Starship Technologies raises $42 Million in Series B Funding to Fuel Growth Starship Technologies Background : Starship Technologies, is one of the bigger players in the world of autonomous delivery robots — the small, boxy vehicles that self-drive around cities and closed campuses delivering food and other small items. The compan…

Cybersecurity Insurance Startup Coalition raises $40M in Series B Funding Coalition Background: Coalition’s insurance covers expenses incurred from liabilities related to third-parties, such as fines and penalties — as well as fraud, breach response, extortion and ransomware recovery, device replacement and more. The company also ai…

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…

Vangst Background Vangst is the premier talent resource for the cannabis industry. Built on a network of the industry’s best people and widest-ranging career opportunities, Vangst helps employers and employees succeed in cannabis.  From temporary gig work to full-time career placement, the company is trusted by …

LinkedIn Background LinkedIn was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. LinkedIn has raised a total of $154.8M in funding over 8 rou…

This deck from MySQL’s 2003 Series B comes to us courtesy of MySQL’s former CEO. Weighing in at a whopping 186 slides, it  is  relentlessly detailed and spends 10 slides on the market opportunity alone. Open-source database MySQL raised $38M before being acquired in 2008 by computer maker Sun Microsystems, which was later snapped up…

Founded in 2013, the company helps customers analyze product experiences (e.g., user behavior and feedback) and focuses on B2B web-based businesses.  North Carolina-based cloud software provider Pendo last raised $100M in its Series E in October 2019.  This pitch deck saw Pendo through a $15M Series B …

Atomwise  Background Atomwise claims its AtomNet platform can screen 16 billion chemical compounds for potential hits in under two days, expediting a process that would normally take months or years . AtomNet’s AI algorithms screen for things like potency and the degree to …

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…

Cyclica Background : Cyclica, Inc. operates as a pharmaceutical company. The Company develops pre-market pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products. Cyclica serves customers in Canada. Cyclica provides tools for the entire pre-clinical drug discovery process About the Cyclica Pitch Deck …

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 …

WeWork Background WeWork was founded in 2010 and is  headquartered in New York. WeWork is a platform for creators that transforms buildings into dynamic environments for creativity, focus, and collaboration. The company transforms buildings into beautiful, collaborative wor…

Alan Background : Alan is a digital health insurance platform that revolutionizes health insurance by focusing on user experience with an excellent price-quality ratio health plan.  Alan  has raised   a total of  $363.9M  in funding over   6  rounds.   Their latest funding was raised on  Apr 19, 2021  from a  Series D  round.…

Mattress Startup Casper valued at $1.1B with Series D Funding Founded in 2014, Casper posted $373 million in net revenue in 2018, according to leaked financials . In a press release, however, Casper refuted that 2018 revenue topped $400 million. The company, isn’t profitable, with losses reaching $64 million last year, per The Infor…

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…

AirBnB Background : Airbnb is one of the world's largest marketplaces for listing and finding accommodations of local hosts all around the world. It is estimated to be worth about $38 billion.With the help of this pitch deck Airbnb was able to raise $600K in funding in 2008.Airbnb has raised a total of $5.4B in funding over …

Theranos Background Theranos was a consumer healthcare technology company that developed proprietary technologies for detecting, treating, and preventing blood-borne diseases. Theranos was a privately-held consumer healthcare technology company that is now arguably the largest biomedical fraud …

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 …

Corporate card startup Brex has raised $1.2B to date. Its 2018 pitch deck, which cites CB Insights data on startups’ monthly spends, helped the company raise its Series C — which vaulted it into the unicorn club.  Brex’s latest valuation puts it at  $7.4B .  Although t he company had to lay off 62 employees amid the pandemic, it rai…

Burner  Background : Burner is a mobile application and service that enables users to obtain temporary, disposable numbers for voice and SMS communication. Burner  has a post-money valuation in the range of  $1B to $10B , according to  PrivCo .  Burner  has raised   a total of  $2M  in fundin…