Holberton raises $20M as it pivots to become an edtech SaaS company
Holberton, the education startup that started out as a coding school in San Francisco and today works with partners to run schools in the U.S., Europe, LatAm and Europe, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B funding round led by Redpoint eventures. Existing investors Daphni, Im
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Ryu Games raises $2.3M, betting that cash tournaments for mobile games are the future
Ryu Games, a startup that helps developers add cash tournaments to their mobile games, announced this morning it has raised $2.3 million in a seed round. The funds came from a number of investors, including Side Door Ventures, MGV Capital, Velo Partners and Citta Ventures.
In addition, 500 Startup
European branded payments startup Recharge raises $11.8M debt round led by Kreos Capital
Online branded payments now run the gamut of anything from Spotify vouchers, Netflix vouchers, Neosurf, PaySafe cards, and everything in between. Consumers use them to pay for a variety of things. In Europe, they are an increasingly big business. Now, European branded payments fintech Recharge.com
Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation
Gorillas, the Berlin-HQ’d startup that promises to let you order groceries and other “every day” items for delivery in as little as 10 minutes, has raised $290 million in Series B funding, at a valuation that surpasses $1 billion.
The round — which was first reported by BI &
Investors feed the meter for curb management startup Automotus
The curbside is being squeezed as the number of commercial vehicle operators and gig economy workers battle over this increasingly scarce real estate — a problem that has been compounded by an uptick in on-demand delivery services fueled by the pandemic.
A number of startups such as Coord and cur
CoScreen launches its screen-sharing product, announces $4.6M in fundraising
This morning CoScreen, a startup that helps teams share screens and collaborate in real time, formally launched its product to market. It also disclosed that it has raised $4.6 million to date.
Unusual Ventures led its seed round. Till Pieper, CoScreen’s co-founder and CEO, told technewss in
Drone data scanning company Skycatch announces a $25M raise
Skycatch today announced a $25 million raise, led by ADB Ventures and Wavemaker. Founded in 2013, the Bay Area-based company provides centimeter-accurate 3D scanning services, primarily for construction sites and mining operations.
The service has already been rolled out in a number of different lo
Big banks rush to back Greenwood, Killer Mike’s Atlanta-based digital bank for underrepresented customers
"speakable-summary" style="font-weight: 400;">Before even taking its first deposit, Greenwood, the digital banking service targeting Black and Latino individuals and business owners, has raised $40 million — only a few months after its launch.
Coming in to finance the new challenger bank are
Notarize raises $130M, tripling valuation on the back of 600% YoY revenue growth
When the world shifted toward virtual one year ago, one service in particular saw heated demand: remote online notarization.
The ability to get a document notarized without leaving one's home suddenly became more of a necessity than a luxury. Pat Kinsel, founder and CEO of Boston-based Notarize
Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech
Data centers and bitcoin mining operations are becoming huge energy hogs, and the explosive growth of both risks undoing a lot of the progress that’s been made to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. It’s one of the major criticisms of cryptocurrency operations and something that man
While other startups develop alt-proteins for meat replacement, Nourish Ingredients focuses on fat
Plant-based meat replacements have commanded a huge amount of investor and consumer attention in the decade or more since new entrants like Beyond Meat first burst onto the scene.
These companies have raised billions of dollars and the industry is now worth at least $20 billion as companies try to
Pie Insurance raises $118M for data-driven workers’ comp coverage
Pie Insurance, a startup offering workers' compensation insurance to small businesses, announced this morning that it has closed on $118 million in a Series C round of funding.
Allianz X — investment arm of German financial services giant Allianz — and Acrew Capital co-led the round
Fishing for solutions
One of the slower weeks for robotics investments I've seen since I started doing this roundup. This stuff ebbs and flows, though, and there's always bound to be a bit of a flurry at the beginning of the year. This week, most of the top news revolves around research, which, let's be hone