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| 19.03.2026 | CEO of $5B startup once took ‘shortcuts’ to grow business—until ‘alarm bells’ went off: Without change, we wouldn’t ‘have a company’ | This story is part of CNBC Make It’s The Moment series, where highly successful people reveal the critical moment that changed the trajectory of their lives and careers, discussing what drove them to make the leap into the unknown.
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| 09.03.2026 | Crafting: $5.5 Million Raised For AI Engineering Infrastructure As Crafting For Agents Launches | Crafting announced the general availability of Crafting for Agents alongside a $5.5 million seed funding round aimed at building infrastructure for AI-driven software engineering. The round was led by Mischief with participation from WndrCo... |
| 31.01.2026 | Midship Funding Ignites AI Revolution in SOX Audits | Midship secures $4.15 million seed funding. It deploys agentic AI to automate Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing. This investment aims to revolutionize public company compliance. Traditional SOX audits are manual, costly, and resource-intensive. ... |
| 27.01.2026 | Midship Raises $4.15M to Automate SOX Testing with Agentic AI | an AI-native platform automating Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing and internal audit workflows, today announced $4.15 million in seed funding led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation from Seguin Ventures and additional angel investors. The ... |
| 27.01.2026 | Midship: $4.15 Million Seed Funding Raised To Automate SOX Testing With Agentic AI | Midship, an AI-native platform focused on automating Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing and internal audit workflows, has raised $4.15 million in seed funding as it looks to modernize one of the most time-intensive parts of public-company complia... |
| 15.01.2026 | AI Agents Revolutionize Software Security: depthfirst Secures $40 Million | Software security faces a crisis. AI-driven threats accelerate. Traditional defenses crumble. depthfirst, an AI-native platform, just raised $40 million in Series A funding. It deploys intelligent agents. These agents detect, triage, and ev... |
| 14.01.2026 | depthfirst Raises $40 Million Series A To Bring AI Agents to Software Security | depthfirst, an applied AI lab focused on software security, has raised a $40 million Series A funding round as it positions its “General Security Intelligence” platform as a response to a fast-changing threat landscape shaped by AI-generate... |
| 03.12.2025 | Maropost welcomes elite advisory board members to drive global expansion | Maropost, the leading unified commerce platform, announced the appointment of three new members – Marcelo Cortes, Michael Litt, and Loren Padelford – to its advisory board to help guide the company’s strategic direction!
Together, they brin... |
| 23.09.2025 | Blacksmith: $10 Million Raised For Unblocking AI Development With Fast CI For GitHub Actions | Blacksmith announced it has secured $10 million in Series A funding, led by Google Ventures. The company’s mission is simple yet impactful: to enhance Continuous Integration (CI) by making it faster, more cost-effective, and providing great... |
| 17.09.2025 | Dev tool startup Blacksmith Software gets $10M to accelerate continuous integration
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| 11.06.2025 | L&G developer: Londoners don’t want cookie-cutter high streets | Londoners don’t want cookie-cutter high streets. Independent retail is the key to urban regeneration, writes L&G head of place Denz Ibrahim in today’s Notebook
If you build it, they will come. The quip that so long paved the way for urb... |
| 21.04.2025 | Greenbriar Market Champions ‘Earth Year’ to Make 2025 Count for the Planet | Calgary business expands sustainability commitments with new initiatives, products, and partnerships.
Sustainability isn’t a seasonal trend for us — it’s a way of doing business, every day”
— Mathew Beaudoin, Co-Owner of Greenbriar MarketCA... |
| 18.12.2024 | В Сан-Франциско присяжные признали виновным предпринимателя Нима Момени в убийстве второй степени программиста Боба Ли... | Место, где прохожие нашли Ли.
В середине декабря 2024 года в суде Сан-Франциско присяжные признали виновным предпринимателя Нима Момени в убийстве второй степени программиста Боба Ли.
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| 09.12.2024 | Empowering retailers globally: ShipStation’s new Integrations and innovations for the Australian market | In today's competitive retail landscape, efficient operations are the key to growth. ShipStation, a leader in cloud-based eCommerce shipping software, is championing this approach by expanding its global presence and rolling out strategic a... |
| 22.10.2024 | TILT YOUR KILT NUT TOPPERS BRING THE PERFECT CRUNCH TO YOUR FAVORITE RECIPES | Discover the breakthrough product from the North America’s only women-led artisanal nut purveyor and roaster – a little bit of nut, a whole bunch of crunch ONTARIO, CANADA, October 22, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Jewels Under the Kilt, the c... |
| 30.09.2024 | The Resilience of Small Businesses: Navigating Challenges in a Changing Landscape | In the heart of America, small businesses are the lifeblood of communities. They are the cornerstones of local economies, the gathering spots for neighbors, and the embodiment of entrepreneurial spirit. Yet, as recent surveys reveal, these ... |
| 24.09.2024 | 77% of Small Business Owners Say This Channel Is Driving Most of Their Sales Right Now In a survey with Faire, we asked 12,000 small businesses to share their most successful strategies and most press... | Hey, local retailers, what's on your mind?
Entrepreneur wanted to know, so we partnered with Faire, an online wholesale marketplace where gift shops, pet stores, clothing boutiques, and other mom-and-pop shops source their products. Faire p... |
| 24.09.2024 | These Founders Had an 'Icky Feeling' as Their Startup Soared to a $12 Billion Valuation. Now They're Getting Raw and Honest About What Went Wrong. Faire is a platform for small businesses, but it grew... | It's weird that there aren't more hundred-billion-dollar companies, because it doesn't seem that hard to do, Max Rhodes caught himself thinking one day in 2021.
He was sure making it look easy. The company he'd cofounded, called Faire, had ... |
| 12.09.2024 | Stroop Club Launches First Vegan, Organic and Palm Oil Free Stroopwafel in Europe | Stroop Club, a company founded by Dutch entrepreneurs Chantal and Tako, has launched what it describes as Europe’s first vegan, organic, and palm oil-free stroopwafel. The product, recently introduced in the European market, marks a return ... |
| 30.08.2024 | Blacksmith: Supercharging GitHub Actions with Optimized CI Compute Blacksmith was founded to address these challenges head-on. By innovating within the CI space, Blacksmith has developed a solution to... | Few things test a developer's patience like slow Continuous Integration (CI). When every moment counts in the fast-paced world of software development, waiting an extra 30 to 40 minutes for a CI run can be frustrating. Unfortunately, this i... |
| 29.08.2024 | Автоматизация Code Review с помощью LLM | Как в Faire (мультибрендовая торговая площадка) внедрили автоматизиорванные Code Review c LLM (статья - мой перевод для нашего ТГ канала посвященного разработке софта при помощи LLM).
В Faire мы верим в ценность код-ревью и всегда придержив... |
| 11.07.2024 | Niva: Business Identity Platform Company Raises Over $3.3 Million | Global business identity platform company Niva has officially launched and the company introduced an AI-based solution built to overcome the challenges of establishing trust in businesses internationally. With renowned customers and over $3... |
| 08.07.2024 | Niva, Backed by Gradient, Google’s AI Fund, Emerges to Tackle Global Business Verification | Niva’s platform leverages AI agents to enable its customers to effortlessly build trust in legitimate businesses on a global scale.
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| 13.06.2024 | Faire taps Coupang exec as CTO as it beefs up AI | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Faire, the wholesale marketplace, hired former Coupang and Uber CTO Thuan Pham as its technology chief, CEO Max Rhodes tells Axios exclusively.
Why it matters: Pham w... |
| 13.05.2024 | Biba Home LLC Partners with Faire to Offer Innovative Wine Glass Slipper Stabilizers | Biba Home LLC is excited to announce a new partnership with Faire, the leading wholesale marketplace for independent retailers, to offer our innovative Wine Glass Slipper stabilizers (https:glass-slipper.co) to boutique and store owners acr... |
| 01.04.2024 | Pretty Tasty Tea Announces Availability Of Its Popular Collagen Tea Line On Faire | Marketplace Offers Independent Retailers Wholesale Opportunity to Stock Pretty Tasty's New Collagen Tea Line
NEW YORK, April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Pretty Tasty Tea (Pretty Tasty), a beverage brand dedicated to innovating in the beau... |
| 27.10.2023 | Catching up with Keith Rabois on the state of VC, his newest bet and who he’s backing for president | Chances are that however busy you are, Keith Rabois is busier. He’s an active investor as a general partner at Founders Fund, the early-stage outfit co-founded 18 years ago by Peter Thiel. He’s also the CEO of OpenStore, the company that he... |
| 29.09.2023 | Faire Receives Investment from Shopify | Faire, a San Francisco, CA-based B2B retail marketplace, received an investment form Shopify (NYSE:SHOP).
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
This partnership brings together two category leaders in retail and commerce to expand Shopi... |
| 27.09.2023 | Shopify invests in wholesale platform Faire, valuing the e-commerce startup at $12.59 billion | Shopify announced today that it’s making a strategic investment in wholesale platform Faire. The move comes as the e-commerce giant seeks to offer more Business-to-Business (B2B) tools to its merchants. The financial details of the transact... |
| 21.05.2023 | Unlocking the trillion-dollar female economy | Monique Woodard Contributor
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As women have gained economic power, their economic influence has expanded. Women long held primary purchasing responsibilit... |
| 25.10.2022 | How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale | Engineering is typically the function that grows fastest at a scaling startup. It requires a lot of attention to make sure the pace of execution does not slow and cultural issues do not emerge as you scale.
We’ve learned a lot about pace o... |
| 19.08.2022 | Faire and Forerunner get real about retail at TC Disrupt | Faire, an online marketplace that gives local retailers a way to buy wholesale from independent brands around the world, launched in 2017. That means the company, recently valued at $12.59 billion, has been navigating the impact of the COVI... |
| 20.07.2022 | Learnings of a CEO: Max Rhodes, Faire | Every year, 200 YC companies go through our post-accelerator programs. These programs provide founders with the resources they need to build a company all the way through IPO. One area covered extensively is how to scale as a CEO of a growt... |
| 10.05.2022 | Faire lands $416M extension from YC, Sequoia and others for online wholesale marketplace | Faire, which has built a marketplace connecting retailers to indie brands globally, has raised a $416 million extension to its Series G financing, more than doubling the size of the round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today.
With the... |
| 09.01.2022 | Ankorstore reaches $2 billion valuation two years after launching its wholesale marketplace | French startup Ankorstore has raised a $283 million Series C funding round (€250 million). Founded in November 2019, it took Ankorstore around two years to reach a post-money valuation of $2 billion (€1.75 billion). The company operates a w... |
| 23.11.2021 | Here are 23 of the best platforms for growing your direct-to-consumer business ahead of the holidays | Online holiday sales are expected to be 50% higher than in 2019. Marko Geber/Getty This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
It's easier than ever to start a business right now, say... |
| 16.11.2021 | Casper turns painful even for some of its earliest startup investors | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Even if a startup takes a cut to its valuation, it’s completely possible that investors who took ... |
| 16.11.2021 | Faire banks $400 million USD Series G at $12.4 billion valuation | Kitchener-Waterloo and San Francisco-based startup Faire, which connects independent retailers to brands through its online wholesale marketplace, has closed its third major funding round in 13 months.
On the heels of its successful Europea... |
| 08.11.2021 | Edible insects in focus part V. Gym-N-Eat Crickets: ‘My ideal customer is a woman with kids under 10’ | Smith grew up on a corn and soybean farm in Iowa, left to play basketball at college in Philadelphia and later professionally in Ireland (where she earned a Master’s in finance) and started work as an equity derivatives trader before decidi... |
| 26.10.2021 | How to Start an Online Boutique for Your Small Busines | Have you ever considered opening an online boutique or storefront?
Maybe you already run a small business that you're looking to move or expand online. Or maybe you're just looking to open and run an online store of your own. How to Start a... |
| 24.09.2021 | How Wholesale in Different Industries is Making a Difference | Wholesale businesses have a lot going for them. They help keep the wheels of commerce greased and keep the supply chain functioning, barring global catastrophe. No matter the industry, wholesalers can help most companies save money and grow... |
| 10.06.2021 | Will legislation on competing with China spur the next big thing akin to the internet? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate passed bipartisan legislation aimed at boosting the country’s ... |
| 10.06.2021 | Faire : Nearly Triples its Valuation to $7B With $260M Series F Funding Round Led by Sequoia | Faire, the online wholesale marketplace connecting more than 200,000 retailers across North America and Europe with 20,000 brands from over 80 countries, today announced the closing of $260 million in a Series F investment round led by Sequ... |
| 10.06.2021 | Faire Raises $260M in Series F Funding; Nearly Valued at $7 Billion | Faire, a San Francisco, CA- and Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada-based online wholesale marketplace, raised $260m in Series F funding.
The round, which valued Faire at $7 billion, was led by Sequoia Capital with participation from existing invest... |
| 17.05.2021 | Ankorstore raises another $102 million for its wholesale marketplace | French startup Ankorstore has raised a $102 million Series B funding round (€84 million). Tiger Global and Bain Capital Ventures are leading today’s funding round with existing investors Index Ventures, GFC, Alven and Aglaé also participati... |
| 22.12.2020 | 2020 — Year in Review | In early 2020 the entire world underwent a transformation. The planet was consumed by a pandemic that altered life as we knew it. Most of our normal routines changed immediately. At YC, like most businesses, we closed our offices. We were f... |
| 01.09.2020 | How 2020 Has Democratized Fashion Week | Brands relying on department store or other multi-brand retailer distribution are in particular pain this year, as stores are closing and inventory checkbooks are being scrutinized more closely than ever. Larger or more established brands m... |
| 24.07.2020 | Reimagining B2B Commerce with Faire | COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. In the US, e-commerce penetration increased from 16% at the end of 2019 to 27% in April 2020. While most of the news covering the pandemic’s impact on commerce has highlighted ... |
| 14.07.2020 | Swyft raises $3 million CAD to expand same-day delivery software | Toronto-based digital logistics startup Swyft, which connects merchants to existing courier networks, has closed a $3 million CAD seed round.
The round was funded by Trucks Venture Capital, Golden Ventures, Panache Ventures, and other strat... |
| 10.06.2020 | Ahead of the Great Re-Opening | SMBs are the engine of the economy. It’s not hard to argue that this is true. According to the US Small Business Administration, the US has 29m SMBs that employ 57m people (about half of the total workforce). These businesses include hair s... |
| 20.03.2020 | Small Business Relief Tracker: Funding, Grants And Resources For Business Owners Grappling With Coronavirus | A sadly familiar sign in the window of a small business. But help is on the way from many sources.Getty Images |
| 09.02.2020 | Стартапы недели: подписка на готовую еду для детей, риелтор с кэшбеком для покупателей и другие | А также обзор проектов из прошлогодних выпусков.
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| 07.11.2019 | Faire: Over $1 Million In Daily Sales, $150 Million Funding, $1 Billion Valuation | - |
| 03.11.2019 | Main Street Retailers Have A New Weapon This Holiday Season: Faire | Faire.com websiteCourtesy of Faire |
| 31.10.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Thursday, October 31, 2019 | Hola! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Thursday, October 31, 2019.
Apple accidentally wiped out more than 22 million reviews from hundreds of apps in just 2 days. Last week, Apple accidentally erased 22 million review... |
| 31.10.2019 | Faire Raises $150m in Series D at $1 Billion Valuation | Faire, a curated wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers and makers, raised $150m in Series D funding round at $1 billion valuation.
The round was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Founders Fund with participation ... |
| 31.10.2019 | Faire, a wholesale marketplace startup that connects independent designers with local retailers, is now worth $1 billion after $150M investment | In just about three years after the San Francisco-based online marketplace Faire launched, the startup is now worth $1 billion. Thanks to $150 million Series D investment round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Founders Fund.
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| 30.10.2019 | Wholesale marketplace Faire raises $150 million at a $1 billion valuation | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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| 30.10.2019 | Wholesale marketplace Faire raises $150 million at a $1 billion valuation | Faire, a wholesale marketplace that helpers creators find independent retailers, has raised $150 million in a series D round of funding co-led by Lightspeed Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. Khosla Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, and... |
| 05.09.2019 | These are the 28 hottest tech startups to work at, according to LinkedIn | LinkedIn identified Bumble (pictured) as one of the hottest US startups to work at in 2019. Getty/David M. Benett
LinkedIn recently published its third annual Top Startups ranking, showcasing the best US startups to work for in 2019.
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| 13.08.2019 | Faire, The Online Marketplace For Local Mom-And-Pop Shops, Is Going Global | The online wholesale marketplace Faire now includes 370 international artisans and vendors from 39 ... [+] countries.Photo courtesy of Faire |
| 07.06.2019 | A peek inside Sequoia Capital’s low-flying, wide-reaching scout program | Ten years ago, Sequoia Capital began quietly encouraging founders of its portfolio companies to consider which of their founder friends they might like to get behind financially. Sequoia would let them write checks to those companies, and i... |
| 17.04.2019 | Max Rhodes of Faire with Anu Hariharan on Scaling and Fundraising
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| 11.02.2019 | Стартапы дня год спустя: ориентированный на мигрантов онлайн-банк, маркетплейс для салонов красоты и другие проекты... | Каждую неделю проверяю, как идут дела у прошлогодних стартапов.
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| 14.12.2018 | Daily funding roundup - December 14th, 2018 | NuID raised $2.5M; Aiera raised $3.5M; Block Renovations raised $4.5M; Propel raised $12.8M
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| 13.12.2018 | Faire raises $133 million CAD with Lightspeed Venture Partners and Y Combinator | Retail marketplace Faire has raised a $133 million CAD ($100 million USD) in a Series C round with YC Continuity and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Lightspeed Venture Partners led a $40 million USD Series B in the company “a few months ago,” ... |
| 13.12.2018 | VCs back wholesale marketplace Faire with $100M at a $535M valuation | A slew of venture capitalists known for high-profile exits — Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures, Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures, Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capital and Alex Taussig of Lightspeed Venture Partners — have invested in Faire (form... |
| 17.10.2018 | Q&A with Max Rhodes, Cofounder of Faire | YC posted a list of top alumni companies by valuation, as of October 2018. You can see the full list at https://ycombinator.com/topcompanies.
Here’s a Q&A with Max Rhodes, cofounder of Faire, one of the companies featured on the list.
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| 08.10.2018 | Forerunner Ventures just closed a $360 million fund, tripling the size of its last effort | Last year, retail e-commerce sales worldwide reached $2.3 trillion, a 24.8 percent increase over the previous year, according to eMarketer. A growing percentage of that spend was being captured by startups with strong online identities that... |
| - | Маркетплейсы - особенности бизнес-модели | Все пишут о том, как решить проблему «курица-яйцо», что является основным пунктом выживания маркетплейсов: необходимость привлечь покупателей и продавцов. И я не исключение — расскажу об этом. Но также и о том, какие бизнес модели монетизац... |
| - | StockX insiders say the resale platform is planning for a 2021 IPO. Here are 6 other marketplace platform that experts predict could go public soon. | Experts say StockX, a sneaker and streetwear resale platform, could be heading towards an IPO in the near future. Jeff Kowalsky/Getty This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| - | VCs are placing their bets and dollars on digital marketplaces over direct-to-consumer brands. Here's why. | Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
VCs are bullish on investing in online marketplaces instead of direct-to-consumer... |
| - | Employee referral platform Intrro warms up to $2.2 million in new funding | London/Tbilisi-based Intrro has welcomed a new $2.2 million in a new funding round. The startup uses data science to comb through a company’s wider network and automatically suggests the most promising candidates for open positions as refer... |
| - | I make up to $150,000 in revenue a year selling jewelry. Here's how I found loyal clients using SEO, an email list, and a brick-and-mortar location in a vacation town. | Alexa Allamano. Courtesy of Alexa Allamano This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| - | A law school grad reveals how she started a stickers and stationery side hustle and scaled it to 7-figures in revenue last year | Elyse Burns. Courtesy of Elyse Burns This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Elyse Burns is the founder of Elyse Breanne Design, where she sells flower-inspired goods.
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| - | Small Business Grants You Can Apply For in August 2024 | As the old adage goes, money doesn’t grow on trees: but it might be easier to access than you think, thanks to the growing number of private grants available to small businesses.
Whether you’re unfairly impacted by systematic barriers, or s... |
| - | On Starting and Scaling a B2B Marketplace Startup (Faire) | Max Rhodes is the cofounder and CEO of Faire. Faire helps retailers find and buy unique wholesale merchandise for their stores. They were in the Winter 2017 batch of YC.
Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC.
Max is on Twitter @MaxRhodesOK and... |
| - | Какими будут следующие 50 стартапов-единорогов — обзор CB Insights | Какими будут следующие 50 стартапов-единорогов — обзор CB Insights
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| - | Small Business Grants You Can Apply For in March 2025 | If your business requires a cash injection, but you don’t want to risk falling into debt cycles from private loans, it might be time to consider business grants.
By providing crucial funding for specific projects, and giving your business m... |
