Raise.me, a startup that helps students receive financial aid and scholarships throughout high school, has raised $12 million in venture funding to expand the service around the country. According to a report in TechCrunch, the venture capital round was led by new investor Redpoint Ventures and also...
Technology startup Nested has built a platform that boasts the ability to allow homeowners to sell properties at a fair price within 90 days. Founded in 2016, the U.K.-based startup, which currently operates in London zip codes only, just recently scored additional funding to the...
Yext, the startup that powers the location information in online search results, is gearing up to go public on the stock market as early as April. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing covered by TechCrunch, Yext said it is aiming to raise $100 million in the IPO,...
In the age of various tech startups raising money at a rapid rate, a company like Upstart may just be one of the more successful endeavors. Upstart, an online lending company, just announced its $32 million round of funding. This brings its total amount raised...
Big news from German startup investment company Rocket Internet suggests it plans to come back strong in 2017. Rocket Internet just recently closed a new $1 billion venture fund it will use for investing in early-stage and growth internet startups. Called Rocket Internet Capital Partners...
Small business tossed up a classic case of good news/bad news to cap off last week, care of a new report from the Kauffman Foundation. The good news: Smaller startups are living — or surviving — longer. The bad news: They are keeping to a modest...
With the latest data coming in from our Investment Tracker, overall fund flow proved anemic for the week that ended November 4, at just under $140 million. Only $35 million of that was earmarked for B2B firms. The U.S. and Europe dominated the fund flows,...
Entrepreneurship was once the backbone of the U.S. economy, but another sign its role in the economy is diminishing comes from the Labor Department, which showed job gains from startups are at the lowest level in the past 20 years. According to a report by The Wall...
While all the chatter around Brexit is sending a wave of fear across the world about what global markets will look like in the upcoming days, weeks and months, there’s one group of entrepreneurs that the President of the United States is calling upon to...
