Why Zoom Is Booming
The thing that strikes one about Yuan is the simple clarity of his message. : Here's a Pacific Rim recipe for success. Start with a newly arrived immigrant to the U.S. from Beijing--whose visa was rejected the first eight times he applied. Have the young man take a job at a California startup with fewer than 50 employees, whose two founders were from Beijing and Mumbai. Next step: get Silicon Valley giant Cisco to buy the young company, WebEx, whose service is videoconferencing.
Data.world Secures $26M In Venture Capital Funding
Data catalog company receives notable support from new and existing investors in response to strong enterprise demand; adds two board members AUSTIN, Texas, September 15, 2020-- data.world, the cloud-native enterprise data catalog company, today announced it has closed a $26 million round of venture capital funding led by Tech Pioneers Fund. Other participants in the round include new investors Breyer Capital, Prologis Ventures, and Alumni Ventures Group. Existing investors, Shasta Ventures, OurCrowd, and Workday Ventures also participated, along with several prominent angel investors including Arthur Patterson, Lincoln Brown, and Cotter Cunningham.
Airmeet Eyes Virtual Event Space With $12 Mn Fundraise - Inc42 Media
Bengaluru-based virtual events platform Airmeet has raised $12 Mn in Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital India. Existing...
Omers Participates In Funding Round For Canadian Competitive Intelligence Company
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System's venture capital arm, OMERS Ventures, is participating in a series-A funding round for Klue, a Vancouver-based competitive enablement company, which it also backed at the seed stage. Klue helps companies better understand their competition by collecting and curating competitive intelligence, combining information available on the Internet with knowledge from ...
the Twenty Minute Vc: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch On Apple Podcasts
The Twenty Minute VC takes you inside the world of Venture Capital, Startup Funding and The Pitch. Join our host, Harry Stebbings and discover how you can attain funding for your business by listening to what the most prominent investors are directly looking for in startups, providing easily actionable tips and tricks that can be put in place to increase your chances of getting funded. Although, you may not want to raise funding for a startup.
Curio, The Curated Audio Platform For Journalism, Has Closed $9M Series A Funding - Techcrunch
Curio, the burgeoning audio platform that offers a curated library of "expert" journalism, has closed a $9 million in Series A round funding. The round is led by Earlybird, with participation from Draper Esprit, Cherry Ventures, and Horizons Ventures. It follows $2 million in previous backing from Cherry, 500 Startups and unnamed private angel investors, [...]
Groww Raises $30 Mn From Y Combinator's Continuity Fund
Data science-based mutual fund investing platform Groww secured $30 million in fresh equity financing, led by Continuity Fund, the growth-stage...
Notco Closes $85M Series C Round And Announces Us Expansion
CHILE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, NotCo, a leading food-tech company in Latin America, is announcing the closing of an $85 million Series C investment round, co-led by Future Positive, the investment vehicle of Fred Blackford and Biz Stone, and L Catterton, the largest and most global consumer-focused private equity firm. NotCo is an industry pioneer built using a proprietary technology that can match animal protein to its ideal replacement among thousands of plant-based ingredients. NotCo is the.
Deel Raises $30M In Series B Funding To Break The Confines Of Geographically-concentrated Workforces, Enabling Businesses To Legally Hire Anyone, Anywhere In The World | Business Wire
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deel Raises $30 Million in Series B Funding Enabling Businesses to Legally Hire Anyone, Anywhere. : SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deel, a payroll and compliance platform for international teams, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, led by Spark Capital. The investment closely follows a $14M Series A round, closed in May, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Deel's total funding now exceeds $48 million, including seed investment and participation from YC Growth Fund and notable angel investors including Nat Friedman, Ryan Petersen, John Zimmer, William Hockey and Alexis Ohanian.
India: Hasura Raises $25M Series B Funding Led By Lightspeed
With the latest financing, Hasura's total funding stands at $36.5 million. The post India: Hasura raises $25m Series B funding led by Lightspeed appeared first on DealStreetAsia.