| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.06.2024 | Findigs: Property Tech Company Secures $27 Million To Simplify Rental Screening | Findigs, a leading property technology company that simplifies rental screening and leasing decisions, announced $27 million in Series B funding. This funding follows the company’s unannounced Series A and Seed rounds, bringing the total fu... |
| 19.04.2024 | Nibble Health Officially Re-Launches As Standard Practice, Changing How Medical Practices Operate | What You Should Know:
– Standard Practice, a voice-AI platform that automates medical practices’ outbound calls to insurance and pharmacies, today announced its official re-launch into the healthcare market since pivoting from Nibble Health... |
| 08.06.2023 | Цифры стартап-студий. Бум, восторг и критика венчурных студий: "Здесь только что было полмиллиона долларов. Где они?"... | Стартапы, созданные в венчурных студиях, доходят до раунда А в 2 раза быстрее обычных. С 2018 по 2022 количество стартап-студий выросло в 3 раза – до 855 по данным Enhance Ventures. Питер Тиль, Марк Андриссен, Джефф Безос и Ричард Брэнсон д... |
| 14.12.2022 | B2B receivables credit platform Bondaval raises $15 million | London-based B2B receivables and mini-bonds fintech Bondaval has raised $15 million of series A funds led by Talis Capital, bringing its total raised to more than $25 million.
The round also features a slate of Bondaval's existing investors... |
| 24.08.2022 |
Parents of Child Killed in E-Bike Accident Sue Manufacturer, Signaling Future Challenges to Industry | Tragedy struck the Steinsapir family on January 31, 2021, when 12-year-old daughter Molly was gravely injured while riding as a passenger on a Rad Power RadRunner e-bike. The accident occurred in Pacific Palisades while Molly was riding on ... |
| 01.04.2022 | Garrett Camp on his startup studio, its new $200M fund and what he makes of ‘Super Pumped’ | When I first met Garrett Camp in March 2007 on a reporting assignment, it was at the San Francisco-based offices of StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool that had registered more than 2 million users and drawn attention to Camp, the startup’s t... |
| 22.03.2022 | Savings app unicorn Acorns is adding Bitcoin exposure to portfolios. Here’s the catch | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
They say a little crypto can spice up a portfolio.
Paid Content How Nucor is pioneering a green f... |
| 21.02.2022 | E-signing solutions provider raises €5m seed capital | |
| 29.08.2021 | Welcome to Unicorn County. Population: 9 | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday. I invite you to stay connected with us all week on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Better yet, join us for coffee (in person) to chat all things Vancouver tech this Tuesd... |
| 26.08.2021 | Cybersecurity startup Cmd to be acquired by California-based Elastic | Photo via Milun Tesovic’s Twitter
Vancouver cybersecurity startup Cmd has agreed to be acquired by California’s Elastic. Cmd employees will be joining the Elastic team, with CEO and co-founder Santosh Krishan and co-founder Jake King taking... |
| 25.08.2021 | B2B Steel Marketplace Felux Raises $5.1M | Felux, a B2B marketplace and supply chain platform for the steel and industrial industry, today announced it has raised $5.1m in seed funding led by Expa, with participation from 8VC and Lightbank.
Normally an offline industry, Felux seeks ... |
| 19.08.2021 | Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools | Open-source business intelligence company Metabase announced Thursday a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Partners.
Existing investors Expa and NEA joined in on the round, which gives the San Francisco-based company a total of $42.5... |
| 12.05.2021 | Collective : Raises $20M Series A from General Catalyst, Sound Ventures, Prominent founders and existing investors Expa, QED and Gradient | Collective, the first all-in-one back office platform, designed to give self-employed people the technology, team and community they need to focus on their passion, not their paperwork, announced their $20 million in Series A funding. Gener... |
| 19.02.2021 | 10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future | The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. It laid bare its weaknesses, and conversely, uncovered potential opportunities.
Electric bikes sales spiked as public transit ridership evaporated. The public, and investo... |
| 29.09.2020 | Collective launches to be the ultimate ‘back office’ platform for freelancers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The U.S. freelance economy is booming, according ... |
| 29.09.2020 | Collective, a back-office platform that caters to ‘businesses of one,’ just landed a hefty seed round | Americans and other global citizens are increasingly self-employed, thanks to great software, the need for flexibility and because skilled services especially can pay fairly well, among other reasons.
In fact, exactly one year ago, the Free... |
| 29.09.2020 | Collective launches to be the ultimate ‘back office’ platform for freelancers | The U.S. freelance economy is booming, according to a recent Upwork report, with more than a third of the country’s workforce carrying out some form of freelance work in the past 12 months. This reportedly created $1.2 trillion in economic ... |
| 19.08.2019 | This Fantasy Football App Has Silicon Valley Funding And Is Looking To Take On ESPN And Yahoo | Pittsburgh Steelers WR JuJu Smith-Schuster has partnered with fantasy football startup Sleeper to ... [+] disrupt the way football fans play fantasy sports. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| 30.06.2019 | The rise of robots-as-a-service | Robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) is about to eat the world of work. While much of the attention in the world of automation technology has been focused on self-driving cars, many other markets traditionally dominated by human-in-the-loop solutio... |
| 30.06.2019 | The rise of robots-as-a-service | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) is about to eat the ... |
| 26.02.2019 | GV leads $15 million investment in stealth Canadian cybersecurity startup Cmd | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A Canadian cybersecurity startup is emerging from stealth today with a fresh $15 million in funding from Alphabet investment arm GV, wi... |
| 11.02.2019 | Metabase, An Uber Co-founder’s New Big Data Startup, Raises $13M | 48 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Early on Monday morning, open source analytics company Metabase filed paperwork with the SEC indicating it raised just over $13 million in a new round of equity-only funding. Board member informatio... |
| 11.02.2019 | Metabase, An Uber Co-founder’s New Big Data Startup, Raises $13M | 45 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Early on Monday morning, open source analytics company Metabase filed paperwork with the SEC indicating it raised just over $13 million in a new round of equity-only funding. Board member informatio... |
| 27.11.2018 | Режущий край экономики: чему можно научиться у венчурных студий | Самые передовые практики обычно возникают на краю — там, где риски выше, где больше ограничений и т.д. В этом смысле “краем современной экономики”, её cutting edge, на мой взгляд являются венчурные студии. Однако есть ощущение, что этот фен... |
| 24.05.2018 | StumbleUpon is closing down after 16 years | StumbleUpon, the social content discovery platform founded way back in 2001, is closing down.
Cofounder Garrett Camp made the announcement in a blog post earlier today, stating that StumbleUpon accounts can be ported over to another of Camp... |
| 24.05.2018 | StumbleUpon is closing down after 16 years | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
StumbleUpon, the social content discovery platfor... |
| 11.06.2017 | Uber’s board is discussing a leave of absence for Travis Kalanick; will Garrett Camp replace him? | According to a variety of media reports, Uber’s board is meeting in Los Angeles today in what may be the most critical sit-down in the company’s eight-year history.
The biggest item on the agenda, according to the New York Times, is whether... |
| 21.02.2017 | Dovetale wants to let brands of any size use influencer marketing | Influencer marketing is red-hot right now. Whether you realize it or not, a material percentage of your Instagram feed today is probably content posted by people getting paid….a lot. It’s not unheard of for the platform’s most popular accou... |
| 01.11.2016 | Ando Closes $7M Series A Financing | Ando, a NYC-based delivery-only, online restaurant, closed a $7m Series A financing.
The round was led by Forerunner with participation from BoxGroup and Wildcat Venture Partners and strategic angels:
– William Lauder, Chairman of Estee Lau... |
| 13.08.2016 | Startup Studio Expa Capital to Raise $100M Second Fund | Expa Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based startup studio, is to raise its second fund.
According to a regulatory form filed with the SEC, Expa Capital II, LLC, has a target of $100m. No funds have been raised yet.
The doc lists COO and partne... |
| 28.07.2016 | Expa’s new startup Haus helps make home buying and selling more transparent | Startup studio Expa has launched a new company with a focus on real estate. Called Haus, it adds transparency to the home buying and selling process, giving all parties access to real-time information on pricing and terms. The service is av... |
| 28.07.2016 | Expa’s new startup Haus helps make home buying and selling more transparent | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Startup studio Expa has launched a new company with a focus on real estate. Called Haus, it adds transparency to the home buying and se... |
| 12.07.2016 | Catching up with the buzzy hardware startups of NYCEDC’s Next Top Makers incubator | Maker stories used to focus on decentralized production tools, hobbyists and makerspaces. Now it’s about the businesses behind products that make people’s lives.
Take StrongArm Technologies, for example, which makes safety equipment for blu... |
| 28.05.2016 | 11 Years of the USV Investment Team | As part of our (currently open) analyst hiring process, we ask applicants to record a few videos of themselves answering questions about their views on USV, venture capital, and the web & mobile app ecosystem.
So, in the spirit of fair... |
| 10.05.2016 | Reserve unveils a full suite of tools to help restaurants manage their tables | Since it launched in 2014, Reserve has often been described as a “dining concierge” — which sounds cool but also maybe a little vague. Basically, the company combines a flexible reservation system with payments.
Now Reserve is ready to do m... |
| 26.04.2016 | Expa Labs brings on Eric Friedman as general manager | With the recent announcement of Expa Labs, New York-based Expa has also appointed a new General Manager for the incubator in the form of Eric Friedman.
Friedman has been an entrepreneur in residence at Expa Labs since July of last year. Pre... |
| 30.03.2016 | Expa raises $100 million to build more companies, launches startup accelerator | Expa announced today that it has raised $100 million in funding that’ll be used to continue to ideate and build new companies. The investment round included investors such as TPG founder David Bonderman, Li Ka-Shing, Solina Chau, Google boa... |
| 30.03.2016 | Expa opens up Expa Labs giving companies $500K in funding | Startup studio Expa has today announced the close of a $100 million fund that will go toward both Expa Studios and Expa Labs, a new incubator.
Investors in the fund include Garrett Camp, TPG founder David Bonderman, Li Ka-Shing and Solina C... |
| 08.03.2016 | Spot launches to help users share recommendations on local gems and travel tips | Spot, a startup that says it can help you find “the best places in the world,” is launching to the public.
The company emerged from “startup studio” Expa. It’s also announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Expa, S... |
| 11.02.2016 | Accommodation marketplace Student.com raises $60 million led by VY Capital | Student.com, an online marketplace for students looking for accommodation, has announced a new funding round of $60 million led by VY Capital and it is coming “out of stealth”.
Horizons Ventures, Expa, Xiaomi’s international VP Hugo Barra, ... |
| 10.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 10, 2016 | Latch picked up $10.5M; Hexadite raised $8M; SchoolMint secured $5.6M funding
Hexadite, an Israel-based company that focuses on automated cybersecurity incident response, raised an $8 million Series A funding round from new investors Hewlet... |
| 07.12.2015 | Using StumbleUpon To Get Traffic [Infographic] | StumbleUpon is going through some major changes as a company. It recently went through some restructuring and is now once again owned by its co-founder and former CEO Garrett Camp. The team is now working on a new product from Camp’s startu... |
| 29.11.2015 | Lists | For as long as the web has been around, there have been entrepreneurs trying to build businesses around lists. And I’m having a tough time thinking of any company that has really nailed it in this category.
For one thing, there are two mode... |
| 27.08.2015 | StumbleUpon News Could Be Good News For Content Creators | What once was one of the biggest drivers of traffic to websites has been struggling a bit, but could be poised to make a significant comeback. In fact, it still is a significant traffic-driver for some sites, but it sounds like new corporat... |
| 15.07.2015 | Expa-Backed Drip Gives Artists A Membership Layer For Their Most Engaged Fans | At a time where the conversation around artist compensation is truly heating up (and being led by T-Swift herself), Expa startup studio has announced it is backing Drip, a platform that lets artists create a paid subscription membership lay... |
| 19.06.2015 | Spot Taps Experts And Friends To Recommend The Best Restaurants, Shops And More | Startup studio Expa is unveiling its newest company today — Spot, which promises to help users to find “the best places in the world.”
In other words, Spot will deliver personalized recommendations for things like restaurants, bars, stores ... |
| 19.06.2015 | Garrett Camp’s Expa Launches Spot: Where Will you Go? | Whether it was because of his time at StumbleUpon or Uber, you’re all familiar with Garrett Camp in one way or another and with the high level of entrepreneur he is. Over the course of the last year or so he’s been putting his entrepreneuri... |
| 13.04.2015 | New Boston Program For A Startup Factory Links Seasoned Entrepreneurs With New Recruits | A new program from the Boston-based big data co-working space hack/reduce is looking to pair experienced serial entrepreneurs with young talent from the Boston community.
The initiative, developed in conjunction with the Boston-based ventur... |
| 07.04.2015 | Uber Co-Founder’s Startup ‘Operator’ Will Get You What You Want | Send an instant message asking for something, and they’ll do the grunt work of placing your order and getting it delivered to you. That’s the idea for Uber co-founder Garrett Camp‘s new startup Operator that’s still in stealth, according to... |
| 11.02.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 11.02.2015 | Reserve takes $15 million to be your go-to mobile app for when you’re hungry | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
People are hungry for good service at restaurants... |
| 11.02.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Emergence Capital raises $335M fund to invest in enterprise startups
Emergence Capital has closed its fourth fund, Emergence... |
| 11.02.2015 | Reserve takes $15 million to be your go-to mobile app for when you’re hungry | People are hungry for good service at restaurants, and that’s why mobile concierge app Reserve just raised $15 million.
Reserve books a dinner reservation and sets up a payment option (including tip) so that when you’re done with the meal, ... |
| 04.02.2015 | “Dining Concierge” App Reserve Launches Out Of Beta, Arrives On Android | Reserve, a mobile application offering a different take on restaurant reservations, is today exiting its beta period which saw it limiting access by way of a waitlist, and is expanding the service to diners who use Android devices. The prev... |
| 14.01.2015 | In Starlike, Faves And Likes Take On A Life Of Their Own | Apps like Flipboard, SmartNews, Nuzzel and a rush of others have tapped into the rise of social networking to offer a new way of discovering things to read and see online. Now add another app to the mix called Starlike that’s taking this id... |
| 28.10.2014 | Reserve, From Startup Studio Expa, Makes Restaurant Reservations Easier Than Ever | A startup called Reserve is launching a beta version of its “digital concierge” app today, promising to help users snag reservations at top-tier restaurants and improve the dining experience overall.
This is the first launch out of Expa, th... |
| 26.09.2014 | AddThis cofounder becomes Expa entrepreneur-in-residence | Hooman Radfar, cofounder of the Vienna, Va.-based social bookmarking website AddThis, announced he will become the first entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) at startup studio Expa.
There, reports TechCrunch, he will work alongside two other soc... |
| 23.09.2014 | Expa Finds First EIR in AddThis Founder Hooman Radfar | We've been seeing more and more companies invite an outside, well-experienced entrepreneur to sit as the Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR). Garrett Camp and Naveen Selvadurai, Uber and Foursquare cofounders respectively, have announced that t... |
| 15.03.2014 | Expa Raises $50M in First Funding Round | San Francisco, CA-based startup studio Expa raised $50m in its first fnding round.
Backers included:
– Garrett Camp (founder of Expa, Uber & StumbleUpon),
– Ram Shriram, Google board member,
– David Bonderman, TPG founder,
– Sir Richard... |
| 14.03.2014 | Garrett Camp Announces $50 Million Investment in Expa | Today Expa announced that it has successfully raised its first $50 million in funding from a list of big-name investors. Expa founder Garrett Camp, known for founding other notable companies like StumbleUpon and Uber, will put the funding d... |
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| 14.03.2014 | Garrett Camp’s Expa Raises $50M To Build New Startups | Expa, a self-described “startup studio” created by StumbleUpon and Uber founder Garrett Camp, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in funding from some big names, including Virgin founder Richard Branson and HP CEO Meg Whitman.
What... |
| 03.02.2014 | StumbleUpon and Uber Founder Garrett Camp Is Raising $75 Million For Company-Building Venture Expa | Garrett Camp, co-founder of both StumbleUpon and Uber, is looking for help in funding his new company-building venture Expa. According to an SEC filing, Camp is looking to raise up to $75 million to bring about a portfolio of innovative new... |
| 02.05.2013 | Garrett Camp Distills His Uber And StumbleUpon Expertise Into New Holding Company Expa | The rise of the company builders is right. As Leena wrote in her spot-on post, “Operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operation.” The latest in a series of accomplis... |
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This Week in ‘Raises’: Miku Lands $20M, Fair Square Secures $15M | A Los Angeles-based startup that creates products for children on a mission to help parents understand and monitor their child’s sleep and respiratory behaviors received fresh funding while a San Diego-based health care platform helping sen... |
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Faraday Future’s Cars Aren’t on the Road Yet – But They’re Coming to Video Games | Faraday Future may not be close to releasing a car ready to zip down freeways, but it is porting a concept version of its electric car into a video game, hoping to convince more people to plunk down deposits of up to $5,000 to reserve a mod... |
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The Great Billionaire Bore-Off Continues in Los Angeles | Hoping to heat up its competition against rival Boring Co., Virgin Hyperloop relocated to new digs in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, signing a four-year lease at the ROW DTLA in the Arts District.
Virgin Hyperloop, founded by Sir Richar... |
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Policy Experts Praise California’s 2035 Gas Vehicle Ban | California air regulators have passed a ban on new gas-powered vehicle sales that will take effect in 2035.
Governor Gavin Newsom had outlined the plan earlier in the week, but the law is now official. The plan is ambitious—perhaps wildly s... |
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Meet the Bird ‘Fleet Managers’ Who Hunt and Release E-Scooters in Downtown Los Angeles | It’s Friday night in Downtown Los Angeles and fleet manager Adan Aceves is cruising the streets in his Ford Ranger pickup truck looking for a bird — not an e-scooter, but an actual bird.
“First time I saw the bird I was wondering what the h... |
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Snapchat Is the Latest App to Get Hit By Illinois' Biometric Privacy Act | Illinois Snapchat users who added dog ears or flame sunglasses to their selfies could benefit from a $35 million settlement.
According to the class action lawsuit against Santa Monica-based Snap, the company’s filters and lenses violated Il... |
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Venture Capitalists Flock to LA for the Deals—and the Beach | Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz grabbed headlines this month by firmly planting its flag in Los Angeles. The VC—also known as a16z—opened an office in Santa Monica and helped organize L.A. Tech Week, a seven-day series of events th... |
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PsyMed Ventures’ Greg Kubin on Investing in Psychedelics | Greg Kubin thinks that the hippies had it right all along.
“They adopted certain healthy eating practices, veganism. They created the music festival. They used psychedelics, cannabis. They brought a lot of Eastern traditions to the West,” h... |
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LA Tech ‘Moves’: Banking App Startup Taps Discord CMO | “Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA profile he... |
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Here's What LA's Proposed New 'High-Tech' Bus Shelters Will Include | What’s the big deal about bus shelters?
The unassuming pieces of street furniture took center stage at a joint meeting of the Los Angeles City Council’s Public Works and Budget and Finance committees Wednesday. At issue: new, expanded high-... |