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| 10.10.2025 | ETtech Deals Digest: Startups raise $316 million this week, up 4x on-year | Synopsis
However, the number of deals during the week was down to 31, compared to 37 transactions in the corresponding week of the previous year.
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Startups raised around $316.1 million between October 4 and 10, up around 3.7 times fro... |
| 08.08.2025 | Indian Gifting Startups Raise USD 115.9 Mn Since 2015 Amid Steady Sector Growth: Report In 2025 so far, the sector saw only one deal, with Indigifts raising USD 57,600 in an angel round. | Indian gifting startups have raised a total of USD 115.9 million between 2015 and 2025 year-to-date, indicating a gradual yet consistent growth in the sector, according to a new report by Tracxn titled Gifting Platforms Wrap Report. Despite... |
| 28.02.2025 | Raise: $63 Million Secured For Advancing Blockchain-Powered Gift Card Platform | Raise, a leader in the global gift market and pioneer in blockchain-powered payments and loyalty, announced the closing of a $63 million funding round. Led by Haun Ventures, the funding round included participation from Amber Group, Anagram... |
| 26.02.2025 | Raise Raises $63M in Funding | Raise, a Miami, FL-based blockchain-powered payments and loyalty company, raised $63M in funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $220M, was led by Haun Ventures, with participation from Amber Group, Anagram, Blackpine, Borderl... |
| 21.02.2025 | Cashing Out Small Payments: A Complete Guide | Share
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IntroductionIn today’s digital era, small payments (micropayments) are becoming increasingly common. Whether it’s leftover mobile credit, digital gift cards, or small online transactions, many individuals seek ... |
| 16.01.2025 | Reown: Onchain UX Platform Company Raises $13 Million (Series B) | Reown (previously known as WalletConnect) announced it has closed a $13 million Series B funding round. USV and 1kx led the funding round and it also included Global Digital Asset Holdings (a joint venture investment vehicle established by ... |
| 25.09.2024 | Business | Survey: 43% of Americans have at least one unused gift card | More than 1 in 3 Americans have lost money with a gift card misstep. That’s 34% total, with overlap among 20% who let a gift card expire, 17% who lost a gift card and 12% who had a store go out of business before they used their gift card.U... |
| 22.11.2023 | Automotive marketplace Carro in talks to raise over $100m in pre-IPO round | Carro, a Southeast Asian online automotive marketplace, is in talks with potential investors to raise over $100 million ahead of a possible US listing in 18 months, said a senior executive at the Singapore-headquartered unicorn. |
| 06.02.2023 | Top 4 Websites Where To Buy Cheap iTunes Gift Cards | Share
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Gift cards are an excellent method to offer someone a thoughtful gift without knowing them well. What is the best website to buy iTunes gift cards? There are several websites where you may buy or sell iTunes gi... |
| 31.01.2022 | Forza Innovations Inc. Completes $600,000 Capital Raise and Secures $5,000,000 Equity Financing | Calgary, Alberta, Jan. 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NewMediaWire -- Forza Innovations Inc. (OTC Pink: FORZ) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has secured an equity line of credit up to $5,000,000. This new equity financing has ... |
| 31.01.2022 | Forza Innovations Inc. Completes $600,000 Capital Raise and Secures $5,000,000 Equity Financing | Calgary, Alberta, Jan. 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NewMediaWire -- Forza Innovations Inc. (OTC Pink: FORZ) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has secured an equity line of credit up to $5,000,000. This new equity financing has ... |
| 01.12.2021 | McKinney online educational marketplace aims to raise $500K seed round | - |
| 19.08.2021 | Fashion marketplace CoutLoot to raise $25 mn in Series A funding | Anuj Suvarna 19 Aug, 2021
Mumbai-based online fashion marketplace CoutLoot will raise $25 million (about Rs 185 crore) in a Series A funding round from existing investors 9Unicorns, SOSV, Venture Catalysts and Astarc Ventures, as well as ne... |
| 22.07.2021 | Cogelec : RAISE Investissement successfully secures a stakeholding in S.R.C. | PRESS RELEASE
RAISE Investissement successfully secures a stakeholding in S.R.C., the controlling structure of Cogelec, as a minority financial partner
Mortagne-sur-Sèvre, France, 22 July 2021, Cogelec (ISIN: FR0013335742/symbol: ALLEC), th... |
| 25.06.2021 | DiDi Global Inc Aims To Raise Over $4 Bln In U.S. IPO | June 24 (Reuters) - DiDi Global Inc:
* DIDI GLOBAL INC SAYS OFFERING 288 MILLION ADSS, WITH FOUR ADSS REPRESENTING ONE CLASS A ORDINARY SHARE, IN U.S. IPO
* DIDI GLOBAL INC SAYS INTEND TO LIST THE ADSS ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE UNDER T... |
| 24.06.2021 | Sneaker marketplace GOAT hits $3.7B valuation in Series F raise | Sneaker and streetwear empire GOAT just doubled its valuation in a massive new raise.
The GOAT Group parent company shared today that it has raised $195 million in a Series F raise valuing the fashion giant at some $3.7 billion. The raise w... |
| 14.04.2020 | TOP Trends In E-Commerce Amid COVID-19 | Stackline unveiled the report showing the fastest growing categories in e-commerce in the U.S.
It turns out, the shopping online trends in the U.S. and in Poland have a lot of similarities – customers choose electronic devices and sports eq... |
| 02.01.2019 | Tech.co’s Predictions for the Future of Tech in 2019 | Silicon Valley’s version of the future has always drawn from the genre of science fiction. Granted, the pessimists among us are more likely to compare it to a cyberpunk dystopia than to a flying-car-packed retrofuture utopia, while anyone f... |
| 23.03.2018 | Two-sided marketplace ShareRing closes $3.8m capital raise, launches $62m token generation event | - |
| 08.03.2018 | Chicago’s strongest startup sector is online marketplaces like Groupon and OpenTable | 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!
As an investment leader in Chicago, I get asked a... |
| 08.03.2018 | Chicago’s strongest startup sector is online marketplaces like Groupon and OpenTable | As an investment leader in Chicago, I get asked about startup trends on a regular basis. Most often the question I’m asked is, “What is the strongest startup sector in Chicago?”
It’s a hard question because one of Chicago’s core advantages ... |
| 08.03.2018 | Chicago’s strongest startup sector is online marketplaces
The foundations for today’s marketplace platforms
Success breeds success | As an investment leader in Chicago, I get asked about startup trends on a regular basis. Most often the question I’m asked is, “What is the strongest startup sector in Chicago?” |
| 03.01.2018 | Why Retailers Love Gift Cards and How to Get the Most Out of Yours | Take care when recycling your wrapping paper this post-holiday season, because the last thing you want to do is accidentally throw out your favorite Christmas gift. Gift cards are a popular holiday item — total gift card purchases peaked at... |
| 20.09.2017 | Why George Bousis founded gift card platform Raise | Raise gets $60M to build out its gift card trading platform
Correction: to trading gift cards
Do you have gift cards with remaining balances that take up extra space in your wallet or desk drawer? Gift cards that are often forgotten, lost, ... |
| 19.09.2017 | Raise Lands $60M, Adds PayPal as an Investor | Raise wants to be more than a place to sell those Barnes & Noble gift cards your aunt gives you for Christmas, and the Chicago startup just raised a big new round of funding to become a mobile payment alternative to cash or credit.
Rais... |
| 19.09.2017 | Raise Secures $60M in Series C Funding | Raise, a Chicago, IL-based retail payments company, raised $60m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Accel, with participation from PayPal and existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Bessemer Venture Partners. As part of... |
| 19.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, September 19 | VCs VERSUS ICOs
Companies have raised more than $1.7 billion through initial coin offerings this year, surpassing early-stage VC funding for Internet companies. It’s easy to see why an ICO is appealing to tech founders (No due diligence! LO... |
| 19.09.2017 | Raise gets $60 million for gift card marketplace | Have you ever gotten a gift card for a store you don’t shop at? Or have you made a purchase and don’t know what to do with the remaining balance?
It turns out you can sell unwanted or partially unused gift cards on a marketplace called Rais... |
| 19.09.2017 | Raise Nabs $60 Million From PayPal, Accel To Change The Way You Shop | Gift cards 2.0? Raise wants you to pay for everything, from movies to Lyft rides to dinner out, with... [+] its mobile app. (Photo credit: Raise) |
| 19.09.2017 | Raise Nabs $60 Million From PayPal, Accel To Change The Way You Shop | Chicago based online gift card marketplace Raise, who acquired portfolio company Slide, has secured $50m in Series C funding led by Accel Partners. Raise lets consumers buy and sell gift cards online. |
| 07.04.2016 | With money to invest, General Catalyst promotes four, including Niko Bonatsos | General Catalyst Partners has promoted four people on its team. The announcements come just weeks after the venture firm, which has offices in Cambridge, Ma.; New York; and Palo Alto, closed on $845 million in new capital commitments from i... |
| 02.12.2015 | Announcing This Year's 50 on Fire Winners | Tonight, we unveiled the 50 on Fire, a collection of companies, CEOs, startups, and entrepreneurs that are driving the city's innovation economy forward.
From Avant, one of Chicago's four Unicorns, to Todd Connor, Executive Director of the ... |
| 12.11.2015 | These apps are holiday shopping money-savers | Like it or not, we're plunging headfirst into the 2015 holiday shopping season. Black Friday sales -- which used to mark the beginning of the season on the day after Thanksgiving -- have now smeared into a weeklong event for many retailers,... |
| 20.08.2015 | Raise Acquires Tastebud | Raise, a marketplace that enables members to purchase gift cards below face value and sell unwanted gift cards for cash, acquired Tastebud Technologies, a developer of predictive technologies that create customized mobile shopping experienc... |
| 09.06.2015 | 10 Chicago Startups We're Watching This Summer | It's been a busy 2015 so far with tons of Chicago startups launching products, raising money, and continuing to grow and disrupt industries.
To get a sense for who's been making moves and who we're keeping our eye on this summer, we've put ... |
| 21.03.2015 | How to protect yourself as middleman in a marketplace | Internet marketplace businesses (ranging from Craigslist to eBay to Airbnb, among many others) earn fees for connecting buyers and sellers. Most early Internet marketplaces like Craigslist were simple listing services, but more compelling t... |
| 21.03.2015 | How to protect yourself as middleman in a marketplace | 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!
Internet marketplace businesses (ranging from Cra... |
| 23.01.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 1/23/15 | Uber, Shazam, SpaceX, Jibo, GPShopper, AppsFlyer, Raise, Avalara, True Link, Brandfolder, Ringly
Seed stage
Brandfolder, which helps companies manage their brand assets, raised $2 million in new funding from the White Cedar Venture fund.
Tr... |
| 22.01.2015 | Raise Raises $56M in Series B Funding | Raise, a Chicago, IL-based large online marketplace for gift cards, raised $56m in Series B funding.
The round, which brought total funds to $81m, was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners... |
| 22.01.2015 | Raise grabs $56M to help you sell your gift card for cash | Gift cards are big business — so big, there are entire marketplaces for them, it turns out.
Raise, one of the largest, is announcing today that it has raised $56 million to help it grow and expand.
Through Raise, shoppers can purchase disco... |
| 22.01.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Raise grabs $56M to help you sell your gift card for cash
Gift cards are big business — so big, there are entire marketplace... |
| 22.01.2015 | Fast-Growing Chicago Startup Raise Gets $56M For Its Online Gift Card Marketplace | Raise has quietly been one of Chicago's most successful startups. But now, after its latest huge round of funding, the online gift card marketplace is making some serious noise.
Raise announced Thursday that it has secured a $56 million Ser... |
| 22.01.2015 | Raise Secures $56M in Series B Funding |
CHICAGO, IL, Largest online marketplace for gift cards, today announced that it has raised $56 million in a Series B funding round.
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| 22.01.2015 | Raise grabs $56M to help you sell your gift card for cash | 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!
Gift cards are big business — so big, there are e... |
| 22.01.2015 | Gift Card Marketplaces Raise Grabs $56 Million From NEA And Others | A company offering a marketplace where consumers can buy and sell their unused gift cards, Raise.com, announced this morning it has taken in a sizable $56 million round of Series B funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The additi... |
| 22.01.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | 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!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 05.01.2015 | 15 Signs That It’s Time to Start Really Expanding Your Startup | Guest author Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.
Feel like a big fish in a small pond? Sales numbers healthy but not growing anymore? There are a lot of moving factors to weigh before you start seriously scaling y... |
| 05.12.2014 | 15 Chicago Startups to Watch in 2015 | It's been a big year for Chicago tech companies. From IPOs, to successful exits, to a record number of VC investments, Chicago is proving itself as one of the up-and-coming tech hubs in the U.S.
But if Chicago is going to build on the momen... |
| 03.12.2014 | Here’s an In-Depth Look at Chicago’s Breakout Year in Tech, From A-Z | There's more to Chicago's big year in tech than just the millions in Series As, Bs, and Cs raised by its emerging startups and thriving early-stage companies. To truly define the city's big 2014, you need to hit on all of the As, Bs, and Cs... |
| 14.11.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/14/14 | DogVacay, Revel, Raise, LAFORGE Optical, FloQast, Full Circle CRM, Door to Door Organics, Evernote
Seed stage
LAFORGE Optical, a designer of electronic prescription eyewear, raised a $1.1 million from SOMO Optical.
FloQast, a provider of Cl... |
| 12.11.2014 | Raise Receives $18.1M Funding | Raise, a Chicago, IL-based gift card marketplac, unveiled a December 2013 round of funding totalling $18.1m.
Backers include Bessemer Venture Partners. In conjunction with the funding, Jeremy Levine, a partner at BVP, joined Raise’s board o... |
| 11.11.2014 | Raise.com’s New App Lets You Buy Discounted Gift Cards To Instantly Save While Shopping | Gift card marketplace Raise.com has just rolled out a new mobile application that lets you save at your favorite local stores by buying unused gift cards for less than their face value. In a matter of seconds, consumers can can find a disco... |
| 04.11.2014 | 10 Startup Metrics Every Entrepreneur Should Measure | ROI, customer churn, growth margins—these are all fairly standard metrics to track while you’re building your company. But there are so many more numbers to be aware of as you try to build a profitable business.
To find out which underrated... |
| 04.11.2014 | How can new startup employees excel? | [Image from flickr user chichacha]
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| 20.10.2014 | 8 Ways to Prepare for Your Startup’s Next Board Meeting | Board meetings can be incredibly stressful, but you can alleviate some of that stress by preparing ahead, familiarizing yourself with key talking points and of course, anticipating important questions about your company’s progress.
Since it... |
| 04.08.2014 | 12 Tips for Creating Your Startup’s Board of Advisors | As an entrepreneur, it’s beneficial to put together a smart, invested board of advisors to help get you through your beginning years and beyond. That’s why we asked 12 startup founders from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what is most impo... |
| 05.07.2014 | Dell starts Founders Club 50 for tech entrepreneurs | 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!
Dell this week announced Founders Club 50, a two-... |
| 05.07.2014 | Dell starts Founders Club 50 for tech entrepreneurs | Dell this week announced Founders Club 50, a two-year program designed to give 50 startups a significant boost. According to Joyce Mullen, Dell’s vice president, eligible companies must use technology as an essential component of thier oper... |
| 15.02.2014 | Startup Spotlight: Pick2Pay helps shoppers maximize credit card rewards, online offers | There are thousands of credit card rewards and other offers out there for consumers, but it can be time-consuming to scour the Internet in search of every single one.
Pick2Pay wants to help with that. The 3-person Bellevue startup describes... |
| 13.12.2013 | 11 Chicago Startups Destined to Breakout in 2014 | Tech Cocktail: Now With More Hyper-Local!
In case you missed it Tech Cocktail is more region-specific than ever. Atlanta, Austin, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, DC, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, NYC, and San Francisco have gotten their own dedica... |
| 11.12.2013 | Gift Card Marketplace Raise.com Gives Itself A Raise With $18.1 Million In New Funding | Chicago-based Raise.com, a marketplace where consumers can buy and sell gift cards for cash, has raised $18.1 million in funding, according to a new SEC filing. The company declined to comment on who invested in the latest round, but has ra... |
| - | Holiday shoppers have the ‘best discounting season in years,’ expert says. These tips can help you save even more | Holiday discounts are abundant this year as retailers try to offload inventory.
Still, shoppers need to be savvy to find the best deals and stay within a budget.
These dos and don’ts can help shoppers avoid carrying holiday debt into the ne... |
| - | How can new startup employees excel? | Joining a startup operation requires certain traits that aren’t always essential for other jobs. In order to be successful, and maybe move on to creating a separate startup, employees have a couple of essential resume requirements.
In the h... |
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