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Airbnb got its start as a place for homeowners casually to rent out rooms and more from their own private residences to make a bit of extra income, but it quickly evolved into something a little more
Columbus-based Tribevest bags $3M for its collaborative investing platform
Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. It was then that he realized their “good jobs with 401(k)s” would never be enou
Masters, an app for training with celeb athletes, closes a $2.7M seed funding round
It’s now 2022 and there are many, many apps out there that allow you to do cardio or build muscle by taking classes inside smartphone apps. We are all familiar with the success of platforms like Pel
Doorvest raises $14M for its digital service that helps consumers buy rental properties
Doorvest this morning announced a $39 million funding event, including $14 million worth of equity financing and a $25 million credit facility. The latter makes sense given the startup’s busines
Elude secures additional funding as it aims to improve travel booking experience
Elude launched on iOS, but has plans to launch a web version and Android version in the coming months.
AtomChat secures new funding to capitalize on Latin American trend of sales through messaging
A majority of people in Latin America skip shopping on the web and instead use a combination of messaging and social apps to find inspiration, ask questions and make purchases.
Elude raises $2.1M to show spontaneous travelers the best destinations for their budgets
As more people dust off their luggage and passports after stowing them away during the global pandemic, Elude aims to show travelers a new way to take spontaneous trips.
Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services
Sila's banking and payment platform gives software teams tools to build the next generation of financial products and services.
Numerade lands $100M valuation for short-form STEM videos
Edtech entrepreneurs are using their moment in the sun to rethink the structures and impact of nearly every aspect of modern-day learning, from the art of testing to the reality of information retenti
Pitching tech to optimize building design for sustainability, Atlanta-based Cove.tool raises $5.7 million
Patrick Chopson and Sandeep Ahuja started cove.tool, an Atlanta-based company developing software to optimize building design for sustainability and cost, because of problems they’d faced in the
How to craft the right pitch deck for your company at Disrupt 2020
Your startup is special and different, and you need to explain that to distracted investors in just a few short slides. The pandemic has added to your challenge, because more investors have been looki
Top LA investors discuss the city’s post-COVID-19 prospects
When it comes to venture capital, Los Angeles is a city on the rise. In the past year, it’s seen one of the most profitable venture-backed exits of any tech ecosystem (with the $4 billion sale o
New Orleans-based Resilia raises $8 million from Mucker Capital to make nonprofits more efficient
Sevetri Wilson founded her first company, a public relations firm catering to nonprofit organizations, as soon as she graduated from Louisiana State University back in 2009. Eleven years later, and wi
UpKeep raises $36 million Series B to help facilities and maintenance teams go mobile
UpKeep, a mobile-first platform for maintenance and operations collaboration, has today announced the close of a $36 million Series B financing round. The round was led by Insight Partners, with parti
Programmable fintech payments startup Sila raises $7.7M seed to wipe out ACH
Fintech is white hot these days, with major acquisitions and funding rounds galore. It’s also a relatively new space, with startups only really breaching the thicket of regulations that defines the
Omar Hamoui leaves Sequoia for LA-based Mucker Capital as it looks to lead more Series A deals
Mucker Capital, the now eight-year-old, Santa Monica, Calif.-based pre-seed startup accelerator and venture outfit, has brought aboard Omar Hamoui, a partner at Sequoia Capital for the last six-plus y
Trulia founder Pete Flint backs real estate startup Modus
Modus raises $12.5 million Series A co-led by NFX’s Pete Flint and Niki Pezeshki of Felicis Ventures.
Shine Bathroom raises $750K for a smart home add-on that flushes away your toilet doldrums
One ongoing theme in the world of smart homes has been the emergence of gadgets and other tools that can turn “ordinary” objects and systems into “connected” ones — remov