Consumer startup Universal Standard announced it has raised a new round of financing. Two investors contributed to the round, including Red Sea Ventures. Universal Standard is a size-inclusive fashion brand for women who wear sizes 10 to 28. The clothing company has pioneered the concept of
Lifestyle brand Tokyo Smoke just closed $3.2 million in Series B financing. Aphria and Green Acre Capital participated in the round. Tokyo Smoke is an award-winning lifestyle brand that seeks to bring sophistication and design to coffee, clothing, and cannabis. The company was founded with
Lending Loop closed $2 million in financing. Two investors contributed to the round, including MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund. Lending Loop is Canada's first fully regulated peer-to-peer lending platform focused on small business. The company screens loan application and assigns a risk rating to the loan requests
The leading job searching site Indeed.com is acquiring software startup Interviewed. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. www.interviewed.com aims to help HR managers take the guesswork out of hiring. Instead of relying on subjective resume screening or inconsistent interview practices, hiring managers
rfXcel announced the close of $30 million in Series B financing. Two investors contributed to the round, including Kayne Partners. rfXcel Corporation is a cloud-based software (SaaS) application company focused on providing drug, medical device, and food safety solutions through enhanced supply chain traceability. rfXcel provides
SmartAssist.io just closed $5 million in Series A financing from Madrona Venture Group. SmartAssist is an artificial intelligence service in the customer support space. It uses sophisticated algorithms to read and understand all the interactions from past tickets between the customer support agent and the customer.
Bread announced it has raised $126 million in equity and debt financing. Menlo Ventures led the equity round, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, and others. As part of the round, Mark Siegel, Menlo’s managing partner, will be joining Bread’s board of directors.
Skycatch completed $27.4 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. Skycatch plans to be the industry leader for industrial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications and data-imaging. The Skycatch team bears a wealth of technical and business expertise, including engineers, roboticists, entrepreneurs, and operational staff with backgrounds
Genome company Veritas Genetics announced that it has acquired biomedical computing startup Curoverse. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Curoverse is building an open-source platform that supports real-time queries of globally distributed biomedical data, efficiently runs machine learning algorithms, and is secure, fault
Tupl announced it has raised $7 million in financing from Eagle River Holdings. Tupl's goal is to help operators increase their operational efficiency and reduce cost. The company has created TuplOS, a virtualized backend platform that promotes process automation and rationalization of hardware and software resources.