For the many companies looking to reach millennials, social media is a commonplace to meet your audience. These social platforms provide great opportunities to engage with millennials and influence their purchasing behaviors. But how can you ensure your social media marketing efforts will be successful and won’t...
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...
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, 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...
A new dating application named Thursday recently announced a $3.5 seed investment raise. It’s only launched in London and New York and they’ve said that over 110,000 likes were sent, resulting in 7,500 matches in a single day. Over 52k downloads have been recorded leading...
NuvoAir, the Boston-based startup which uses an app to listen to your night-time coughing and other health data, raised $12 million. NuvoAir claims it experienced 500% growth in the first quarter of 2021. The platform works by combining the data from a Bluetooth-enabled spirometer that...
Elisity, a self-styled innovator that provides behavior-based enterprise cybersecurity, has raised $26 million in Series A funding. The funding round was co-led by Two Bear Capital and AllegisCyber Capital, the latter of which has invested in a number of cybersecurity startups, including Panaseer, with previous...
Gloat, which has built an AI-based platform that it sells to organizations to power their internal job boards, has picked up $57 million in funding, money that it will be using to continue business development, as well as to continue adding more features to its...
Fresha — a multipurpose commerce tool for independent wellness and beauty businesses such as hair, nail and skin salons, yoga instructors and more, based first and foremost around a completely free subscription platform for those businesses to schedule bookings from customers — has picked up...
Punchbowl, an online party planning service, was forced to make adjustments last year amid the pandemic. Founder and CEO Matt Douglas went to work to rethink the company’s approach. He started by expanding the company’s online greeting card business, which until that point had been...
