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 …

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…

Platform for Property Owners to Exchange Properties for Shares, Raises $26 Million in Series A Funding Guest Author: Sana Ahmad (Click here for Real Estate Listings) As a realtor in one of the hottest housing market, I keep a very close eye on the new trends. One of the most common question I usually get from my home buyers and inve…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

BuzzFeed Background : BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.  BuzzFeed’s 2008 pitch deck cited 2.5M page views per month.  In March 2020, the website claimed more than 1.2B unique page views across its websites for the month and saw a 41% year-over-year (YoY…

ArangoDB  Background : ArangoDB is an open-source database that offers a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key values. Build applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United …

Sempre Health  Background Sempre Health, through its platform, allows customers to compare current healthcare pricing structures. Sempre Health serves patients in the State of California, United States. About the Sempre Health Pitch Deck Raised: $8M Year: 2019 Stage: Series A Industry: Healthare Business Model: NA Customer Model: …