November 17, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
Cognixion, a startup designing an intuitive brain-monitoring headset and interface for people with physical disabilities, has raised a $12M A round to pursue its accessibility ambitions. Armed with this funding, it should be able to complete the long list of requirements necessary for any medical or assistive device to be made widely available. The company, which I covered […]
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Facily raises $366 Million in less than a year, now valued at $850 Million
November 17, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
Facily, a São Paulo-based social commerce marketplace, has quietly raised over $366 million in funding across four different rounds over the last year. Most recently, Facily closed on a $250 million Series D that was led by DX Ventures and Berlin-based Delivery Hero, with Citius as co-anchor investor. That investment values the startup at $850 million. Glade Brook […]
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AnyDesk raises $70 Million at $660 Million +valuation
November 17, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
Remote and hybrid working are the order of the day, and now a startup called AnyDesk that helps enable that to be pulled off smoothly — regardless of the architecture of a company’s network, or where a person happens to be working — is announcing a round of $70 million to fuel its growth. The Stuttgart-based company […]
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StarkWare at $2 Billion valuation
November 17, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
As the crypto world continues to heat up, developers are clinging to the Ethereum network despite its general struggle to meet the stresses of a global network’s transaction load. To speed and cheapen transactions on Ethereum, developers are looking toward so-called Layer-2 (L2) blockchains, which build on the Ethereum network, offloading the computational stresses while […]
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Cognixion raises $12 Million
November 17, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
Cognixion, a startup designing an intuitive brain-monitoring headset and interface for people with physical disabilities, has raised a $12M A round to pursue its accessibility ambitions. Armed with this funding, it should be able to complete the long list of requirements necessary for any medical or assistive device to be made widely available. The company, which I covered […]
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Fireside app attracts NFL stars and others as backers
November 16, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
Mark Cuban’s Fireside, an interactive platform that is helping creators share their stories with audiences through live and virtual shows, is in advanced stages to close a “seed+” round, two sources familiar with the matter told me. The financing round has already received a commitment from investors such as The Chainsmokers, HBSE, Goodwater, Animal Capital and […]
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Zoomo raises $60 Million Series B
November 16, 2021 / by Taniya Saini / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
Zoomo, the Australian startup that builds e-bikes and offers micromobility subscriptions to gig workers and couriers, wants to be the next disruptive electric vehicle company. The startup has just announced a $60 million Series B fundraise, money it aims to use to transform the way companies look at last-mile delivery. “We really see ourselves disrupting Rivian,” Mina […]
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Aplazo takes in $27 Million
November 16, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
Four months after securing a $5.25 million seed round, Mexican buy now, pay later startup Aplazo is back with an even bigger round to expand adoption of the payment plan approach across that country. Angel Peña and Alex Wieland co-founded the company in 2020. Prior to Aplazo, Peña lived in New York and worked at Morgan Stanley […]
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Imprint raised $38 Million
November 16, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
Imprint, a one-year-old startup that offers branded payments and rewards products, today announced a $38 million Series A funding round co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Stripe. It’s not every day that a leading fintech player and top-tier venture capital firm co-lead an investment. Notably, Imprint was also co-founded by a VC — Thrive Capital partner Gaurav Ahuja (chairman) […]
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Mixpanel scores $200 Million Series C
November 16, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
Mixpanel was a hot startup in 2014 when it nabbed a $65 million Series B on an $865 million valuation, a sizable B round and valuation for those days. Today, seven years after that announcement, the company finally has a C round, a $200 million investment on a $1.05 billion valuation from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. The company has […]
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SOS raises $3.4 Million
November 16, 2021 / by admin / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes, Venture Capital
SOS already has a number of vending machines in the wild, dotted around the map in its native Boston. The company just closed a $3.4 million round to expand its offering of health and wellness products in vending machines in bathrooms. The vending machines are touch screens that also double as a “visually rich advertising and […]
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