Month: May 2015

#F50S5 Deadline is this weekend @fundable50

By DavidCao01 on May 31, 2015

Hey Founders, Thanks to all of those who joined at our F50 Google I/O Startup Pitch Night last week! Over 300 entrepreneurs made it out last night to see 7 top startups […]

Startup Pitch Night #iopitch #io15

By DavidCao01 on May 31, 2015

The pitching night at Google IO was a great success. There are 500 people on the waiting list.The judge panel in the event: PAVEL DUROV, Founder of Telegram & VKontaket DAVE MUNICHIELLO,Partner […]

F50 invites Founders to get funded @ #F50S5

By DavidCao01 on May 29, 2015

Want to connect with F50’s network of global investors (on a huge private yacht)? F50 can give you that (and more) if you’re accepted into our founder/investor network. >>Learn More<< F50 is […]

Meet partners of Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Khonsla Ventures, Newbury Ventures at Startup Pitching night at Google #iopitch

By DavidCao01 on May 28, 2015

Meet partners of Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Khonsla Ventures, Newbury Ventures at Startup Pitching night at Google http://f50.io/googleio/

Funding and Exit

WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist June 22, 2018
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a few other things, is acquiring Brooklyn-based startup Atavist. Atavist has been working on a content management system for independent bloggers and writers. With an Atavist website, you can easily write and publish stories with a ton of media. You might think that this isn […]
Romain Dillet
Twitter buys a startup to battle harassment, e-cigs are booming, and a meditation app is worth $250M June 22, 2018
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week TechCrunch’s Silicon Valley Editor Connie Loizos and I jammed out on a couple of topics as Alex Wilhelm was out managing his fake stock game spreadsheets or something. (The jury is out on whether this was […]
Matthew Lynley
Labstep wants to fix the way science experiments are recorded and reproduced June 22, 2018
Labstep, an app and online platform to help scientists record and reproduce experiments, has raised £1 million in new funding, including from existing investors. The company, whose team has a background in commercial R&D and academic research, including at Oxford University, is backed by Seedcamp and says it plans to use the new capital to […]
Steve O'Hear
Indian food delivery startup Swiggy raises $210M at a $1.3B valuation June 21, 2018
India’s food delivery race is hotting up after Swiggy, one of the startups vying for pole position, landed $210 million in new capital for expansion and joined the billion-dollar startup unicorn club. The investment is led by existing backer Naspers, the media conglomerate famous for an early bet on Tencent in China, and new investor DST […]
Jon Russell
Singapore-based game studio Mighty Bear raises $2.5M ahead of debut release June 21, 2018
Mighty Bear, a game studio startup that grew out of King.com’s former office in Singapore, has landed new funding as it readies its debut title for smartphones. The startup was founded by four former King.com staffers — Simon Davis, Fadzuli Said, Benjamin Chevalier and Saurabh Shukul — after the gaming giant closed its Singapore office — inherited […] […]
Jon Russell
Drip Capital helps exporters access working capital June 21, 2018
Drip Capital is raising a $20 million funding round from Accel, Wing VC and Sequoia India. The company is helping small exporters in emerging markets access working capital in order to finance big orders. The startup also participated in Y Combinator back in 2015. Many small companies in emerging markets have to turn down orders […]
Romain Dillet
Tiller raises $13.9 million for its modern cash register June 20, 2018
French startup Tiller has raised a $13.9 million Series B round (€12 million) from Ring Capital. Omnes Capital and existing investors 360 Capital Partners also participated in today’s funding round. The company has been working on a cash register that works better than your clunky touchscreen from ten years ago. Tiller is working on a […]
Romain Dillet
Stensul raises $7M to make email creation easier for marketers June 20, 2018
Email marketing startup Stensul is announcing that it has raised $7 million. Stensul spun out of founder and CEO Noah Dinkin’s previous company FanBridge. Dinkin explained via email that the startup isn’t competing with the big email service providers — in fact, it integrates with ESPs including Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Adobe Marke […]
Anthony Ha
Beamery closes $28M Series B to stoke support for its ‘talent CRM’ June 20, 2018
Beamery, a London-based startup that offers self-styled “talent CRM”– aka ‘candidate relationship management’ — and recruitment marketing software targeted at fast-growing companies, has closed a $28M Series B funding round, led by EQT Ventures. Also participating in the round are M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, and existing investors Index Ventures, Edenred […]
Natasha Lomas
Nginx lands $43 million Series C to fuel expansion June 20, 2018
Nginx, the commercial company behind the open source web server, announced a $43 million Series C investment today led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. NEA, which has been on board as an early investor is also participating. As part of the deal, David Campbell, managing director at Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division will join the […]
Ron Miller

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Blockchain Party: Developer + Entrepreneur + Investor Mixer and Happy Hour June 28, 2018 at 12:30 am – 3:30 am Sports Page (1431 Plymouth St, Mountain View, CA 94043) Blockchain Party time! F50 is happy to partner with this meetup for a community party! Interested in presenting, sponsoring, or volunteer for the developer meetup? Click here: https://goo.gl/forms/wZMyz6xNsg6ZA5173
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