D. Rowley Today, while most were focused on the new iPhone keynote, Uber executed the engineering and product layoffs about which rumors had been swirling for …
Rivian Rivian Automotive Receives $350M in Third Investment This Yearcrunchbase.com - Sophia Kunthara Rivian Automotive raised $350 million from Cox Automotive on Tuesday, the startup’s third mega investment this year.The auto technology company, …
Loneliness Loneliness In Tech: Nothing Beats Vulnerability, Even If It’s Tech Generatedcrunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Editor’s Note: This is the final article in a three-part series series on how loneliness impacts all aspects of the startup world, from founders to …
