HubSpot Ventures' new $100M fund fulfilling 'mission to help millions of organizations grow better'
Three years after its launch, HubSpot Ventures is back with a $100 million fund, its CRM Platform Fund that will invest in early- and growth-stage technology companies focused on customer-first, business-to-business innovation for scaling organizations.
“Our mission is to help organizations grow
From $0 in revenue to a $7.25B valuation: Why TripActions’ $275M raise has fintech to thank
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, TripActions was primarily known for merging many aspects of corporate trip booking — flights, hotels and rental cars — with expense tracking.
But Palo Alto-based TripActions was among the startups that was hit very hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the glo
Warehouse robotics firm Dexterity raises $140M
Dexterity emerged from stealth in July of last year, touting a $56.2 million Series A. The Bay Area-based robotics startup was riding high on increased demand for automation at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than a year later, the pandemic is, sadly, still here, and investor interest in
Aware raises $60M for tech that monitors internal messaging platforms for legal compliance, sentiment analysis and more
Organizations have been using social media monitoring for years to get a better idea of how they are being perceived in the world at large, to pick up on themes or urgent issues relevant to them, and to generally be more responsive in a world that’s predicated on “engagement.” Now
Company-builder VC Antler says it can back startups to Series C, but what are its terms?
Emerging out of Singapore as primarily a “company builder” in 2017, Antler made its name as a runner of a global startup generator program and investing from a very early, pre-seed stage. It tended to throw teams together, mix in a tech stack and spit out startups at a prodigious rate. But thin
Global Processing Services raises $300M for its API-based payments and embedded finance platform
Embedded finance continues to be a major theme in the world of fintech, with a wide swathe of new financial services companies tapping APIs built by others to power payments and other financial transactions, and more. In the latest development, Global Processing Services — one of the big play
Bird vehicles can now accurately detect sidewalk riding and slow riders to a stop
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">Shared micromobility operator Bird is getting on the scooter ADAS bandwagon. After three years of research, the company has finally launched new technology that can detect when a rider is scooting on the sidewalk and slowly bring them to a stop.
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Nothing raises another $50M
In the wake of the July 31 launch of its first product, the Ear (1), Nothing today announced a “Series A Extension” of $50 million, bringing its total funding to $74 million to date. The round follows the February announcement of a $15 million Series A.
Shortly after that, Nothing announced a
Eden Life raises $1.4M seed to provide home services to busy Africans
Living in Lagos, the commercial city of Nigeria, is not for the faint of heart. The city, occupied by around 14 million people, is the largest in sub-Saharan Africa.
And due to traffic congestion and long working hours, most busy professionals find it hard to cope with mundane tasks ranging from
True Ventures is diving deeper into digital assets, aided by a former Homeland Security lawyer
Many more investment firms are tracking #cryptotwitter than might have been the case even a year ago, but True Ventures isn’t necessarily among them, suggests co-founder Jon Callaghan. As with hardware, synthetic biology and a lot of other areas where True has made early and often lucrative b
Funnel, a no-code tool for marketers to organize disparate data sources, raises $66M in ‘pre-IPO’ round
The world of marketing has become a world of marketing tech. But marketers are not necessarily engineers, so working with the terabytes of data their campaigns produce can be a challenge. Today, a Stockholm startup called Funnel, which has built a no-code platform to help manage that process, is an
Jow raises $20 million for its meal and grocery planning service
French startup Jow has raised a $20 million funding round led by Eurazeo. Jow wants to make it easier to cook at home by taking care of menu ideas and helping you manage your online orders of groceries. The company has partnered with national food retailers so that your oder is seamlessly processed
India’s CarDekho becomes unicorn with $250 million fundraise
CarDekho, an Indian search and e-commerce platform for new and used cars, has become the latest startup in the world's second-largest market to reach the unicorn status.
The 14-year-old startup said on Wednesday it has raised $250 million — $200 million in equity and $50 million in debt &
Russian tech giant Yandex expands Israeli footprint with acquisition of Wind’s Tel Aviv operations
Russian tech giant Yandex is expanding its mobility footprint in Israel with the acquisition of shared e-scooter company Wind’s Israeli operations. The two are not sharing the terms of the deal, but Israeli financial newspaper Globes reported that it is estimated to have cost $40 million to $