- April 21, 2015
Steven Loeb's Channel
- April 20, 2015
Customer service support provider Freshdesk raises $50M
Freshdesk now had 40,000 customers, including Honda, Hugo Boss and Petronas
- April 20, 2015
Groupon sells 46% stake of Ticket Monster for $360M
The Korean e-commerce company will be owned by a partnership between KKR and Anchor Equity Partners
- April 20, 2015
Oscar raises $145M from Peter Thiel and Brian Singerman
Oscar is a health insurance company, using technology and data to connect customers to providers
- April 20, 2015
Chinese regulators fine Alibaba for pricing violations
The company will have to pay $129,000 for violations durings Singles Day in 2013 and 2015
- April 18, 2015
How does Etsy make money?
Etsy makes most of its money through by charging users to list goods and then a 3.5% sales fee
- April 18, 2015
Meet Adam Draper, founder and CEO of Boost VC
Boost has a $6.6 million fund, which is used to invest between $10k and $30k into 60-70 companies
- April 17, 2015
Funding roundup - week ending 4/17/15
Sprig, Planet Labs, Courion, NEA, Ascend, Snaps, Acorns, Skyport, 99designs, Adallom, Ticketbis, Ola
- April 17, 2015
Subcription video service Vessel raises $58M
Vessel is content provider that gives early access to short-form video for $3 a month
- April 17, 2015
With $1.8B valuation, Etsy is biggest ever NY tech exit
Etsy raised $287 during its IPO, and saw its stock soar 87.5% during its first day of trading
- April 16, 2015
Slack raises another $160M, is now valued at $2.8B
The workplace collaboration company has doubled its daily active users and paid seats in four months
- April 16, 2015
Ola picks up $400M in funding to pull away from Uber
Ola, the largest taxi service in India, hopes to be in 200 cities by the end of the year
- April 16, 2015
Target will pay MasterCard $19M for credit card breach
The incident affected up to 40 million credit and debit cards, which had to be resissued
- April 15, 2015
On-demand meal service Sprig raises $45M Series B
The food delivery space is a hot one right now, with numerous investments and acquisitions
- April 15, 2015