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Thoma Bravo Acquires San Antonio’s Mailgun as Scaleworks Takes Exit

San Antonio—Thoma Bravo has acquired a majority stake in Mailgun Technologies, a spinout of Rackspace that offers software to help developers manage automated e-mail systems for their employers. Mailgun separated from cloud computing service provider Rackspace in 2017, securing a $50 million financing round led by Turn/River Capital, Rackspace, and San Antonio investment fund Scaleworks […]

Seeded with $2.5M, Sales Tech Firm Polis Is Coming for Your Front Door

There’s at least one thread tying together clean energy providers, former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, and home security systems, and it runs through a small Cambridge, MA, startup founded in 2015 by Kendall Tucker. Her sales and political canvassing technology company Polis has helped sell all three of them by sending people to residents’ front […]

Posted in Boston, Boston blog main, Boston top stories, National blog main, National top stories | Tagged Alexis Ohanian, Background Capital, Beto o'rourke, direct sales, door to door sales, energy, Fathom Capital, Garry Tan, haystack vc, Home Security, Initialized Capital, Joe Montana, Kendall tucker, Liquid2 Ventures, Martech, Mobile, NBA, NRG Energy, Polis, political canvassing, Rogers Communication, season tickets, Tech, telecommunications, TELUS, Y Combinator | Comments Off

New Funds for ParkHub, Neighborhood Goods, Rabbet, & More TX Tech

Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas. —ParkHub, a Dallas startup that is digitizing how and when users pay for parking, raised $13 million in a Series B funding round, according to a press release. The investment round was led by Arrowroot Capital in Santa Monica, CA and is the first institutional money […]

Posted in National blog main, National top stories, Texas, Texas blog main, Texas top stories | Tagged Accelerator, AI, Arrowroot Capital, Artificial Intelligence, AT&T Stadium, austin, Camber Creek, Christiana Care Health System, construction, Consumer Products, Cultivation Capita, Dallas, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Innovates, Draper James, e-commerce, e-retail, exobyte, funding, Goldman Sachs, Health IT, Health X Ventures, innovation, investment, Jerry Jones, MedCity News, medtech, Narrative Dx, Neighborhood Goods, ParkHub, parking, people, Plano, Principal Strategic Investments, QED Investors, Rabbet, Reese Witherspoon, retail, robotics/AI, Santa Monica, Serena Williams, SKU, Software, startups, Summation Health Ventures, Tech, VC, Venture Capital, Will Mitchell, Y Combinator | Comments Off

May Mobility Snags $22M Investment, Will Expand to New Cities in ’19

May Mobility, an Ann Arbor, MI-based startup developing self-driving shuttles, today announced that it has raised a $22 million Series A funding round. The company has raised approximately $33.5 million since its inception in 2017. The new investment was co-led by Millennium New Horizons and Cyrus Capital Partners, with participation from LG Technology Ventures, Thayer […]

Posted in Boston blog main, Detroit, Detroit blog main, Detroit top stories, National blog main, National top stories, New York blog main, San Francisco blog main | Tagged autonomous shuttles, Bedrock, Benjamin Birnbaum, BMW i Ventures, connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), Cyrus Capital Partners, Drive.AI, Ed Olson, Entrepreneurship, innovation, LG Technology Ventures, Maven Ventures, May Mobility, Millennium New Horizons, Mobility, mobility as a service, Series A, startups, Tech, Thayer Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, VC, Venture Capital, Waymo, Y Combinator | Comments Off

Sentinel Healthcare Raises $2M For Hypertension-Monitoring Software

A Seattle-based startup, Sentinel Healthcare, is developing a platform combining software and wearable medical devices that it believes can help healthcare providers monitor patients who have high blood pressure—and perhaps one day predict their risk of heart attack or stroke. In the United States, about 75 million people, or one in three adults, have hypertension, […]

Posted in National blog main, Seattle, Seattle blog main, Seattle top stories | Tagged android, apple, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, chf, CMS, Congestive Heart Failure, deals, Digital Health, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, healthcare, Heart Failure, High Blood Pressure, Hypertension, iOS, medical devices, mercom capital group, mobile apps, nirav shah, Pioneer Square Labs, psl, Seattle Angel Conference, Sepsis, startups, Tech, VC, xperience, Y Combinator | Comments Off

Sam’s Club Goes Digital, BNSF’s Electric Locomotive, & More TX Tech

Let’s get caught up with the latest innovation news from Texas. —The Texas Medical Center’s TMCx accelerator has been included in a list of best programs for the first time. With platinum status, AngelPad, StartX, and Y Combinator topped the list released by the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project. The rankings, which are in part compiled by […]

Posted in National blog main, National top stories, Texas, Texas blog main, Texas top stories | Tagged $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, Accelerator, AngelPad, Apps, Austin Powers, BNSF Railway, cleantech, Dallas, Dr Evil, e-commerce, e-retail, ETF, Ethan Powell, Fort Worth, funding, GE Transportation, Health IT, Health Wildcatters, Houston, Impact investing, Impact Shares, innovation, investment, LaserNetUS, lasers, medtech, Minority Empowerment ETF, NAACP, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, people, Phynd Technologies, Rice University, robotics/AI, Rockefeller Foundation, Sam's Club, San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, Seed Accelerator Rankings Project, social tech, Software, startups, StartX, Sustainable Development Goals Global Equity ETF, Tech, Tech Wildcatters, Texas Medical Center, Texas Petawatt Laser, The University of Texas System, TMCx, Trains, United Nations, Venture Capital, WalMart, Y Combinator, Yael Hochberg | Comments Off

Icon Snags $9M for Tech to Print 3D Homes in 24 Hours for $4,000

Austin—Icon Technology, a company that builds 3D-printed homes and was permitted to construct its first home in Austin, TX, earlier this year, has closed a $9 million seed round of funding. The company plans to use some of the money to continue building homes in the U.S. and in the developing world, where it is […]

Posted in National blog main, Texas, Texas blog main, Texas top stories | Tagged 3D, 3D home, 3D Printer, 3D printing, Alex Le Roux, Apis Cor 3D, building, Capital Factory, CAZ Investments, Cielo Property Group, crowdfunding, crowdsource, D.R. Horton, Emaar, Engage Ventures, Evan Loomis, home builder, home building, Icon, Icon Technologies, Jason Ballard, Jason Portnoy, MicroVentures, New Story, nonprofit, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oakhouse Partners, Saturn Five, Shadow Ventures, Startup, startups, Trust Ventures, Verbena Road Holdings, Vulcan Capital, Y Combinator | Comments Off

Packers, Microsoft Drop Accelerator Plans; TitleTownTech Still a Go

TitleTownTech, a soon-to-be-launched joint venture between the NFL’s Green Bay Packers and tech giant Microsoft, has hit the brakes on a startup accelerator the two organizations had previously said they planned to run together. Craig Dickman, whom the Packers named managing director of TitleTownTech earlier this week, says the goal of the joint venture—spurring digital-age […]

Posted in National blog main, Seattle blog main, Seattle top stories, Wisconsin, Wisconsin blog main, Wisconsin top stories | Tagged dickman, Green Bay Packers, Microsoft, NFL, startup accelerators, TechStars, titletowntech, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, uw-green bay, Y Combinator | Comments Off

Microbiome Startup uBiome Expands into Drug Research with $83M

Biotech company uBiome started as a “citizen science” project that collected and studied microbiome samples in order to learn how the trillions of bacteria living in and on people’s bodies affect human health. Six years and 250,000 samples later, uBiome is now moving beyond simply helping people understand their microbiomes. The San Francisco company has […]

Posted in Boston blog main, Boston top stories, National blog main, San Francisco, San Francisco blog main, San Francisco top stories | Tagged 8VC, Biotech, deals, Dentsu Venutres, IndieGoGo, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, investing, Jessica Richman, Joe Jimenez, Life Sciences, microbiome research, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, Novartis, OS Fund, Second Genome, seres Therapeutics, startups, uBiome, VC, Vedanta Biosciences, Venture Capital, Y Combinator | Comments Off

Convoy Reloads With $185M For Its Freight Shipment Marketplace

Convoy, an online marketplace that connects shippers with freight truck fleets and independent drivers, announced today it raised $185 million in a Series C fundraising round led by CapitalG, the growth equity investment fund of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. With its new funding, Seattle-based Convoy plans to continue expanding its network of customers and truckers […]

Posted in Boston blog main, Detroit blog main, Detroit top stories, Indiana blog main, Indiana top stories, National blog main, National top stories, New York blog main, New York top stories, Raleigh-Durham blog main, Raleigh-Durham top stories, San Diego blog main, San Francisco, San Francisco blog main, San Francisco top stories, Seattle blog main, Seattle top stories, Texas blog main, Wisconsin blog main | Tagged Alphabet, Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), automation, autonomous trucks, CapitalG, Connected, Connectivity, Convoy, Dan Lewis, Data Analytics, deals, Entrepreneurship, Financing, freight brokerage companies, freight carriers, freight truck fleets, funding, GE Appliances, google, Greylock Partners, independent owner/operators, Industrial Internet of Things, industrial robotics, innovation, Internet, Internet of Things (IoT), Investor, IT, J.R. Butler, Land O’ Lakes, Lone Pine Capital, Machine Learning, Marketplace, Mobile, OnTruck, Predictive Models, Robotics and A.I., SanFranciscoVC, Self-Driving Vehicles, shippers, Software, startups, T. Rowe Price Associates, Transfix, Trucker Path, Uber Freight, Unilever, VC, Venture Capital, warehouses, Web, wireless, Y Combinator | Comments Off← Older posts Newer posts →

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