Almanac, a San Francisco, California-based tech startup and a provider of cloud-based platform for open-source documents, today announced a $9 million seed funding round led by Floodgate with nearly 100 investors from the world’s most successful companies. Almanac will use the […]
SatoshiPay, a blockchain-based fintech startup that offers a micropayment solution for content creators, today announced it secured €550,000 investment from Stellar Development Foundation (SDF). The investment, which is by way of convertible loan notes, marks the third investment made by SDF through its […]
Marqeta, an Oakland, California-based fintech startup, today announced that it has raised an additional $150 million in new funding from a leading institutional investor, valuing the company at $4.3 billion. The company, which is still unprofitable, plans to use fresh capital infusion […]
Curu, a Denver, Colorado-based fintech startup that helps lenders expand their total available market, reduce their customer acquisition costs and fund more loans by building their applicant’s eligibility, today announced it has closed $3 million in seed funding to scale its solution via […]
• Female founder of Glowday secures $4.7 million (£3.8 million) investment deal • SaaS enabled marketplace for non-surgical cosmetic treatments to launch when lock-down ends • Demand expected to boom post COVID • Will support client safety and consumer confidence […]
For too long, America’s professional caregivers have been overworked and underpaid. During that time, America’s caring communities have struggled with an increasing employee turnover crisis, with no plan on how to fix it. The stress of caring for others is magnified […]
Since 2009, the Amazon Literary Partnership has supported efforts that help writers tell their stories and find their readers. During that period, Amazon Literary Partnership has awarded more than $12 million in grant funding to more than 150 literary organizations, […]
Monitoring critical infrastructure is an inherently daunting task. In the US alone, there are over 4 million miles of power lines and pipelines, spread over millions of square miles of diverse terrain. Aging infrastructure, geohazards, and increasingly severe weather, are […]
Kentik, a San Francisco-based tech startup and a provider of real-time visibility, traffic management, and network intelligence to leading enterprises like Zoom, Dropbox, and eBay, today announced it has raised $23.5 million in growth funding to accelerate growth and expand its business […]
The last time we wrote about Bolt was back in March 2018 when the startup was called Taxify. It later rebranded as Bolt to expand its transport options beyond private cars. Bolt is an Estonia-based transportation platform that currently operates its ride-hailing […]
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, online ordering was on the rise in the restaurant industry. Experts had projected the online food delivery industry to reach $200 billion by 2025. Current circumstances have only accelerated this growth with a continued increase in […]
Fundbox, a Silicon Valley-based fintech startup and a B2B payment and credit network that transforms how funding flows, today announced it announced a fresh equity investment from MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd., the corporate venture capital arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial […]
It’s year 2020 and farmers worldwide still spray their fields uniformly using a chemical-intensive treatment, without distinguishing between the crop, the bare soil, and the weeds. This market failure results not only in a significant economic loss to the farmers, […]
Getting venture capital companies (VCs) to invest in your business can be hard. Proving that your business has the potential for growth and getting the right valuation is just the tip of the iceberg. Each stage of every round of […]
Chief, a New York City-based social network startup and the only organization designed for women seated at or around the table, announced today it has closed $15 million in new funding to accelerate growth and meet demand in new cities, and […]
VergeSense, a Y Combinator-backed tech startup that develops an AI-powered sensing device for facility management, announced today it has closed $9 million in strategic round to meet increased customer demand during the Coronavirus crisis and scale its analytics software platform. Founded in […]
We’ve written a lot about Tesla CEO Elon Musk. A lot of our readers are probably tired of reading another article about him. However, one of the reasons we like Musk is because, he represents American greatness and resilience in the […]
The current antiquated self-storage industry is $38 billion and continues to grow. MakeSpace is a New York-based on-demand storage startup on a mission to revolutionize the self-storage industry. MakeSpace founders Sam Rosen and Rahul Gandhi, set out to make storage more consumer-friendly, creating […]
40 million Americans still live without easy access to fresh and healthy food options. The situation is even worse, especially during this coronavirus pandemic when more than 30 million Americans have lost their jobs. America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative is a […]
Cyber losses cost the global economy upwards of $1.5 trillion each year, and yet the majority of businesses are under-insured and under-prepared to manage and mitigate the risks of an increasingly digital world. Enter Coalition, a San Francisco-based insurtech startup […]
