Bark & Co., the doggie-themed technology company best known for its dog treat-delivering subscription business BarkBox, and more recently, its vet care-on-demand service BarkCare, has just closed on 15 million in Series B funding.
RetailNext, a company that specializes in providing data analysis tools to real-world retailers, has raised a $30 million late-stage round of investment.
This is the company’s fourth round of funding, bringing its total capital raised to $59.4 million.
Strategic (corporate) investors Qualcomm, Tyco, and American Express contributed to the round, as well as Activant Capital Group. Current investors August Capital, StarVest Partners, and Commerce Ventures also contributed.
El Gobierno de Cataluña ha decidido plantar cara al portal de Internet Airbnb al imponerle una multa de 30.000 euros por comercializar apartamentos turísticos ilegales.
Traity, an alumni of Europe’s Seedcamp and Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups, has big ambitions. It wants to become the standard for online reputation, an opportunity surely missed by eBay’s reluctance to make its reputation scores transportable back in the Dot Com days. Today the Spain, Madrid-based company is announcing a $4.7 million series A round led by Active Venture Partners to help fuel that mission.
The company, which first launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last year, beat their initial $100,000 goal for a first production run on Kickstarter. They’ve got close to $300,000 from backers and have made a few adjustments to the product based on backer feedback with six days left to go in the campaign.
Companies typically die around ~20 months after their last financing round and after having raised $1.3 million. Companies in the social industry saw the highest of number of startup failures in the period in question.
