This week Lunar Mission One (LMO), a project aiming to land a spacecraft on the moon’s South Pole, passed its first crowdfunding goal – and then some. Roughly $1.05 million of an…
Hampton Creek raises $90m Series C
Food technology company Hampton Creek has raised $90 million in Series C funding led by Horizon Ventures and Khosla Ventures.
Real estate services company Redfin secures $70.9m investment
Redfin, a provider of real estate search and brokerage services, has secured $70.9 million in an investment round led by Wellington Management Company and Glynn Capital Management.
Is capital a commodity or a differentiator?
Arie Abecassis, Venture Partner at Dreamit Ventures, asks how big a differentiator capital is in crowded markets.
FarmLogs secures $10m Series B for agricultural tech
FarmLogs, an agricultural tech startup, has raised $10 million in Series B funding.
WeWork secures $355m investment at $5bn valuation
WeWork which provides shared office space for creative people and companies, has raised $355 million in funding at a $5 billion valuation,
SurveyMonkey grabs $250m in funding
Online survey platform SurveyMonkey has raised $250 million in equity financing from a number of new investors including T. Rowe Price Associates, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Baillie Gifford & Co.
Instagram overtakes Twitter, Microsoft accepts bitcoin and Uber’s setbacks
In a blogpost Wednesday, Instagram announced that it reached 300 million active users, eclipsing Twitter’s most recently reported 284 million users.
The Exit Report: Hortonworks, Lending Club, GoodGame
Hortonworks, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based vendor of Hadoop-enabled Big Data services, sold 6.25 million shares at $16 (above the original $12-$14 price range) to raise $100 million.
Sustainable tech hits Europe’s roads, but is wider deployment realistic?
If you ride a bike path at night between Tongelre and Opwetten in the Netherlands, as of a fortnight ago you should have noticed something different. The path, coated with paint that…