Headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, the travel audio entertainment app Autio uses geolocation to automatically play stories about iconic landmarks, cities, and towns in the area. The startup joined with The Moth, a famous storytelling nonprofit, last month to contribute $1 from each Autio membership sold to support storytelling workshops and resources and to provide […]
Branch is a full-stack insurance company that uses data, technology, and automation to simplify and lower the cost of purchasing home and auto insurance. The company recently raised $147 million in Series C funding and joined the unicorn club at a $1.05B valuation.
Satellite-enabled connectivity start-up R3-IoT announced a rebrand to Krucial and officially launched its new flagship product – Krucial CONNECT. The company, founded in 2018 by Allan Cannon and Kevin Quillien, has seen significant growth in recent years, doubling its headcount and closing a $4.3 million seed investment round in July 2021.
Overview Investors’ focus continues to move from late-stage to early-stage companies in July. According to Crunchbase data, funding in July 2022 was close to $28 billion, down 34% from $42 billion in June. Furthermore, funding has decreased by 56% from $63 billion in July 2021 and has been the lowest funding month since November 2020. […]
Country extensions also come with certain risks that an established brand like Scale would better avoid as it grows. Scale AI found a solution by investing in the premium dictionary word domain name Scale.com and bringing trust and credibility to their business.
After growth and establishment, companies that start with a compromise extension often upgrade their domains. The example with Modular is no different; the company secured its exact brand match domain name Modular.com.
The new brand name Beavia, which means “happy journey” in Latin, alludes to the brand’s mission: ”people to return to themselves and nature through quality and tasty food, and to find their own happy journey”.
The Minneapolis-based Flipgrid launched in 2015 as Vidku, a video-discussion platform started by a University of Minnesota professor as a way to stay in touch with his students for a course he was teaching.
Distributed established itself locally in the UK and aims to go global, starting with the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the US. The startup has raised a total of £45.9M in funding over 6 rounds. The brand invested in Distributed.com sometime in early June 2022, just before its latest funding round. Securing its brand is a clear sign the brand has long-term global ambitions and is here to stay.
Overview The global funding reached $120 billion in the second quarter of 2022. Crunchbase data reveals that the amount was the lowest for a single quarter since the beginning of 2021. The financing in the second quarter decreased by 26% from $162 billion in the first quarter and by 27% from $165 billion in the […]
Firemind is a UK-based digital engineering company specializing in data management, analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), and accelerating innovation.
RouterHosting, a pioneering VPS hosting company, recently announced a rebrand to Cloudzy. The new name reflects the company’s decision to improve its services and advance toward cloud computing.
