Browsing Category: Startups

  • Not your typical startup: How being a cooperative drives our business and product development

    Pola Henderson & Maxime Bouroumeau-Fuseau Contributor Share on Twitter Pola Henderson is a communications specialist and Digicoop’s Content & Community Manager. Maxime Bouroumeau-Fuseau is a developer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Digicoop. Our French startup Digicoop is a remote-first worker cooperative. We started the company in 2015, based on our shared values and passion for technology. …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel

  • This startup wants to democratize custom sneaker ownership

    There’s nothing like having a pair of fresh, unique sneakers. Limited-release culture facilitates some of that, but The Custom Movement hopes to make originality and self-expression via sneakers more accessible to the masses. The Custom Movement, a custom sneaker startup backed by Y Combinator, enables independent artists to sell their one-of-a-kind sneaker designs to those …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel

  • Four days left for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

    We’re just one month away from TC Sessions: Enterprise, which takes place on September 5 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. But you have only four days left to score an early-bird ticket and save yourself $100. Right now, you pay $249, but once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. (PT) on August 9, …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel

  • Doubling down on business travelers, Airbnb acquires Urbandoor

    Airbnb has today announced the acquisition of Urbandoor, a platform that offers extended stays to corporate clients. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Urbandoor was founded in 2015, according to Crunchbase. One of the big differentiators between Urbandoor and Airbnb was not only its focus on business travelers, relocation, etc., but also that …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel

  • Patrick Brown, the chief executive of Impossible Foods, is coming to Disrupt

    Impossible Foods is having quite the year. In the past seven months, the company has signed a nationwide deal with Burger King, weathered a demand surge that saw supplies dwindle and stocks of its signature Impossible burger sell out across the country, and raised fears among players in the $98 billion meat market that they …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel

  • Monzo says it wasn’t storing ‘some’ customer PINs correctly, but has now fixed the bug

    Monzo, the fast-growing U.K. challenger bank that recently soft-launched in the U.S., is disclosing a potential, albeit relatively limited, security oversight that saw customer PINs stored incorrectly within the company’s internal systems. Discovered on Friday, the “bug” has now been squashed after being spotted by one of Monzo’s security engineers, co-founder and CEO Tom Blomfield …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel

  • Secure your seat to Disrupt Berlin now and pay later

    Sonderangebot! That sounds like a super-cool robotics startup you’d find at Disrupt Berlin 2019, right? But it’s German for special offer — and that’s super cool, too. Our premier tech conference takes place on 11-12 December, and we want to make attending Disrupt Berlin as easy on the budget as possible. Hence, our buy-now-pay-later Sonderangebot! …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel

  • Data-driven events discovery and planning startup Fever raises $35 million led by Rakuten

    Fever, a startup that uses proprietary algorithms to help companies plan events, announced today that it has raised $35 million led by Rakuten Capital, the investment arm of Japanese internet giant Rakuten . Other investors in the round, which brings Fever’s total raised to $70 million, included Atresmedia, Accel and Michael Zeisser, the former chairman …

    August 5, 2019 | by Raheel

  • News discovery app SmartNews valued at $1.1B

    A $28 million financing has made SmartNews, an AI-powered news aggregation app, a unicorn. Japan Post Capital has led the Series E round, which brings the company’s total investment to $116 million and pushes its valuation to $1.1 billion. Existing investors in SmartNews include Development Bank of Japan, SMBC Venture Capital and Japan Co-Invest L.P. …

    August 4, 2019 | by Raheel

  • Series A(ggregate)

    We spend a lot of time around here covering the latest startup fundraises, and for good reason. While capital is certainly an input and not an output, there is nothing quite like the closing of a round of several million in venture capital to prove that yes, the startup I’m working on is at least …

    August 4, 2019 | by Raheel