Handy acquired by ANGI Homeservices
ANGI Homeservices, the parent company of Angie's List's and HomeAdvisor, is acquiring Handy, a New York-based home services marketplace that had raised over $110 million from firms like Fidelity, TPG Growth, Revolution, Highland Capital Partners, and General Catalyst.
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SevenRooms receives investment from Amazon Alexa Fund Amazon has invested in SevenRooms, a New York-based hospitality startup that specializes in restaurant software. The investment is Amazon's first into a company that runs restaurant operations.
Investors: Amazon Alexa Fund
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Spotify makes a minority stake in DistroKid Spotify has taken a stake in DistroKid, a distribution service that allows recording artists to upload music across online stores and streaming platforms including Spotify’s biggest rival, Apple Music.
Spotify is now hiring! Check out their BIZZpage
Coord raises $5M in a Series A round
Coord is a New York-based mobility data platform.
Investors: Alliance Ventures, Trucks, Urban.Us, and DB Digital Ventures
June.ai closes its seed round with $1.5M raised
June.ai is an email management platform .
Investors: John Suh, CEO of LegalZoom and Marc Michel of Runaway Venture Partners
Qwire raises $2M in an additional round
Qwire is a New York-based creator of SaaS software to streamline royalty reporting and licensing for music-for-picture.
Investors: N/A
Chief raises $3M in funding Chief raised $3 million to launch a private network for women executives at the VP level and above. The network, for now, based in New York, aims to keep women on track to the top instead of seeing them drop off before breaking the final glass ceiling.
Investors: N/A
Paperspace raises $13M in a Series A round Paperspace is a cloud computing and machine learning development platform.
Investors: Battery Ventures, SineWave Ventures, Intel Capital and Sorenson Ventures and Initialized Capital
WhiteSource raises $35M in additional funding WhiteSource is a New York, Boston and Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of open source security management solutions.
Investors: Susquehanna Growth Equity, 83North, and M12 – Microsoft Ventures
ConveyIQ raises $5.5M in funding ConveyIQ is a New York City-based provider of enterprise talent communication and recruiting automation software.
Investors: SC Ventures, 3TS Capital Partners, and StarVest Partners
Fourpost raises $5M in seed funding Fourpost is a New York-based startup that curates retail and dining spaces inside malls.
Investors: Social Capital, Susa Ventures, Collaborative Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Ludlow Ventures, Supernode Ventures, T5 Capital, Accelerator Ventures and Hersz Capital
Crux Informatics closes its Series B round with $20M raised Crux Informatics is a New York-based data engineering and information supply chain startup.
Investors: Two Sigma, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup
Hero closes its Series A round with $12M raised Hero is a New York-based startup focused on medication management and adherence.
Investors: Brainchild Holdings, Naval Ravikant, Box Group, Third Kind Venture Capital, Refactor Capital and Spider Capital
FundGuard raises $4M FundGuard is a New York-based AI platform for investment funds .
Investors: Blumberg Capital and LionBird