Web building platform Duda snaps up e-commerce cart tool Snipcart

Web building platform Duda snaps up e-commerce cart tool Snipcart

Duda announced Wednesday that it acquired Canada-based Snipcart, a startup that enables businesses to add a shopping cart to their websites. The acquisition is Palo Alto-based Duda’s first deal, and follows the website development platform’s $50 million Series D round...
Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains

Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains

Apeel Sciences, a food system innovation company, is out to prevent food produced globally from ending up in the landfill, especially as pressures from the global pandemic affect the food supply chain. The company just added $250 million in Series E funding, giving it...
Youreka Labs spins out with $8.5M to provide smart mobile assistant apps to field workers

Youreka Labs spins out with $8.5M to provide smart mobile assistant apps to field workers

Mobile field service startup Youreka Labs Inc. raised an $8.5 million Series A round of funding co-led by Boulder Ventures and Grotech Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. The Maryland-based company also officially announced its CEO — Bill Karpovich...
Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers

Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers

Talkdesk, a provider of cloud-based contact center software, announced $230 million in new Series D funding that more than triples the company’s valuation to $10 billion, Talkdesk founder CEO Tiago Paiva confirmed to TechCrunch. New investors Whale Rock Capital...
CommandBar raises $4.8M to make web-based apps searchable

CommandBar raises $4.8M to make web-based apps searchable

James Evans and his co-founders at CommandBar were working on a software product when they hit a wall while trying to access certain functionalities within the software. That’s when the lightbulb moment happened and, in 2020, the team shifted to building a product...
Mixlab raises $20M to provide purrfect pharmacy experience for pet parents

Mixlab raises $20M to provide purrfect pharmacy experience for pet parents

Pet pharmacy Mixlab has developed a digital platform enabling veterinarians to prescribe medications and have them delivered — sometimes on the same day — to pet parents. The New York-based company raised a $20 million Series A in a round of funding led by Sonoma...