Browsing Category: Startups

  • Boulder Care opioid treatment platform picks up traction during coronavirus

    With the regulations around telehealth changing rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, an opioid treatment platform with a digital component is finally finding a strong market foothold after facing a mountain of regulatory hurdles. Boulder Care was founded by Stephanie Papes, a former associate at Apple Tree Partners. She first became interested in opioid treatment after …

    May 21, 2020 | by Raheel
  • 6 CISOs share their game plans for a post-pandemic world

    Oren Yunger Contributor Oren Yunger is an investor at GGV Capital, focused on enterprise IT infrastructure, development tools and cybersecurity. He was previously chief information security officer at a SaaS company and a public financial institution. More posts by this contributor Cybersecurity is a bubble, but it’s not ready to burst Like all business leaders, …

    May 21, 2020 | by Raheel
  • RapidAPI raises $25M more to expand its API marketplace

    Less than a year after raising $25M led by Microsoft for its take on building API marketplaces, RapidAPI has rapidly followed that up with another infusion of capital as it reaches 20,000 APIs tracked, integrated, and used across its marketplace by millions of developers. Today the startup is announcing that it raised another $25 million …

    May 21, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Aspiration, the LA-based fintech focused on conscious consumerism, raises $135 million

    When former Bill Clinton speechwriter and political wunderkind Andrei Cherny launched Aspiration four years ago, the upstart fintech startup was one of Los Angeles’ early entrants into a  financial services market dominated by players from Europe and the financial capital of the U.S., New York City. Fast-forward four years and the big New York fintechs …

    May 21, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Chief, the leadership network for women, raises $15 million in funding

    Chief, the social network dedicated exclusively to women in professional leadership positions, announced today that it has $15 million in funding from its existing investors, including General Catalyst, Inspired Capital, GGV Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital and BoxGroup. The startup is a highly vetted network of women who are leaders in their business, either …

    May 21, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Couchbase raises $105M Series G funding round

    Couchbase, the Santa Clara-based company behind the eponymous NoSQL cloud database service, today announced that it has raised a $105 million all-equity Series G round “to expand product development and global go-to-market capabilities.” The oversubscribed round was led by GPI Capital, with participation from existing investors Accel, Sorenson Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Glynn Capital, …

    May 21, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Why don’t more VCs care about good tech (yet)?

    Johannes Lenhard Contributor Share on Twitter Dr. Johannes Lenhard is Centre Coordinator at the Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change. One of the VC partners in a well-established London firm told me straight out: Venture capital is money [laughs], it is a risky asset class, perhaps the wildest asset class […] …

    May 21, 2020 | by Raheel