Category: Startup Stories

[ad_1] Shipyard, which develops business planning products and services for brands and direct-to-consumer merchants, closed on $3 million in seed funding. The round was led by Gradient Ventures, with participation from Liquid 2 Ventures, Position Ventures and a team of angel investors that included current and former executives and founders at Shopify, BigCommerce and SnapCommerce. […]

[ad_1] Our food chains are known for being not-so-surprising in the amount of carbon they put into the atmosphere. Root Global has raised a round of funding with the aim of becoming what it calls a “carbon operating system” for the food industry. It builds software to help companies move up the food value chain […]

[ad_1] Paragon, which builds a platform that integrates and integrates various software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for enterprise customers, has raised $13 million in a series round led by Inspeed Capital, along with previous investors FundersClub and Garuda Ventures. CEO and co-founder Brandon Foe said the distribution is aimed at “running” and expanding Paragon’s team in engineering […]

[ad_1] A collective of micromobile companies are using a surprising new technology to fix what cities hate the most – sidewalk riding. Some companies, like Bird, Neuron and Superpedestrian, rely on GPS systems to detect if a rider is riding inappropriately. Others, like Lime, are starting to integrate camera-based computer vision systems that rely on […]

[ad_1] Sari-saris are small neighborhood stores in the Philippines, often run by pen and paper notebooks. Inspired by motorcycle travel, PakWorks is on a mission to change that, with a mobile enterprise resource planning platform (ERP) led by logistics group Express Group and CVC Capital Partners, with participation from ADB Ventures, Aris, Techstars. and Ideaspace […]

[ad_1] Confirming that there is room for another vendor in the robotic process automation (RPA) market, the RPA supervisor today announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Dawn Capital with participation from S16vc and existing investor MMC Ventures. The infusion, which brings the startup’s total to $25 million, […]

[ad_1] Applying for a mortgage is a time-consuming and disorganized process, requiring manual paperwork. Based in Jakarta, IDEAL simplifies the process with a platform that allows users to compare mortgage products and apply from multiple banks at the same time. The startup has announced that it has raised $3.8 million in pre-seed funding led by […]

[ad_1] To get TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3pm PDT; Register here. What’s up, you delightful creatures. I’ve been thinking a lot about Instagram today. Devin talks about how the platform is getting worse with dark patterns from Tik Tok Amanda She made me laugh when she […]

[ad_1] Inflation is up and consumer confidence is down, which is why e-commerce startups hoping to weather the ongoing recession need to expand their product offerings. Does this seem counterintuitive? “The more comprehensive your catalog and the more products, the higher your cart size and the more likely the customer will return,” says Bennett Carrocchio. […]

[ad_1] Sono Motors this week unveiled the final production design of the Scion EV, which has been powered by solar electricity since its Munich-based startup launched in 2016. It’s been a long and bumpy road for Sono Motors, a journey that has included two crowdfunding campaigns, near bankruptcy and as a publicly traded company on […]