Who doesn’t want a vacation home? Right. That’s what I thought. Kocomo is a Mexico City-based startup that wants to help make that dream a reality. And it has just closed on $6 million equity and $50 million debt financing to advance on that goal. The company aims to allow for cross-border co-ownership of luxury […]
Brazil’s Petlove raises $150M from Riverwood, SoftBank to sell pet products and services online
Petlove&Co, a São Paulo-based digital platform for products and services for the pet market, announced today that it has raised about $150 million (R$750 million) today in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. The round is nearly double that of what Petlove has raised in its history. The company started its life as PetSuperMarket […]
Russell Westbrook, Chainsmokers join group pouring $13.5M into prebiotic soda brand Poppi
Poppi is on a mission to lead in the new category of “functional soda” by offering a better-for-you product that also tastes good.
Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head
Flip mixes a live commerce mobile app with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy.
Thatch using $3M round to put travel creators on the map
The mobile app provides tools for travel creators to build their own travel-based businesses in order to curate, share and soon sell interactive travel guides and planning services.
Sastrify snags $7M to help SMEs manage SaaS buying
With so much startup activity in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) space it can be a challenge for businesses to figure out which of these SaaS (SaaSes?) are actually useful and worth continuing to shell out for. Well, Cologne-based startup Sastrify is here to help — offering what it describes as a “highly automated” platform (covering some […]
Stonehenge Technology Labs bags $2M, gives CPG companies one-touch access to metrics
Stonehenge Technology Labs wants consumer packaged goods companies to gain meaningful use from all of the data they collect.
Accounting platform Synder raises $2M to automate e-commerce bookkeeping
The company bills itself as an easy accounting platform for e-commerce businesses.
Zeal banks $13M to offer employers a ‘build your own’ payroll product infrastructure
Enterprises use Zeal to pay large volumes of workers and keep payment data on their own native systems.
Popcorn’s new app brings short-form video to the workplace
A new startup called Popcorn wants to make work communication more fun and personal by offering a way for users to record short video messages, or “pops,” that can be used for any number of purposes in place of longer emails, texts, Slack messages, or Zoom calls. While there are plenty of other places to […]