August 06, 2015
Pinterest’s Hold On Retail
When Pinterest launched in 2009, its co-founder and CEO of photo-sharing site Pinterest Ben Silbermann didn’t exactly have people beating down his door to tell him what a brilliant idea...
August 06, 2015
Square Appoints Second Female Director To Board
Ruth Simmons, the former Brown University president, is joining payment company Square’s board, becoming its second female board member, The Huffington Post reported Wednesday (Aug. 5). She joins Mary Meeker...
August 05, 2015
A Unicorn Is Born: Zscaler Raises $100M And Snags A...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] It has been a good year to be a cybersecurity entrepreneur — and business is booming since cybercriminals have had a busy and productive year...
July 21, 2015
Coupa Buyout Banks On Open Business Booking
Coupa is putting its money into a new trend in business travel: so-called “open booking,” in which an employee manages his or her own travel booking and itinerary. In an...
July 20, 2015
Amazon’s $3B Jet Threat
Jet.com is looking at taking home the largest pre-launch valuation ever for an eCommerce site. An impressive feat since it has no revenue to speak of yet and years of...
July 09, 2015
Harry’s Flirts With Unicorn Status With $750M Valuation, $75M Funding...
Harry’s, a shaving subscription service a la Dollar Shave Club, has just capped a $75.6 million Series C round that brings its value to an impressive $750 million. The round,...
July 08, 2015
Coupa Buyout Tackles The Emailed Invoice
With the B2B Software-as-a-Service market booming, Coupa emerged as the industry’s latest unicorn following an $80 million funding round last month. The company offers cloud-based spend management tools for businesses...
July 07, 2015
Who’s Funding Female-Led Startups?
“If we want to have more women in tech, it is not enough to get more women engineers and executives—we need more women founders, because it is the founders of...
June 29, 2015
UK Cybersecurity Firm Gets $1.6B Value Post IPO Price
Sophos, the IT security firm, revealed the pricing of its initial public offering, bringing the total valuation of the company to £1 billion and marking one of the largest flotations...