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Amar Goel, Founder, Chairman & CIO of PubMatic, Has Some Advice About Startup Funding
Amar Goel was already a successful serial entrepreneur by the time he and his brother, Rajeev Goel, founded PubMatic, the successful ad tech company that recently completed a successful IPO. As a 19-year-old student at Harvard University, Amar Goel co-founded Chipshot.com and grew it over five years to approximately $30M in annual sales, which made […]
OneOf Sells Doja Cat’s Single Edition NFT For $188k During First-ever Auction
OneOf, a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace based in Miami, has sold the single-edition Crystal Token of its Doja Cat NFT collection for $188k. Doja Cat’s NFT price tag through OneOf outpaced Jay-Z’s NFT sale for 138.6k through Sotheby’s. Founded by Lin Dai, Josh James, and Adam Fell, OneOf has developed a green NFT marketplace designed […]
Blockchain Analytics Startup Metrika Closes $14 mln Series A Funding Round
Metrika, a blockchain analytics startup based in Cambridge, has closed a $14 million Series A funding round to expand its operational intelligence platform. The funding round was led by Neotribe Ventures, with participation from other investors like Coinbase Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Nyca Partners, and SCB 10X. The new capital brings the total funding raised by […]
Collaboration Startup Almanac Secures $34 mln In Series A Funding
Almanac, a San Francisco-based collaboration startup, closed a $34 million Series A funding round to revolutionize how remote work teams collaborate. The funding round was led by Tiger Global and counted with participation from firms like Floodgate Fund and General Catalyst. Joshua Reeves, Ryan Caldbeck, Alex MacCaw, Zack Kanter, and Jack Altman are some of […]
Insurtech Startup Bolttech Closes $210 mln Series A Funding Round
Bolttech, an insurtech startup based in Singapore, announced the raise of $210 million after extending its Series A funding round. The round counted with the participation of new investors like EDBI and the Alma Mundi Insurtech Fund. The first part of the round raised $180 million and was led by Activant Capital Group, which represents […]
Bullish on Central America: LatAm’s Next Hot Spot for Tech Startups
The Latin American startup ecosystem has become a red-hot investment magnet as investors chase the post-pandemic digital transformation taking place across the region. Now, Central America is the next big frontier.
The pandemic hasn’t ended—and shipping challenges haven’t either
These five tips can help you navigate shipping challenges through the unrelenting pandemic.
FBN Prime Launches New Lineup Focused on Small Business & the American Dream
Entrepreneurship has been growing for over a decade but the pandemic pushed that growth into overdrive, with a nearly 25 percent increase between 2019 to 2020. All signs indicate that number will continue to grow because of economic uncertainty, the side-hustle lifestyle, and vaccine mandates. So it’s only logical to conclude this level of growth […]
Pandemic and Art: Here are the Culture Themes That Have Emerged Since 2020
An event as enormous as earth-shaking as the COVID-19 pandemic is bound to have an effect on the culture. The Black Plague led directly into the Renaissance, and the Roaring Twenties can be seen as an exuberant rebuke of the devastation wrought by the 1918 “Spanish Flu”. While we may not have known what cultural […]
Data Management Startup Rose Technology Closes $5.5 mln Seed Funding Round
Rose Technology, a New York-based data management startup, has closed a $5.5 million seed funding round to revolutionize how organizations and individuals deal with data. The seed funding round was led by Toronto-based Portage Ventures and counted with participation from important firms like BoxGroup and Sound Ventures. The new capital will allow Rose Technology to […]
Digital Entertainment Startup Boom Entertainment Raises $15 mln In Series A Funding
Boom Entertainment, a New York-based digital entertainment startup, announced a $15 million Series A funding round to boost the sports betting industry. The round was led by Sands Capital with participation from firms like Defy Partners, Golden Nugget Online Gaming, Rush Street Interactive, TEGNA, Bettor Capital, Velo Capital, Alpha Bridge Ventures, and Heatwave Partners. Influential […]
How Hope Helped Me Face Cancer—Twice—And Thrive
Growing up in a middle-class Detroit neighborhood, I remember surviving local street gangs fights, all the while hustling with part-time jobs just to get through college. As tough as it was, nothing could have motivated me more toward success than my Detroit upbringing. Over the years of my career, I worked my way from an […]