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Uber Freight co-founders and top dealmakers join logistics startup Turvo

sudshr47 February 6, 2019 Startups

Uber Freight co-founders Charlie Bergevin and Brian Cristol have left for Turvo, a venture-funded collaborative logistics platform.

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Startups Weekly: Squad’s screen-shares and Slack’s swastika

sudshr47 January 19, 2019 Startups

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 […]

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A look at Birdies, the popular slipper shoe startup that just raised $8 million more from investors

sudshr47 January 17, 2019

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 […]

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Postmates lines up another $100M ahead of IPO

sudshr47 January 11, 2019 Startups

Postmates has landed a $100M investment to compete with SoftBank-backed competitor DooDash ahead of an IPO expected later this year.

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Porter Road wants to herd the meat industry in a new direction

sudshr47 August 30, 2018 Startups

Down a two-lane road on the outskirts of Princeton, Ky., next to a cemetery and past the Light of Truth Church, is the Porter Road Butcher Meat Co. facility — a staging ground for what the Nashville-based startup Porter Road hopes will be a revolution in the American meatpacking industry. For the company’s co-founders, James […]

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Crowd Cow, offering ranch to table meats, picks up $8 million from Madrona, Ashton Kutcher

sudshr47 May 24, 2018 Startups

Most high-end restaurants don’t get their beef from the local grocery store. Well-regarded chefs and restauranteurs build relationships with small farms and family ranchers to procure what’s known in the industry as craft beef. Just like coffee or chocolate or wine, the smallest differences (type of grass, breed of cow, lifestyle, etc.) can make a […]

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I visited a teeth-straightening startup and found out I needed a root canal

sudshr47 May 7, 2018 Startups

Going to the dentist can be anxiety-inducing. Unfortunately, it was no different for me last week when I went to discuss Uniform Teeth’s recent $4 million seed funding round from Lerer Hippeau, Refactor Capital, Founder’s Fund and Slow Ventures. Uniform Teeth is a clear teeth aligner startup that competes with the likes of Invisalign and […]

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Emphasizing social, shareable, and meaningful work, Girlboss launches a new site

sudshr47 April 18, 2018

Girlboss, the juggernaut business and lifestyle brand launched by serial entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso (the founder of Nasty Gal), has launched a fresh redesign of its website as the company looks to evolve beyond publishing. While publishing will remain a central component of the business that Girlboss is building, Amoruso says that the brand encompasses much […]