Mike Cagney, who was ousted last summer from the lending company he founded, is back with a new startup and a whole lot of funding from at least one of his previous investors. According to a new report in Bloomberg, Cagney, who earlier this year formed a new lending startup called Figure, has raised $50 […]
View More SoFi founder Mike Cagney is back with a new startup and $50 million in funding, tooCategory: Recent Funding
Rookout raises $4.2M for its rapid production debugging platform
Few people get into coding because they enjoy debugging, but since there’s no such thing as perfect code, issues inevitably pop up. Israeli startup Rookout is tackling one aspect of this by helping developers track down issues in production code without forcing developers to do any additional coding to write additional tests and re-deploy their […]
View More Rookout raises $4.2M for its rapid production debugging platformHasura snares $1.6 M seed for developer-focused Kubernetes solution
Kubernetes has gained in popularity quickly over the last 18 months, but like many highly technical solutions it requires a level of expertise many companies are lacking. A Bangalore/San Francisco startup called Hasura hopes to simplify all of that with a managed Kubernetes solution built with developers in mind. Today, the company announced a $1.6 […]
View More Hasura snares $1.6 M seed for developer-focused Kubernetes solutionEtleap scores $1.5 million seed to transform how we ingest data
Etleap is a play on words for a common set of data practices: extract, transform and load. The startup is trying to place these activities in a modern context, automating what they can and in general speeding up what has been a tedious and highly technical practice. Today, they announced a $1.5 million seed round. […]
View More Etleap scores $1.5 million seed to transform how we ingest dataDelivery robotics company Marble raises $10 million, with plans to move beyond food
San Francisco-based robotics company Marble announced this morning that it’s just closed a $10 million Series A. The round, which involves the likes of Tencent, Lemnos, Crunchfund and Maven, brings the startup’s total funding to $15 million. In press material tied to the announcement, Marble’s careful not to get hung up on the whole food […]
View More Delivery robotics company Marble raises $10 million, with plans to move beyond foodIndian online insurance startup Coverfox lands $22M led by World Bank’s IFC and Transamerica
Coverfox, one of a handful of companies aiming to digitize insurance in India, has landed fresh funding via a $22 million Series C round that will be used to push into more rural parts of the country. The investment is led by IFC, a sister organization of World Bank, and U.S. insurance firm Transamerica, with participation […]
View More Indian online insurance startup Coverfox lands $22M led by World Bank’s IFC and TransamericaReviveMed turns drug discovery into a big data problem and raises $1.5M to solve it
What if there’s a drug that already exists that could treat a disease with no known therapies, but we just haven’t made the connection? Finding that connection by exhaustively analyzing complex biomechanics within the body — with the help of machine learning, naturally — is the goal of ReviveMed, a new biotech startup out of MIT that just raised $1.5 million in seed funding.
View More ReviveMed turns drug discovery into a big data problem and raises $1.5M to solve itNode snags two top AI researchers to advance AI-fueled search tool
Node, an AI-driven search tool designed to surface the information that matters most to you, announced today that it was bringing on a couple of AI research heavy hitters. It also announced $5 million in additional funding. For starters, the company hired Louis Mornier, one of the founders of early internet search engine, Alta Vista, and […]
View More Node snags two top AI researchers to advance AI-fueled search toolA16Z and Founders Fund sink $28M into IRL asset blockchain Harbor
Harbor helps businesses legally issue cryptocurrency tokens that represent ownership of real-world assets like real estate, fine art, company equity, and investment funds. This “tokenization” might sound boring, but it could be a big business that unlocks trading of illiquid property. Harbor‘s intention to become a fundamental bridge between the offline and crypto economies has […]
View More A16Z and Founders Fund sink $28M into IRL asset blockchain HarborElon Musk’s Boring Co. raises $113 million to chase a pipe dream
Elon Musk’s tunneling startup The Boring Company has raised $113 million to fund its vision of the near/distant future of transportation, according to newly-filed SEC docs first spotted by CNBC. The startup, which is centered around the goal of creating underground tunnels, plays a central part in Musk’s integrated view of urban transportation that he […]
View More Elon Musk’s Boring Co. raises $113 million to chase a pipe dreamDeferPanic secures $1.5 M seed round to popularize unikernel concept
We’ve all probably heard of containers and virtual machines by now. Virtualization enabled IT to break down a single server into multiple machines. Containers allowed you take that concept and make it even smaller. DeferPanic wants to take another step with a technology called Unikernels. Today, the company announced its $1.5 million seed round. The […]
View More DeferPanic secures $1.5 M seed round to popularize unikernel conceptPullRequest pulls in $8M Series A just months after scoring seed round
PullRequest has been on a whirlwind lately, but it’s the kind that any startup would likely welcome. The company was in Y Combinator last August just trying to learn the startup ropes. By December it had scored a $2.3 million seed round — and it’s keeping it going. Today the company announced an $8 million Series […]
View More PullRequest pulls in $8M Series A just months after scoring seed round