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New funding round values catering marketplace Hungry at $100M+ Mar 09, 2020

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Hungry, a catering marketplace that connects businesses with independent chefs, announced this week that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Hungrytells me that the funding valued the company at more than $100 million (pre-money). The investors were also pretty impressive: The round was led by Evolution VC Partners and former Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb, who’s joining the startup’s board.

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Spindrift, maker of fizzy drinks, has raised $29.8 million Mar 06, 2020

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Spindrift, maker of fizzy soda and sparkling water, has raised $29.8 million in a funding round, per an SEC filing. The Charlestown, Mass. company was founded by Bill Creelman and has raised $70 million in known venture capital funding to date, per Crunchbase data. The company did not immediately respond to request for comment. Previous investors in the fizzy drink company include Almanac Insights, KarpReilly, Prolong Ventures, VMG Partners and more.

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Nvidia acquires data storage and management platform SwiftStack Mar 06, 2020

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Nvidia today announced that it has acquired SwiftStack, a software-centric data storage and management platform that supports public cloud, on-premises and edge deployments. The company’s recent launches focused on improving its support for AI, high-performance computing and accelerated computing workloads, which is surely what Nvidia is most interested in here.

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This bathroom cleaning robot is trained in VR to clean up after you Mar 05, 2020

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This bathroom cleaning robot is trained in VR to clean up after you You’ve no doubt heard about the three Ds of automation. Somatic’s robot handily qualifies for two. I’d say “dangerous” is probably a bit of a stretch here, but the robot is well-focused on replacing a job that’s generally regarded as both “dirty” and “dull.

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DocSend’s new pre-seed data shows how many founders you should have and how many investors you should meet Mar 05, 2020

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DocSend has become one of the most popular tools for sharing venture fundraise decks, not only because of the control it offers, but also because of the analytics it can provide founders on how VCs read decks and where they might get stuck as they are perusing from slide to slide. The company has been generous sharing its data with us on what times are best to fundraise and how to structure a slide deck for best performance.

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WellSet is doing a limited launch in Los Angeles of its alternative medicine booking platform Mar 04, 2020

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WellSet is doing a limited launch in Los Angeles of its alternative medicine booking platform Alternative and holistic healthcare seekers in the Los Angeles area have a new service they can turn to in WellSet, the listing platform that launched on Tuesday.

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Podium rolls out payments for its customer-focused local business SaaS service Mar 04, 2020

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Podium, a Utah-based SaaS company focused on small business customer interactions, added payments technology to its product suite today. The move accretes a new income stream to the company’s quickly growing annual recurring revenue (ARR).

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Le Wagon raises $19 million to build a global coding bootcamp Mar 03, 2020

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French startup Le Wagon has raised its first round of funding after many years of bootstrapping. The company closed a $19 million funding round (€17 million) a few months ago. Cathay Capital is leading the round with AfricInvest also participating. “We’ve always bootstrapped since 2013 and we’ve always been profitable since day one,” Le Wagon co-founder and COO Romain Paillard told me.

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mParticle raises $45M to help marketers unify customer data Mar 03, 2020

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mParticle, which helps companies like Spotify, Paypal and Starbucks umanage their customer data, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series D funding.

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End Game, the startup behind Zombs Royale, raises $3M Mar 02, 2020

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End Game Interactive CEO Yang C. Liu has a refreshingly straightforward description of what he and his co-founder Luke Zbihlyj are up to: “We’re just building games. And to be honest, we don’t know what we’re doing.

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