Crunchbase NewsFrisco Reportedly Closing Down After Raising $77Mcrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Autonomous vehicle startup Drive.ai is permanently shutting down this month and letting go of its 90 workers, according to the San Francisco …
Crunchbase NewsStartups Ride-hailing Startup Grab Invests In London’s Splyt To Broaden Its...crunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Singapore’s Grab, a ride-hailing company, has participated in an $8 million Series A into London’s Splyt Technologies, which aggregates your favorite …
Crunchbase NewsCelebrity Gossip Influencer Shoutout Marketplace Cameo Debuts $50M Series Bcrunchbase.com - Jason D. Rowley Because the internet is nothing if not an on-demand marketplace for everything, there’s Cameo, a Chicago-based venture which connects celebrities to …
Crunchbase NewsUtah MX Raises $100M For Financial Data Cleansing And Analyticscrunchbase.com - Savannah Dowling Mobile platforms, flashy cards, peer-to-peer payments and more have propelled startups like Chime and Petal into the spotlight of fintech as they aim …
Crunchbase News Booster Raises $56M To Grow Its ‘Gas Station On Wheels’ Businesscrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Booster, a San Mateo-based on-demand fuel delivery service, has raised $56 million in a Series C led by Invus Opportunities.Strategic investors …
Crunchbase NewsWordPress WP Engine Acquires Flywheel In Another Deal To Make Your WordPress Experience Bettercrunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas WP Engine, which focuses on hosting and powering WordPress sites, has acquired digital experience platform Flywheel to create a better workflow and …
Crunchbase NewsSequoia Capital Experience Monitoring Company Medallia Files To Go...crunchbase.com - Jason D. Rowley Filing its S-1 paperwork with the SEC late last week, customer survey and experience monitoring company Medallia made public what’s been rumored for …
Crunchbase NewsMortgages Mortgage Tech Startup Blend Raises $130M, Reportedly Nears Unicorn Statuscrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo The process of buying a home is one of the most stressful in a person’s life. A flurry of companies aimed at making that process easier has emerged …
Crunchbase NewsAirports Startups Turn To Traditional Advertising For...crunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas On the ride from the San Francisco International Airport into the city, drivers are greeted with a slew of billboards advertising various products …
Crunchbase NewsList-Worthy These Younger Firms Are Climbing The Ranks Of Active U.S. Investors: Part Twocrunchbase.com - Joanna Glasner Editor’s note: The second and final installment in a two-part series examining the most active lead investors in the United States.Prolific startup …
Crunchbase NewsSeries C Round Last Week In Venture: A Full Stack Of Decentralized Techcrunchbase.com - Jason D. Rowley Hello and welcome back to Last Week In Venture, the weekly rundown of venture deals that may have flown under your radar.Subscribe to the Crunchbase …
Crunchbase NewsIPOs Recap on Slack’s IPO From The Team That Led Itcrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo As you probably have already heard, Slack went public this week via direct listing rather than a traditional initial public offering.Subscribe to the …
Crunchbase NewsHouston, TX Houston’s Mercury Raising $125M Fourth Fundcrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Houston-based Mercury Fund has raised $82 million for its fourth fund, Mercury Fund Ventures IV, for which it aims to raise a total of $125 million, …
Crunchbase NewsSeed Funding Chicago Startups Raise More VC Funding Despite Public Flameoutscrunchbase.com - Jason D. Rowley Chicago, across many dimensions, is a city that’s second to none. With apologies to Milwaukee, Detroit, Toronto, and those averse to puns about the …
Crunchbase NewsTrading Slack Soars In First Day Trading, Up Nearly 50...crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Shares of Slack were up by nearly 50 percent in first-day trading, after the company priced its shares above its projected range. On Wednesday, the …
Crunchbase NewsVenture Capital The Most Active U.S. Lead Investors: Part...crunchbase.com - Joanna Glasner Editor’s note: The first in a two-part series examining the most active lead investors in the United States. In the cliquish world of venture …
Crunchbase NewsIPOs Slack Trades Over $40 Per Share Following Direct...crunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Shares of work messaging and productivity company Slack shot up in the company’s first day on the public markets, topping $40 a share in midday …
Crunchbase News Druva Raises $130M for Cloud Data Protection, Becomes Latest SasS Unicorncrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Druva, a SaaS startup focused on cloud data protection and management, announced today it’s raised $130 million in a round led by Viking Global …
Crunchbase NewsLatinx LatinX-Led Bitwise Raises $27M Series A To Bring Tech Hubs To ‘Underdog Cities’crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo When Irma Olguin and Jake Soberal founded Bitwise in 2013, they started it with the intention of “fixing” their hometown of Fresno, California using …
Crunchbase NewsFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSpotify Slack Sets Reference Price At $26 Per...crunchbase.com - Savannah Dowling As reported by CNBC, the New York Stock Exchange has announced that Slack has set its reference share price1 at $26. The workplace communications …
Crunchbase NewsAutonomous Vehicles Consolidation In The Lidar Market May Be Comingcrunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Lidar sensors have long been hailed as a necessary cog in the forever growing autonomous machine world. The sensors help detect and perceive …
Crunchbase NewsSeries C Round Photography Platform Meero raises $230M In France’s Largest Series C To...crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Paris-based photography platform Meero announced today it has raised $230 million in a Series C round led by Eurazeo Growth and Prime Ventures. The …
Crunchbase NewsPhishing Anti-Phishing Startups Score $139M In Past Week...crunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Companies focusing on anti-phishing raised a decent amount of cash this week: all together IronScales, Vade Secure, and Valimail raised $139 million …
Crunchbase NewsAustin, TX Austin’s Arrive Logistics Raises $25M Series B, Projects $600M In Revenue for 2019crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Arrive Logistics, an Austin-based freight brokerage startup, said today it has closed on a $25 million Series B financing led by existing backer Lead …
Crunchbase NewseSports The Esports Industry’s Got Game Despite Monetization Challengescrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo The days when esports were dismissed with laughter and jokes are behind us. Today, the esports industry spans the globe, forming an international …
Crunchbase NewsStartups OYO Dominates As Startups Tackle India's Hospitality...crunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Angel investor and entrepreneur Pankaj Jain said no to investing in hotel startup OYO, twice. Back then, OYO was just the ambitious idea of a …
Crunchbase NewsMellon Jimmy Choo Co-Founder Tamara Mellon Raises $50M Series C For Luxury Shoe Brandcrunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo Jimmy Choo co-founder Tamara Mellon has raised a $50 million Series C for her direct-to-consumer women’s luxury footwear brand of the same …
Crunchbase NewsAccenture Optimizely Raises $50M Series D From Goldman Sachs And Accenture Venturescrunchbase.com - Natasha Mascarenhas Optimizely, which competes with Adobe to help companies of all sizes create better digital experiences for their customers, just scored $50 million …
Crunchbase NewsCMO Kids Retailer Camp, Founded By Buzzfeed CMO, Raises $10.5M, SEC Filings...crunchbase.com - Jason D. Rowley Tally another one up on the list of venture-backed brick-and-mortar retail upstarts. On Monday, NYC-based retail shop Camp filed paperwork with the …
