| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.10.2024 | Alums From Bessemer, A16z And Index Launch New Firm With $350M For Seed And Series A Startups | 3 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Chemistry, a new early-stage VC firm founded by former Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures investors, announced its launch Wednesday with a debut fund of $350 million de... |
| 30.08.2023 | Sprig uses AI to transform product surveys into conversational data | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More
Sprig, a five-year-old startup focused on creating smart, contextually aware in-app surveys for... |
| 30.03.2023 | For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More? | We’ve watched large language models (LLMs) become mainstream over the past few years and have studied the implementations in the context of B2B applications. Despite some enormous technological advances and the presence of LLMs in the gener... |
| 02.08.2022 | Sprig secures $30M in funding to help software teams collect user feedback
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that incl... | Sprig Technologies Inc., a startup that helps companies improve their software based on user feedback, has raised $30 million in funding to support growth initiatives.
Sprig announced the investment today. The funding was provided by a grou... |
| 02.08.2022 | Sprig raises $30M to help companies gauge users’ reactions to products | Sprig, a startup offering tools for user and software product research, today announced that it raised $30 million in a funding round from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, First Round Capital, Elad Gil and Figma Ventures. It brings the company’s... |
| 27.06.2017 | Ludlow Ventures has closed its second fund with $45 million | Ludlow Ventures, a young, early-stage venture firm in Detroit, has closed its second venture fund with $45 million in capital commitments, founder and managing partner Jonathon Triest tells us.
Ludlow’s team, which includes partner Brett de... |
| 06.01.2017 | Sprig adds tips and equity to keep meal deliverers loyal | Some Sprig customers might be bitter about getting guilt-tripped into tipping, but at least the startup is being sweet to its on-demand food servers. TechCrunch spotted that Sprig added a tipping feature to its freshly made meal-delivery ap... |
| 05.10.2016 | Ollie raises $4.4M to become the Sprig of dog food | Chicken, peas, beef, sweet potatoes and blueberries, the stuff of $40 meals in places like Hayes Valley and Greenwich Village — and starting today, also the stuff of dog food.
Ollie, a new startup founded by Alex Douzet, Gabby Slome and Ran... |
| 28.07.2016 | Sprig pauses food delivery service in Chicago, lays off seven people | Sprig is making some changes to its delivery model, and in order to do it as efficiently as possible, the company is pausing its operations in Chicago and laying off seven team members across its marketing and operations teams. Sprig has al... |
| 26.04.2016 | While Competitors Close or Contract, Meal-Delivery Service Freshly Expands Reach to 28 States | April 26, 2016 4 min read
In cities across America, demanding schedules and on-demand services are bringing a variety of dinner options to people’s doorsteps. Americans now spend more on dining out than groceries, but it’s hard to find a pl... |
| 03.12.2015 | EatStreet, An Online Food Ordering Platform For Smaller Cities And College Towns, Picks Up $15M | While Amazon expands Prime Now restaurant ordering and delivery to more places, a startup has picked up funding to go head to head with it and the many others in the crowded food-on-demand category. EatStreet, a platform for restaurants mai... |
| 22.11.2015 | The Real Reason On-Demand Startups Are Reclassifying Workers | Noah Lang Contributor
Noah Lang is co-founder and CEO of Stride Health.
Over the past several months, a handful of on-demand startups reclassified their independent contractors as employees. Others have publicly acknowledged they’re conside... |
| 15.10.2015 | The 5-Step Uber Playbook That Will Disrupt The On-Demand Economy | Dan Storbaek Contributor
Dan Storbaek is the founder and CEO of Skarpline.
Most people are familiar with Uber as the ridesharing king; it has taken the world by storm, and with much fanfare. Less has been written about its new family member... |
| 06.10.2015 | Postmates Pop Delivers Lunch In 15 Minutes Or Less | On-demand delivery startup Postmates just launched a new product called Pop to sling lunch to people in 15 minutes or less. For now, it will only be available to people based in San Francisco’s South of Market Street area during lunch time,... |
| 23.09.2015 | Sprig Wants To Kill Fast Food And Make Braised Kale More Accessible | It’s not enough to get meals to customers as fast as possible, Sprig CEO and co-founder Gagan Biyani told the audience at TechCrunch Disrupt that his company wants to kill fast food entirely.
His company which delivers healthy on-demand mea... |
| 27.08.2015 | Top VC Brian O’Malley On The Next “On Demand” Wave | Brian O’Malley is good at his job. He’s good enough, in fact, that two years, ago, Accel Partners plucked him out of his former firm, Battery Ventures, so he could bat for its team instead.
As venture industry watchers know, these moves are... |
| 20.08.2015 | Kitchfix joins the food-delivery bandwagon, raising $450k | Chicago-based startup lands financing to open up a retail store. Believe it or not, that's unique!
If there's one space that's super crowded, it's the food-delivery business, with every company from Group, which just bought OrderUp, to Uber... |
| 06.08.2015 | Food delivery service Sprig to convert servers to employees and grant them stock options | On-demand food provider Sprig is undergoing a bit of a transformation today. The company is not only becoming more transparent about where it sources ingredients from, it is also reshaping its workforce by transitioning servers from contrac... |
| 06.08.2015 | On-Demand Food Startup Sprig To Start Classifying Its Contractors As Employees | Healthy food delivery startup Sprig just became the latest on-demand startup to decide to classify its workers as employees instead of independent contractors. That means Sprig will soon offer its hundreds of contract workers employment at ... |
| 11.07.2015 | The Billion Dollar Food Delivery Wars | Martin Mignot Contributor
Martin Mignot is an early stage investor with Index Ventures actively looking after Index's investments in Algolia, Blablacar, Capitaine Train, Deliveroo, Drivy, Rad, Swiftkey and TheFamily.
Over the past 12 months... |
| 02.07.2015 | A Third Classification of Worker? Don’t Count On It | Of late, there’s been a steady drumbeat of accusations that on-demand startups are unfairly wringing profits out of independent contractors. The concern: No one is withholding their taxable wages for them, they aren’t being given health car... |
| 28.04.2015 | Maple Launches In NYC’s Financial District With A Fresh Approach To Food Delivery | I’ve got a pretty bad addiction to restaurant delivery service Seamless, but even I’ll admit it’s not perfect — sometimes there’s a long wait for food that shows up cold, and sometimes I get stuck in a rut, wanting to try something differen... |
| 17.04.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 4/17/15 | Sprig, Planet Labs, Courion, NEA, Ascend, Snaps, Acorns, Skyport, 99designs, Adallom, Ticketbis, Ola
Seed stage
Financial technology startup Ascend Consumer Finance raised $1.5 million in seed funding, The round was led by Mucker Capital, w... |
| 15.04.2015 | On-demand meal service Sprig raises $45M Series B | The food delivery space is a hot one right now, with numerous investments and acquisitions
(Come mingle with hundreds of top venture capitalists representing $10B-plus in capital under management, including Khosla Ventures, Greylock and Jav... |
| 15.04.2015 | On-Demand Food Delivery Service Sprig Has Raised $45 Million | Sprig, a food delivery service that specializes in healthy on-demand meals in San Francisco, has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Social+Capital and Greylock Partners.
The company plans to expand to the remainder of the Bay Area... |
| 15.04.2015 | Sprig Raises $45M in Series B Financing | Sprig, a San Francisco, CA-based on-demand meal service, raised $45m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Social Capital and existing investor Greylock Partners with participation from other current backers Accel Partners, Battery Ve... |
| 08.04.2015 | Square acquires Fastbite to add superfast delivery to Caviar’s repertoire | Jack Dorsey’s Square is hunkering down on food delivery with its latest acquisition.
Today Square announced it is integrating Fastbite, a service that offers fast delivery of quick food items, to its Caviar offering. The new service, which ... |
| 05.01.2015 | Sprig Expands To The South Bay, Adds A Subscription Delivery Offering And Extended Hours | San Francisco-based healthy food delivery startup Sprig is expanding its hours and coverage area, making meals available to customers on weekends and in new parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is also adding an Amazon-Prime like option ... |
| 23.12.2014 | Only in San Francisco: You Can Now Get On-Demand Cookies Delivered In Under 20 Minutes | There is a certain luxury that comes with living in the center of startup land. Part of that is the platter of on-demand food delivery services at our fingertips. Startups like Instacart, Google Express, Farm Fresh to You and Good Eggs show... |
| 22.07.2014 | SpoonRocket website struck down by insane traffic on the first day of a huge PR stunt | The food delivery startup SpoonRocket threw its first dinner party yesterday in San Francisco, and its website crashed due to an insane volume of traffic.
In theory, everyone in San Francisco can order a $1 SpoonRocket dinner from 5 to 9 p.... |
| 16.07.2014 | How is this food-delivery startup standing out? By throwing $1 dinner parties | SpoonRocket, a startup that delivers meals to people in San Francisco and the East Bay, is trying out an unusual but fitting promotional tool: its special spin on a dinner party.
No matter where you are in San Francisco, next Monday and Tue... |
| 16.07.2014 | How is this food-delivery startup standing out? By throwing $1 dinner parties | 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!
SpoonRocket, a startup that delivers meals to peo... |
| 14.07.2014 | Ex-Amazon product manager launches Lish as food delivery bubble expands | There’s something brewing at the intersection of food delivery and technology. In the past few years, we’ve seen several new startups help bring lunch and dinner to our doorsteps — and now there’s yet another company launching in Seattle do... |
| 05.07.2014 | The New Fast Food | Matt Mireles Contributor
Editor’s note: Matt Mireles is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. His first company, SpeakerText, was acquired by CloudFactory in 2012 after raising $1.1MM from Google Ventures, Mitch Kapor and others. ... |
| - | GHV Accelerator Drops Anchor At FoodPort: Now Get Gourmet Food Delivered At Affordable Prices | The opportunity in the food-tech segment is huge; with professional chefs and fast delivery options – companies are creating new brands of Fast Food Chains. And, the industry is attracting a lot of investors. (Interesting fact: Chipotle’s p... |
