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Smart calendar tool Clockwise raises $45M to help remote teams avoid burnout using AI
Clockwise, a time management and smart calendar tool, has raised $45 million in Series C funding led by Coatue, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and existing investors Accel, Greylock Partners…
Bain Capital Ventures taps ex-Affirm exec as its newest partner to focus on early-stage fintech and commerce
Bain Capital Ventures has named Christina Melas-Kyriazi, a former Affirm executive and angel investor, as its newest partner. Melas-Kyriazi will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office and focus…
Column Tax announces $5.1M seed round to launch mobile tax-prep products
Mobile income tax software Column Tax announced today that it raised $5.1 million in seed funding and is launching its first commercial product, which will provide users with early access…
Customer data startup Hightouch grabs third funding round in 12 months
Accelerated inbound attention had investors reaching out to both the company and its customers though Hightouch was not fundraising.
AutoLeap drives technology for car repair shops with new $18M capital infusion
AutoLeap is bringing the auto repair shop into the 21st century by digitizing their workflow and reducing the manual double-entry shop owners are used to doing.
Affinity, a relationship intelligence company, raises $80M to help close deals
Affinity is focused on industries like investment banking and venture capital, where there aren’t CRMs or networking platforms that cater to the specific needs of the long-term relationship.
From vaccine distribution plans to fire trackers to bar crawls for your best friend’s birthday, maps help people visualize space and express impact. And Felt, a new Oakland-based startup co-founded…
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What Square’s acquisition of Afterpay means for startups
The main takeaways? “Buy now, pay later” may be effective at driving retail conversion, but scale matters and long-term margins look slim for BNPL startups.
Orum, which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of…
This $250 million growth fund will divert half its profits to historically Black colleges and universities
There’s been a lot of talk about racial equality in the year since George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, but achieving it is far easier said than done given the…
Bain Capital Ventures raised $1.3 billion to fund young startups, and young VC firms, too
Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture arm of the 37-year-old private equity firm Bain Capital, announced this morning that it has $1.3 billion more smackers to invest across two funds,…
Ankorstore raises another $102 million for its wholesale marketplace
French startup Ankorstore has raised a $102 million Series B funding round (€84 million). Tiger Global and Bain Capital Ventures are leading today’s funding round with existing investors Index Ventures,…
From bootstrapped to a $2.1B valuation, ReCharge raises $227M for subscription management platform
ReCharge, a provider of subscription management software for e-commerce, announced today that it has raised $227 million in a Series B growth round at a $2.1 billion valuation. Summit Partners,…
Crusoe Energy is tackling energy use for cryptocurrencies and data centers and greenhouse gas emissions
The two founders of Crusoe Energy think they may have a solution to two of the largest problems facing the planet today — the increasing energy footprint of the tech…
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Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup
Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith talks about how to ensure the critical early hires are the right ones to grow a business.
10 proptech investors see better era for residential and retail after pandemic
The pandemic made the internet a lifeline for shopping, earning a living and maintaining personal relationships. Now, as lockdowns start to lift, the real estate industry has to figure out…
Hi Marley raises $25M to fund its AI-powered communication platform for the insurance industry
If you’ve ever had to file a claim with your insurance company, you know that it’s not exactly fun. Often, you’re on hold indefinitely waiting to speak to a live…
BlockFi lands a $350M Series D at a $3B valuation for its fast-growing crypto-lending platform
If there were any doubt about a cryptocurrency boom, we need look no further than at the explosion of growth of certain companies in the space. One such company is…
Bain’s Sarah Smith, former head of HR at Quora, will share the recruiting playbook at Early Stage
If you’re a startup that’s worried about building your team today for tomorrow’s successes you’re not going to want to miss our session with Bain Capital Ventures’ Sarah Smith at…
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Justworks’ Series B pitch deck may be the most wonderfully simple deck I’ve ever seen
It may be tough to remember, but there was a time long ago when Justworks wasn’t a household name. Though its monthly revenue growth charts were up and to the right, it had not even broken the $100,000 mark. Even then, Bain Capital Venture’s Matt Harris felt confident in betting on the startup. Harris says…
Bain’s Matt Harris and Justworks’ Isaac Oates to talk through the Series B deal that brought them together
It’s been almost 10 years since Justworks launched. The platform, founded by Isaac Oates, was yet another example of software eating the world; in this particular instance, it was the…
Fintech startup Finix closes on $3M in Black and Latinx investor-led SPV
Many founders talk about their desire for a more diverse investor base. Richie Serna took that desire and made it a reality. Serna, who founded payments infrastructure startup Finix in…
3 adtech and martech VCs see major opportunities in privacy and compliance
There seems to be plenty of activity in adtech and martech, particularly across the commerce ecosystem with tools that support monetization for small merchants.
Alloy raises $4M to build out its e-commerce automation service
Alloy Automation, a startup that was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 cohort, announced today that it has closed $5 million across two rounds, the most recent of which…
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Nuro acquires autonomous trucking startup Ike
Autonomous delivery company Nuro has acquired Ike, a startup founded by veterans of Apple, Google and Uber Advanced Technologies Group that aimed to commercialize self-driving trucks. The deal, the latest in a busy season of acquisitions and consolidation in the autonomous vehicle industry, brings together two companies that have deep ties and shared technology. And…
GoCardless raises another $95M as it bets on open banking alongside its recurring payments network
GoCardless, the London fintech that aims to become the one-stop shop globally for businesses that want to let customers pay via recurring bank payments, has raised $95 million in Series…
Affirm, Airbnb, C3.ai, Roblox, Wish file for tech IPO finale of 2020
For some of the most awaited Silicon Valley tech companies of the decade, this week looked good enough to file for IPOs
Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry
As one of the least digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption.
Grid AI raises $18.6M Series A to help AI researchers and engineers bring their models to production
Grid AI, a startup founded by the inventor of the popular open-source PyTorch Lightning project, William Falcon, that aims to help machine learning engineers work more efficiently, today announced that…
Cube Dev, the open-source company behind Cube.js that is building a data platform to help developers write analytics applications for both internal and external users, today announced that it has…
