Virtual reality is not a new technology, but it has steadily gained momentum over the last few years. The size of the VR market is expected to grow exponentially by 2024, and recent advances in the world of gaming have helped it make its way...
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 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 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...
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...
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, 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, 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...
EcoCart, a company pitching consumers on ways to offset their carbon emissions for free at select merchants has raised $3 million in financing from Base10 Partners. Brands pay the company a commission to drive traffic to their websites under a standard affiliate marketing model and...
Tech company Mercato has recently announced a Series A round capital raise of $26 million. The startup is a platform-as-a-service that makes it easier for smaller grocers and specialty food shops to go online to offer their inventory for pickup or delivery, without having to...
