Term Sheet — Friday, April 28
Author: Erin Griffith / Source: Fortune Good morning, hello, hi. New money: Chris Urmson, former head of self-driving cars at Google (now Waymo), has revealed details about his stealthy startup, Aurora Innovation, to my colleague Kirsten Korosec. He’s...
Logistics startup nets $2.75m funding to help businesses survive an ecommerce revolution
Author: Terence Lee / Source: Tech in Asia CarPal team. Image credit: CarPal. Ecommerce is a tidal wave that’s supposedly responsible for the current retail doldrum and empty shopping malls. Singapore-headquartered startup CarPal, however, wants to help...
Gaming startup Mech Mocha raises $5M in Series-A funding
Author: Team YS / Source: YourStory.com (From left) Arpita Kapoor, Shilp Gupta, Mohit Rangaraju Mobile gaming startup Mech Mocha has raised $5 million from Accel Partners, Shunwei Capital., and existing investor Blume Ventures. The Bangalore-based company...
Alibaba sponsors $3 million Hong Kong startup competition
Author: Nicky Cappella / Source: The Stack Hong Kong Alibaba has kicked off Jumpstarter 2017, a competition between startups with a significant investment in their business as a prize. Each of the top three contenders will receive a prize of $1 million USD,...
Raising Venture Capital 101
Author: Mehak Chhabra / Source: iamwire Every business needs capital to grow, which is one of the strongest and dominant forces affecting any kind of business and industry. So does a startup. Since not all startups have huge amount of capital to invest in...
Investors are betting 3DR can find life after Solo as a drone data platform
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch An early player in drone-tech, 3D Robotics Inc., announced that it has raised $53 million in a Series D round of funding on Thursday, including new equity funding and conversion of debt equity. Atlantic Bridge led...
Carvana IPO: 4 things to know about the car vending machine company
Author: Caitlin Huston / Source: MarketWatch One of Carvana’s multistory vending machines. Yes, Carvana Co. sells real cars out of a vending machine. And it is about to get hundreds of millions of dollars to do more of it. Carvana CVNA, +0.51% plans to sell...
These 10 Countries Will See the Most Business Travelers in the Next Decade
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur If you’re in the travel industry, get ready for a busy future. During the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Global Summit in Bangkok this month, WTTC and Travelport revealed in a new report that the $1.2...
NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering
Source: Business Wire HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. (“NCS” or the “Company”) announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 9,500,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $17.00 per share. The Company’s...
How to Address Problems Directly Without Being a Jerk
Author: Matthew Toren / Source: Entrepreneur The world of entrepreneurship has no room for passive aggression or beating around the bush. As a business owner, you’ll save time, money and a whole lot of stress by being direct with other people. But, there’s a...
Emerald Expositions Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
Source: Business Wire SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emerald Expositions Events, Inc. ("Emerald Expositions" or the “Company”) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 15,500,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of...
4 Actions to Immediately Increase Your Confidence
Author: Katherine Keller / Source: Entrepreneur Each of us wants change in our lives. We want to become a highly acclaimed speaker, a best-selling author. We want to move up the ladder at work, or build a business empire. We want to introduce ourselves to an...
Propel raises $4M to make the social safety net more tech savvy and user friendly
Author: Anthony Ha / Source: TechCrunch Some big names are making an investment in food stamps — specifically in Propel, a startup that helps food stamp recipients manage their benefits. Propel is announcing that it has raised $4 million in seed funding from...
Big day Chicago tech as Origin Ventures closes $80M fund
Author: Andreas Rekdal / Source: Built In Chicago On Thursday, Origin Ventures announced the closing of its fourth venture capital fund with $80 million in funding. The new fund brings Origin’s total assets under management to more than $135 million....
#TodayDeals: Howdy Ventures Gets $1.5M, iSos Bags $5M, UClean to Raise $3M & More
Author: BW Online Bureau / Source: BW Disrupt Jaipur-based eShiksa, an education management portal, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding. Here is a list of deals that happened in Indian Startup Ecosystem today including funding, merger, acquisition,...
S Chand IPO oversubscribed 1.96 times on Day 2
Source: Moneycontrol.com The initial public offering of textbook publisher S Chand and Company was oversubscribed 1.96 times on the second day of the offer today. The IPO received bids for 1,50,41,466 shares against the total issue size of 76,85,284 shares, data...
SiriusXM acquires connected car company Automatic for over $100M
Author: Darrell Etherington / Source: TechCrunch SiriusXM has acquired Automatic, the maker of the Automatic Pro and Automatic Lite connected car OBD-II port accessories. The deal is acknowledged by SiriusXM CFO David Frear to be worth a little north of $100...
9 Ways Anxiety Can Be Your Greatest Source of Power
Author: Sherrie Campbell / Source: Entrepreneur It seems every time we turn around someone is talking about how they "have" anxiety, as if all anxiety is a disorder. Well, it is not. There is a generalized anxiety we should all have. After all, we are...