Retail has been revolutionized over the last decade, with brands like Casper and Warby Parker offering high-quality goods at lower costs simply by selling them through the internet. Koio, a relatively new high-end sneaker brand, is looking to get in on the new retail wave, and the company has some fresh cash to do it. […]
View More Koio, a direct-to-consumer leather sneaker brand, picks up $3 millionCategory: Recent Funding
Fleetsmith secures $7.7M investment to manage Apple devices
Fleetsmith, a startup that wants to make it easier for companies to manage their Apple devices, announced a $7.7 million Series A round today led by Upfront Ventures. Seed investors Index Ventures and Harrison Metal also participated in the round. The company has raised a total of $11 million. They also announced that Luke Kanies, […]
View More Fleetsmith secures $7.7M investment to manage Apple devicesHolberton raises $8M for its full-stack engineering school
Over the course of the last few years, the Holberton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Engineering has made a name for itself as one of the more comprehensive coding schools. The two-year program trains full-stack engineers with a focus on the basics of engineering and sees itself as an alternative to a traditional college experience. […]
View More Holberton raises $8M for its full-stack engineering schoolArmis raises $30 million Series B as enterprise IoT security heats up
When Armis launched in 2015, the company founders looked over the horizon and they saw the Internet of Things requiring a strong security layer. Today, the Israeli IoT security startup announced a $30 million Series B. The company has attracted a strong group of venture capitalists. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures and […]
View More Armis raises $30 million Series B as enterprise IoT security heats upSuplari raises $10.3 Series A round to bring AI to procurement
Procurement isn’t the most exciting topic in the world, but for large businesses, it’s an area where inefficiencies can quickly affect the bottom line. Simply getting a complete view of all of the products and services that a company buys is a challenge in itself, though, which in turn makes it hard to find savings, […]
View More Suplari raises $10.3 Series A round to bring AI to procurementCometML wants to do for machine learning what GitHub did for code
Comet.ml allows data scientists and developers to easily monitor, compare and optimize their machine learning models. The New York-based company is launching its product today, after completing the TechStars-powered Amazon Alexa Accelerator program and raising a $2.3 million seed round led by Trilogy Equity partners, together with Two Sigma Ventures, Founders Co-Op, Fathom Capital, TechStars Ventures […]
View More CometML wants to do for machine learning what GitHub did for codeStackery lands $5.5 million for serverless platform
When Stackery’s founders were still at New Relic in 2014, they recognized there was an opportunity to provide instrumentation for the emerging serverless tech market. They left the company after New Relic’s IPO and founded Stackery with the goal of providing a governance and management layer for serverless architecture. The company had a couple of big […]
View More Stackery lands $5.5 million for serverless platformSalesLoft soars with $50 M Series C
SalesLoft, an Atlanta-based startup that helps companies manage the contact phase of the sales process, announced a $50 million Series C today. Insight Venture Partners was lead investor with participation from LinkedIn and Emergence Capital, which also participated in the company’s A and B rounds. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $75 million, so […]
View More SalesLoft soars with $50 M Series CMariaDB acquires big analytics company MammothDB
MariaDB is best known as a drop-in replacement for the popular MySQL database. But the MariaDB Corporation, which was founded by MySQL founder Monty Widenius and which offers all of its software under an open source license, clearly has its sights set on a bigger market and to expand and better challenge the likes of Oracle, […]
View More MariaDB acquires big analytics company MammothDBKloudless raises $6M for its integrations solution
Kloudless makes it easier for developers to connect their applications to a variety of third-party tools for file storage, customer management, calendaring and other services through a unified API. It’s a bit like an IFTTT for developers. Today, the company announced that it has raised a $6 million Series A round led by Aspect Ventures, […]
View More Kloudless raises $6M for its integrations solutionDetectify raises €5M for its crowdsourced website vulnerability scanner
Sweden-based Detectify, which offers a website vulnerability scanner that is in part powered by the crowd, has raised €5 million in new funding. The round was led by New York-based venture capital and private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners. Existing investors, Paua Ventures and Inventure, also participated. Founded in late 2013 by a self-described group […]
View More Detectify raises €5M for its crowdsourced website vulnerability scannerDrover picks up £5.5M funding for its car subscription marketplace
Drover, a London-based startup that lets you take out a “car subscription” as an alternative to car ownership, has picked up £5.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by VC firms Cherry Ventures, Partech and BP Ventures (the venture arm of BP), and adds to an earlier £2 million ‘pre-seed’ investment from Version […]
View More Drover picks up £5.5M funding for its car subscription marketplace