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Thatch Closes Additional $3 Million

Thatch has announced a $3 million Seed II round led by Wave Capital. They were joined by Freestyle VC’s Jenny Lefcourt and Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph. It brings Thatch’s total investment to $5.2 million since the company was founded by West Askew, Abby West and...

Sugar Raises $2.5 Million

Sugar, a startup that aims to turn apartment buildings into interactive communities has closed on $2.5 million in seed funding. Seed investors include MetaProp, Agya Ventures, Concrete Rose, Debut Capital, The Community Fund, Consonance Capital, Lightspeed Scout Fund and Jason Calacanis’ LAUNCH syndicate. Also participating...

Rutter Raises $1.5 Million

Rutter, a remote-first company, is developing a unified e-commerce API that enables companies to connect with data across any platform. It was recently announced that a $1.5 million fund was raised from a group of investors including Haystack, Liquid 2 and Basis Set Ventures. Founders...

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...