by The Brio Team | Apr 6, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Katie Roof / Source: TechCrunch After postponing its IPO last year, Elevate Credit, the venture-backed lending company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange today. Elevate priced at $6.50 per share, closing the day up over 19% at $7.76, but...
by The Brio Team | Apr 6, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Connie Loizos / Source: TechCrunch Renaud Laplanche had a terrible no good very bad 2016. But the founder and longtime CEO of Lending Club is back with a new lending startup called Upgrade, along with the support of investors who’ve provided the...
by The Brio Team | Apr 6, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Cherise Letson / Source: Huddle Much venture capital funding in Atlantic Canada comes from government sources. That can have its drawbacks, so the challenge is to attract more private-sector investment to bring badly needed diversity to the region...
by The Brio Team | Apr 6, 2017 | Startups
Author: Matthew McCreary / Source: Entrepreneur Even the greatest minds and entrepreneurs strike out sometimes. Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams once said, “Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of 10 and be...
by The Brio Team | Apr 6, 2017 | Startups
Author: Ken Yeung / Source: VentureBeat Twitter wants you to know that it hasn’t given up on developers and that it’s charging forward with efforts to make it easier for them to build applications on its platform. Today, the company announced a more...