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Issues With Delinquent Accounts Receivables? Look No Further Than Retrievables.com
Sunday, January 29, 2023 - 1:37pm | 575Read More...Picture this: you’re a business that just made a sale, and you’re excited because soon you will receive a payment vital to your survival. However, the payment never seems to clear, and your customer won’t pick up the phone. If this sounds familiar, how do you respond? Well, many...
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Tired Of Zoom? Here's How Spot Meetings Lets You Engage With Professionals On The Go
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 12:34pm | 1029Read More...Spot Meetings, a mobile and browser-based platform for voice conference calls, formally announced $5 million in seed funding led by Ilya Fushman at Kleiner Perkins. In light of the development, Benzinga spoke with co-founder Greg Caplan. Origin Story: The average American is active less than 20...
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Kraft Heinz Launches $100M Venture Capital Fund, Aims To Be Sector's 'Foremost Value-Added Investor'
Monday, October 8, 2018 - 2:29pm | 340Read More...Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ: KHC) has announced the launch of a $100-million venture capital fund, Evolv Ventures. Kraft Heinz, the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world, said the fund will invest in emerging tech companies that are transforming the food industry. The company has...
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Meet Uptake Technologies, The New Startup Run By Groupon's Founders
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - 12:26pm | 494Read More...Groupon Inc (NASDAQ: GRPN) co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky have a new business venture that's already valued at $2 billion. The company, Uptake Technologies Inc., recently received $40 million as part of a Series C financing round that was led by Revolution Growth, an investment...
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Groupon Acquires Boomerang To Enhance Freebie Offers
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 3:37pm | 494Read More...Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), the world's most popular daily deals site, has acquired Boomerang. Designed for users who want to send free or paid gifts, Boomerang (located at rang.com) launched last year with a $1 million investment from Lightbank. Lightbank is the investment vehicle from Groupon...
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How Much Would Yahoo Pay for a Qwiki? (YHOO)
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 9:00am | 520Read More...Lightbank, Lerer Ventures and other investors have poured more than $10 million into Qwiki, an app that automatically merges photos, videos and music into one mobile movie. According to AllThingsD, this app has gotten the attention of Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), which is currently discussing the...
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Lightbank Unveils New Initiative Lightbank Start
Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 10:22am | 382Read More...Lightbank, the technology investment vehicle from Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, has introduced a new initiative called Lightbank Start. Designed to help young entrepreneurs build a tech business with the help and support of Keywell and Lefkofsky, Lightbank...
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The Secret to Landing a Job At Any Tech Startup
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 12:16pm | 1551Read More...Benzinga Editor's Note from Jason Raznick: This is a great piece from Greg Caplan, personal friend and founder of oBaz. Learn how to finally gain entry - and employment - into the elite start up community by reading through to the end. Now go out there and make it happen! I got an email the other...
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Is Your Startup About to Power Down?
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 2:59pm | 502Read More...Venture capital firms are the life blood of the Internet industry, as new firms pop up seemingly every day in a variety of different fields. Heck, Benzinga is funded by a venture capital firm, LightBank, which was funded by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, co-founders of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN)....
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From Daily Deals Startup to Daily Deals Giant with an IPO, Groupon Makes Us All Very Proud Today
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 11:01am | 625Read More...An unofficial “take that!” to all of Groupon's critics. It's no secret that Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Benzinga are closely connected. Early this spring, Lightbank – the technology investment vehicle from Groupon co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky – invested $1.5 million in our company....
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Groupon CFO: "Plenty" of Room For Growth
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 10:24am | 438Read More...UPDATE: Groupon has started trading. It started trading at $28 per share, up from the $20 per share it was offered to the public at. This is a gain of 40%. Groupon's (NASDAQ: GRPN) CFO Jason Child was on CNBC as the company is getting ready to trade, and had some interesting things to say about...
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25-Year-Old Goes from Corporate Day Job to Startup Success
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 3:47pm | 330Read More...One of those dream-come-true stories. Business Insider has published an interesting profile on Brittany Laughlin, the 25-year-old founder of Gtrot, a fresh startup that allows its users to share their travel plans, connect with friends and collect advice while scoring deals from sites like Groupon...
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oBaz Scores Lightbank Funding, Promotes New Way to Haggle
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 10:25am | 413Read More...This might be the epitome of “strength in numbers.” oBaz, a new site whose name is short for “online bazaar,” is attempting to give wannabe-hagglers the opportunity to crowdsource their way to a better deal, TechCrunch reports. “oBaz uses group buying power to negotiate discounts for products and...
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The Fort Knox of Pawn Shops
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 12:40pm | 1001Read More...Three words: biometric fingerprint security. That's all you need to know. Among the eBays (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Amazons (NASDAQ: AMZN) of the world, consumers will find a wide variety of sites that allow them to buy items at a discount and/or sell them at a fair value. Some even provide individuals...
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Hometown Love: Benzinga Gets Nod in Detroit Free Press
Friday, May 27, 2011 - 6:36am | 166Read More...Benzinga received some hometown love Friday, getting a great article from the Detroit Free Press' Tom Walsh. Noting "an intriguing back-to-the-old-neighborhood move," Walsh highlighted Benzinga's $1.5 million investment from Groupon's founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell through their fund...
