| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.07.2025 | A New Standard in K-Beauty: How Leaders Are Winning with Data + AI Automation | trendier AI Bootcamp in Seoul 2025
K-Beauty leaders are adopting a new standard: Data + AI Automation. Powered by data from 25+ global marketplaces, this approach is enabling beauty companies to slash their market research and marketing ass... |
| 28.07.2020 | MBX Biosciences gets $34.6M | Drug discovery startup MBX Biosciences has landed $34.6 million in a Series A led by Frazier Healthcare Partners, with support from OrbiMed, NEA and others. The Indiana-based biotech company focuses on developing treatments for rare endocri... |
| 26.09.2019 | At the sixth annual Pear Demo Day, weather balloons, branded credit cards and lots of top degrees | Pear, a Palo Alto-based seed-stage fund that has made its name through early bets on Guardant Health, DoorDash, Memebox and Gusto, hosted its sixth annual demo day this week in what proved to be a scorchingly hot afternoon in Woodside, Cali... |
| 28.01.2019 | Korean beauty e-commerce startup Memebox bags $35m series D | Premium
Memebox, a Korean online beauty marketplace startup, has closed a $35-million Series D round led by new strategic investor JJDC Inc, according to the company’s announcement last Thursday.
Continue reading this story with a subscript... |
| 25.01.2019 | Daily funding roundup - January 25th, 2019 | AirWorks Solutions raised $2.3M; RealBlocks raised $3.1M; 7shifts raised $10M
AirWorks Solutions: AirWorks’ aerial mapping software helps land developers and engineers to evaluate more job sites within their critical planning and acquisitio... |
| 24.01.2019 | Memebox Closes $35M Series D Financing | Memebox, a San Francisco, CA-based beauty startup building brands powered by data-driven consumer insights, closed a $35m Series D funding.
The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $190m, was led by JJDC, with participation ... |
| 19.06.2018 | Korean beauty startup Memebox relaunches its U.S. e-commerce platform and signs Sephora deal | Beauty startup Memebox is relaunching its United States e-commerce business, about one year after putting it on hold to focus on building a review and community platform. Beginning today, the company will sell its in-house brands, I Dew car... |
| 07.08.2017 | SparkLabs launches its latest accelerator program in Taipei | Accelerator network SparkLabs launches its newest program today in Taipei. Headed by managing partner Edgar Chiu (pictured above), SparkLabs Taipei will focus on preparing Taiwanese startups to enter other countries.
Chiu was COO of Taipei-... |
| 18.04.2017 | Midas Brink List Lookback -- Where Are They Now? | Since 2011, when TrueBridge Capital Partners first collaborated with Forbes to produce the Midas List, we’ve created a complementary list of venture capital investors, the Brink List, which recognizes those who haven’t quite made it to Mida... |
| 18.12.2016 | Online Korean beauty retailer Memebox raises $60M more to sharpen its focus on the U.S. | Memebox, a Y Combinator startup that sells Korean beauty products in the U.S. and Asia, has raised $60 million. The cash is an extension of the firm’s Series C round which initially closed at $65.95 million in August.
The company said the m... |
| 17.12.2016 | S Korean cosmetics startup Memebox raises $60m in Series C extension round | Premium
South Korean cosmetics startup Memebox announced it had raised a $60 million Series C extension round led by new and existing investors that include Goodwater Capital, Altos Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Mousse Partners, Formation Grou... |
| 16.12.2016 | Memebox Raises $60M in Series C Extension Round | Memebox, a San Francisco, CA-based beauty brand, raised an additional $60M in a Series C extension round.
Backers included Goodwater Capital, Altos Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Mousse Partners, Formation Group, Funders Club, Pear Ventures, Co... |
| 16.12.2016 | Term Sheet — Friday, December 16 | BRB
No column today, as I’m wrapping up some magazine duties. Today’s links section is extra-long to tide you over. Have a great weekend.
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| 11.08.2016 | Formation Group leads $69.95m round in Korea’s Memebox | Premium
Memebox, a rapidly growing beauty brand with offices in San Francisco, Shanghai, Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong and Singapore, has secured a $65.95 million Series C investment in a round led by new global investor Formation Group and prev... |
| 10.08.2016 | Beauty Brand Memebox Closes $65.95M in Series C Funding | Memebox, a San Francisco, CA-based beauty brand, closed a $65.95m in Series C funding.
The round was led by new global investor Formation Group with partcipation from previous investors Goodwater Capital and Pejman Mar Ventures.
The company... |
| 09.08.2016 | K-Beauty gurus’ favorite Memebox raises $65.9 million to expand online retail | If you’ve ever binge-watched YouTube makeup tutorials, then you probably know South Korean beauty brand and distributer Memebox thanks to its peeling masks.
K-Beauty favorite Memebox — think Sephora for South Korean products — announced tod... |
| 09.08.2016 | K-Beauty gurus’ favorite Memebox raises $65.9 million to expand online retail | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’ve ever binge-watched YouTube makeup tutor... |
| 09.08.2016 | Memebox raises $66M for its e-commerce platform for Korean beauty products | Memebox, an e-commerce company specializing in beauty products from Korea, has closed a significant $65.95 million Series C funding round to fuel further expansion.
The financing was led by new investor Formation Group, with participation f... |
| 14.10.2015 | Hermo, One Of Southeast Asia’s Top Beauty Sites, Lands $2M Series A | Browsing for beauty products should be relaxing, but anyone who has visited a makeup counter knows that you often weather a deluge of upselling before finally escaping with a purchase. Hermo, a Malaysia-based e-commerce site, wants to make ... |
| 18.06.2015 | Как устроен стартап-рынок Южной Кореи: инвесторы, акселераторы и лидеры рынка Статьи редакции | Евгений Ким, предприниматель и основатель стартапа EZIK, разрабатывающего приложение для решения бытовых трудностей за границей, рассказал ЦП о том, как устроена инновационная экосистема Южной Кореи. Сам Ким живёт и работает в Корее с 2012 ... |
| 20.04.2015 | And The Winners Of TechCrunch’s First Meetup In Seoul Are… | Last Thursday we held our first TechCrunch meetup in Seoul, Korea, in association with Campus Seoul from Google.
More than 1,300 people queued round the block to pack into the aA Design Museum for an evening dedicated to Korea’s startup sce... |
| 13.03.2015 | Memebox Raises $29.35M in Funding | Memebox, a San Francisco, CA-based beauty e-commerce platform, raised $29.35m in funding.
Backers included Formation 8, Goodwater Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Pejman Mar Ventures, Y Combinator, Winklevoss Capital, FundersClub, Cowboy Ventur... |
| 13.03.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 3/13/15 | Do, Zuroa, Lingua.ly, Greenhouse, Memebox, Elastica, Looker, Bento, VaporChat, ClassKick, mySugr
Seed stage
Meeting management startup Do raised a $2 million seed round from NEA, Dave Morin, Kevin Colleran, Mark Pincus, Aayush Phumbhra, Jim... |
| 11.03.2015 | With $29M In Funding, Memebox Brings Korean Beauty Products To The World | For many people around the world, their exposure to Korean pop culture is still limited to the aural and visual wonders of Psy’s “Gangnam Style” video. In much of Asia, however, the demand for Korean entertainment and products is so strong ... |
| 14.06.2014 | Seoul’s Sprouting Startup Scene | Sebastien Park Contributor
Editor’s note: Sebastien Park is an associate at Collaborative Fund.
A couple of years ago, a list of the world’s top startup ecosystems compared cities like Berlin, Tel Aviv, and London to get at what made startu... |
| 08.04.2014 | SparkLabs Korea Presents Third Demo Day, Launches Hardware Accelerator In Seoul | SparkLabs Korea launched just 18 months ago, but the Seoul-based accelerator already has a strong track record of finding promising startups. Its third Demo Day today featured companies that develop wearable technology, medical devices, and... |
| 27.03.2014 | Y Combinator’s Top Three Startups From Winter 2014, According To Y Combinator Startups | It’s been more than a day since Y Combinator’s Winter 2014 demo day, and we’ve already weighed in on which companies we thought were most impressive.
But with each class, the startups within Y Combinator vote to determine which colleagues t... |
| 25.03.2014 | Y Combinator Winter 2014, Batch 1: Meet CareMessage, Boostable, BatteryOS, And More | Today’s the big day!
Y Combinator is kicking off its 19th (!!!!) demo day today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and the TechCrunch crew is on the ground to let you know which hot new startups investors will be clamoring ove... |
| 13.01.2014 | 4 surprising lessons startups can learn from the new Korean entrepreneur | South Korea is world renowned for its Chaebol, the family owned conglomerates which became the driving force of the nation’s economic might in the early 1960’s. The companies in this elite group — Samsung, LG, Hyundai — have become global h... |
| 13.01.2014 | 4 surprising lessons startups can learn from the new Korean entrepreneur | South Korea is world renowned for its Chaebol, the family owned conglomerates which became the driving force of the nation’s economic might in the early 1960’s. The companies in this elite group — Samsung, LG, Hyundai — have become global h... |
| 24.12.2013 | Can Korea’s new culture of business creativity rival Silicon Valley? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It may be time to say goodbye to a well-trodden c... |
| 09.12.2013 | Memebox Raises $500K in Funding | Memebox, a South Korean provider of beauty products, raised $500k in funding.
SparkLabs Global Ventures made the investment.
The company will uise the funds to continue to grow.
Launched in 2012 by CEO Dino Ha, Memebox is a beauty subscript... |
| 06.12.2013 | SparkLabs Global Ventures Closes First Investments In LawPal and Memebox, Adds Brian Behlendorf And Jonathan Teo As Advisors | Global seed-stage fund SparkLabs Global Ventures, which launched in October, has closed the first two investments. The $30 million fund seeks to identify and support promising startups around the world, with a focus on emerging marketplaces... |
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