by The Brio Team | Apr 12, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Steve O’Hear / Source: TechCrunch Orbital Systems, a ‘clean-tech’ startup out of Sweden, has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The company’s founder and CEO Mehrdad Mahdjoubi has developed new re-purification technology, in collaboration...
by The Brio Team | Apr 12, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Zen Rooms, a budget hotel network targeted predominantly at Southeast Asia, has closed a $4.1 million Series A round to expand its presence in the region. The company, which was first founded by Rocket Internet in...
by The Brio Team | Apr 12, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Natasha Lomas / Source: TechCrunch London-based Beamery has closed a $5 million Series A for its candidate relationship software. The round is led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Edenred Capital Partners, GP Ventures and...
by The Brio Team | Apr 11, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Lucas Matney / Source: TechCrunch When you have so much data that the real world doesn’t do it justice, why not toss it into virtual reality? Virtualitics is aiming to bring insight through isolation, visualization and manipulation, giving you a...
by The Brio Team | Apr 11, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Darrell Etherington / Source: TechCrunch Lyft has raised a total of $600 million in new funding, with a post-money valuation of $7.5 billion, the company announced via its blog on Tuesday. Reports had indicated the raise was in process, though the...
by The Brio Team | Apr 11, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Coffee is the world’s second most-traded commodity, after petroleum. Some 125 million people make a living growing coffee, according to estimates from the Fairtrade Foundation. Most are smallholders, or small-scale...