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TravelTriangle raises $12M to digitize India’s travel bookings
TravelTriangle, a startup that is digitizing travel agencies and travel bookings in India, has raised a $12 million Series C round led by Fundamentum. The startup operates like a travel booking platfo
Fractyl Labs raises $44 million in Series D to develop a treatment for type 2 diabetes
Fractyl Labs, a Lexington, Massachusetts-based startup developing treatments for diabetes, has raised $44 million in Series D financing from a slew of VC firms, including GV, True Ventures, the IDO Fu
Email marketer SendGrid up 13% following IPO
Marketing email company SendGrid had a decent first day on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. After pricing shares at $16, the company closed at $18.03, or up almost 13%. The Denver-based comp
An inside look at Bessemer Venture Partners’ investment process for Twilio
Mark Twain once said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. If Twilio provides any indication of what’s to come, we believe now more than ever in the future of the business-to-deve
DeepScale raises $3 million for perception AI to make self-driving cars safe
Automakers are scrambling to develop cars with advanced driver-assistance systems that are so good they’re “crash-proof,” or fully autonomous vehicles, each safer than the next. But automakers a
TravelTriangle raises $10 million to bring India’s travel agencies online
India’s TravelTriangle, a marketplace for finding and booking travel and holidays, has closed a $10 million Series B funding round. The four-year-old company is focused on bringing India’
Byte Foods raises $5.5 million for smart vending machines that serve local fare
Apple juniper kombucha or a BBQ chopped salad may soon replace the can of soda and bag of chips in a vending machine at your office. A San Rafael-based startup called Byte Foods has raised $5.5 millio
Confirmed: Periscope Data raises $25 million from Bessemer Venture Partners
Periscope Data, the company that helps data scientists quickly turn their findings into easily digestible visualizations, has confirmed the raise of $25 million in Series B funding. We originally repo
Otonomo raises $12 million to make data from connected cars useful
Even if self-driving cars aren’t part of our daily lives yet, vehicles are becoming internet-connected at a rapid pace. Gartner predicts that one-fifth of all autos on the road, and a great majority
Renoviso raises $3.5 million for home redecorating
Renoviso thinks it can take the hassle out of home redecorating. Instead of searching for the right contractor, Renoviso determines which local partner can help you on projects like replacing your w
Prospera raises $7 million to put computer vision and AI to work on the farm
A Tel Aviv-based startup called Propsera has raised $7 million in new venture funding to build out systems that will monitor and help farmers improve the health of their crops, and optimize their oper
As Twilio’s largest shareholder, Bessemer Venture Partners prepares for the ride
Byron Deeter is likely waking up this morning and wondering what kind of day he’ll have. It was Deeter who led Bessemer Venture Partners into its seed-stage investment in Twilio, a now nine-year-old
Rocketrip raises $9 million to help companies save, employees make money on business travel
Rocketrip believes you can motivate employees to spend less on business travel by rewarding them with gift cards. For each trip, the startup establishes a “budget to beat” and helps employees spli
Hibob raises $7.5M to help SMEs manage their people (and those pesky workplace pensions)
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.hibob.com/">Hibob</a> -- yes we're running that low on company names -- is a new U.K. startup building out a cloud platform that helps businesses manage their peopl
Tile raises $18 million to make personal belongings easy to find
To help people find lost, stolen or misplaced personal effects with the proverbial touch of a button, a startup called Tile has raised $18 million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture P
Bessemer Venture Partners Byron Deeter on success in SaaS
Efficient growth has always been rewarded by the market, but as cash becomes more constricted, particularly at the late stage, this efficiency will become more and more important.
India’s BigBasket lands $150M to expand its online grocery service
There's more money flowing into India's e-commerce space after BigBasket, a Bangalore-based company that focuses on groceries, landed a $150 million investment led by The Abraaj Group in the UAE.
SmashFly, A Service That Looks To Snag New Hires More Effectively, Raises $22M
Mike Hennessy thinks finding potential recruits is just like marketing — you have to keep them interested and snatch them at the right time.
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Toast, A Point Of Sale Service For Restaurants, Raises $30M
When Chris Comparato joined his former colleagues at Toast, a service that includes a point-of-sale tool for restaurants, raising new financing to continue scaling the company was near the top of the
Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil Talks Video In 2016
2015 was a big year for video — especially when it came to user-generated video. Now there are services like Periscope and Meerkat, which are enabling users to broadcast the world around them live.