It's now 40 people, about to move down to a much bigger office in Mountain View and just closed $50 million from both D'Angelo's personal capital and Peter Thiel.
Beyond the retail push, the service formerly known as Tez will also expand to cover micro-loans, bringing it into direct competition with startups like ZestMoney — which just closed an investment from Xiaomi this week.
From her comments and part history, it seems likely that some of that round will come from parent company, Uber Inc, which just closed a $3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund PIFF).
The first two productions, of Hugo Weisgall's "Esther" and Mozart's "Don Giovanni," have just closed, and to judge from the confidence and quality of the singing over all, especially by the young, gifted and theatrically game artists in Christopher Alden's boldly modern production of "Don Giovanni, Mr. Murphyy is running an effective music department.
The New York City startup just closed a seed round from Founder Collective, IA Ventures, Shasta Ventures and some angels.
It has just closed $500,000 in seed funding from 500 Startups' microfund and a number of angels.
Founder and CEO Josh Tetrick told me that he just closed a $1 million round from the firm.
The Sunnyvale, CA-based team just closed $3.2M in seed funding from Presence Capital, ZhenFund, Colopl Next, Amino Capital, and Eversunny Limited.
Obviously, demand for this type of service is high, especially in the education industry, which is why Neverware has just closed a $1 million round from investors that include Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Collaborative Fund, and Nihal Mehta.
Based in Linz, Austria (near the offices of stealth payment startup Jumio), Runtastic is originally funded through a €150k public grant but has just closed an angel round from a group of undisclosed business angels.
