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Livestreaming Ideas To Connect With Target Audiences

Livestreaming is an innovative way for brands to reach people in a natural, unscripted fashion without blowing their marketing budgets on costly video productions that are more challenging to create. Forbes agency asked its council members for unique ideas on utilizing the tool to target...

Metafy Raises Additional $5.5 Million

Metafy, a distributed startup building a marketplace to match gamers with instructors, announced that it has closed an additional $5.5 million to its $3.15 million seed round. Forerunner Ventures, DCM and Seven Seven Six led the round as a trio. Metafy’s model is catching on...

Text Blaze Raises $3.3 Million

Text Blaze has announced that it has closed a $3.3 million seed round. The company’s investment was led by Two Sigma Ventures’s Villi Iltchev and Susa Ventures’s Leo Polovets. The company’s product hybridizes automation and the written word. First, its Chrome extension allows users to...

Firstbase Raises $13 Million

Firstbase is building a software-and-hardware solution to quickly get workers the tools and support they need in order to work remotely. The company announced that it closed a $13 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. B Capital Group and Alpaca VC also put capital...

Riverside.fm Raises $9.5 Million

Tel Aviv-based Riverside.fm (originally from Amsterdam) launched right on time to ride the remote podcasting wave, and they announced a $9.5 million Series A round. The round is led by Seven Seven Six and features Zeev-ventures.com, Casey Neistat, Marques Brownlee, Guy Raz,  Elad Gil and...

Knox Financial Raises $10 Million

A startup out of Boston, Knox Financial, is aiming to help people identify and manage residential rentals with its algorithm-based platform, and it’s raised a $10 million Series A to help it further that goal. Boston-based G20 Ventures led the round, which included participation from...

1Doc3 Closes Capital Round

1Doc3, the Colombia-based telemedicine startup announced a $3 million pre-Series A led by MatterScale Ventures and Kayyak Ventures. Reaching your primary care doctor when you’re not feeling well is getting harder and harder, and 1Doc3 aims to solve that problem in Latin America by offering...

Sunday Raises $24 Million

Sunday, a new startup has raised a $24 million seed round at a $140 million post-money valuation. Two of the co-founders have been working together for several years as they’re the founders of Big Mamma which has launched a dozen Italian restaurants in France. They...