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Diamond Age Closes Seed Round

Diamond Age, a Bay Area startup company, announced that it has raised $8 million. The seed round is led by Prime Movers Lab and Alpaca VC and features a slew of additional firms, including Dolby Family Ventures, Calm Ventures, Gaingels, Towerview Ventures, GFA Venture Partners...

Everstage Closes Seed Round

Startup company, Everstage, announced today that it has raised a $1.7 million seed round led by 3One4 Capital. Everstage was created to provide more transparency about sales commissions. Sales representatives and other customer-facing employees get real-time data about their performance. They can also use Everstage...

WoodSpoon Raises $14 Million

WoodSpoon, a home-cooked food delivery service, is planning an expansion after raising $14 million in Series A funding. Restaurant Brands International led the round along with World Trade Ventures and a group of individual investors, including Victor Lazarte. They began reaching out to local home...

Third Wave Automation Closes Series B Round

Third Wave Automation, a California-based startup founded in 2018, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Norwest Venture Partners, including participation from prior investors Innovation Endeavors and Eclipse, along with Toyota Ventures. Third Wave and Toyota Industries will develop an autonomous...

ConverseNow Closes on Series A

Voice-based AI technology company, ConverseNow, has closed on a $15 million Series A funding round led by Craft Ventures. The Austin-based company’s AI voice ordering assistants George and Becky work inside quick-serve restaurants to take orders via phone, chat, drive-thru and self-service kiosks, freeing up...

VOCHI Raises $2.4 Million

VOCHI, a Belarus-based startup behind a clever computer vision-based video editing app used by online creators, has raised an additional $2.4 million in a “late-seed” round that follows the company’s initial $1.5 million round led by Ukraine-based Genesis Investments last year. The new funds follow...

Blend Goes Public

Blend, a startup company founded in 2012 has steadily grown to be a leader in the mortgage tech industry. Blend’s white label technology powers mortgage applications on the site of banks including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank, for example, with the goal of making the...

Talkshoplive Raises $6 Million

Shopping-focused live video host platform, Talkshoplive, recently announced a $6 million seed extension led by Raine Ventures. The new round of funding gives Los Angeles-based Talkshoplive $10.5 million raised to date and enables it to scale its product management and technical teams. In addition, the...

Forbes: Company Perks For Summertime

Dealing with the mental and emotional burden of being stuck inside and busy all summer on their own, many companies take special measures to make the warmer months more enjoyable for their staff. The Forbes community was asked how they provide exciting perks and activities...

Kikoff Raises $30 Million

Kikoff, a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced recently that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round. Portage Ventures led Kikoff’s Series B, which included participation from Lightspeed, GGV, Coatue and Core Innovation Capital. Previous backers of the...