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…

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…

Jobox Raises $42 Million in Series B funding to Connect Skilled Labor with Enterprises Connecting skilled workers to opportunities has been around for a while, for example Angie's List or Good Contractors List. Both of these platforms are subscription based and suggest that only have vetted c…

Crowdbotics  Background Crowdbotics offers hundreds of ready-to-use code packages that users can drop into their mobile or web app without having to write a single line of code. Customers can also use the platform to design, construct, and deploy app or integration with the help of skilled developers and PMs Acc…

NordVPN Raises $100 Million in their First Ever Round of Funding Virtual Private Networks (VPN) is more or less a necessity now a days. Corporations use it for secure communications across the globe. Consumers, which include hackers, use VPN for their own reasons - good or bad. According to one report  30% traffic traverses through …

TikTok and Zillow Combined In-One-App Wants to Help New Home Buyers Buy Homes Guest Author: Sana Ahmad (Click here for Real Estate Listings) I recently wrote a guest post about a platform that allows homeowners to "exchange" their real estate for shares. Today, I'll share about a new app that I have come across, which…

Intercom Background : Intercom is a Conversational Relationship Platform (CRP) that helps businesses build better customer relationships through personalized, messenger-based experiences.  The company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco by Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee and David Barrett, with…

Snapchat Background: In 2011, Snapchat came up with the unique idea of sharing photos and videos that disappear after a short time. According to Crunchbase: Snapchat is one of the most popular social networking apps in developed regions such as North America and Europe. Snapchat  has raised   a to…

Bigblue Raises $15 million in Series A Funding for Direct To Customer Order Fulfillment Service Bigblue, a French startup, provides an order fulfillment platform to its direct-to-consumer (D2C) firms, so whilst D2C firms focus on product and marketing, Bigblue manages all the logistics. The startup currently operates in 3 countries,…

Background on Foursquare : Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location. Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai founded the company in New York around 2009. As a location intelligence company, Foursquare i…

ShopThing Raises $10 Million in Series A To scale Live Video Shopping ShopThing , was founded by Maggie Adhami-Boynton in 2018. It's a Toronto-based company that focuses on providing a live shopping experience. Adhami-Boynton got the idea through Instagram, after coming across a New York-based personal shopper who live streams f…

Gama Raises $2M to Develop a Solar Sail Spacecraft Gama , a French aerospace was founded in 2020 by Louis de Gouyon Matignon, Thibaud Elziere and Andrew Nutter. The 3 founders considered how sea breezes propels sailboats across the sea and considered developing a low-cost solar sail that would use light as a means of propulsion for …

Funding and Valuations for Startups in US are Dropping for Series A, B & C Venture funding in 2021 broke records with investment up more than 10x what it was a decade earlier, reported Crunchbase .  Global venture investment last totaled $643 billion, compared to $335 billion for 2020…

Colossal Raises $60 Million Series A to Resurrect a Woolly Mammoth If you're scratching your head on this one, so are we. But with an open minds, let's see what Colossal is about and why. Colossal is a spin off from the work of George Church - one of the creators of the Human Genome Project and a geneticist at Harvard and MI…

Starburst Background Starburst Data is a data access and analytics company that develops an SQL query engine. It provides fast and interactive enterprise-ready distribution, consisting of additional tooling and configurations, enabling data analysts to run fast analytic queries against various data sources ranging i…

AssemblyAI Raises $28 Million in Series A, for All-in-One API AssemblyAI Background : AssemblyAI , is aiming at becoming the solution of choice for analyzing speech, offering ultra-simple API access for transcribing, summarizing, and otherwise figuring out what’s going on in thousands of audio streams at a time. “If you want to do c…

Shares raises $40 million in Series A for its Social Investment App Shares Background : Shares has closed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures.  Valar Ventures already participated in the company’s $10 million seed round. This time, Valar Ventures is leading the Series A with other existing investors Singular…