A congruence of factors in India — notably, climate change policies, fuel costs and skyrocketing demand for e-commerce — has set up ideal conditions for startups like all-electric commercial vehicle startup EVage. The startup already has five EV trucks on the road for a range of e-commerce customers including Amazon India’s Delivery Service Partner, with […]
スタートアップに多額の資金が流れ込んだ2021年。この動きは“本物”なのか？
この2021年は注目のスタートアップがシリコンヴァレーを中心に次々に誕生し、しかも莫大な資金を調達したことが話題になった。ヘッジファンドやプライヴェートエクイティといった「非従来型」の投資家が参入してきたことが大きな要因だが、これはバブルなのか、それとも今後も定着する“本物”の流れなのか。
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AngelList just closed a $25M fund to back startups based on hiring velocity
Over the past year, AngelList has grown from a platform that connects angel investors with startups to an end-to-end suite of tools, working on everything from fund operations to founder cap table management. Throughout this growth, the company has quietly amassed millions of data points that show appetite, both from investors and regular employees, for […]
Patreon CPO says the company will double in size in 2022
Creator monetization startups are cropping up left and right as the tech world embraces the fast-growing creator economy. But Patreon, founded in 2013, has been around since before words like “influencer” were in our vocabulary — back when “Tik Tok” was a Kesha song, rather than the social platform that everyone is trying to emulate. […]
Interactive streaming platform Adventr raises $5M in seed funding
Founder and CEO Devo Harris got the idea for Adventr while working with the music industry’s biggest artists. “Adventr was inspired by my experience creating content for artists like Kanye West, Britney Spears and Nas,” he said. “The music videos where I introduced interactive components shot up in popularity, proving that engaging viewers was not […]
「超スピード配達」のスタートアップが、配達員を“従業員”として雇用する理由
食品や日用品などをデリヴァリー専用の店舗から10〜15分以内で届ける「超スピード配達」のスタートアップが米国で急増している。各社とも配達員を従来のように請負業者ではなく“従業員”として雇用しているが、背景には配達スピード向上だけでなく人手不足なども影響している。
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培養肉の「最先端プロジェクト」は、かくして対立と陰謀の果てに“崩壊”した
培養肉の分野で最先端を走るスタートアップの1社であるアップサイド・フーズ（Upside Foods）で、最先端技術を開発していた極秘プロジェクトが“消滅”していたことが明らかになった。元従業員による技術盗用を巡る裁判の過程からは、秘密の研究チームが対立と陰謀、そして培養肉の未来を巡る最初の法廷闘争のひとつと共に崩壊したプロセスが浮き彫りになっている。
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Z Fellows wants to give you $10K to launch a crypto startup
Capital may help someone take the jump into entrepreneurship, but what about the activation energy to let them think that big in the first place? To Cory Levy, the latter has always been more important. The entrepreneur behind First Text, a low-friction service that connects founders to investors, launched Z Fellows last year to test […]
For Course Hero, venture capital was once an unobvious solution
Launched in 2006, education startup Course Hero started its life away from the attention of venture capital. After launching, the company waited eight years to raise a $15 million Series A. Then, after going another nearly six years without raising venture capital, Course Hero closed two financings in 2020. Yesterday, the edtech company announced yet […]
Indonesian fintech Flip secures $48M in Series B to support expansion
Flip, an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round. Flip is Insight Partners’ first investment in Indonesia. The startup plans to […]