Standard Cognition helps retail stores stand up to Jeff Bezos’ juggernaut. The $50 million-funded autonomous checkout startup is racing to equip bigger shops with scanless payment technology that lets customers walk out the door without ever stopping at a cashier. While Amazon Go opens its own 2,000 square foot boutiques, Standard Cognition is working on […]
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Fitness marketplace ClassPass acquires competitor GuavaPass
ClassPass, the five-year-old fitness marketplace startup with $239 million in financing, is acquiring competitor GuavaPass, which was founded by Rob Pachter and Jeffrey Liu in 2015. ClassPass is in the midst of an expansion sprint, both domestically and internationally. The company is hyper-focused on Asian markets, where GuavaPass had carved out its own place with […]
View More Fitness marketplace ClassPass acquires competitor GuavaPassDid unicorns like Lyft and Uber wait too long?
It was several years ago, at a tech conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., that the venture capitalist Bill Gurley issued one of what would become repeated warnings that startups were staying private too long. Comparing companies that refuse to go public to undergrads whose college careers extend several years past the point that they should, […]
View More Did unicorns like Lyft and Uber wait too long?Report: Pinterest may go public as soon as April
Pinterest may follow Lyft and Uber to the public markets in the first half of 2019.
View More Report: Pinterest may go public as soon as AprilFarfetch bets on sneakers with $250M Stadium Goods acquisition
Luxury fashion marketplace Farfetch will tap into the sneaker resale economy with its latest transaction.
View More Farfetch bets on sneakers with $250M Stadium Goods acquisitionAccenture will acquire digital ad company Adaptly
Accenture announced today that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Adaptly. The digital advertising company launched in 2010 with self-serve tools for running ads across different social networks. In a blog post about the acquisition, co-founder and CEO Nikhil Sethi wrote that the company’s mission hasn’t changed, but it has expanded to support Google and […]
View More Accenture will acquire digital ad company AdaptlyProcter & Gamble acquires Walker & Company, Tristan Walker will remain as CEO
Walker & Company Brands, a startup making health and beauty products for people of color, has been acquired by consumer giant Procter & Gamble. The company was founded five years ago by Tristan Walker, who previously led business development for Foursquare, and who aimed to create products that would better serve the needs of people […]
View More Procter & Gamble acquires Walker & Company, Tristan Walker will remain as CEOiHeartMedia to acquire radio adtech company Jelli
Radio giant iHeartMedia announced today that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Jelli, a company bringing programmatic ad-buying to radio broadcasters. In fact, iHeartMedia was already working with Jelli to allow businesses to use programmatic tools to buy advertising on the company’s 850 broadcast radio stations. iHeartMedia also invested in Jelli’s most recent funding round. […]
View More iHeartMedia to acquire radio adtech company JelliSoftBank’s debt, Ford buys Spin, and Chinese coffee is huge money
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a blast. Connie and I were in the studio with our guest, True Ventures’s Tony Conrad, while Danny repped the other side of the country, dialing in from New York. It was another week shaped […]
View More SoftBank’s debt, Ford buys Spin, and Chinese coffee is huge moneyAdRoll expands its B2B data and tech by acquiring Growlabs
AdRoll Group announced today that it has acquired Growlabs, a two-year-old startup with business-to-business sales tools and data. While AdRoll is best known for its retargeting technology for consumer advertising, it’s been building out a suite of B2B marketing technology under its RollWorks business unit, which launched earlier this year. The company says that by […]
View More AdRoll expands its B2B data and tech by acquiring GrowlabsEven Financial acquires Birch Finance, a credit card rewards startup
On the heels of a funding round to the tune of $18.8 million, Even Financial has acquired Birch Finance for an undisclosed sum. Even offers products like a pre-approval API, real-time pricing, machine learning optimization, a product comparison and recommendation engine for consumers and more. Birch Finance, a TC Startup Battlefield alum that raised $1 million earlier […]
View More Even Financial acquires Birch Finance, a credit card rewards startupFailed drone startup Airware auctions assets, Delair buys teammates
Airware desperately sought cash for 18 months before running out of money and shutting down last month, leaving about 120 employees without jobs after the startup had burned $118 million in funding. Bandaid strategic investments from construction company Caterpillar and others kept Airware alive as it looked for a $15 million round, according to a […]
View More Failed drone startup Airware auctions assets, Delair buys teammates