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Dec 23, 2020 • 7min
Bolt adds $75M to its Series C, as the battle to rule online checkout continues
Bolt, a startup that offers online checkout technology to retailers, announced this morning that it has added $75 million to its Series C round, bringing the financing to a total of $125 million. WestCap and General Atlantic led the new tranche, which Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow told TechCrunch was raised at around twice its Series […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 22, 2020 • 5min
OneTrust nabs $300M Series C on $5.1B valuation to expand privacy platform
OneTrust, the 4-year old privacy platform startup from the folks who brought you AirWatch (which was acquired by VMWare for $1.5B in 2014), announced a $300 million Series C on an impressive $5.1 billion valuation today. The company has attracted considerable attention from investors in a remarkably short time. It came out of the box […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 22, 2020 • 5min
Silicon Valley should reward zebras, not unicorns
Unlike unicorn companies, zebras are lean, efficient and consistent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 21, 2020 • 4min
Tap Network raises $4M for its customizable rewards program
Tap Network is providing a new approach to loyalty rewards programs that it describes as “rewards as a service.” You may recognize the Tap Network name, as well as its co-founder and CEO Lin Dai, from Hooch, a startup that offered a drink-a-day subscription service before shifting focus to a broader rewards program. Dai told […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 21, 2020 • 5min
BigID keeps rolling with $70M Series D on $1B valuation
BigID has been on the investment fast track, raising $94 million over three rounds that started in January 2018. Today, that investment train kept rolling as the company announced a $70 million Series D on a valuation of $1 billion. Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global co-led the round with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 18, 2020 • 4min
Social gaming platform Rec Room scores $20 million Series C
Against Gravity, the startup behind the social gaming platform Rec Room, has scored some new funding as it brings its once VR-centric platform to every major gaming platform out there. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group . Existing investors including First Round Capital, Index, Sequoia and DAG […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 18, 2020 • 7min
Ramp raises $30M as the battle to own corporate spend heats up
Corporate spend management startup Ramp has raised $30 million more in a new round, it announced today. TechCrunch covered Ramp’s launch earlier this year, when it also detailed that it had raised around $23 million up to that point. The startup raised its latest round in August of 2020, with conversations about the deal kicking […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 17, 2020 • 6min
Lydia raises another $86 million to build European financial super app
French fintech startup Lydia has extended its Series B round. Accel is leading the extension with all major existing shareholders also participating. Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. The startup is now raising another $86 million, which means that Lydia has raised $131 million in total as part […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 17, 2020 • 4min
The team behind Jumpcut and SnappyTV is building a new collaborative video tool
Mike Folgner has had his share of success building video editing tools, having sold Jumpcut.com to Yahoo and SnappyTV to Twitter. But as he explained in a new Medium post, he still sees “unfinished business” in the video industry. “Today, most major productivity software categories have made the leap from desktop software to the web,” […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 16, 2020 • 4min
Revolut launches mid-tier subscription plan
Fintech startup Revolut is tweaking its subscription plans with a new mid-tier offering called Revolut — it costs £2.99 per month. Like N26 Smart and Monzo Plus, the new plan is a pandemic-proof package that doesn’t focus as much on travel. For the past couple of years, challenger banks and alternatives to traditional bank accounts […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
