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Stash, an investing app, is taking advantage of a tool that’s been around for some time – a convertible note. The company told TechCrunch exclusively that it just raised $40…

Armed with $40M in fresh capital, fintech Stash says it’s moving toward an IPO

Last summer, Blackbird, one of Australia’s largest venture operations, marked down the value of one of its most prized stakes, in the Sydney-based design platform Canva. Valued at $40 billion…

T. Rowe Price has marked down its stake in Canva by 67.6%

Convoy, a digital freight network that connects shippers with carriers, has raised $260 million in fresh funding to scale up initiatives that will push the trucking tech industry into new…

Convoy raises $260M Series E to expand digital freight network products

Quantum tech may be having its moment at long last. Consider that earlier this month, one of the few “pure play” quantum tech companies in the world, Rigetti Computing, went…

Alphabet just spun out out its quantum tech group, launching it as an independent company

Prior to the global pandemic, technology for older folks was a nice to have, but now is “an absolute necessity to live your best life,” according to AARP’s Andy Miller.

AARP, T. Rowe Price, QED kick off community to target $8.3T 50-plus market

Socure, a company that uses AI and machine learning to verify identities, announced today that it raised $450 million in funding for its Series E round led by Accel and…

Identity verification startup Socure raises $450M at $4.5B valuation, adding Tiger Global as new investor

Rigetti Computing, one of the most visible quantum hardware startups, today announced that it is going public through a merger with the Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II SPAC. Once the…

Rigetti Computing goes public via SPAC merger

Coalition, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity insurance company, has raised $205 million in Series E funding, valuing the pre-IPO company at more than $3.5 billion. The round was co-led by Durable…

Cyber insurance firm Coalition lands $205M at Series E, valued at $3.5B

Canva is now valued at $40 billion following a fresh capital injection of $200 million (USD) in a round led by T. Rowe Price. New and existing investors participated in…

Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation

Rappi, a Colombian on-demand delivery startup, has raised “over” $500 million at a $5.25 billion valuation in a Series F round led by T. Rowe Price, the company announced late…

Colombian on-demand delivery startup Rappi raises ‘over’ $500M at a $5.25B valuation

Celonis, the late-stage process mining software startup, announced a $1 billion Series D investment this morning on an eye-popping $11 billion valuation, up from $2.5 billion in its Series C…

Celonis snares $1B Series D on $11B valuation

Clio, a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. Rowe…

Canada’s newest unicorn: Clio raises $110M at a $1.6B valuation for legal tech

Who knew building a vertical software-as-a-service toolkit focused on home heating and cooling could be worth $8.3 billion? That’s how much Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan, a startup founded just eight years…

With an ARR topping $250 million,  LA’s vertical SaaS superstar ServiceTitan is now worth $8.3 billion

SecurityScorecard has been helping companies understand the security risk of its vendors since 2014 by providing each one with a letter grade based on a number of dimensions. Today, the…

SecurityScorecard snags $180M Series E to measure a company’s security risk

Rivian has raised $2.65 billion as it prepares to begin production this summer of its all-electric pickup truck. The round, which was led by funds and accounts advised by T.…

Rivian raises $2.65B as it pushes toward production of its electric pickup

Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 billion post-money, the company announced today. This brings the total raised…

Color raises $167 million funding at $1.5 billion valuation to expand ‘last mile’ of US health infrastructure

Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup founded by two former Google engineers, has raised $500 million, suggesting that investors still have an appetite for long-term pursuits such as robotics and automated…

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro hits $5 billion valuation on fresh funding of $500 million

Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates, has been issued a permit from California regulators…

Cruise can now test driverless vehicles on the streets of San Francisco

As people spend less time out in the world and more time daydreaming about when a vaccine will arrive, lifestyle shoes are only gaining traction. One obvious beneficiary is Allbirds,…

Allbirds CEO Joey Zwillinger on the startup’s $100 million round, profitability and SPAC mania

When companies need to find manufacturers to build custom parts, it’s not always an easy process, especially during a pandemic. Xometry, a seven-year-old startup based in Maryland, has built an…

Xometry raises $75M Series E to expand custom manufacturing marketplace

Warby Parker, the optical e-commerce giant, has today announced the close of a $245 million funding round from D1 Capital Partners, Durable Capital Partners, T. Rowe Price and Baillie Gifford.…

Warby Parker, valued at $3 billion, raises $245 million in funding

Rivian has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Tesla, arguing that two of the three claims in the case fail to state sufficient allegations of trade-secret theft…

Rivian fires back at Tesla in lawsuit, accuses automaker of attempting to ‘malign its reputation’

Rivian, the electric vehicle company aiming to become the first to bring an EV pickup truck to market, has raised $2.5 billion in a round led by funds and accounts…

Rivian raises $2.5 billion as it pushes to bring its electric RT1 pickup, R1S SUV to market

As IPO season continues, another venture-backed tech company is moving closer toward going public. This week nCino filed an updated S-1 filing, providing an initial price range for its equity…

Fintech startup nCino targets ~$2B valuation in impending IPO

What does a private, car-focused e-commerce company worth $1.5 billion look like?

Popping the hood on Vroom’s IPO filing

Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, automaker Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates, is laying off nearly 8% of its…

Cruise lays off 8% of workforce amid COVID-19, puts resources toward engineering

Waymo has added an additional $750 million to the $2.25 billion funding round that it first announced in March, bringing the total size of the financing (its first from investors…

Waymo expands first external investment round to $3 billion

Cruise, the subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, automaker Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates, is turning to a heavy hitter to head up…

Cruise hires PG&E board chairman Jeff Bleich as chief legal officer

Excitement in the consumer genetic testing market continues to show signs of slowing down. In the past two weeks, layoffs have hit two of the biggest consumer genetic testing services…

Ancestry lays off 6% of staff as consumer genetic testing market continues to decline

There have been a lot of bumps in the road for startups building used-car marketplaces, but now one of the longer-standing of them has closed a major round of funding…

Used-car marketplace Vroom nabs $254M to take its growth up a gear