Branch, the deep-linking startup backed by Andy Rubin’s Playground Ventures, will enter the unicorn club with an upcoming funding round. The four-year-old company, which helps brands create links between websites and mobile apps, has authorized the sale of $129 million in Series D shares, according to sources and confirmed by PitchBook, which tracks venture capital… Read More »

Eventbrite has taken another step toward becoming a publicly traded company, setting a price for the 10 million Class A shares it plans to sell on the New York Stock Exchange. The company filed its initial IPO paperwork confidentially back in July, then unveiled its S-1 to about two weeks ago. Trading under the ticket symbol EB, the price range for the shares… Read More »

Forethought has emerged the winner of this year’s startup battlefield Disrupt SF 2018 that is organised by TechCrunch. Forethought finished ahead of its four main competitors – CB Therapeutics, Forethought, Mira, Origami Labs and Unbound – who had made it to the final round. These startups made their way to the finale to demo in front… Read More »

South African point of sale (PoS) payments startup Yoco has raised US$16 million in Series B round. The round was led by Partech, with participation from Orange Digital Ventures, FMO and existing Series A investors Quona Capital and Velocity Capital. This brings the total funds raised by the startup to date to US$23 million. Yoco builds tools and services to help small businesses accept card… Read More »

Startup competition StartHereNow has announced it will be awarding a new $10,000 grand prize for the 2018 StartHereNow Women’s Startup Weekend. Held on September 29 and 30, 2018 in Houston, the competition’s mission is to create a collaborative environment where women can bring to life ideas that they are passionate about and build companies that solve big problems. Now in… Read More »

Professional networking company LinkedIn has come up with a list of top employers within America. To generate this list, LinkedIn examined the activity of its more than 500 million users and measured factors like interest in a company, employee engagement, demand and employee retention. LinkedIn excluded itself and parent company Microsoft from the list. For consideration… Read More »

Groq has raised $52.3 million of a $60 million round, per an SEC filing from Social Capital. Social Capital co-founder and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, who’s listed on the filing, has participated in the funding. Palihapitiya confirmed Social Capital’s participation in the round  and said a few other undisclosed investors participated as well. Social Capital also led… Read More »

Estonian company Taxify which is billed as one of the biggest ride-haring operators in Europe is set to introduce its new brand of e-scooters in the European market to compete with Bird and Lime. ride-hailing will  in Europe with its new brand of e-scooters, . Dubbed Bolt, the e-scooters will launch in Paris on Thursday. The company has… Read More »

South Korean home cleaning service Miso has raised $8 million Series A. The round was led by AddVenture, with participation from returning investors Y Combinator, FundersClub and Strong Ventures, and new backer Social Capital. The startup will use the funding on marketing and entering new Asian countries. The Y Combinator alum, which was the third startup from… Read More »

On Wednesday, Betaworks unveiled this list of five startups participating in its fourth Camp accelerator program. Launched in 2016, the program brings together a collection of young companies united under a single theme. This time out, things are focused on live-streaming, for a program fittingly titled, LiveCamp. Betaworks settled on the topic based on the popularity… Read More »