Profiles

Bulletin: How This Company Helps Brands Expand Offline Distribution

By Annie Baker ● Jul 18, 2019

Bulletin -- a retail technology company that makes it easier for brands to expand brick-and-mortar sales -- announced it closed $7 million.

Lendbuzz: How This Company Helps Consumers With Limited Credit History Buy Cars

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 18, 2019

Lendbuzz -- a fintech company that is disrupting the car financing market -- announced recently that it secured $150 million in debt and equity financing.

Mahmee: How This Company Is Addressing Critical Gaps In The Maternity Healthcare Process

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2019

Mahmee -- a data-driven maternal and infant health tech company -- announced it raised $3 million from an all-star team of investors.

DefenseStorm: How This Company Helps Banks And Credit Unions WIth Cyber Exposure Readiness

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 17, 2019

DefenseStorm is a leading cloud-based cybersecurity and cybercompliance management company that raised $15 million in Series A funding.

Node: How This Artificial Intuition Is Powering Predictable Business Outcomes

By Annie Baker ● Jul 16, 2019

Node -- the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes -- announced that it raised $16 million.

Avvir: How This Automated Construction Platform Is Driving Building Digitization

By Annie Baker ● Jul 16, 2019

Automated construction platform Avvir announced it raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by Khosla Ventures. Metaprop and Localglobe also joined.

GetAccept: How This All-In-One Sales Platform Helps Enterprises Close More Deals

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 16, 2019

GetAccept is an all-in-one sales platform combining video, live chat, proposal design, document tracking, and e-signature company that recently announced it raised $7 million.

How Brandable Is Helping Brands React Quickly To Customer Trends

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 11, 2019

Brandable -- a company that is disrupting how brands are developed and launched -- announced it closed a Series B round of funding led by Cota Capital.

Walmart Is Utilizing Virtual Reality For Training And Hiring Future Managers

By Annie Baker ● Jul 11, 2019

Walmart is utilizing virtual reality technology for determining whether employees are managerial using $250 Oculus Go VR headsets.

How Republic’s Acquisition Of SheWorx Will Close The Funding Gap For Female Entrepreneurs

By Annie Baker ● Jul 8, 2019

Leading equity crowdfunding platform Republic recently announced it acquired SheWorx, an event series empowering 20,000+ female entrepreneurs.

How Car IQ Plans To Accelerate Growth Of Autonomous Payment Gateway For Vehicles

By Annie Baker ● Jul 8, 2019

Leading vehicle payment technology company Car IQ recently announced it raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Quest Venture Partners.

How SoundCommerce Is Helping Retailers Make Better Merchandising Decisions

By Annie Baker ● Jul 7, 2019

SoundCommerce -- a data platform provider that was founded by Eric Best and Jared Stiff -- recently raised $6.5 million in seed funding.

How Everactive Is Producing Data Intelligence For The Physical World Using Always-On Wireless Sensors

By Noah Long ● Jul 7, 2019

Everactive -- formerly known as PsiKick -- is a company that is known for pioneering wireless and “batteryless” Internet of Things (IoT) systems.

Vida Health: How This Company Is Making Chronic Disease More Manageable

By Annie Baker ● Jul 3, 2019

Vida Health is a virtual health coaching company that builds personalized programs for a number of enterprise customers that raised $30 million recently.

How Accel Made More Than A $4 Billion Return On Investment From Slack

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2019

Accel Partners made more than a $4 billion return on investment from its relationship with Slack. This is the story behind the deal.

How Unily Transforms The Ways Companies Communicate Internally

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 1, 2019

Unily, a leading digital workplace platform company announced it raised $68 million in growth investment from Silversmith and Farview Equity.

How Procurify Is Reinventing The Way Organizations Spend

By Annie Baker ● Jul 1, 2019

Leading Vancouver-based SaaS spend management solution company Procurify announced it raised $20 million in Series B funding

How Casandra Stewart And Christina Walker Built A Platform For After-School Enrichment Programs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 30, 2019

This is the story behind how Casandra Stewart and Christina Walker built after-school enrichment company Homeroom.

How Personal Finance App Dave Helps Consumers Avoid Overdraft Fees

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2019

Dave, a mobile finance app that helps users avoid overdraft fees, announced it is launching a banking product and that it raised $110 million in debt.

How The Apple ‘Find My Friends’ App Helped Save This Teenager’s Life

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 23, 2019

This is the story of how Apple's "Find My Friends" app helped save the life of 17-year-old Macy Smith.

How VidMob Is Scaling Digital Video Advertising

By Annie Baker ● Jun 21, 2019

Full stack creative technology platform company VidMob helps scale digital video advertising. These are the details behind the company.

Pay4Education: How This Company Helps People Make Informed College Finance Choices

By Noah Long ● Jun 19, 2019

Springfield, Massachusetts-based fintech company Pay4Education announced it raised $575,000 in funding led by Springfield Venture Fund

How Purigen Biosystems Is Redefining Nucleic Acid Sample Preparation

By Annie Baker ● Jun 19, 2019

Purigen Biosystems, a provider of next-generation technologies for extracting nucleic acids from biological samples, announced it raised $26.4 million

How Voatz Helps Citizens Vote In Elections Using Mobile Devices

By Dan Anderson ● Jun 17, 2019

Voatz is a platform company that enables citizens to vote in many types of elections and voting events through a smartphone or tablet that raised $7 million

How Step Prepares Teens For Financial Literacy

By Noah Long ● Jun 17, 2019

Step, a company that helps teenagers with financial literacy, announced recently that it closed $22.5 million in Series A funding.

Halo Investing: How This Company Makes Structured Notes Easier

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 16, 2019

Halo Investing, the world's first and only independent multi-issuer technology platform for Structured Notes, announced it raised $12 million in Series B

How Greenville-Based ChartSpan Helps Manage Chronic Care Management

By Annie Baker ● Jun 16, 2019

ChartSpan, a Greenville, South Carolina-based healthcare managed service provider for chronic care management, announced it raised $15 million

How Orca Security Provides IT Security Teams Full Stack Cloud Visibility

By Dan Anderson ● Jun 15, 2019

Orca Security, an Israel-based company that provides seamless full-stack visibility into their cloud infrastructure footprint raised $6.5 million.

How Fireblocks Secures Digital Assets In Transit

By Annie Baker ● Jun 14, 2019

Recently Fireblocks announced it launched out of stealth and raised $16 million in Series A to eliminate the cause of digital asset hacks.

How Luminous Computing Plans To Use Light To Make AI Faster And More Efficient

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 13, 2019

Luminous Computing is a company planning to use photonics to solve bottlenecks that traditional processors are dealing with. These are the details.