Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. It came out of beta with $9 million in seed funding from Lerer Hippeau, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures and Upper90. The Los Angeles-based compa

Impossible's plant-based sausage is coming home

Impossible sent me a tube of its plant-based sausage to try ahead of today's news. As an aside, the big box with several frozen packs inside was maybe not the most efficient way to send it, but I don't know, maybe there's no great way to send frozen foodstuffs. Someone feel free to disr

E-commerce-as-a-service platform Cart.com picks up $98M to give brands scaling tools

Cart.com, a Houston-based company providing end-to-end e-commerce services, brought in its third funding round this year, this time a $98 million Series B round to bring its total funding to $143 million. Oak HC/FT led the new round of funding and was joined by PayPal Ventures, Clearco, G9 Ventures

Bite Ninja scoops up pre-seed funding to reimagine restaurant working environments

Will Clem knows all too well about restaurant workers not showing up for a shift. At least one person would have car trouble or need to stay home with sick children, and it became a common occurrence on the weekends for the co-founder of Memphis Meats and owner of Baby Jacks BBQ in Memphis. Needing

Facebook engineers develop new open source time keeping appliance

Most people probably don’t realize just how much our devices are time driven, whether it’s your phone, your laptop or a network server. For the most part, time keeping has been an esoteric chore, taken care of by a limited number of hardware manufacturers. While these devices served the

Cybersecurity giants NortonLifeLock and Avast merge in $8.1B deal

U.S. cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock has confirmed it is acquiring British rival Avast in order to create a global consumer security powerhouse. The agreement, which comes just weeks after both companies confirmed they were in advanced discussions regarding a possible combination of the two bran

Student rideshare service HopSkipDrive raises $25M to expand and invest in electrification

Students around the country are about to return to school after the summer holiday, and they're doing so at a time when both coronavirus transmission and the effects of climate change are mounting. Last year, HopSkipDrive, a rideshare platform for kids, had to let go much of its staff amid scho

ChargePoint acquires Amsterdam-based electric fleet manager ViriCiti

ChargePoint has made its second acquisition since going public in March, purchasing European electric fleet management company ViriCiti for €75 million ($88 million) in cash. The news comes just a few weeks after the EV charging network operator announced the purchase of European charging softwar

Former Twitter and DreamWorks exec joins Acorns as CFO ahead of the fintech’s public debut

As fintech Acorns plans to go public later this year, it has named former Twitter and DreamWorks animation exec Rich Sullivan to serve as its new chief financial officer. Irvine, California-based Acorns announced in May its intent to go public by merging with publicly traded special purpose acquisi

Founded by a Freshworks alum, sales commission platform Everstage gets $1.7M seed funding

"attachment_2188515" aria-describedby="" style="width: 4459px">Everstage founding team Vivek Suriyamoorthy and Siva Rajamani. Image Credits: Everstage For sales representatives, commissions are a source of motivation — and frustration, too. Commission structures are often complex and become even m

Mirthy raises $1.1M pre-seed funding to build out platform for sprightly boomers

As baby boomers (aged 57-75 at this point) and Gen X (aged 41-56) head into their dotage, they are no longer the “senior citizens” of yore, being still active and, often, healthy. But leaving work means they lose about half of their social network, which has a negative impact on well-being. Plu

Construction management platform Remato raises $1.7M seed from Passion Capital

Small and medium-sized construction businesses in Europe and the U.S. tend not to be run on digital platforms, leaving a $1.6 trillion industry relatively untouched. Publicly listed Procore (NYSE: PCOR) is the go-to platform for large general contractors, but newer startups are going for this SMB c

Singapore’s logistics tech startup Parcel Perform raises $20 million

Singapore-headquartered Parcel Perform, which connects merchants with e-commerce carriers and provides shipment tracking features, said on Wednesday it has raised $20 million in a new financing round as it scales its business in several parts of the world. Cambridge Capital led the logistics tech s

CRANQ launches to save developers time when adding text code

When adding text code from a third-party source into a platform, the process is an unavoidable and time-consuming chore. Developers currently spend a large part of their day reviewing things like “NPM” packages and such. There are developer libraries and text code platforms like JetBrains and V