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Pipe has a new CEO from Block, months after founding team announces departure
The new chief executive, Luke Voiles, is joining Pipe on Feb. 20 after working as the general manager of Square Banking at Block, formerly Square.
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As Pipe’s founding team departs, tensions rise over allegations
On November 22, alternative financing startup Pipe announced that its three co-founders were stepping down from their executive roles and that a search for a new, “veteran” CEO had commenced.…
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Pipe’s founding team stepping down as hunt for ‘veteran’ CEO begins
The three co-founders of alternative financing startup Pipe are stepping down from their roles as executives of the company in one of the most dramatic management shake-ups seen in the fintech startup world in some time. Miami-based Pipe said today it is on the hunt for a “veteran” CEO as Harry Hurst, who has been…
TechCrunch+ roundup: Cannabis investor survey, product ops, recurring revenue financing
The cannabis industry is doing well in the United States: Over 75% of the population lives in a state where access is permitted, and the legal market is expected to…
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Pipe expands into media and entertainment financing with its acquisition of Purely Capital
When Pipe was founded in 2019, its vision was to provide SaaS companies a funding alternative outside of equity or venture debt. Specifically, the Miami-based fintech’s mission was to give SaaS companies a way to get their revenue upfront, by pairing them with investors on a marketplace that paid a discounted rate for the annual…
Hero MotoCorp, Engine No. 1 join Gogoro’s PIPE, bringing it up to $285M
Gogoro, the Taiwanese company best known for its electric smartscooters and swappable battery infrastructure, has just added current strategic partner Hero MotoCorp, activist and impact investment firm Engine No. 1…
TechCrunch+ roundup: Palihapitiya on SPACs, inside Rivian’s IPO, BaaS pros talk shop
I have worked in startups for more than half of my life, and for most of that time, I was the only Black person in the room. As a result,…
Alternative financing startup Pipe snaps up Stripe and HubSpot execs, expands to UK
Pipe, a two-year-old startup that aims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue,” announced today it has snagged former Stripe EIC Sid Orlando and HubSpot’s ex-Chief Strategy Officer Brad Coffey to…
Fika Ventures nearly triples its assets under management: ‘It’s definitely a crazy time’
Fika Ventures is a five-year-old, LA-based seed-stage fund that has been funding mostly business-to-business startups, as well as fintech companies and a sprinkling of healthcare IT startups — as long…
Uber’s first head of data science just raised a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups
Kevin Novak joined Uber as its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science. He talks proudly of that time, but like all…
Uncapped, which provides upfront revenue to digital companies, raises $80M in funding
Buzzy U.S. startup Pipe — which claims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue” — has just raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation. The secret for the hype? It…
More funding flows into Pipe, as buzzy fintech raises $250M at a $2B valuation
At the end of March, TechCrunch reported that buzzy startup Pipe — which aims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue” — had raised $150 million in a round of funding…
SPACs have been around for decades, but they took the 2020 IPO market by storm. For some context: 2020 had more than 248 SPACs — more than the sum of…
Pipe, which aims to be the ‘Nasdaq for revenue,’ raises more money at a $2B valuation
Fast-growing fintech Pipe has raised another round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, just weeks after raising $50 million in growth funding, according to sources familiar with the deal.…
This Pipe-ing hot startup just raised $50M to be the ‘Nasdaq for revenue’
A little over one year ago, Pipe raised a $6 million seed round led by Craft Ventures to help it pursue its mission of giving SaaS companies a funding alternative…
Why Google Capital deal could augur the reemergence of so-called PIPEs
Last Wednesday, Google Capital ventured into the world of investing in publicly traded companies, announcing it has backed Care.com, a platform that connects people with caregivers which went public in early…
File Transfer & Syncing Service Pixelpipe Shuts Down – Acquisition In The Works?
San Francisco-based startup Pixelpipe, which previously offered services for uploading photos to a variety of online destinations, before moving to support a wider variety of file types under a cloud-to-cloud rebranding…
File Transfer And Sync Service Pi.pe Launches Pi.pe Prints, Offering Photo Printing Options For Over A Dozen Cloud Services
Pi.pe, the file transfer and synchronization service which emerged from San Francisco-based Pixelpipe, has previously served as one of the only serious utilities to move photos and other media files between…
Pixelpipe Automates Pi.pe, Now Lets You Schedule File Transfers Across Cloud Services
Today, the San Francisco-based startup Pixelpipe is adding a new feature called “Pipelines” to its file transfer service Pi.pe. The feature automates file copying between cloud services, similar to the way IFTTT automates other…
As time goes on, we’re seeing technology start to show up in all kinds of unexpected places. For example: the DVD kiosk, shoe insoles, and now the pipe. And when…