Tag: Investment

Cratejoy sheds 60% of its workforce amid restructuring effort

Cratejoy sheds 60% of its workforce amid restructuring effort

Cratejoy, a startup that runs a marketplace for subscription businesses and helps founders launch and scale their own subscription box services, ...
Old media giants turn to VC for their next act

Old media giants turn to VC for their next act

The Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 eras weren’t kind to the world’s largest media conglomerates, throwing their business models into question, creating who ...
Unmortgage scores £10M seed round to offer ‘part-own, part-rental’ housing

Unmortgage scores £10M seed round to offer ‘part-own, part-rental’ housing

“Unmortgage enables everyone to live in the home they want to, that’s our mission,” Unmortgage co-founder and CEO Ray Rafiq-Omar tells me ...
Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat’s new startup accelerator

Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat’s new startup accelerator

Snapchat is hedging its bets as its social network shrinks. Today Snap Inc revealed the first class of its startup accelerator called Yellow tha ...
Rentlogic lands millions to grade NYC real estate for renters and landlords

Rentlogic lands millions to grade NYC real estate for renters and landlords

A company called Rentlogic has raised $2.4 million to take the guesswork out of determining whether that cheap, beautiful New York apartment is ac ...
Skyline AI raises $18M Series A for its machine learning-based real estate investment tech

Skyline AI raises $18M Series A for its machine learning-based real estate investment tech

Skyline AI founders Iri Amirav, Or Hiltch, Guy Zipori and Amir Leitersdorf A mere four months after coming out of stealth mode with $3 ...
Alibaba boosts its offline reach with $2B+ investment in outdoor digital marketing firm

Alibaba boosts its offline reach with $2B+ investment in outdoor digital marketing firm

Alibaba is investing big bucks into offline distribution. The Chinese e-commerce giant has forked out $2.23 billion in exchange for a size ...
China’s VIPKID, which links native English speakers with online learners, raises another $500M, reportedly at $3B+ valuation

China’s VIPKID, which links native English speakers with online learners, raises another $500M, reportedly at $3B+ valuation

The online language school market is continuing to heat up, and a startup that connects native English speakers with an audience of students spann ...