Sumo Logic Files for $100M IPO

In the S-1 filing, the company reported $155 million in revenue for the year that ended on Jan. 31, 2020, up nearly 50 percent from the same period the year prior. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Grafana raises $50M in Series B funding

Grafana Labs works with organizations using its Grafana open-source software platform for visualizing their metrics, logs and traces data. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

India, E-Commerce and Electric Vehicles Raise Supergiant Funding in July

With investors more active than ever, the public markets opening up, and acquirers looking for opportunities, we anticipate increased activity in the months ahead. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Telehealth Startup Ro Nabs $200M

Ro says it has seen its year-over-year revenue grow 328 percent between 2018 and 2019 and its annual recurring revenue reach $250 million. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Meditopia Raises $15M Series A to Personalize Mindfulness Services

Meditopia develops customized mental wellbeing programs that take into account culture, language and country for non-English speaking users. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Lemonade IPO Prices Are Set

With nearly 55 million shares outstanding, the company would be valued between $1.26 billion and $1.43 billion, lower than its last private valuation. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Top Global Startup Ecosystems

New entrants to the top 30 include Tokyo (No. 15), Seoul (No. 20), Shenzhen (No. 22), Hangzhou (No. 28), and São Paulo (No. 30). | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Big Health Hones Digital Mental Health Therapy with $39M Series B

Big Health is on a mission to help people achieve good mental health without medicine or help from human therapists. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Streamlit open-source MLOps raises 21M

Streamlit helps data scientists turn their data into predictive models through AI and machine learning. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

EnsoData Raises $9M to Diagnose Health Conditions with AI

EnsoData has quadrupled the size of its customer base in each of the past two years. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Investors with Proven Track Records of Diversity Funding

Actions speak louder than words. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Credit Card Companies Expanding Options for Cash-Back Reward Programs

With the COVID-19 pandemic changing consumer’s spending habits, many credit card owners have changed which behaviors they want rewarded. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Trials and Tribulations: Turning Clinical Trials Virtual During Covid-19

COVID-19 has halted on-site clinical trials, and experts say it is the perfect time to embrace virtual components to keep participants connected with studies. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

Startups Should Become ‘Camels’–Not Unicorns–During Covid-19 – Crunchbase News

Soon, unicorns will become myths once more as we see the rise of the 'camel' aka companies with a renewed focus on resiliency and caution. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 3 years ago

DigitalOcean Raises $50M At $1.15B Valuation

Access Industries led the financing, which included participation from Andresseen Horowitz (a16z). | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Sports App Sleeper Nets $20M from NBA Stars Kevin Durant and Baron Davis

Other (high-profile) investors participated in the investment, which brings the company’s total venture raised to $27.3 million since its 2015 inception. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

The Next Great AI Company? Covariant Attracts $40M Series B

Covariant is ready to expand its universal artificial intelligence robots beyond the warehousing industry. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

What You Need to Know About Equity If You’ve Been Laid Off

With layoffs among startups, there’s an additional component employees need to worry about if they’ve been let go: how to handle equity. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Number of Startup Layoffs Surpasses 20K

The pace of layoffs seems to have decelerated some, but job cuts among startups continue to take place. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Layoffs Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has caused layoffs industrywide, and even the most high-flying startups are feeling the effects of the virus. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Branch Metrics Lays Off 20 Percent of Employees

Mobile marketing tech startup Branch laid off 20 percent of its team this week, the company confirmed to Crunchbase News. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Thrasio, a Profitable Startup That Just Raised $110M at a $780M Valuation

The Series B funding was a combination of debt & equity for Thrasio, which has seen its gross revenue surge to over $200 million in less than two years. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Hopin – Platform for Online Conferences

Major tech conferences have been canceled or postponed because of concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus. And in turn, companies that support remote meetings are flourishing. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Remote Workstation Startup Growrk Sees Surge in Demand Amid Coronavirus Fears

More companies are implementing work-from-home policies in the midst of escalated concerns over the coronavirus. As such, it's no surprise that businesses which equip remote workers are seeing an uptick in interest. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Investors Serve Up $53M in Series C Funding to Web Dev Platform Netlify

Netlify builds software tools that help with different aspects of JAMstack development. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

WeWork Aims to Be Free Cash Flow Positive by 2022

WeWork laid out a five-year plan on Tuesday, including goals to be free cash flow positive by 2022 and have $1 billion of free cash flow by 2024. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

FTC Files Suit to Block Edgewell Acquisition of Harry’s

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a suit to block the acquisition of direct-to-consumer razor startup Harry’s by Schick razor parent company Edgewell Personal Care. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

iOffice Buys Teem After WeWork Lets It Go

iOffice has scooped up conference room reservation startup Teem after WeWork announced plans to sell the company. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Air Taxi Startup Joby Aviation Lands $590M from Toyota-Led Series C

A California air taxi startup has just pulled in $590 million in a new round of funding, with automaker Toyota as the lead investor. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Legalpad Raises $10M To Help Immigrant Entrepreneurs With The Visa Process

Tech startups are facing hiring challenges, and the entrepreneurs within them are left in flux as documentation and fees are added atop meetings and work responsibilities. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Insight Partners to Acquire Armis Security at $1B Valuation

Venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners plans to acquire Armis Security at a valuation of $1.1 billion, the company announced Monday.  | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

SoftBank-Funded Zume Lays Off 80% of Staff

Several teams will be affected by layoffs, with the highest concentration in engineering, operations and corporate development | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Goldman Sachs to Extend $1.75B Credit Line to WeWork

For WeWork, a tumultuous 2019 ends with a new lifeline from Goldman Sachs. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Female-founded unicorns hit record in 2019

“We’re going to invest in an underlooked asset class that is overperforming.” | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Asana Reportedly Considering Direct Listing for 2020 Debut

Project management startup Asana is expected to go public next year through a direct listing, according to a new report from the Financial Times. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Canada Is Having a Record Year for VC Funding

Overall, venture investors put a mammoth US$1.8 billion to work in Q3 of this year, according to the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA), which published its latest quarterly results this week. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Bill.com Files for $100M IPO

Thirteen-year-old Bill.com, which became a unicorn earlier this year, has filed for $100 million IPO. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Nuvia, Founded by Former Apple and Google Chipmakers, Raises $53M Series A

NUVIA, a new company made up of ex-Apple and Google engineers, announced this morning it has raised $53 million in a Series A round of funding. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A

1Password, a profitable Toronto-based password manager, has raised $200 million in a massive Series A funding round. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Brazilian Digital Onboarding Startup Idwall Lands $10M Series B

Idwall uses machine learning and AI to to help companies “build a seamless digital onboarding process." | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Public Investors Signal It’s a Buyer’s Market for Money-Losing Startups

What level and type of losses are acceptable to public market investors these days? | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

What Cloudflare's Earnings Tell Us About High-Growth, Unprofitable Unicorns

9 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn We’ve been tracking the revenue multiples of SaaS companies broadly, and the 2019 IPO class more specifically over the past few months. We’re working to understand why some companies have solid IPO pricing runs, only to struggle as public … | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Why is every startup a bank these days?

Notably, it’s not only startups that started off life looking to build a neo bank who are building out banking-like services. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Tracking Unicorn Wobbles as David Sacks Predicts Startup Winter

Expect more winter watching from these pages of the coming weeks. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Chicago’s Sprout Social Files to Go Public with ARR of over $100M

Chicago-based Sprout Social filed its initial paperwork to go public, and we've got the details. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Flexible Apartment Rental Startup Blueground Raises $50M Series B

The financing comes less than eight months after the company raised its $20 million Series A, bringing its total raised to $78 million. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

Robinhood Changed Online Trading, but Can It Repeat the Feat?

The cost of equity trades in the electronic era should have been zero for some time. Finally, Robinhood's free-trading model is becoming the norm. But what does Robinhood do next? | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

As Billions Flow into Latin America, Its Startup Scene Scales

It’s been a good year for Latin America when it comes to venture funding. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago