by The Brio Team | Mar 27, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Ryan Himmel / Source: Entrepreneur Citing strong economic progress, the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise rates for the second time since the financial crisis of 2008 has business owners asking when they’ll see banks tack the increase onto capital...
by The Brio Team | Mar 27, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Natasha Lomas / Source: TechCrunch London-based ‘social impact’ accelerator, Bethnal Green Ventures, which backs pre-seed startups with ideas for using tech to tackle social and/or environmental problems, has taken £1.3 million in funding from three...
by The Brio Team | Mar 27, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Clare McGrane / Source: GeekWire Martha Burwell, one of the Catalyze Seattle organizers. (Photo via Martha Burwell) We’ve seen the numbers on diversity in startups, and they’re not good. Less than one-fifth of startups that receive funding are led by...
by The Brio Team | Mar 27, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Ingrid Lunden / Source: TechCrunch Spotify this morning announced its latest move to expand its marketing and advertising horizons: it has acquired and shut down content recommendation service MightyTV, a startup that (as its name implies) focused on...
by The Brio Team | Mar 27, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Arable has raised $4.25 million for solar-powered sensors and software to help farmers produce more food with fewer resources, and more accurately predict their yields. Middleland Capital and S2G Ventures led the...