Seven years after last venture investment, Mixpanel scores $200M Series C

Mixpanel was a hot startup in 2014 when it nabbed a $65 million Series B on an $865 million valuation, a sizable B round and valuation for those days. Today, seven years after that announcement, the company finally has a C round, a $200 million investment on a $1.05 billion valuation from Bain Capi

Monograph raises $20M Series B to help designers and architects manage their operations

Monograph, a startup providing a cloud-based platform for architecture and design professionals to manage their projects, announced today that it has raised $20 million in its Series B funding round. New investor Tiger Global led the round, with participation from Tishman Speyer and existing invest

Microsoft’s shift to the cloud is a lesson in corporate evolution

We tend to take the cloud for granted today as a way of delivering and building software, but it wasn’t always the case. Less than a decade ago, in fact, companies like Microsoft sold most of their software in boxes or in large on-prem installations inside customer data centers. Around 2012,

Weflow pours pre-seed funding into tool that makes updating Salesforce faster

Salesforce users tend to have a similar complaint in the amount of time it takes to update records, but Weflow aims to conquer this form of “Salesforce fatigue.” The Berlin-based company is developing a tool — still in private beta — that makes it faster to update Salesforce and reduces muc

Puls Technologies lands $15M to provide on-demand home repair service

When you live in a home, something always breaks. And it can be difficult to know who to call and if you can afford the repairs. That's where Puls Technologies come in. Now armed with $15 million in fresh capital led by Hanaco Venture Capital, the Livermore, California-based company, which offe

Flexbase unveils construction industry's first credit card

Flexbase is turning construction financing on its head with a new credit card — the industry's first, according to the founders — that offers up to 60 days interest-free financing. The company, which develops automated payments tools for contractors and the construction industry, was starte

Brivo to go public via SPAC at $808M valuation

Smart building technology company Brivo reached an agreement to go public via special purpose acquisition with Crown PropTech Acquisitions. The SPAC deal values Brivo at $808 million. Once the merger closes in early 2022, the combined company will operate as Brivo and is expected to be listed on th

Blackshark.ai’s digital twin of Earth attracts $20M in funding

Blackshark.ai, the Austrian startup behind the digital globe you fly over in Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, has raised a $20 million round A to develop and scale its replica-Earth tech. The potential applications for a planetary “digital twin” are many and various, and the company

Expensify CEO David Barrett discusses going public and why expense management is a $1T opportunity

After spending more than a decade building out its expense management platform, Expensify went public today, listing on the Nasdaq under the ticker “EXFY.” Early returns have been positive, as the company revised its original listing price up — and still saw its shares rise 40% on its fir

Cacheflow drops stealth tag, raises $6M to simplify the SaaS buying experience

Cacheflow this morning announced its exit from stealth and a seed round worth $6 million. The startup is a wager that the software buying experience of today is antiquated — and a rising source of frustration. So, Cacheflow is building a hybrid buying service and financing solution to make it

ControlUp nabs $100M to monitor and improve desktop computing performance across disparate work environments

Remote and hybrid work have become the norm in business, and today a startup that’s building tools to improve how desktop computers behave in those scenarios is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its business. ControlUp, which has built technology for IT teams to monitor and impro

Kenyan edtech startup Craydel raises $1 million to grow its higher education platform

Kenyan edtech startup Craydel, a platform for comparing colleges, course options and tuition fees, has secured $1 million in a pre-seed round that will go toward improving its search and recommendation technology and enhancing its online resources.  The round was led by Enza Capital, a private ven

DoorDash to acquire food delivery company Wolt

On-demand delivery giant DoorDash announced Tuesday it was acquiring food delivery company Wolt in an all-stock deal valued at €7 billion, or $8.1 billion. Talking about the acquisition, Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash said in a statement that the move “will accelerate our product devel

Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck

You can’t raise more than $370 million on a good idea alone. But you can raise a seed round worth a few million from Aileen Lee with that and a few other critical ingredients. Guild Education CEO Rachel Carlson did just that. Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, led a