- Implicit Gender Bias in Startup Funding: Foundry Group founder Brad Feld (Techstars, Zynga) takes his cues from Dana Kanze’s recent TED Talk to emphasize promotion over prevention.
- The Big Leap: Katie Jacobs Stanton, veteran of Google, Twitter, Angels, and Barack Obama’s White House, announced her entry into the full-time investing world.
- What Sweetgreen Can Teach Startups About Scaling Intimacy: First Round Review mulls over what seems to be a paradoxical business model.
- Today’s Graphs look into all funding rounds for South American startups dating back to 2008.
- Knock (New York, NY), home trade-in platform: $400M B & Debt led by Foundry Group, participation from RRE, Corazon, WTI, FJ Labs, Company Ventures.
- Rubrik (Palo Alto, CA), cloud data management and protection platform: $261M E led by Bain Capital Ventures, participation from Lightspeed, Greylock, Khosla, IVP. The company was valued at $3.3B and has raised $553M to date. CEO and co-founder Bipul Sinha is a partner at Lightspeed and was previously an investor with Blumberg.
- DMI Finance (Liechtenstein), non-banking lending platform active in India: $230M from New Investment Solutions.
- Our top funding round was Real Estate for $400M raised in one deal.
- Today’s average round came in at $35,130,000.
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