Booking Tech Platform Triptease Raises $9 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Author: Sean O'Neill / Source: Skift Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. The total raised this week was more than $19 million in confirmed fresh funding. >>Triptease, a London-based hotel technology...
Tech startup NanoSniff gets funded by 1Crowd
Author: Raaghav G R / Source: IndianCEO NanoSniff Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is an IIT – Bombay incubated tech startup. The startup announced yesterday (05/04/2017) that it had raised a fund of Rs. 2 crores from the crowd funding platform 1Crowd. With this...
Okta Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
Source: Business Wire SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $17.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin...
Elevate Credit pulls off lending IPO
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...
Lending Club founder Renaud Laplanche is back with a new startup and $60 million in funding
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...
Getting Beyond Government Venture Capital in Atlantic Canada
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...
He’s Human, After All: 5 Times Elon Musk Completely Failed
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 considered...
Twitter simplifies API platform, publishes 2017 developer roadmap
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...
Monzo, a UK digital-only challenger bank, granted full banking license
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch Monzo, one of a number of so-called “challenger” banks in the U.K. aiming to re-invent the current account, has had the “restrictions” on its banking license lifted and says it will begin rolling out full current...
3-Step Spring Cleaning for an Improved Website
Author: Jonathan Long / Source: Entrepreneur You have to be willing to adapt and change to succeed in business. Very few things, if any, remain constant over the years, and people who refuse to change get left in the dust. This holds especially true for your...
Surviving a Job Seeker’s Market in the Thriving Tech Industry
Author: Adam Levy / Source: Entrepreneur The need for tech talent continues to grow. In its 2017 State of Tech Recruiting report, Built In indicated that 53 percent of companies surveyed have salary increases planned for 2017 in hopes of attracting the most...
Stripe opens Atlas business creation toolkit to U.S. entrepreneurs
Author: Ken Yeung / Source: VentureBeat Image Credit: Stripe When Stripe began beta testing Atlas in 2016, the service was centered around helping foreign entrepreneurs set up shop in the United States. More than a year later, the payment processing company...
Use Windows? Microsoft Might Know a Ton About You.
Author: Tom Brant / Source: Entrepreneur When the Windows 10 Creators Update arrives next week, its users will have several privacy options to comb through in order to customize how much of their personal data Microsoft can collect. Undoubtedly cognizant of...
“Disruptive” northern brokerage announces plans for initial public offering (IPO) in London
Author: William Turvill / Source: City A.M. Bolton is home to Bolton Wanderers Football Club and K3 (Source: Getty) Bolton-based K3 Capital has announced plans to float on London’s junior market as it seeks to challenge the City’s traditional brokers. The...
Triptease, a London startup that helps hotels increase direct sales, closes $9M Series B
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch London-based Triptease, a startup that offers a SaaS to help hotels increase direct sales and therefore keep more revenue, has closed a $9 million Series B. The new round was led by BGF Ventures, with participation...
Landing Financing Without Taking on Debt or Giving Away Equity
Source: Entrepreneur The following excerpt is from Entrepreneur's book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes Serial entrepreneur Aamer Sarfraz knows that raising money to launch or grow your business is painful, and says he’s invented...
Demand Is Strong For Okta IPO, Another Tech Unicorn Ready To Launch
Author: BRIAN DEAGON / Source: Investor's Business Daily A fourth tech unicorn, Okta, is due to start trading this week. (©kritchanut-Fotolia/stock.adobe.com) Institutional investors are lining up to buy shares of tech unicorn Okta (OKTA), with an initial...
Frontier Airlines Filed for an Initial Public Offering
Author: Ally Schmidt / Source: marketrealist.com Frontier Airlines Putting an end to rumors over the past few months, Indigo Frontier Group Holdings—the parent company of Frontier Airlines—filed the preliminary registration form for an initial public...