Mural  Background The San Francisco, California-based company was founded in 2011 by Patricio Jutard, Mariano Suarez-Battan, and Agustin Soler. MURAL is the leading provider of digital workspaces for guided visual collaboration in the enterprise. Different from online whiteboarding and …

Backbone Raises $40 Million To Convert an iPhone into a Gaming Console Backbone  Background Backbone is the brainchild of a entrepreneur Maneet Khaira, who when working at Google as an intern came up with this idea for a device that could turn an iPhone into a portable gaming consoles, like an X-B…

Circa Raises $2 Million to Allow Flexible Rent Payments Circa Co-founder and CEO Leslie Hyman, identified several pain points when it comes to paying rent in the US. Over $15 billion in rent is paid late every month. 30% of rent payments are paid after the 5th of the month 15% or 5.9 million renters are behind in rent payments Evict…

Playbook Raises $18 Million to Fix File Management for Designers In 2020, Jessica Ko, CEO of Playbook, founded the company to solve the problem where her design team at Google and Opendoor was spending 90% of their time digging around Dropbox, looking for assets. The value proposition for Playbook was to a build a new kind of cloud …

Backbone Raises $14 Million in Seed Funding to Fix Supply Chain In 2015, a survey   of large companies (revenue with more than $1 Billion),  conducted well before the pandemic began; supply chain volatility was pegged as the top challenge that they faced. Backbone, founders Vic Patil and Rajesh Chandran believe that the solution lay…

Opendoor Background : Opendoor was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.  Opendoor is an operator of an online real estate marketplace used to streamline the sales process of home buying and selling. Opendoor  has raised   a total of  $1.9B  in funding over   10  rounds.   Their latest f…