Founded in 2009 by Nicolas Mermoud and Jean-Luc Diard, Hoka One One is an athletic shoe company that designs and markets running shoes. Nicolas and Jean-Luc wanted to create a shoe that would allow them to run faster downhill. This is how the Hoka One One running shoes were created. The shoes have an oversized […]

Crunchbase data shows that global venture funding in May 2022 totaled $39 billion, the first time it fell below $40 billion in almost a year. Overall, VC financing plummeted 14% month over month in May from $45 billion in April. For comparison, it was $49 billion last May, 20% up from the current figures. The […]

Dedoco is a digital DMaaS (document management-as-a-service) platform, that focuses on protecting data privacy and document security for companies, leveraging on blockchain technology. We talked with Daphne Ng, Co-Founder and CEO of Dedoco, about the origin of the brand name and why getting the exact brand match domain name was crucial to them. Can you […]

Blank Ventures Fund launched in early 2022 by three experts in early-stage funding Hannah Chelkowski, Abhinav Tiwari, and Antoine Nivard. In April 2022, the Fund made its first contribution to Playbook’s $18 million Series A round. The company has chosen not to compromise on its domain name and invested in the one-word, exact brand match […]

Caribou initially launched as an auto refinancing business called MotoRefi in 2016. As the company grew and became successful, it kept adding new services and products to its portfolio. The brand name MotoRefi soon became limiting, leading to a rebrand to Caribou. This more generic name avoids the restrictions implied by the original brand name and opened broader markets to the company.

Founded in 2018, Deel is a leading global compliance and payroll platform that enables companies to hire anybody, anywhere. Deel worldwide customers include names like Coinbase, Intercom and Shopify, and are represented by more than 150 countries. 

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has sent shockwaves throughout the globe and worsened the financial market slowdown seen in the first quarter of this year. The aftermath of the conflict has affected major economies’ efforts to recover from the pandemic, resulting in a $47 billion total invested in private companies in April 2022 – […]

March marks the end of the first quarter of 2022. Crunchbase data shows that the period saw a 13% drop in venture dollar volume from $184 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021. It still has a 7% increase over the first quarter of 2021. In Q1, seed funding was the only funding stage that […]

Beijing-based Laiye provides a platform for automating office tasks of all sorts of complexity. Following the present acquisition, it will assemble in a product and engineering force in Paris, on top of Mindsay’s 30-people team already located there, as top developer talent in China turns out to be just as expensive as in Western countries. […]

Overview The consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, record inflation, and market turbulence have led global venture capital financing to decline by $10 billion to $52 billion in February 2022, Crunchbase data shows. Yet, it shows a 24% increase compared to last year’s same month ($42 billion). Forty-seven new unicorn firms joined The Crunchbase […]