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VCs double down on fintech Coast, which aims to be the Brex for ‘real-world’ industries
The expense management arena is a crowded one, with well-funded players such as Brex, Ramp and Navan all clamoring for market share. Those companies are generally focused on tech startups…
BoxGroup closes on $425M for two funds to back early-stage startups
Each fund is $212.5 million and will invest in pre-seed, seed and Series A companies across consumer enterprise, healthcare, financial, biotech and climate.
Zest wants to make buying and sending gifts online ‘delightful’
While e-commerce was on the rise before the pandemic, the massive shift to digital supercharged the online shopping industry — bringing entirely new categories of products (and shoppers) to the…
Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke…
Proper raises $4.3M seed round to help other fintechs wrangle data
What’s one of the hottest areas within fintech today? Funnily enough, it’s fintech for fintechs (say that a few times fast). Fintech startups have absolutely proliferated in the past few…
Thanks to the explosion of low- and no-code development tools, building web apps from scratch has become easier — and cheaper — than it once was. But sophisticated search and…
The terminal often feels like an afterthought, and there hasn’t been a lot of innovation in this space for a very long time. Warp, which is launching its public beta…
Flock Homes closes on $26M for landlords to exchange rentals for shares in a portfolio of homes
Historically, only institutions have been able to be part of REITs (real estate investment trust), which are made up of companies that own or finance income-producing real estate across a…
Novo, the startup building a new kind of banking service from the ground up for small and medium businesses, has closed a significant round of funding to take the next…
Pepper brings in $16M, gets back to its roots of spicing up ordering experience for food distributors
The ordering system is specifically designed so food distributors can launch mobile apps and websites to accept orders and payments online.
Canopy raises $15M Series A after posting 4.5x customer growth in H1 2021
Canopy’s leaders expect focused fintech products to win out over large bundles of services.
James Evans and his co-founders at CommandBar were working on a different software product when they hit a wall while trying to find certain functionalities within the software.
BoxGroup closes on $255M across two funds to back startups at their earliest stages
BoxGroup has quietly, yet diligently, been funding companies at the early stage for over a decade. The 11-year-old firm in fact was the first investor in Plaid, a fintech company…
Titan, a platform aimed at the ‘everyday investor,’ valued at $450M as a16z leads $58M Series B
Titan, a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at the new generation of “everyday investors,” has closed on $58 million in a Series B round led…
After selling Bread last year for over $500M, this founder just raised millions for his new fintech startup
When Daniel Simon sold Bread, a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights…
K Health expands into virtual childcare and raises $132 million at a $1.5 billion valuation
K Health, the virtual healthcare provider that uses machine learning to lower the cost of care by providing the bulk of the company’s health assessments, is launching new tools for…
LA-based Boulevard raises $27 million for its spa management software
Boulevard, a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic. Founded four years ago…
Secureframe raises $4.5M to help businesses speed up their compliance audits
While certifications for security management practices like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 have been around for a while, the number of companies that now request that their software vendors go…
GV bets on young team behind high school social app HAGS
As high schools pivot to hybrid models and students see less in-person face time with friends, the current social app sphere seems to be missing a way to build deeper…
Digital elective care and telemedicine provider Ro raises $200 million at a reported $1.5 billion valuation
In three years Zachariah Reitano’s startup, Ro, has managed to hit a reported $1.5 billion valuation for its transformation from a company focused on treating erectile dysfunction to a telemedicine…
ClassPass co-founder Sanjiv Sanghavi joins Arcadia, bringing consumer marketing savvy to clean energy
“Helping navigate the elusiveness of product market fit” is how Sanjiv Sanghavi, the co-founder of ClassPass and itinerant startup executive, describes his roles at different companies. From ClassPass through Knotel,…
In the first few minutes of pitching his new company, Candidate Labs, Jonathan Downey admitted that he’s operating in a market that is “done to death”: recruitment technology. But Downey,…
Chief, the leadership network for women, raises $15 million in funding
Chief, the social network dedicated exclusively to women in professional leadership positions, announced today that it has $15 million in funding from its existing investors, including General Catalyst, Inspired Capital,…
Years ago, Teel Lidow arrived at the airport to take a standard, eight-hour flight from Santiago, Chile to New York City. The journey ended up taking three days, involved an…
Andreessen makes Ribbon Health the first investment from its $750 million new healthcare fund
One of the biggest roadblocks to reducing costs in the American healthcare system is the system’s inherent lack of transparency. Most healthcare networks and hospital systems can’t even accurately account…
Lawyers hate timekeeping — Ping raises $13M to fix it with AI
Counting billable time in six-minute increments is the most annoying part of being a lawyer. It’s a distracting waste. It leads law firms to conservatively under-bill. And it leaves lawyers…
To learn more about the next wave of consumer startup investment outside Silicon Valley, I’m speaking to leading B2C-focused investors in various hubs about the trends they’re excited about right…
BoxGroup raises its first externally backed fund to invest in seed-stage startups
BoxGroup, the seed-stage investment firm led by David Tisch, has today announced that it has raised its very first fund from limited partners. To date, BoxGroup has been internally backed,…
Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool and free version of its project management platform
Clubhouse — the software project management platform focused on team collaboration, workflow transparency and ease of integration — is taking another big step toward its goal of democratizing efficient software…
Ro hires Todd Levy after four years at BuzzFeed.
