Startups

Shepherd, an insurtech startup focused on the construction market, has closed a $6.15 million seed round led by Spark Capital. The funding event comes after the startup raised a pre-seed round in February led by Susa Ventures, which also participated in Shepherd’s latest fundraising event. Th

Botify has raised a $55 million Series C funding round led by InfraVia Growth with Bpifrance's Large Venture fund also participating. The company has created a search engine optimization (SEO) platform so that your content is better indexed and appears more often in search results. Existing inv

Paris-based startup megacampus Station F is announcing a new program for early-stage startups looking for opportunities to join the Station F community — the FemTech Program. With this new program, the Station F team wants to put a spotlight on femtech startups and make it easier to start a femte

Pancake brought in a $350,000 seed round to develop its home design platform that leverages furniture you already have in your home with a designer's fresh eye on your space. Maria Jose Castro, Roberto Meza and Alfredo Enciso, all from Costa Rica, started the company in 2020, based on their own

Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry's first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners.  The round — which also includes a strategic investment from Capital One Venture

As live audio becomes more and more popular, co-founders David Sacks (former COO of PayPal and CEO of Yammer) and Axel Ericsson sought to combine social audio and podcasting into one seamless app. The resulting app — Callin — launches today on iOS with an announcement of $12 million in

RISE, one of Asia's largest tech conferences, is returning to Hong Kong in March 2022 as an in-person event, and will be held there for at least five years, announced organizer Web Summit today. Last year, Web Summit said RISE would move to Kuala Lumpur, but its return to Hong Kong means the co

Market research and insights are often underutilized assets for enterprises, but it's usually too hard to find content and there's a lot of duplication, or information isn't used well. Swedish startup Stravito says it can centralize internal and external data sources and create somethin

French startup Cajoo is raising some money in order to compete more aggressively in the new and highly competitive category of food delivery companies. Interestingly, the lead investor in today's funding round is Carrefour, the supermarket giant. Headline (formerly e.ventures) is also participa

You’ve heard the phrase “leading by example,” but what about “leading with values”? I’ve always led by example by using my values as my guide. Still, it wasn't until I founded my first company that I fully understood the importance of embedding those values i

Bright Cellars, a six-year-old subscription-based wine seller has, like many upstarts, evolved over time. While it once sent its club members third-party wines that fit their particular profiles, Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Bright Cellars says it’s now amassing enough data about its customers

Few people thought of virtual events before the pandemic struck, but this format has fulfilled a unique and important need for companies and organizations large and small during the pandemic. But what will virtual events’ value be as more of the world attempts to return to life before COVID-1

Berlin Brands Group (BBG) — one of the new wave of e-commerce startups hoping to build lucrative economies of scale around buying up smaller brands that sell on marketplaces like Amazon and using technology to run and scale them more efficiently — has picked up a big round of funding to

In the United States, a 401(k) plan is an employer-sponsored defined-contribution pension account. However, with legacy institutional investing, most of these have at least some level of fossil fuel involvement, and, let's face it, very few of us really know. Now a startup plans to change that.