Paul Licari, known online as Pestily, has managed to raise $1.1 million for the Starlight Children’s Foundation in just seven months by livestreaming for roughly 1,400 hours. The Australian streamer, who has 617,000 followers on Twitch, has been broadcasting five to six times a week while asking followers to donate to the charity, which provides clothing, games, […]
Hiber raises $2.25 million for user-generated web game platform
Hiber has raised $2.25 million in a second round of seed funding for its web platform that makes it easy to create user-generated games. The company says it is at the intersection of connected devices, AI, and creator-focused entertainment. The Gothenberg, Sweden-based company has quietly amassed more than 300,000 games from 250,000 monthly active users […]
Chili Piper raises $18 million to automatically schedule sales lead meetings
Chili Piper today announced it has raised $18 million to grow its sales platform for booking meetings and phone calls. With the fresh capital, the startup plans to invest in product capabilities and expand its sales and marketing efforts worldwide. Calendaring is a common point of frustration among salespeople and potential customers. The majority of […]
SpyCloud raises $30 million to guard against account takeovers
Cybersecurity firm SpyCloud today closed a $30 million venture financing round, which cofounder and CEO Ted Ross says will be used to grow the company’s product and engineering teams as they build new ways to detect and prevent fraud. It comes as identity theft hit a record high in 2017, according to a 2018 report […]
Voicemod raises $8 million in Series A, led by Bitkraft Esports Ventures
Voicemod has announced the raising of $8 million in its Series A funding round, led by Bitkraft Esports Ventures. The audio avatar company provides a voice filter that combines AI and digital signal processing technologies to gamers and content creators. The company plans to use the investment to launch mobile applications, work on existing technologies, […]
PlayBrain Raises $6M Series A Investment
Japanese esports content provider PlayBrain announced that it has closed a $6M USD Series A financing round, bringing the company’s total funds raised to $8M. Existing investor BITKRAFT Esports Ventures participated in the financing round. PlayBrain revealed that it plans to use the investment’s proceeds to grow its footprint, expand into additional esports and entertainment […]
Planck raises $16 million to underwrite commercial insurance risk
AI commercial insurance platform Planck today announced it raised $16 million in equity financing, a portion of which came from Nationwide Insurance’s $100 million venture investment fund. CEO Elan Tsur says the proceeds will be used to finance expansion into geographies including Germany (in 2021) as the company works with U.S.-based commercial carriers including Chubb, […]
Otto Motors raises $29 million to staff warehouses with autonomous mobile robots
Otto Motors, a company providing self-driving robot technology and services for research and industrial clients, this week announced it closed a $29 million financing round. Matthew Rendall, CEO of Otto parent company Clearpath Robotics, says the proceeds will enable the company to meet the needs of its customers both during and after the pandemic. Worker […]
Alice&Bob raises $3.3 million to create the first fault-tolerant quantum computer
Alice&Bob has raised $3.3 million to join the quantum computing arms race by accelerating research that promises to make this next generation computing more stable. Elaia Partners and Breega led the round of funding for the Paris-based startup which has developed its first prototype. The company is using research that has been developed across an […]
Statespace Raises $15M Series A Investment to Expand its Team
On Friday, gaming performance analytics company Statespace announced that it had raised a $15M USD Series A investment led by Khosla Ventures bringing the company’s total raised funds to $19M. Several of the company’s existing investors also participated in the financing round, such as FirstMark Capital, Lux Capital, and Expa; in addition to new investor […]