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Identity verification platform for businesses Bureau has added $4.5 million in its Series A, bringing its total to $16.5 million. The funding was raised from GMO Venture Partners and GMO Payment Gateway. Other investors in the round include Quona Capital and Commerce Ventures. Bureau has now raised

London-based climate intelligence startup Sylvera has closed another chunky funding round — bagging $57 mlion in Series B funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Speedinvest, Seedcamp and LocalGlobe. N

Most board directors intuitively understand that marketing is an important part of any company's growth engine. It not only feeds the near-term sales engine, it also tees up future performance. Done right, marketing is an accelerator for any business. Yet, I've noticed a growing trend in bo

Mukesh Bansal of Indian fashion e-commerce giant Myntra and fitness platform Cult.fit fame is evaluating a new venture. Even though he hasn’t yet decided on his exact plans for the new offerings — or their sequence — he already has a potential price in mind. Bansal, who stepped back from

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Between Instrument 1 and Orba, Artiphon has established itself as the maker of innovative — and delightful — music instruments. Today the Nashville-based hardware startup returns to the crowdfunding platform that started it all, with the launch of Chorda, a device that splits the differ

Kristen Helton is no stranger to the healthcare needs of patients. After co-founding biosensor company Profusa, she went on to work at Amazon, where she helped found and lead the company's Amazon Care division in 2019. During the next three years, there was a focus on creating a positive experi

Founding a company is a big deal, and taking on the CEO role to drive that company forward is an important choice. Some founders are able to lead their startups all the way through the process of company building. If you look at the list of most valuable companies in the world, however, you notice

Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. When it came to fintech news, we saw a pretty sluggish first half of 2023, and that is evidenced by the sobering funding statistics we cover below. But things feel like they are starting to pick up, as evidenced by our

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. As a photographer, the saga of Amazon buying Digital Photo Review (DPReview among friends) before slowly grinding it into the ground and then suddenly announcing they were closing the site, and then going “j/k, we&

The first step in the process of raising venture debt is a quick, introductory filtering phone call between you and the potential lender that's an equal amount selling and listening — on both sides. Think of it like a first date. Should that go well, it should then be followed up quickly with

Did the global venture capital market bottom out in the first quarter of this year? The second? There’s good reason to believe that the massive correction in venture capital activity that we’ve seen over the past six quarters has run its course. More importantly, we’re seeing earl

Venture funding has been declining since the first quarter of 2022. But that trend has largely spared the seed stage until now. Or has it? Apparently, Q2 was quite rough for seed deals, according to new data from PitchBook. Startups in the U.S. closed 766 seed deals in Q2, which was 26% less than t

They grow up so fast. Babies, toddlers and kids will grow out of literally everything you get for them, probably well before it wears out. And then what do you do with the cots, car seats, strollers and toys? That’s where GoodBuy Gear comes in: It’s like eBay, except for the little one