Consumer startup Ritual Vitamins announced the completion of $10.5 million in Series A financing. Four investors contributed to the round: Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, and Upfront Ventures. Ritual aims to be a new kind of health brand based on the principles of simplicity,
Software startup Azuqua announced the close of $10.8 million in Series B financing. Three investors participated in the round: Insight Venture Partners, DFJ, and Ignition Partners. Azuqua enables users to create high value business processes spanning multiple cloud services in minutes without writing any code. With
Ecommerce startup Drive Motors completed $5.3 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. Drive Motors builds ecommerce solutions for auto dealers. Using Drive Motors’ online checkout, car buyers can complete the entire car purchase order process on the dealer's website. According to the company, dealers love
Botmetric announced the completion of $3 million in Series A financing. Three investors participated in the round, among them Blume Ventures and Draper Nexus. Botmetric is an intelligent cloud management solution for AWS to simplify the work of engineers. The company offers cost management and cloud
Enterprise startup Namogoo announced the completion of $8 million in Series A financing. Three investors participated in the round: Greatpoint Ventures Innovation Fund, Blumberg Capital, and Inimiti VC. Namogoo’s technology identifies and blocks unauthorized product ads that are injected into customer web sessions by client-side digital
Fintech startup Flexiti Financial completed $6.3 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. Flexiti Financial is a Canadian sales financing company founded in 2013. It aims to help retailers increase their bottom line by providing better sales financing options than standard credit cards, with lower interest
Neurable announced the completion of a new round of financing from the Zell Lurie Founders Fund at the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies. Neurable builds brain-computer interfaces (BCI) for next-generation computing platforms. A BCI is a communication pathway that uses hardware and software to
Online forum site Reddit announced it has secured $200 million in financing. Seven investors participated in the round: Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, VY Capital, Fidelity Insurance Company, Y Combinator, and SV Angel. Reddit is a platform that allows online communities to submit links, create
Flutterwave announced it has secured $10 million in Series B financing. Four investors contributed to the round: Greycroft Partners, Green Visor Capital, Y Combinator, and Glynn Capital Management. Flutterwave provides technology, infrastructure, and services to enable global merchants, payment service providers, and pan-African banks to accept
Alternative energy startup Fulcrum BioEnergy announced it has raised $5 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. Fulcrum BioEnergy is on a mission to create a clean, low-cost and sustainable source of domestic transportation fuel. Unlike existing production methods for corn and other feedstocks, the company’s