Roadie, the on-the-way delivery service, announced Monday (Feb. 25) it raised $37 million in a funding round. In a press release, the company said the Series C round of funding was oversubscribed and included The Home Depot, Warren Stephens and Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, among others....
Stock options drum up images of the dot-com era, of IPO riches reaped for getting in on the ground floor of a promising tech startup that goes public. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, an analysis of 68 companies that gave employees options for...
In a new funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Temasek Holdings, DoorDash notched a $400 million investment at a valuation of $7.1 billion. Existing investors in the food delivery firm — SoftBank Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital and DST Global — also participated, CNBC reported. While the...
Global investment firm SoftBank’s Vision Fund led a $1 billion funding round for Flexport, a logistics and freight startup, according to reports. Flexport said it expects that the deal will be finalized in the second quarter of 2019, pending regulatory approval. News of the investment...
An investment bank located in Brazil is raising millions of dollars via a security token offering, as reported by CoinDesk. According to the report, Banco BTG Pactual said in an announcement on Thursday (Feb. 21) that the offering will be backed with distressed Brazilian real...
Lalamove, an on-demand delivery and logistics startup based out of Hong Kong, has raised $300 million in a Series D funding round, which brings its valuation to $1 billion or more, granting it unicorn status, according to reports. The company was launched in 2013 by...
After its Vision Fund has invested in companies such as WeWork, Compass and Opendoor, SoftBank said on Wednesday (February 20) that it led a funding round for storage service firm Clutter. With a $200 million boost, the startup is said to have a post-investment value...
Mojio, a company that focuses on connected car technology, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, according to reports. The firm previously raised $17 million. The company, in partnership with mobile carriers and car manufacturers, unlocks “hidden data” from a connected car...
Rabbet, an intelligent construction finance platform, announced Wednesday (Feb. 20) it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. In a press release, Rabbet said the funding round included participation by Goldman Sachs’ Principal Strategic Investments group, QED Investors and Camber Creek. “With the support of...
