| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.06.2021 | Fresha raises $100M for its beauty and wellness booking platform and marketplace | Beauty and wellness businesses have come roaring back to life with the decline of COVID-19 restrictions, and a startup that’s built a platform that caters to the many needs of small enterprises in the industry today is announcing a big roun... |
| 21.05.2021 | Made in Baltimore announces Home-Run Accelerator cohort | Made in Baltimore, a program of the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) program, this week unveiled the cohort for its 2021 accelerator program for solopreneurs building businesses around physical products.
Dubbed the Home-Run Accelerat... |
| 09.03.2018 | Ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Re-Emerges With New Investment Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When you’re trying to put the past behind you and make a fresh start, it doesn’t hurt to have $1.4 billion in your pocket.
Travis Kalanick, the Uber co-founder who was pressed... |
| 22.09.2016 | From Melody McCloskey: You’re Going to Be Bad at Fundraising | Startups have no shortage of priorities, tasks, and fires to put out within the first few years. However, eventually they will need to acquire customers or users, which can be both costly and time-consuming.
This week at Innovate! And Celeb... |
| 20.07.2016 | Microsoft debuts Bookings, a new Office 365 service for online appointment scheduling | Microsoft this morning announced an expansion to its Office 365 suite with the debut of a new service called Bookings, which will allow customers to schedule appointments with a business using online software. In addition to connecting busi... |
| 23.01.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 1/23/16 | FireEye acquired iSight; Docker bought Unikernel Systems; Microsoft purchased MinecraftEdu
Spotify acquired Cord Project, which provides a series of products based on voice messaging. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Cord Proj... |
| 22.07.2015 | Tressenoire wants to be Uber for black hair salons | Uber for beauty salons exists. Regina Gwynn knows this.
There’s StyleSeat, Priv and GlamSquad. Some of them are venture-backed, others are booking 1,500 appointments a week. The apps let women book appointments for hairstyles like blowouts,... |
| 15.07.2015 | StyleSeat Announces $25M in Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Leading destination for beauty and wellness bookings, announces it has raised $25 million in a Series B round of funding.
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| 15.07.2015 | StyleSeat Raises $25M in Series B Round of Funding | StyleSeat, a San Francisco, CA-based platform for beauty and wellness bookings, raised $25m in Series B round of funding.
The round was led by Fosun Kinzon Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cowboy Ventures and Sl... |
| 14.07.2015 | 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!
Correction: Tango says it has helped one Dunkin D... |
| 14.07.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Correction: Tango says it has helped one Dunkin Donuts location increase its sales by 50 percent, as opposed to the whole franchise as it was noted in a previous version of this post.
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated a... |
| 16.06.2015 | Beauty Booking Site Wahanda Raises Another $73M, Buys ZenSoon To Expand Into France | Wahanda, the startup out of the UK that has built a platform for beauty salons and consumers to find and book appointments based on time and location, continues its march to expand by rolling up regional rivals. Today the company is announc... |
| 05.06.2015 | European Salon Booking Site Wahanda Buys Dutch Rival Treatwell For $38M | After a $46 million cash injection and a $171 million majority acquisition by Japan’s Recruit Holdings last month, Wahanda, the StyleSeat-esque European salon and beauty booking platform, is continuing with its strategy to scale up its busi... |
| 22.10.2014 | Glamsquad Raises $7 Million For On-Demand Hair Styling And Beauty Services | New York-based Glamsquad, an on-demand beauty business now headed by Gilt Groupe co-founder Alexandra Wilkis Wilson who joined earlier this year as co-founder and CEO, has now raised $7 million in Series A funding in a round led by SoftBank... |
| 21.10.2014 | Yelp Strikes Hotel Bookings Partnership With Hipmunk | Yelp has partnered with Hipmunk to allow people to book hotels within the business review platform. While this is not the first time Yelp has offered a way for users to purchase from businesses right on its site, it is the first time it’s d... |
| 10.10.2014 | Wahanda Raises Another $26M And Acquires Germany’s Salonmeister | Hair and beauty marketplace, Wahanda, has been keeping quiet of late, which, in the world of startups, usually means something’s afoot. Thus, we learn today that it’s announcing the acquisition of Salonmeister, its German equivalent. In add... |
| 01.09.2014 | Why the U.S. depends on Europe for building massive, 'multi-local' marketplaces | Whenever startup ecosystem commentators discuss how to create European technology businesses of global scale they tend to name one company as a shining example: Skype. Headquartered in Luxembourg and developed in Estonia, Skype is a revolut... |
| 01.09.2014 | Why the U.S. depends on Europe for building massive, 'multi-local' marketplaces | 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!
Whenever startup ecosystem commentators discuss h... |
| 21.08.2014 | Madison Reed Now Sends The Salon To You | Madison Reed, the startup that provides online ordering for professional grade at-home hair color kits is now bringing the salon to your door, too. It’s launching “Color to You” today to let you order a stylist to come wherever you want the... |
| 22.01.2014 | StyleSeat Raises $10.2M in Series A Financing | StyleSeat, a San Francisco, CA-based online marketplace for beauty and wellness services, raised $10.2m in Series A financing.
The round, which brought the total amount raised to date to $14m, was led by Lightspeed Ventures with participati... |
| 22.01.2014 | StyleSeat helps 200K beauty & wellness professionals grow their business | 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!
Haircuts have the power to make you feel like a m... |
| 22.01.2014 | StyleSeat, An Online Marketplace For Stylists & Beauty Pros, Raises $10.2M Series A From Lightspeed | As hinted at last month, salon-booking service StyleSeat has now closed on its Series A round of funding. Led by Lightspeed Ventures, the company has raised an additional $10.2 million in outside investment, bringing its total raise to date... |
| 22.01.2014 | Health and beauty marketplace StyleSeat bags $10.2M | The startup welcomes new investor Lightspeed Ventures
I was pretty devastated a couple of months ago when I found out my hairstylist had left the salon she worked at with no forwarding information. No one could tell me where she went. I was... |
| 22.01.2014 | Funding Daily: Sports tech | 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!
In the sea of cloud and infrastructure startups, ... |
| 22.01.2014 | Funding Daily: Sports tech | In the sea of cloud and infrastructure startups, sometimes it’s worth calling out that really cool piece of recreational tech: sports.
Zepp Labs received $15 million today for its sensors, which you can place on your baseball bat, tennis ra... |
| 16.12.2013 | Salon Booking Platform StyleSeat Goes Mobile, Ahead Of Upcoming Series A | Salon-booking service StyleSeat has finally made its way to mobile, after seeing its smartphone usage increase from 15% during the company’s first year (2011) to now 78% of total usage today. Says company co-founder and CEO Melody McCloskey... |
| 05.06.2013 | New York-based Beauteeze launches its salon-booking service (exclusive) | 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!
Ever called a spa or beauty salon to book an appo... |
| 05.06.2013 | New York-based Beauteeze launches its salon-booking service (exclusive) | Ever called a spa or beauty salon to book an appointment and been put on hold or sent straight through to voicemail?
New Yorker Abby Ziff has experienced this time and time again. So she started Beauteeze to help fellow Manhattanites book a... |
| 23.03.2013 | Is The Vertical Approach To Enterprise Software Enough To Help You Win The Market? | Editor’s note: Boris Wertz is the founder of version one ventures, and has invested in over 40 early-stage consumer and enterprise companies, including vertical SaaS investments in Clio, Frontdesk, Jobber and Top Hat Monocle. Follow him on ... |
| 11.02.2013 | $4M Richer, StyleSeat Launches “To You,” Lets You Book Stylists To Your Home | StyleSeat, a scheduling platform for hair stylists and other beauty professionals, is launching its “To You” feature in San Francisco today. To You is the product I told StyleSeat founder, and close friend, Melody McCloskey that I wanted he... |
| 07.02.2013 | Redbeacon Founder Launches MyTime, A Booking And Ecommerce Platform For Local Services And Open Appointments | Ethan Anderson, the co-founder of TechCrunch50 winner Redbeacon (which was acquired by Home Depot last year), is debuting his newest venture in Los Angeles today — MyTime. In short, the startup wants to be the go-to destination for appointm... |
| 30.11.2012 | Foundation Video: Melody McCloskey Of StyleSeat On Getting Investors Involved In A Beauty Startup | In the most recent episode of my Foundation video series, I sat down with the founder of StyleSeat, Melody McCloskey.
Melody shares how her frustration with finding a stylist inspired her to build the platform. She also talks through the ch... |
| 29.06.2012 | Salon Booking Service StyleSeat Launches Offers Platform To Pull Stylists Away From Daily Deal Sites | StyleSeat, the “OpenTable for hair stylists” backed by Founders Fund (via FF Angel), 500 Startups, Ashton Kutcher, and others (including a who’s who of angel investors), is today launching a service called “New Client Offers.” The platform ... |
| 15.03.2012 | Ashton Kutcher, Founders Fund Go In For $775K On ‘OpenTable For Stylists’ StyleSeat | OpenTable for hair stylists and other salon professionals StyleSeat is announcing a raise of $775K this morning, from enviable angel investors Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s A-Grade, Founders Fund (!) and actress Sophia Bush.
The round wil... |
| 05.08.2011 | StyleSeat Is Yet More Proof There’s A Market For The “Opentable For X” | Earlier today when we wrote about UrbanSpoon trying to get a piece of OpenTable’s pie, this quote from Urbanspoon VP Kara Nortman really struck me, “Two years ago, an online reservation system required a massive upfront investment,” she sai... |
| 04.08.2011 | NewMe Accelerator, Aiming To Encourage Black Tech Entrepreneurs, Has Its First Demo Day | Yesterday someone asked me whether the reason most of my avatar photos are silly is because otherwise I would have to deal with people constantly bringing up the fact that I don’t “look” like I should work in technology, meaning that I’m a ... |
| 23.05.2011 | StyleSeat Is An OpenTable For Hair Salons And Spas | Finding a new hair stylist in a city is a challenging and very important task. For me, I happen to be very particular about how I like my hair cut, styled and highlighted. While Yelp provides a database of reviews for some hair salons and s... |
| 25.10.2010 | Tech World Welcomes Digg Refugees With Open Arms | This morning most of us woke up to the disappointing news that social news site Digg, once a promising destination for Silicon Valley talent, was losing 37% of its staff as well experiencing key executive departures.
While the usual armchai... |
