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ShipBob Reaches $1B Valuation With New Funding Round
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - 11:14am | 828The money keeps flowing into the last-mile logistics space and the latest company to reap the benefits is cloud-based platform ShipBob, which announced a $200 million Series E round Tuesday morning. The new funding, which brings total funding in the company to $330.5 million according to...
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Dynamo Ventures Raises $43M Fund II For FreightTech Seed Investing
Thursday, June 24, 2021 - 11:51am | 840Dynamo Ventures, a supply chain-focused seed stage venture capital fund based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, announced Wednesday that it had successfully raised a $43.21 million Fund II. That's more than double the size of Dynamo's $18 million Fund I, which it raised in 2016 and has now fully deployed...
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How To Raise Pre-Seed & Seed Funding: 5 Alternative Strategies
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 4:07pm | 1252By William Stringer, CEO and Co-Founder of Chisos Capital Want to learn how to raise seed funding for your startup? You’re in the right place. For growth-focused startups, getting access to capital early means that you can scale faster. The seed round is the first official stage of...
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CO2, Supply Chain Tracing Company Circulor Raises $14M In Series A
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 10:48am | 914Electric vehicle (EV) adoption is growing, which is increasing the demand for electric batteries and all the metals they contain. Because calls for decarbonization are at least partly driving this transition, some observers wonder if companies are sourcing battery materials sustainably and what...
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Shippo Reaches Unicorn Status With $50M Raise
Thursday, June 3, 2021 - 11:25am | 507Shippo, an e-commerce shipping platform, has announced it has raised $50 million in new funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The company has raised a total of $154.3 million since 2014. This round has pushed Shippo to unicorn status, now valued at $1 billion. The company's previous...
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Automata Network Raises $2.4M And Already Surpasses $5B In TVL On Binance Launchpool
Thursday, June 3, 2021 - 10:19am | 714The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Decentralized service protocol Automata Network has announced the conclusion of its latest funding round, having raised $2.4 million from...
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Backed By BlackDragon, Revuto Raises $1.7 Million To Build The First-Ever DeFi App For Cardano
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 10:42am | 474In its recent private funding round, blockchain startup Revuto raised $1.7 million from top investors to continue building its innovative crypto-based subscription payment model for the Cardano ecosystem. Revuto To Launch dApp For Subscription Payments Until now, there has been no way to pay...
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Epik Prime Closes Private Round Of Funding To Solidify Position As B2B NFT Leader
Monday, May 17, 2021 - 10:53am | 618Epik Prime, the global leader in creating branded digital items for businesses through collaborations and crossovers, is pleased to announce a successful closing of its private round which includes top blockchain venture capital firms such as LD Capital, Signum, DAO Maker, and Animoca Brands. Epik...
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Fresh Produce Freight Platform Hwy Haul Raises $10 Million In Series A
Monday, May 10, 2021 - 1:54pm | 973When Amazon bought Whole Foods and introduced Amazon Fresh, a doorfront delivery service for a customer’s grocery needs, a sigh of relief fell collectively. The ever infamous ‘grocery shopping’ seems to take a great deal of time and planning for everyone, and the ability to simply...
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Cloud-Payments Firm Gr4vy Announces $11.1M Funding
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 - 1:46pm | 1054From PayPal to Gr4vy, John Lunn, a leading executive with Paypal (NASDAQ: PYPL) during his time leading the company's Developer and Start-up Relations division, has come back to the payments business with a new firm, Gr4vy. After that stint in 2015-16, Lunn became a partner in PayPay Ventures...
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Bone Health Technologies Raises $2.5M In New Funding Round, Adds 3 Members To Board
Monday, May 3, 2021 - 5:09pm | 450Bone Health Technologies, a MedTech company focused on treating osteoporosis, announced the completion of a new funding round and the appointment of new board members. Funding Secured: San Francisco, California-based Bone Health said it has closed a $2.5 million funding round. The company noted...
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Manna Scores $25M Funding Round; To Be Featured On DroneWaves
Thursday, April 29, 2021 - 11:58am | 1281In March, residents in Oranmore, Galway, Ireland, started buying the latest Samsung devices, including the Galaxy S21 Ultra phone. For some, the enthusiasm of a new phone was only part of the joy; the delivery of that phone added a new layer of excitement to the purchase. The devices were...
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E-Commerce Tracking Firm AfterShip Lands $66M Funding Round
Friday, April 23, 2021 - 1:38pm | 355E-commerce shipment tracking platform AfterShip has landed a $66 million Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. The company previously raised a $2 million Series A1 in 2019 led by 10Fund and a $1 million Series A in 2014 led by China's IDG Capital Partners, according to data...
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The Daily Dash: Chain.io's $5M Funding Round
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 12:28pm | 476The Daily Dash is a quick look at what's happening in the freight ecosystem. In today's edition, we highlight a funding round for a data integration provider, a different approach to hedging on diesel prices and more The High Five 1. Data integration provider Chain.io has raised $5 million in a...
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Online Order Platform Slice Raises $40M In Recent Funding: Reuters
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 - 9:23am | 215Online ordering platform, Slice, has raked $40 million in a recent fundraise led by Cross Creek and two former Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) executives, Dick Costolo and Adam Bain, Reuters reports. Costolo and Bain presently represent 01 Advisors venture and advisory firm. The...