Santa Monica-based tech startup Tapcart Inc., which helps businesses set up mobile shopping apps, completed a $4 million seed funding round led by venture firm Greycroft. The SaaS platform works with businesses to integrate their shopping applications with both Google and Shopify, Tapcart announced in...
Stock trading app Robinhood has announced a $323 million Series E financing round, which brings the company’s valuation to $7.6 billion. “We’ll use the funding to keep pursuing our mission of democratizing finance for all,” the company wrote in a blog post. The funding round...
Trax, a Singapore startup focused on the retail industry, announced that it has secured a $100 million Series D investment, led by HOPU Investments, one of Asia’s leading alternative asset managers. “HOPU is thrilled to partner with Trax, a global leader in commercial applications of...
Onward revealed that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding that will enable it to help seniors get to their destinations safely. The round was led by Royal Street Ventures, Matchstick Ventures and JPK Capital. Onward launched in March in the San Francisco Bay...
Call it groupthink, on a grand scale, to the tune of billions of dollars. Call it FOMO. But then again, YOLO. So why not stake a claim? News came this week that a cramped space is getting a bit more crowded. We’re talking about the...
The Berlin-based startup Sennder, which connects commercial shippers and smaller freight carriers, announced a significant round of funding to take on the logistics market with an updated digital platform. The company has raised $70 million in a Series C funding round with a reported valuation...
Indian hospitality business OYO now has a valuation of $10 billion after its founder, Ritesh Agarwal, purchased $2 billion in shares from Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The 25-year-old founder completed the transaction via a Cayman Islands company called RA Hospitality Holdings, and was...
The flow of Chinese cash into America has fallen almost 90 percent since Donald Trump became President. The decline has impacted numerous industries including Silicon Valley startups, the Manhattan real estate market and state governments. As for the cause, blame it on a combination of...
German AI-driven mobility startup FlixMobility has raised $531 million in a new funding round, and is now valued at more than $2 billion, according to reports. The funding amount is the largest for any German outfit so far this year. The company is perhaps best...
