Last year, retail e-commerce sales worldwide reached $2.3 trillion, a 24.8 percent increase over the previous year, according to eMarketer. A growing percentage of that spend was being captured by startups with strong online identities that are savvy about collecting and analyzing their customer data. Involved with many of them, from the eyewear company Warby […]
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VC Brian O’Malley jumps from Accel to Forerunner Ventures
Brian O’Malley may be the most-poached venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. While rising through the ranks at the global investment firm Battery Ventures, where O’Malley had led deals in Hotel Tonight among others, he was plucked out of the firm by Accel Partners in 2013, where both O’Malley and Accel thought he could be even […]
View More VC Brian O’Malley jumps from Accel to Forerunner VenturesNeighborhood Goods raises $5.75M to reinvent the department store
Neighborhood Goods, a startup rethinking the traditional department store experience, is announcing that it has raised $5.75 million in seed funding. Co-founder and CEO Matt Alexander (who co-founded the company with Mark Masinter) told me via email that while the largely static layout and offerings of a department store provide a degree “consistency and reliability,” […]
View More Neighborhood Goods raises $5.75M to reinvent the department storeEmily Weiss and Kirsten Green will join us on the Main Stage at TC Disrupt SF
Since forever, companies have made products for people to buy, but the evolution and reach of the internet has given rise to entirely new brands, some of which are growing at unprecedented speeds thanks to platforms like Instagram and other social media channels — not to mention strong storytelling. Two of the people leading the […]
View More Emily Weiss and Kirsten Green will join us on the Main Stage at TC Disrupt SFIndigo Fair raises $12M to connect wholesalers with smaller retail outlets with a smarter service
Max Rhodes was walking around that weird little parklet in Hayes Valley in San Francisco after taking a break from a five-year stint at Square to figure out what he wanted to do next — and he kept seeing Square registers everywhere. It was spotting them over and over again in smaller retail shops dotted throughout the city that made him think about the connections between the average… Read More
Meet Lumi, the Los Angeles startup that just raised $9 million for a packaging business
Alongside co-founder and longtime partner Stephan Ango, Jesse Genet has built a business with Lumi that’s already been profitable, and has just raised $9 million in venture funding to boost its growth. Read More
Life is getting easier for men for two reasons — and startups, and investors, are on it
It’s never been a better time to be a man who privately suffers erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation or hair loss. Before you roll your eyes, that is a lot of men. They are not the silver-haired septuagenarians depicted in drug advertisements, either. Approximately 25 percent of men with male pattern baldness begin shedding their locks before they reach the age of 21, says… Read More