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Mobile games group AppLovin valued at $28.6bn in IPO
read moreMobile apps and games platform AppLovin raised $2 billion in an initial public offering Thursday that valued the company at $28.6 billion.
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DoorDash soars 85% in Wall Street debut
read moreDoorDash’s stock soared 85% above its IPO price in its Wall Street debut Wednesday, marking the culmination of a year that has seen delivery companies benefit greatly from skyrocketing demand for their services during the pandemic.
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Lendtable raises a $18M Series A
read moreHere’s an exclusive look at the pitch deck that Black-led fintech startup Lendtable used to raise $18 million
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Streamlined Ventures Newsletter
read moreDear friends, greetings from Streamlined Ventures! We are delighted to share a few significant updates from our firm since our last newsletter in April 2021.
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Medable reaches $2.1B valuation
read moreMedable brought in a new capital infusion of $304 million in Series D funding.
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Lively is building the modern health savings account that puts consumers first
read moreCEO Cyriac and Uralil started Lively in 2016 to be a modern take on the HSA for employers and individuals.
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Fintech Startup Bolt Sees Valuation Surge to $6 Billion
read moreBolt Financial Inc., founded in 2014, raised $393 million in its latest round to bring total funding to $600 million.
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Pager raises $70M to scale its turnkey care coordination platform
read morePager, a New York-based digital care coordination and navigation platform, announced $70 million in newly raised equity and debt financing Tuesday.
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FLYR Labs closes $150M Series C
read moreThe company has developed a deep learning platform to forecast airline demand and set airfare prices.
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Pre-IPO Marketplace Forge Global to Go Public in $2 Billion SPAC Deal
read moreTransaction would make Forge the first dedicated trading platform for private shares to become a public company
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Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head
read moreToday, the Los Angeles-based company closed on a $28 million Series A led Streamlined Ventures.
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Paystand banks $50M to make B2B payments cashless and with no fees
read moreThe Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees.
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Colombian on-demand delivery startup Rappi raises ‘over’ $500M at a $5.25B valuation
read moreThe new financing brings Bogota-based Rappi’s total raised since its 2015 inception to over $2 billion, according to Crunchbase.
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These Forge co-founders just raised $5 million to work on a new, still-stealth investing startup
read moreThe idea is to enable any investor — not just the 1% — to invest in startups whose services they use and love.
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Addepar Valued at $2.17 Billion as Investors Bet on Wealth-Management Tech
read moreThe company, which makes software to track investment performance, has raised $150 million from D1 Capital Partners.
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Laika gets US $ 12 million to expand the offer of its platform for pets
read moreIn addition to selling products for dogs and cats, they are making a strong foray into veterinary and insurance services.
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Streamlined Ventures Newsletter
read moreWe have been fortunate that the last 12 months have provided meaningful liquidity across our portfolios. Five of our seed-stage portfolio companies saw significant liquidity events.
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Kahoot acquires Clever, the US-based edtech portal, for up to $500M
read moreClever and Kahoot are two purpose-led organizations that are equally passionate about education and unleashing the potential within every learner.
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Next-gen e-commerce startup Carted bags $13 million in seed funding
read moreAussie startup Carted has secured a massive $13 million in seed funding, to build out its next-generation universal e-commerce API. And these founders have global domination in their sights.
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Catch&Release raises $14M to help marketers find and license content from across the web
read moreWith this new funding, founder and CEO Analisa Goodin says she wants to help brands break free from the limitations of stock photography.
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E-Commerce Company Signifyd Raises $205 Million in Investor Funding
read moreSignifyd Inc., a company that sells artificial intelligence-based e-commerce fraud protection software, has raised $205 million in new investor funding bringing its valuation to about $1.34 billion.
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Medable Secures $78M Series C Extension To Scale Digital Clinical Trials Program
read moreClinical trials research company Medable brought in its third round of funding in the past year, this time a $78 million extension to its $91 million Series C round announced last November.
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Minded Raises $2.2M for its Telehealth Service to Refill Mental Health Prescriptions
read moreMinded is a recently-launched psychiatric telehealth platform that allows patients to quickly and efficiently refill their mental health prescription needs.
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Eco raises $26M in a16z-led round to scale its digital cryptocurrency platform
read moreEco, which has built out a digital global cryptocurrency platform, announced Friday that it has raised $26 million in a funding round led by a16z Crypto.
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First impressions of AppLovin’s IPO filing
read moreAppLovin released its S-1 filing yesterday, bringing the Palo Alto-based mobile-app-focused software company a step closer to joining the public markets.
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Rescale raises $50M to help public clouds fix the “developer experience” in the HPC domain
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Stilt, a financial services provider for immigrants, raises $100 million debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank
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Visionary entrepreneurs have the x-factor
read moreUllas Naik, Founder and General Partner at Streamlined Ventures, shares his journey of how he ended up in venture capital and working with visionary entrepreneurs.
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Bolt adds $75M to its Series C, as the battle to rule online checkout continues
read moreBolt, a startup that offers online checkout technology to retailers added $75 million to its Series C round, bringing the financing to a total of $125 million.
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Kea raises $10M to build AI that helps restaurants answer the phone
read moreKea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the phone.
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Medable raises $91 million for its clinical trial management software
read moreMedable’s software is already being used to work on vaccines and therapeutics targeting COVID-19 specifically in addition to facilitating the development of other potentially life-saving therapies and treatments.
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Streamlined Ventures Newsletter
read moreWe are delighted to share with you that we have closed our fourth seed fund at approximately $55M.
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Rappi gets USD 300M investment in a new funding round
read moreColombia-based on-demand delivery company Rappi has raised over USD 300 million in a new funding round from investors.
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Bunch Closes $20 Million Series A Financing
read moreBunch, the party app for multiplayer games, has closed $20 million in Series A funding, bringing together many top multiplayer game makers as investors in an unprecedented show of support from the industry.
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Armed With $50 Million In Fresh Funding, Bolt Helps Retailers Shift To ECommerce
read moreBolt the checkout technology platform company is raising $50 million in a new round of venture funding.
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Codefresh just raised $27 million to help developers release code faster for apps that run on the Google-born cloud computing project Kubernetes
read moreCodefresh’s platform is specially built for apps that run on the popular open source, Google-created cloud computing system Kubernetes, and the company has had success reeling in customers that are looking for something more modern.
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DoorDash Raises Another $400 Million Ahead Of Its Public Listing
read moreThis latest fundraise elevates the San Francisco-based startup’s valuation to nearly $16 billion.
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Fox Corp. to Acquire Tubi Free-Streaming Service for ~$500 Million
read moreFox Corp. said it will acquire Tubi, the ad-supported free streaming service, for ~$500 million in cash — a deal funded largely from Fox’s sale of its 5% stake in Roku.
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Stilt, which provides financial services for immigrants, raises $7.5 million seed round
read moreStilt, a Y Combinator alum that provides financial services for immigrants without Social Security numbers or credit reports, announced today that it has closed a $7.5 million seed round.
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Streamlined Ventures Newsletter
read moreAt Streamlined Ventures, we have been extremely busy these last few months helping our portfolio company founders plan and prepare their businesses for this very difficult post-COVID-19 phase.
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Medable Secures $25M Funding To Reduce Clinical Trial Timelines
read morePalo Alto, California startup Medable Inc. raised $25 million in funding led by GSR Ventures, to accelerate clinical drug development with digital technology.
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Paystand raises $20 million to modernize B2B payments with blockchain
read morePaystand has raised $20 million to modernize commercial payments using its blockchain-based platform and make paying a corporate bill as easy as making a consumer payment with a mobile app.
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Bunch, the Discord for mobile games, raises $3.85M from Supercell, Tencent, Riot Games
read moreBunch is a lot like Discord, but for mobile games. Users who download the game can connect with friends and join an audio or video chat with them.
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Lively raises $27M to modernize the health savings account
read moreWith healthcare costs as the leading cause of bankruptcy, Lively’s goal is to reduce that burden.
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Streamlined Ventures Newsletter
read moreDear friends. Thank you for your continued support of Streamlined Ventures.
We wanted to share with you some of the recent developments at our firm and with our portfolio companies.
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Checkout Startup Bolt Raises $68 Million to Help Smaller Retailers Take On Amazon
read moreThe investments bring Bolt’s total funding to $90 million.
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DoorDash, now valued at $12.6B, shoots for the moon
read moreToday, venture capitalists are valuing the San Francisco-based company at a whopping $12.6 billion with a $600 million Series G.
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Colombian On-Demand Delivery Unicorn Rappi Raises $1B From SoftBank
read moreColombian on-demand delivery startup Rappi confirmed Tuesday afternoon an investment of “up to $1 billion” from SoftBank.
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NCI grants Medable $3.5m to develop digital clinical trial platforms
read moreMedable has received $3.5m to further develop its end-to-end platform for digitally-enabled clinical trials, which can be used at an individual, study, or population level.
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Streamlined Ventures Newsletter
read moreFriends, we wanted to share with you some of the developments at our firm and portfolio companies.
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PubNub Raises $23M in Series D Funding
read moreThe company, which has raised approximately $70m in total funding, intends to use the capital to grow internationally, especially in emerging markets.
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Skymind raises $11.5M to bring deep learning to more enterprises
read moreSkymind, an AI platform that aims to make deep learning more accessible to enterprises, announced that it has raised an $11.5 million Series A round.
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FreakOut and Mobile Action Announce Strategic Alliance
read moreThrough this tactical partnership, FreakOut is set to deliver an advanced search optimization solution powered by “SearchAds.com”, an Apple Search Ads dashboard, as well as comprehensive market intelligence to app marketers, developers and agencies around the globe.
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DoorDash Is Valued At Over $7B After $400M Series F Round
read moreFood delivery company DoorDash has officially raised $400 million in a Series F round at a post-money valuation of $7.1 billion, the company announced today.
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Equidate Inc. Rebrands as Forge Global, Inc., Increases Series B Funding Round to $85M, and Completes $1B in Pre-IPO Trading Volume
read moreForge Global, Inc. (“Forge”), a leading marketplace for pre-IPO securities, formerly called Equidate Inc., today announced a complete rebrand along with an expansion of its Series B funding round.
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Knotch Raises $20 Million in Series B Funding to Power Continued Innovation and International Expansion
read moreKnotch, the independent digital content intelligence platform, announced today that it has raised $20 million in additional funding.
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Software Technology Company Raises $16M To Bring Blockchain To The Pharmaceutical Industry
read moreChronicled, Inc., a software technology company that gives industries and enterprises the tools to build blockchain-powered supply chain ecosystems, announced today that it has raised $16 Million in Series A funding.
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Group Video Chat App Startup Bunch Raises $3.8M
read moreBunch wants to make it easier for gamers to socialize. And to help it reach that goal, the startup has just raised $3.8 million in funding in a seed round.
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Concord Raises $25M in Series B Funding Round
read moreConcord, the fastest-growing contract management platform, today announced it has closed $25 million in Series B funding to continue transforming how businesses operate.
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Streamlined Ventures Newsletter
read moreFriends, 2018 has been an eventful year for us thus far and we are very happy to share some of the developments at our firm and at our portfolio companies in our bi-annual Newsletter.
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Rappi raises $200M as Latin American tech investment reaches new highs
read moreRappi, the Colombian on-demand delivery startup, has brought in a new round of funding at a valuation north of $1 billion.
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DoorDash raises another $250M, nearly triples valuation to $4B
read moreFood delivery startup DoorDash announced this afternoon that it has raised $250 million, just five months since the company announced a $535 million round.
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50 Angel Investors Based On Investment Volume And Successful Exits
read moreExcited to see our very own Ullas Naik named as one of the top Angel Investors.
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In hot market for secondary shares, one player, Equidate, just locked down $50 million in new funding
read moreEquidate, announced a $50 million Series B financing from Financial Technology Partners, Panorama Point Partners and Operative Capital.
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Rescale reels in $32 million Series B to bring high performance computing to cloud
read moreRescale, the startup that wants to bring high performance computing to the cloud, announced a $32 million Series B investment today led by Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners and SineWave Ventures.
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KKR agrees to buy stake in AppLovin at $2 billion valuation
read morePrivate equity firm KKR & Co (KKR.N) said on Monday it will acquire a minority stake in AppLovin Corp for $400 million.
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AI company Avaamo raises $14.2 mln led by Intel Capital
read moreAvaamo, which provides AI technology focused on providing conversational computing in the enterprise, has raised $14.2 million in Series A funding.
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DoorDash is raising $535 million from SoftBank and others at a $1.4 billion valuation
read moreThe food-delivery company DoorDash is receiving a massive injection of cash in the latest iteration of the deal spree staged by SoftBank’s Vision Fund.
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Addepar raises $140 million to help rich people manage their assets
read moreAddepar, a company that touts itself as the “operating system for the financial world,” has raised a whopping $140 million in a series D round of funding led by Valor Equity Partners, 8VC, and QuantRes founder Harald McPike
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Tubi TV Raises $20 Million for Ad-Supported Streaming Service
read moreTubi TV has more than doubled its total funding with a fresh round of capital as investors bet more viewers will sit through commercials in exchange for access to a vast library of free, premium movies and TV shows.
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Signifyd raises $56 million for e-commerce fraud protection
read moreE-commerce fraud is a growing problem, but Signifyd thinks it has a solution to save businesses money.
Their company is growing fast and has closed a $56 million Series C investment led by Bain Capital Ventures. Menlo Ventures and American Express also participated in the round.
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Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million in Series A and B Funding, Led by Andreessen Horowitz and Vy Capital
read moreRigetti Computing, a leading quantum computing start-up, announced it has raised $64 million in Series A and B funding.
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FLYR raised $8 million to change the way we buy plane tickets
read moreTravel tech startup FLYR raised $8 million in Series A funding for technology that predicts the price of airfare by applying artificial intelligence to a database of both open industry data and a proprietary collection of years of past prices and fluctuations.
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Nectar Secures $4.55M in Seed Funding to Bring First Automated Replenishment Platform to the Consumer Packaged Goods and Alcohol Beverage Markets
read moreToday, Nectar announced $4.55 million in seed funding from a group of investors including Palantir co-founder and venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, former Flextronics executive Lior Susan, and the founding family of Modelo Group. The company, still in stealth mode, is building a connected device solution for the trillion-dollar consumer packaged goods (CPG) and alcoholic beverage industries.