Humankind, a digital concierge and conversational commerce platform for e-commerce brands, has officially closed its seed stage fundraising round co-led by High Alpha Capital and Strand Equity for $4.2 million. Widespread industry support for customer experience enhancing technology driven by personalized shopping recommendations led to the successful close of their seed stage fundraising round. The platform … Read more
Fondue CashBack, the Shopify app that replaces coupon codes with brand-embedded CashBack announced today it has closed on a $10.5m seed round led by Quiet Capital and Hanaco Ventures. Other investors in the round include Infinity Ventures, Ground Up Ventures, Sugar Capital, Starting Line, R-Squared Ventures, Gaingels, Verissimo Ventures, Samsung Next, and JAM Fund. A … Read more
Gloat, the leading provider of Workforce Agility software and pioneers of the AI-powered Talent Marketplace, today announced its $90 million Series D round led by Generation Investment Management—with participation from Accel, Eight Roads Ventures, Intel Capital and Lumir Ventures. The funding positions Gloat to rapidly accelerate the evolution of a rich, dynamic talent ecosystem that … Read more
Shop Circle, a technology-driven company that operates e-commerce software, today announced it has raised $65 million in funding. The financing was led by NFX and QED Investors, with participation from 645 Ventures, FirstMinute Capital and Triple Point Capital. Shop Circle, co-founded last year by Luca Cartechini and Gian Maria Gramondi, is officially coming out of stealth mode and will use the funds to help the company scale … Read more
DP World, a global infrastructure-led supply chain solutions provider, and CDPQ, a global investment group, announced today an investment of US$5 billion (CA$6.3 billion) in three of DP World’s flagship UAE assets. CDPQ will invest US$2.5 billion in the Jebel Ali Port, the Jebel Ali Free Zone and the National Industries Park through a new joint venture in which … Read more
Cayaba Care, a maternity health startup, announced today the closing of a $12 million Series A round that will work to expand the company’s footprint within underserved populations. The funding will be used to increase staff, launch in additional markets and further invest in technology solutions that will increase access to much-needed holistic maternity services. The Series A … Read more
Housing technology startup Jupe announced $9.5 million in seed funding led by Initialized Capital with participation from Y Combinator. The money will be used to hire a CTO and a wider team of software and hard tech engineers and to execute its mission to make off-grid mobile living more affordable, faster, and efficient. Since launching … Read more
Hometap, which provides a smart, new loan alternative for tapping into home equity without taking on debt, today announced it has raised $60 million of new operating capital in a funding round led by American Family Ventures along with new and existing investors including Bain Capital, ICONIQ Capital, LLC, G20 Ventures, Pillar, and General Catalyst. … Read more
Estonian start-up Gelatex has a bold vision of starting a new chapter in the futuristic story “Cell-cultured meat cheaper than ever: how did it happen?” Gelatex has found a solution to scale and enhance the production of nanofibrous material that could be used to grow cell-cultured meat. Within their innovative team composed of materials science … Read more
