| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.02.2024 | Scoop: LionTree quietly raised $1B+ fund last year | LionTree, the media advisory firm and merchant bank led by Aryeh Bourkoff, raised well over $1 billion in a new fund last year to support investments across media, entertainment, tech and gaming, sources familiar with the firm's efforts tol... |
| 22.12.2023 | Home gym startup Vitruvian quietly raises $21.8 million in Series A extension | Vitruvian founder and CEO Jon Gregory. Source: supplied. article-article-body
Perth home fitness startup Vitruvian has quietly raised $21.8 million in what it’s calling an internal extension to a previous raise.
A Vitruvian representative c... |
| 25.11.2023 | Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup, quietly raises $43M in additional funding | Neuralink, a brain implant startup founded by Elon Musk, has raised $43 million in additional funding, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The startup is developing implantable wireless chips that... |
| 02.05.2023 | Filing: Tampa IT company quietly raised $29.5 million | - |
| 07.06.2022 | Oracle quietly closes $28B deal to buy electronic health records company Cerner | At the end of last year, just before Christmas, Oracle made a big move when it announced it was acquiring electronic health records company Cerner for $28 billion, thrusting it quickly into the top enterprise deal for 2021, just under the w... |
| 17.05.2022 | SpaceX employees are quietly selling shares at a $125 billion valuation | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
SpaceX employees are offering to sell shares via a private placement that would value Elon Musk’s launch and satel... |
| 11.02.2022 | This New Web3 Startup Quietly Raised $10 Million in Stealth | Last week, an obscure Venice-based startup disclosed in regulatory filings that it had raised nearly $10 million in funding and is seeking to raise $5 million more. Beyond a scarcely detailed website and several online job postings, little ... |
| 07.12.2021 | Dallas fintech launches B2B service after quietly raising $2 million | - |
| 06.04.2021 | Atlanta unicorn OneTrust quietly raises $210M after buying two companies | - |
| 29.11.2020 | Sunday Briefing | #119 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. It is written by William Johnson, an independent writer, communications advisor, and consultant based in Vanc... |
| 14.08.2020 | UK challenger bank Chetwood quietly lands another £10m | Chetwood Financial, a Welsh challenger bank aiming to disrupt the UK, has landed a further £10 million from long-time backer Elliott – a New York-based hedge fund.
In 2018, Elliott invested £50 million in equity and £100 million of debt int... |
| 12.08.2020 | UK-based hyper local delivery startup to rival Amazon Fresh, Prime Now, quietly secures €1.1M funding | Home delivery is a fiercely competitive market, irrespective of what services one might provide. Companies, big and small, are pushing for faster home deliveries with one-day, one-hour and even faster deliveries. Going hyper local in this c... |
| 16.02.2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #92 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Mario Kart just added Vancouver as a race track location. Oh b... |
| 26.01.2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #90 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
Mastercard unveiled its new Intelligence and Cyber Centre in Vancouver, a $510 million investment. The... |
| 10.12.2019 | Polish-Chinese startup quietly tracking 1.1bn mobile phones raises $12m | Polish-Chinese tech-startup Cosmose, which has software tracking the exact location of a massive 1.1bn people around the world, has closed a $12m seed funding round to expand its operations into Japan and open a new office in Europe.
The li... |
| 09.09.2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #74 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: 8 global tech giants in Vancouver, including Salesforce and Oracle, that we should be talking about; B.C.’s top CTOs; the largest venture-capital investment for a Canadian company since 2000; a CEO’s entrepre... |
| 31.07.2019 | The ‘world’s largest internet restaurant company’ quietly raised $125 million this month | In May, venture capitalist Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital warned in a Financial Times column that Amazon’s recent $575 million investment in the London-based delivery service Deliveroo could prove ominous for local restaurants. Wrote Mor... |
| 25.03.2019 | Blockchain Insurance Consortium B3i Quietly Raises $16 Million | B3i, a blockchain startup owned by some of the world's largest insurance companies, quietly raised about $16 million last month, bringing its total capital to over $22 million, according to corporate registry filings in Switzerland.
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| 06.03.2019 | British identity startup Onfido quietly closes £4m funding from Augmentum Fintech | |
| 15.01.2019 | National real-time intelligence system quietly gets another $59m | The federal government has doubled its investment in the new national criminal intelligence system, approving an additional $59.1 million for the first phase of the build.
The extra funding for the project was quietly handed to the Australi... |
| 15.01.2018 | Dropbox quietly files for a $10bn 2018 IPO | Dropbox, the popular cloud storage app, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) using the newly introduced confidential filing method in a bid to minimise publicity in the run-up to its stock market... |
| 28.09.2017 | Used goods marketplace LetGo quietly raised $100M more at a $1B+ valuation | LetGo, a startup that has built a marketplace for people to buy and sell used goods, is one of the fastest growing apps in the U.S. at the moment according to comScore, with some 75 million downloads, “tens of millions” of active users, and... |
| 07.04.2017 | Nvidia quietly launches £1,160 Titan Xp graphics card with 3,840 CUDA to replace Titan X | Nvidia has quietly replaced its top-of-the-range PC graphics card, the 2016 Titan X, which hasn't even been out for a year, with an even more powerful flagship, the Titan Xp. Based on the company's... |
| 22.08.2016 | Nvidia quietly launches new GTX 1060 3GB with fewer cores, $200 price point | When AMD announced its RX 480, it made it clear the new Polaris family would target the mainstream market rather than the high end. Nvidia launched the GTX 1060 in response, and the 1060 generally outpaces the RX 480, albeit at a higher pri... |
| 02.02.2015 | Vancouver startup Quiet.ly offers new publishing tools for a 'content is king' era | Article content
At a time when content is king but traditional publishing tools are failing to keep pace with the digital age, a Vancouver start-up is quietly stepping in to scoop out a market share with a new publishing tool kit. |
| 10.11.2014 | After Quietly Raising $20M, Zerve Opens Its Local Activity Platform To Consumers | Zerve, a startup backed by the likes of DFJ and Yahoo founder Jerry Yang that has built a merchant platform for local businesses to list activities, and then take sign-ups and payments for them — think OpenTable for events — is today kickin... |
| 26.09.2013 | Siri Ex-Product Lead Who Quietly Sold His Startup’s Assets To Apple Raises $1M For Unsilo, A Semantic Search Engine | Apple’s acquisition of Siri in 2010 gave the company the technology it needed to build a voice-activated personal assistant for its iPhone and iPad devices. A year later, Mads Rydahl — one of the first employees at Siri as its director of p... |
| 30.01.2013 | HootSuite’s Ryan Holmes, angel Geoff Entress launch new BC startup incubator Invoke Labs | Geoff Entress
Geoff Entress has the BC bug. The Seattle angel investor is partnering with HootSuite founder Ryan Holmes and others to create a new startup incubator in Vancouver, B.C. dubbed Invoke Labs.
The incubator is the latest step for... |
| 24.05.2012 | Minimally invasive weight loss device maker quietly raises $2.75 million | Vibrynt’s website provides little information about the device and says only that the company is “dedicated to creating minimally invasive therapies for patients suffering from morbid obesity.” A phone call to CEO Beverly Hess was not immed... |
| 16.04.2008 | Double Take: JPMorgan Quietly Raising $6 Billion | Just hours after suggesting the credit crisis was nearing an end, and reporting a 50 percent drop in net income tied largely to mortgage and credit woes, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) filed a curious-looking preliminary prospectus with the... |
| 16.08.2006 | Technorati quietly raises $3 million more | Silicon Valley blog search engine Technorati, fresh from a facelift, has raised $3 million more — after they’d already announced $7.6 million in third-round funding last month. We contacted the company early yesterday about this, but they h... |
| - | Tesla has quietly raised the price of its cheapest car by $10,000 over the last year | Tesla overhauled the pricing of its entire lineup this week, raising prices by up to $12,500. Tesla
The Model 3, Tesla's cheapest vehicle, costs $46,990 after a price hike.
Roughly a year ago, it started at $10,000 less.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk... |
| - | Minimally invasive weight loss device maker quietly raises $2.75 million | Although it’s trying to keep quiet about its product, a medical device startup developing a new treatment for obesity revealed this week it’s in the middle of raising $5.5 million.
According to a recently filed U.S. Securities and Exchange ... |
