Browsing Category: Startups

  • Ticket marketplace TickPick raises $40M in its first institutional funding

    TickPick was founded back in 2011, but it never raised any institutional funding — until now, with the announcement of a $40 million investment from PWP Growth Equity. Brett Goldberg and Chris O’Brien (who were college roommates before founding TickPick together and serving as co-CEOs) said they created the site as a marketplace where users …

    August 6, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Cockroach Labs announces $55M Series C to battle industry giants

    Cockroach Labs, makers of CockroachDB, sits in a tough position in the database market. On one side, it has traditional database vendors like Oracle, and on the other there’s AWS and its family of databases. It takes some good technology and serious dollars to compete with those companies. Cockroach took care of the latter with …

    August 6, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Squad, the ‘anti-bro startup,’ is creating a safe space for teenage girls online

    When we go online to communicate, hang out or play, we’re typically logging on to platforms conceived of and built by men. Mark Zuckerberg famously created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room. Evan Spiegel and his frat brother Bobby Murphy devised a plan for the ephemeral messaging app Snapchat while the pair were still students …

    August 6, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Apply to be a TC Top Pick at Disrupt Berlin 2019

    It’s official — applications are now open for TC Top Picks at Disrupt Berlin 2019, which takes place on 11-12 December. This pre-conference competition is your chance to experience Disrupt Berlin VIP-style and exhibit your early-stage startup to some of the world’s most influential tech leaders, investors and media outlets across Europe, Asia and beyond …

    August 6, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Spaceflow, the ‘tenant experience platform’, scores $1.8M investment

    Spaceflow, a startup founded out of Prague that offers a “tenant experience platform” to help landlords provide a better service, has raised $1.8 million in funding. Leading the round is Credo Ventures, with participation from Day One Capital, and UP21. The company, which also has an office in Sillicon Valley, says it will use the …

    August 6, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Penta, the German business banking startup, raises €8M additional funding

    Penta, the business banking provider for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that was recently acquired by fintech company builder Finleap, has raised “over” €8 million in new funding. The round is led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. Also participating is Finleap, alongside Fabrick, the Italian platform for open banking and fintech services, which is another …

    August 6, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Financial services marketplace CompareAsiaGroup raises $20 million in new funding led by Experian

    Experian, one of the largest credit reporting bureaus in the United States, announced today that it has invested in CompareAsiaGroup, the financial services marketplace. Experian led the initial closing of a $20 million B1 round. In addition to new funding, the investment also gives Hong Kong-based CompareAsiaGroup access to Experian’s technology, including Experian One, a …

    August 6, 2019 | by Raheel
  • India’s GoWork raises $53M in debt financing to expand its co-working spaces business

    GoWork, a Gurgaon-based startup that runs a co-working spaces business in India, said on Tuesday it has raised $53 million in a debt round to scale its business in the country as competition in the market, including from recent entrant Oyo Rooms, intensifies. The debt round for the two-year-old startup — not to be confused …

    August 6, 2019 | by Raheel
  • The Inside adds sofas to its custom furniture lineup

    While The Inside already offers a range of made-to-order furniture like beds, headboards, chairs and ottomans, it’s aiming for the center of your living room today with the launch of its first sofa collection. Founded by CEO Christiane Lemieux (who previously founded Dwell Studio and sold it to Wayfair) and COO Britt Bunn (who previously …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel
  • India’s Indifi raises $21M to expand its online lending platform

    Indifi, a Gurgaon-based startup that offers loans to small and medium-sized businesses and also operates an online lending marketplace, has raised 1,450 million Indian rupees ($21 million) in a new financing round to expand its business in the country. The Series C round for the four-year-old startup was led by CDC Group, a U.K.-government-owned VC …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel