The direct-to-consumer mattress business has reportedly raised $100 million from Target, NEA and Norwest Venture Partners.
View More Mattress startup Casper said to be valued at $1.1B with new fundingCategory: norwest venture partners
Goodly replaces lame office perks with student loan repayment
There are better employee perks than a ping-pong table. 70 percent of Americans graduate college with student loan debt. That’s 45 million people who owe $1.6 trillion. So when employers use Goodly to offer $100 per month in student loan payback for a $6 fee, talent sticks around. The startup found 86 percent of employees said […]
View More Goodly replaces lame office perks with student loan repaymentStartups Weekly: A much-needed unicorn IPO update
In this week’s newsletter: Details on Pinterest, Lyft, Uber and Zoom’s upcoming IPOs, plus Glossier and Rent The Runway’s big rounds.
View More Startups Weekly: A much-needed unicorn IPO updateThe Silicon Valley exodus continues
Y Combinator, a longtime resident of Silicon Valley, is planning to move its HQ to San Francisco.
View More The Silicon Valley exodus continuesRitual raises $25M for its subscription-based women’s daily vitamin
Ritual is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures and Founders Fund.
View More Ritual raises $25M for its subscription-based women’s daily vitaminStartups Weekly: Squad’s screen-shares and Slack’s swastika
We’re three weeks into January. We’ve recovered from our CES hangover and, hopefully, from the CES flu. We’ve started writing the correct year, 2019, not 2018. Venture capitalists have gone full steam ahead with fundraising efforts, several startups have closed multi-hundred million dollar rounds, a virtual influencer raised equity funding and yet, all anyone wants to talk […]
View More Startups Weekly: Squad’s screen-shares and Slack’s swastikaA look at Birdies, the popular slipper shoe startup that just raised $8 million more from investors
Bianca Gates is a first-generation American, her parents having immigrated to the U.S. from Latin America. As such, she says, after waitressing her way through college at UC Irvine, she was expected to get a safe job with a 401(k) plan and to live with her parents until she was married. Things haven’t gone exactly that […]
View More A look at Birdies, the popular slipper shoe startup that just raised $8 million more from investorsGrove Collaborative, a subscription startup selling ‘household essentials,’ has been quietly raising a lot of moolah
Grove Collaborative, a four-year-old, San Francisco-based startup that sells household, personal care, baby, children’s and pet products, has been busy raising money in 2018, shows two new SEC filings that lists representatives from the company’s earlier investors, including Mayfield, Norwest Venture Partners and MHS Capital, as well as apparent new investor General Atlantic, represented by partner Catherine […]
View More Grove Collaborative, a subscription startup selling ‘household essentials,’ has been quietly raising a lot of moolahMarketing data startup Singular raises $30M
Singular, a startup working to unify data for marketers, is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. The company was founded by former Onavo executives, including Gadi Eliashiv, Eran Friedman and Susan Kuo — who now serve, respectively, as Singular’s CEO, CTO and COO. Eliashiv explained that Singular was created in […]
View More Marketing data startup Singular raises $30MNorwest just scored an interesting new partner: Google and Facebook alum Priti Youssef Choksi
A lot of people who’ve been working in the venture industry — even for many years — haven’t seen a true down cycle. Somewhat ironically, Priti Youssef Choksi, a newly minted VC, knows very well what one looks like. The newest partner of the multi-stage investment firm Norwest Venture Partners has been working in tech […]
View More Norwest just scored an interesting new partner: Google and Facebook alum Priti Youssef ChoksiNorwest Venture Partners raises $1.5 billion fund
Norwest Venture Partners has closed a $1.5 billion fund, bringing the total under management to $7.5 billion. The firm will be using the money to invest primarily in the consumer, enterprise and healthcare categories. And they are looking for opp…
View More Norwest Venture Partners raises $1.5 billion fundNatural home products startup Grove Collaborative bets niche wins over the Amazonization of everything
Who needs Amazon when you can make your own online distribution channel? At least, that’s the idea behind Grove Collaborative, a natural home care products company that ships natural cleaning brands like Method and Mrs. Meyer’s. Co-founder Stuart Landesberg started the company in 2014 after working with retail brands during his time as an investor at TPG. He noticed how limited… Read More