Insurance is, by its very nature, not an easy product to sell because it requires customers to give up current cash flow to hedge against a bad future situation of some kind. Consumers don’t like giving up their current cash flow, nor do they like thinking...
Despite fewer business days last week, investment continued apace going into the holiday season, with even activity between commercial and B2B investment split almost evenly. That was good news for Bee, the online banking startup that grabbed $4.3M to seed its expansion outside New York.
The weather has been warm all around the U.S. — much to the irritation and chagrin of the nation’s retailers. But the investment marketplace has had just the opposite “weather pattern;” in fact, it’s been a decidedly chilly place for the last several weeks. The weather...
Alternative student and personal loan outfit Earnest just garnered $275 million in financing — a nod to the continued attractiveness of lenders outside of big banking. And investment activity picked up sharply from early November's slump.
Much focus has been spent (and column space been given) to the ever-expanding valuations handed off to maturing — or nearly mature —startups as part of their supercharged late funding rounds. Given the sheer scale of all that funding, that makes sense. As of the...
While investing in startup firms has been somewhat restricted to institutional investors and the extremely affluent, 2015 has seen the marketplace open up some for involvement for middle-class investors looking to get in on the storied “ground floor.” The first big step in that transition...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When long-time homeless advocate and serial entrepreneur Liz Powers first told people about her plan to combine her two passions and build the first online art marketplace for homeless, disabled and otherwise disadvantaged people, people continually congratulated her on founding such a noble charity. And...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A few years ago tech writers nationwide more or less ran their thesauruses dry trying to find adjectives worthy enough to describe the wonders of a cloud-enabled future. These days the ecstatic prose has died down some — or moved on to the innovations that...
In a world where buying online is as simple as clicking a buy button, Moven just closed a $12M round to help shoppers stop before they drop (too much money). Meanwhile, on the VC spending front, our Investment Tracker shows that the top five players...
