Life sciences company 23andMe completed $250 million in financing led by Sequoia Capital. Euclidean Capital, Altimeter Capital, the Wallenberg Foundation, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Casdin Capital also participated. 23andMe was founded in 2006 with a mission to help people access, understand and benefit
YouTeam Ltd. is a hiring and recruiting product that provides a fast and easy way to hire software engineers. It is a marketplace of hundreds of software agencies that share information about engineers working for them, allowing HR managers seamlessly to select contractors and hire
Suzy Snooze provides parents and babies with an all-in-one smart night light, sleep soother and baby monitor. It represents a new breed of baby monitor that aims to help children get to sleep. Suzy Snooze’s soothing light and sound seek to create a comfortable and
Sow Study is an education bot that serves as a study partner powered by AI and and Quizlet, the popular mobile and web-based study application used by high school and college students in the U.S. The study process is controlled using voice, allowing users to
Venture launchpad Diagram announced it has raised an additional $5 million funding from investors that include Angela Strange, partner at Andreessen Horowitz; Dax Dasilva, CEO and founder at Lightspeed; Mike Cegelski, managing partner at Panache Ventures; and Adam D’Angelo, CEO of Quora and former CTO
Acxiom today announced the appointments of James Arra and Anneka Gupta as co-presidents of LiveRamp, a leading provider of omnichannel identity resolution for the digital marketing ecosystem. Arra will lead the go-to-market strategy for LiveRamp’s client verticals: brands, agencies, data providers, platforms and publishers. Gupta
Lumio is a productivity app that seeks to provide a better alternative to bookmarks. Lumio started as a Chrome extension and a web app, and it is now also on iOS. Its goal is to be an all-in-one read-later, web clipper, bookmark and clipboard app,
Consumer startup Raised Real closed $5 million in Series A financing from Schwan's Company. Raised Real is a baby food company that has created a subscription system for single-serve raw meals, an all-in-one “Meal Maker,” and an SMS hotline to help parents easily make homemade, nutritious
Cuppa is an office entertainment app that facilitates multi-device office drink rounds. Users load up the app and start a drink round. Their team is notified that a round has started and are given an opportunity to add to the drink order. After three minutes,
Nasuni announced it has secured $38 million led by Goldman Sachs. Nasuni is a leading provider of cloud-scale enterprise file services. Powered by UniFS®, the first cloud-native file system, Nasuni uses private and public cloud object storage to integrate and surpass the “silo” capabilities of traditional