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Equals secures $16M investment to supercharge spreadsheets
Equals, a San Francisco-based startup ambitiously aiming to challenge Excel’s dominance with a supercharged spreadsheet, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A funding round le
Craft Ventures leads $11.5M into meez’s culinary recipe tool
Meez digitally manages and executes recipe workflow, from creation and cost to organization and training.
ConverseNow expands its drive-thru ordering tech as it bags another $10M
A problem has always existed in drive-thrus, but the technology has “never existed to solve the problem and is still not there 100%," according to ConverseNow CEO Vinay Shukla.
Explo garners $12M Series A as BI dashboard service gains traction
The last time we spoke to Explo, the early-stage startup was announcing its $2.3 million seed round. That was back in November, 2020, a very different time, and a lot has happened since then for the Y
X1’s income-based credit card is about to launch publicly
The credit card market has become increasingly crowded, with consumer fintech startups locked in a fierce competition to differentiate their offerings through branding, rewards programs and even crypt
Endurance events marketplace Let’s Do This raises $60M Series B led by Craft and Headline
The appropriately named endurance (so: running, triathlon, cycling, etc.) events marketplace Let’s Do This (a YC alumni) appeared a couple of years ago listing all kinds of endurance activities glob
Bubbles aims to supercharge chats with async video messaging
Bubbles, a startup that pitches its platform as the “anti-Zoom” for video messaging, today announced that it closed an $8.5 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures, Craft Ventures, St
Mozart Data raises $15M to help startups spin up a data stack
Setting up a stack of data tools is a difficult exercise for any startup to undertake, involving picking and choosing among a wide variety of tools and approaches. Mozart Data’s founders have a
OpenPhone raises $40M to replace your work phone and office PBX with an app
Pam answering the phone at Dunder Mifflin became one of the most iconic refrains from “The Office,” and it’s really no wonder that it did: Businesses big and small have long run on c
Atrium grabs fresh capital to help sales teams meet their quota
Is sales management having a “Money Ball moment?”
Scratchpad nabs $33M Series B to continue building sales workspace
Scratchpad, a startup that is building a tool to make it easier for salespeople to enter data into Salesforce, has expanded that mission to give access to the information it’s collecting to the
Woflow structures merchant data so food ordering can be more accurate
Woflow's data structuring platform powers some of our favorite food delivery apps so the next time you ask for "no bun," you actually get what you order.
Meez keeps recipes in one place so chefs can continue whipping up culinary delights
Meez is a kitchen collaboration tool, recipe keeper and progression, training and prep all rolled into one.
First Resonance brings its space-scale manufacturing OS to hardware makers with $14M A round
First Resonance makes software for making hardware. The company’s Ion platform provides an all-in-one option for anyone who has to manage manufacturing lines, supply chains, engineering and desi
Arch nabs $5.5M to aggregate private market data for investors
More capital has been raised in the private markets than the public markets for over a decade, and this staggering growth has shown no signs of slowing. As private investment booms, companies are deve
AgentSync raises $75M for its insurance-focused API business
AgentSync this morning announced that it has closed a $75 million Series B, pushing its valuation to $1.2 billion. The new unicorn has been on a rapid-fire fundraising clip since TechCrunch first spok
Fellow raises $24M; wants you to enjoy going to meetings again
Over the last year, the company saw that list more than triple, as did the number of meetings hosted on the platform.
ClickUp raises $400M at a $4B valuation to expand its all-in-one workplace productivity platform to Europe
Companies like Slack and Asana stormed into the world of tech to steal a march on incumbents like Microsoft in providing a new wave of point solutions to make it easier for workers respectively to cha
UserGems raises $20M to take on ZoomInfo to help with prospecting and sales intelligence
Finding a way to connect with people who might buy from you, while spending less time pursuing those who will never be interested, is something akin to a holy grail of the world of sales and marketing
Superplastic raises $20M to expand its cartoon influencer universe
A company from the creator of Ello and Kidrobot is announcing a new $20 million funding round to build out an imagined virtual world populated with deranged-yet-cute cartoon influencers. Superplastic&