Mexico's first online-only supermarket Justo raises $10M seed round led by Foundation Capital, with 500 Startups, others participating

  Techmeme   ·   57 mins ago

Toronto-based password manager 1Password raises $200M Series A led by Accel, its first external round of funding in its 14-year history

  Techmeme   ·   1 day ago

New York-based Hive, which develops a productivity platform for workers, raises $10.6M Series A led by Comcast Ventures

  Techmeme   ·   2 days ago

Cloudflare, in its first earnings report after IPO, announces Q3 revenue growth of 48% YoY to $73.9M as GAAP loss increased to $40.9M from $38M in Q3 2018

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

Quebec-based RenoRun, which runs a platform for acquiring and delivering building materials, raises $17.1M Series A led by Inovia Capital and Obvious Ventures

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

Brazilian mobility startup Kovi, which rents vehicles to on-demand drivers, raises $30M Series A led by Global Founders Capital

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

Faire, a wholesale marketplace for independent local retailers and makers, raises $150M Series D, co-led by Lightspeed and Founders Fund, at a $1B valuation

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Australian digital lending platform Athena Home Loans raises $70M Series C at a $230M valuation to expand into home loans after an initial focus on refinancing

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

New York-based Blueground, a platform that leases apartments and upgrades them with various tech gadgets for long-term corporate rentals, raises $50M Series B

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Squarespace has acquired Unfold, a templates app for creating Stories on Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat that has 9M MAUs, for an undisclosed sum

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Weave, a customer communication platform for service-based businesses, raises $70M Series D at a valuation of $970M, bringing its total raised to $152.5M

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Sprout Social, a social media monitoring, marketing, and analytics startup, which has raised $115M and was valued at ~$800M in Dec. 2018, files for an IPO

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Ally, maker of enterprise goal-planning software, raises $15M Series B led by Tiger Global, its third raise of 2019 after a $3M seed round and $8M Series A

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Denver-based Flowhub, a cannabis retail management platform that helps sellers navigate compliance, raises $23M Series A

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

RigUp, a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry, raises $300M Series D led by a16z, report says at a valuation of $1.9B

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Analysis of Latin America's VC activity shows $2.6B has been invested across 160 deals in 2019 so far, up from $500M during the whole of 2016

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Q3 2019 Global Venture Capital Report: deal volume hits an all-time high thanks to growth in seed stage deals, but dollar volume growth plateaus worldwide

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Mednition, an AI-powered system which tracks real-time data from electronic health records in emergency rooms and warns about anomalies, raises $10M Series A

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Indianapolis-based SaaS management startup Zylo raises $22.5M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, says it now manages over $10B in corporate SaaS spending

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Divvy, which buys and rents homes while setting aside ~25% of monthly payments toward the renter's future down payment for the house, raises $43M Series B

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

The number of $5M+ seed rounds in the US has risen steadily, from 45 in 2014 to 180 in 2018, but the trend may be cooling off, with 110 such rounds in 2019 YTD

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

DCVC, which focuses on early-stage "deep" technology startups, closes a $725M fifth fund; the fourth DCVC fund, raised in 2016, topped out at $212M

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Zhuanzhuan, a China-based marketplace for trading used goods, raises $300M Series B from its parent company 58.com and Tencent Holdings

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Canada-based Clio, which offers cloud-based legal practice management, client intake, and legal CRM software, raises $250M Series D

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Cloudflare sets initial price range of $10-$12 per share for its IPO, which will value the company at between $2.9B and $3.5B and could raise over $400M

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Peloton's public S-1 shows revenue of $915M in fiscal 2019, up 110% YoY, and an annualized subscriber growth of ~144% over the past 3 years, to 511K this June

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Versatile Natures, which uses AI to improve construction processes, raises $5.5M in seed funding, led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Cloud-based app performance monitoring startup DataDog files for IPO, says it had revenue of $198M in 2018, up from $101M in 2017, and a loss of $13M in 1H 2019

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Brazil-based RD Station, a marketing automation platform aimed at SMBs in emerging markets, raises $50M Series D, bringing its total raised to about $90M

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

AI-powered search company Lucidworks raises $100M from investors including Francisco Partners and TPG Sixth Street Partners, following last year's $50M Series E

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

LeafLink raises $35M Series B led by Thrive Capital for its e-commerce marketplace that connects 1,200+ licensed cannabis brands to 3,500+ cannabis retailers

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Backbone, which provides product lifecycle management SaaS for consumer goods companies, raises $10M Series A extension, closing the round with a total of $18M

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

ScaleFactor, which is building a financial SaaS platform for SMBs, raises $60M Series C, seven months after a $30M Series B, bringing its total raised to $100M

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

WeWork has acquired at least six software companies related to real estate, possibly to build a software stack that it can sell to other real estate companies

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

E-commerce site Wish raises a Series H, reportedly with $300M in funding, bringing its valuation to $11.2B, up from $8.7B in September 2017

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Report: Cloudflare plans to pursue an IPO in September and has filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC; it was valued at ~$3.2B in its $150M March Series E

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Commission-free trading app Robinhood raises $323M Series E led by DST Global at a $7.6B post-money valuation, has raised a total of $862M to date

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

LA-based three-year-old VC firm Fifth Wall Ventures raises $503M for its next real estate technology-focused fund, from 50 corporate investors in 11 countries

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Q2 2019 Global VC Report: total deal volume is up after several quarters but dollar volume growth remains stagnant, unlikely in 2019 to exceed the highs of 2018

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Japan-based Tier IV raises $100M+ Series A for its Autoware open-source self-driving software which, it says, is used by 200 organizations around the world

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

LinkedIn acquires Drawbridge, a startup that helps companies with identity management using machine learning; Drawbridge had raised nearly $69M

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Chinese travel platform Mafengwo, which offers editorial content, bookings, and travel merchandise, raises $250M Series E led by Tencent Holdings

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Mint House, which offers "tech-rich accommodations" including a mobile app for check-ins to business travellers, raises $15M Series A led by Revolution Ventures

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago