Industry Ventures

Industry Ventures has $1.7 billion more for secondary stakes and tech buyouts

Industry Ventures prides itself on trying to zig when others zag. When the outfit was first founded in San Francisco in 2000, the startup market was red hot, and its first product — a secondary

Bainbridge Growth wants e-commerce brands to stop sales guessing game

The company gathers sales data for financial modeling and forecasting to track progress, show planned value and then value in real-time.

Onymos raises $12M to provide plug-in features for apps

Onymos, a “feature-as-a-service” platform for app development, today announced that it closed a $12 million Series A round led by Great Point Ventures with participation from Benhamou Glob

VC distributions are down 90% in Q1, says Industry Ventures, an LP in 450 funds

If you’re trying to get a pulse on what’s happening in the venture market right now, you could do worse than talk with Hans Swildens, founder of the 22-year-old investment firm Industry Ventures.

Another huge funding round gives Veho room to deliver

This latest round gives the company $300 million in total funding raised in the past two years and a $1.5 billion valuation.

Avoma puts new capital to use making meetings work smarter

Avoma aims to set it apart from competitors by bringing meeting management, AI assistant and conversation intelligence into one tool.

Next-day package delivery startup Veho valued at $1B following $125M Series A

Veho's technology matches package delivery demand with qualified driver partners and lets customers know the actual time of delivery and even communicates when the driver is headed their way.

Nexla nabs $12M Series A as it builds cash flow positive data operations biz

Nexla, a company that participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in New York City in 2017, has been building its data operations startup the old-fashioned way. After launching in beta and secu

Meru Health secures $38M in equity and debt for ‘holistic’ online mental health platform

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly been devastating on many levels. But if there’s any silver lining in the global crisis, it could be that it’s less taboo to talk about feeling anxious, depres

Weber acquires smart cooking startup June

Outdoor cooking industry leader and famed kettle-grill-maker Weber has acquired June, the smart cooking startup founded in 2013 by Matt Van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal. While financial terms of the deal we

This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers ‘came out of the woodwork’

It’s no secret that a massive digital transformation is happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial products

Directly, which taps experts to train chatbots, raises $11M, closes out Series B at $51M

Directly, a startup whose mission is to help build better customer service chatbots by using experts in specific areas to train them, has raised more funding as it opens up a new front to grow its bus

Once rivals, secondary market player Forge is acquiring SharesPost in a $160 million cash-and-stock deal

Even amid a pandemic, there’s a race on to create a powerful, global private securities marketplace where private shares are traded as freely as public company shares on the Nasdaq. In one lane

Market players won’t find buyers on the secondary market — yet

Seasoned secondary players were expecting it. As the markets began to plummet in recent weeks, shareholders who’d turned down earlier offers to buy this or that holding were suddenly curious to

UPDATE: Los Angeles-based CREXi raises $30 million for its online real estate marketplace

Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it’s little wonder that there’s something of a boom in investments in technology comp

Luxury consignment e-tailer The RealReal to enter the unicorn club with new funding

The RealReal has authorized the sale of up to $70 million in new shares in a round that could value the luxury consignment shop at $1.06 billion.

Appen acquires Figure Eight for up to $300M, bringing two data annotation companies together

Appen just announced that it’s acquiring Figure Eight in an all-cash deal that sees Appen paying $175 million upfront, with an additional payment of up to $125 million based on Figure Eight&#82

Industry Ventures raises $700 million to buy secondary shares

Industry Ventures, one of the largest buyers of secondary shares, has raised about $700 million to purchase more equity from VCs, hedge funds, startup employees and others. About $500 million is for t

Luxury Consignment Site The RealReal Adds $40 Million In New Funding

Online luxury consignment site The RealReal announced this morning its largest round of financing to date with news that it has closed on $40 million in Series D funding, as the company is poised t

Industry Ventures Closes $400 Million Secondary Fund, Exceeds $1B Of Capital

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/industry.png" class="shot2" /> VC firm <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/industry-ventures">Industry Ventures</a> has
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