Kentik, the company once known as CloudHelix, today announced that it has raised a $23.5 million growth funding round led by Vistara Capital Partners, with existing investors August Capital, Third Po…
Investment has been weak for some time, and most investment categories were even weaker in Q1 due to COVID-19. However residential investment was very strong in Q1 (increased at 21.0% annual rate in …
What does a global mindset look like in a world where most of us no longer travel? And what does it mean to be local when everyone is connected? Those are the first questions we had in mind when we …
Last November was a big month for Pittsburgh-based Ready Nutrition Founder and President Pat Cavanaugh. His then-seven-year-old startup made a big splash by introducing NFL superstar Aaron Donald as …
When we launched in 2016, we took the unusual approach of saying wed buy common stock in startups. We believed then, and still do, that alignment with founders was more important than covering our do…
Thriva emerged in 2016 as an at-home blood-testing startup allowing people to check, for instance, cholesterol levels. In the era of a pandemic, however, at-home blood testing is about to become quit…
Arch Rao closed the $10.1 million financing round for Span, his company pitching homeowners on an upgrade to the fuse box, in the middle of February. The company had already seen what was happening …
Many tech startups like to brag about having former employees of Silicon Valley giants among their ranks, but this is one that may have more of an impact than most. Financial Timessources say that ex…
Byjus, an education learning startup in India that has seen a surge in its popularity in recent weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak, is in talks to raise as much as $400 million at a $10 billion valu…
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