Equity Shot: Pinterest and Zoom file to go public
In the latest Equity Shot, Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm take a closer look at Pinterest and Zoom's IPO filings. ...
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Pinterest drops its IPO filing
The visual search engine will go public on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "PINS." ...
Zoom, a profitable unicorn, files to go public
Zoom posted $330 million in revenue in the year ending January 31, 2019, a remarkable 2x increase year-over-year ...
Lyft’s IPO is hot, YC demo day, two new unicorns, and what’s Boy Brow?
This week on Equity: Glossier and Rent The Runway enter the unicorn club and YC debuts 200 startups. ...
To fund Y Combinator’s top startups, VCs scoop them before Demo Day
Meet the startups that raised venture capital, or got acquired, before Demo Day. ...
Robotics process automation startup UiPath raising $400M at more than $7B valuation
The company, which is more than doubling its valuation, is expected to do $450 million in ARR in 2019, TechCrunch has confirmed. ...
Amify raises its first venture round on a promise: to boost revenue for third party sellers on Amazon
Small businesses have a complicated relationship with Amazon . While they fear the company because they have no control over it, Amazon’s platform is also a great way to reach shoppers, particularly small businesses that rise to the top of its results pages. Amify, a nine-year-old, Alexandria, Va.-based company, says it can get them there, ...
Starbucks will anchor the new $400 million food-focused Valor Siren Ventures fund
Starbucks is serving up a steaming hot $100 million cash commitment to anchor a new food-focused fund in partnership with the consumer and tech-focused focused private equity firm Valor Equity Partners. The behemoth of burnt-coffee said that its commitment to the Valor Siren Ventures fund is an attempt to focus on “new ideas and technologies ...
Erectile pharmacy app Ro launches telehealth service for women
Called Rory, the new line will target menopausal women with treatments for hot flashes, insomnia and more. ...
These ad execs have a venture fund they’d like to sell you
Mike Duda comes from the world of advertising. In fact, he spent 13 years at the renowned ad agency Deutsch, becoming the youngest partner in the company’s history until another creative, Brent Vartan, came along and stole the title. Little wonder that in 2010, when Duda struck out on his own to create Bullish (formerly ...