Category: early stage
Clyde raises $14 million Series A to help e-commerce businesses offer extended warranty plans
Four years ago, Brandon Gell was an architecture student who spent most of his time working on 3D printing modular housing. Now, he’s the founder of Clyde, an extended warranty startup that wants to help small e-commerce businesses offer product protection. Today, the company announced it has raised a $14…
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Talking cybersecurity, SaaS and early-stage valuations with ForgePoint Capital
Earlier today TechCrunch covered the launch of a new, $450 million cybersecurity-focused fund, the second from venture group ForgePoint Capital. The new vehicle, inventively named Fund II, will mostly focus on early-stage companies in the cybersecurity space. The fund’s timing is somewhat unsurprising. As we noted in our earlier coverage,…
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Fintech VC sets records in Q4 despite early-stage slowdown
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Fintech is what you hear about constantly, but probably aren’t as read up on as you’d like to be. Neither am I. Luckily we have a new report concerning fintech…
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SaaS kicks off 2020 with an extra billion in VC funding as round count halves
More capital and fewer deals means larger venture-backed investments Alex Wilhelm 8 hours The venture capital world is investing more capital into software-as-a-service companies (SaaS), despite cutting the number of deals it executes within the startup category, according to Crunchbase data. The results echo other venture data we’ve explored recently,…
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