Anduril Industries, a 3-year-old Southern California startup that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance, today announced it has closed $200 million in fresh funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and other VCs. […]
The Mom Project, a digital talent marketplace and a career destination for moms, today announced it has closed $25 million Series B funding to help women remain active in the workforce and also help businesses attract and retain female talent. The round, which brings […]
Kennet Partners, a London-based European technology growth equity investor focused on bootstrapped and capital efficient technology startup companies, has raised $250 million (€223m) for its fifth fund, Kennet V* in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild. The Fund exceeded its target […]
Hunters, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based cybersecurity startup and a provider of SaaS-based autonomous threat hunting solution, today announced it has closed $15 million in Series A funding to boost development of its XDR technology and expand North American operations. Backers include Microsoft’s venture […]
Formerly known as The Foundation for Blended and Online Learning, Future of School announced today that it will help fund up to 10 schools to participate in the newly formed Resilient Schools Project (RSP)—a program to assist K-12 schools and districts […]
The adoption of cloud-based email by companies large and small is now mainstream. According to Gartner’s Email Security Market Guide, more than 70 percent of corporate email will be cloud-native — principally Microsoft Office 365 and Google Gmail — by […]
Many Fortune Global 2000 companies have thousands of vendors with contracts that have been neglected for long periods of time because the value of the contracts are too small and too numerous to warrant proper procurement specialists’ time. Enter Pactum, a […]
Codefresh, a Mountain View, CA-based startup and a continuous delivery and collaboration platform for containers and microservices, today announced it has raised $27 million in Series C funding to accelerate growth and push their competitive advantage further as the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD […]
First responders globally are facing unprecedented challenges amidst COVID-19. RapidSOS will use the funding to extend its work with 4,700+ public safety agencies globally – providing health, connected building, wearable, telematics, and other critical data to first responders to empower […]
Doorkee, a New York City-based tech startup that is disrupting the apartment rental industry, today announced it secured $5.7M in early-stage funding to accelerate the growth of its platform. The round was led by prominent New York City landlord Simon […]
The global esports market, which has enjoyed tremendous support in Asia and is now fast establishing itself as a mainstream entertainment globally, is currently valued at US$1.1bn and is projected to grow by 42% to US$1.56bn by 2023[1]. The number […]
The last time we wrote about SQream was back in May 2018 when the GPU database startup raised $26.4 million Series B funding led by Alibaba Group. A lot has changed since then. While the COVID-19 pandemic created a major challenge for […]
Immuta, the Boston, MA-based automated data governance startup, announced it has closed$40 million in funding to extend its leadership position in the growing market for automated data governance and privacy solutions. The Series C round was led by new investor Intel Capital, […]
While enterprises around the world are looking to incorporate chatbots in their automation strategy, the task of building an effective contextual assistant can be complex. Many chatbot companies provide ‘black box’ technology and simple drag & drop interfaces. Enter Rasa, a […]
HandCash, a Bitcoin mobile wallet that makes it easier for users to send Bitcoin to someone as if they were handing cash, today announced it has raised additional funding to further grow its product offerings and employ more team members. […]
Cedar, a New York City-based healthtech startup and a provider of patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems and medical groups, today announced it has closed more than $102M in Series C funding, led by venture capital firm Andreessen […]
Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager operating integrated businesses across credit, private equity and real estate, today announced the final closing of its Ares Special Opportunities Fund, L.P. (together with its parallel vehicles, “ASOF” or the “Fund”). The […]
Coronovirus has impacted millions of lives and businesses worldwide. Over the past few months, we’ve written many pieces about how technology startups are navigating the coronvirus pandemic to stay afloat. Some of these startups had to significantly reduce their staffing […]
Last week we wrote about DoorDash after it was reported that the SoftBank-backed food delivery startup was planning to secure new funding before its upcoming IPO. Now, according to an exclusive report from Axios, DoorDash has raised $400 million in new […]
The last we covered UC Berkeley SkyDeck was back in March when the startup accelerator announced it biggest cohort from 11 countries, startups will collaborate remotely. Today, UC Berkeley SkyDeck announces that in the past six months, including the COVID-19 shelter-at-home period, seven of […]
