When we launched GrowthHackers.com back in late September we had a notion of doing “growth teardowns” of the fastest growing startups. We wanted to answer the question that everyone on the outside of these rocketships wanted to know the answer to: “How did they grow so fast?” So we set to work doing deep research dives on companies like Uber, Snapchat, Yelp, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Evernote and more.
Ya estamos en julio, en pleno verano, y las inversiones en startups españolas se siguen sucediendo. A continuación, nuestro informe resumen mensual. Si nos hemos dejado alguna o hay algún dato incorrecto, no dudéis en indicárnoslo, rápidamente actualizaremos el listado.
Zap Zap Fractions is an iPad and iPhone math app for children that manages to be both instructional and beautiful. When I saw the game demoed by its creators, Malaysia-based Visual Math Studio, at the recent Echelon event, I was impressed by its illustrations of aliens and spaceships, as well as its entertainment value. The concept behind the game, which teaches kids the basics of fractions, was inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes comic.
Anonymous messaging apps cause gossip, drama, and even media deals – and they apparently also still catch investors’ attention.
After Secret raised $8.6 million in March, and Whisper raised a massive $36 million in May, anonymous messaging app Yik Yak announced today that it has raised $10 million for its own slice of the anonymous messaging pie.
WISErg, a bio-tech company that recycles discarded food into organic fertilizer while harvesting data from the scraps, announced today that it has raised a Series B round of $5 million from private investors.
This brings the total WISErg has raised to $7.75 million and will allow the Redmond, WA-based company to expand into California. WISErg makes food recycling units called Harvester which are currently used by stores in the Puget Sound area of Washington, including branches of Whole Foods Market, Town & Country Markets, PCC Natural Markets, and Red Apple Markets.
“Shadow IT,” a term for the unauthorized use of external apps by employees, is a major problem for enterprises — and Skyhigh Networks is out to solve it.
That mission has drawn a lot of attention and capital for the company, which today announced $40 million in new funding from Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, and cloud giant Salesforce (Salesforce’s contribution was “strategic”).
HelloFresh delivers a food box that lets subscribers make high-quality self-cooked meals at home. Customers can pick between different recipes and receive the exact number and portion of the ingredients needed. That way they get the right ingredients and are not stuck with leftovers. HelloFresh claims to deliver well over one million meals per month.
“We take all the not so enjoyable parts out of the experience and make cooking an appreciated part of your weekly routine,” states Dominik S. Richter, the founder & global CEO of HelloFresh.
Today in an old music-hall-turned-arthouse-movie-theatre in the East End of London, TechStars presented its London DemoDay, three months after the group was announced. The startups presenting ran the gamut from B2B to consumer, education to e-commerce and social networking. Only three of the companies presenting were from the UK, with the rest coming from Europe, U.S. and Asia.
As we inch ever closer to a truly Wall-E world, HelloFresh has secured $50 million in Series D funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor Phenomen VC.
HelloFresh, an on-demand grocery delivery service, currently sends over one million meals per month, and the “vast majority” of those meals are going to repeat customers.
The Germany-based company competes with Blue Apron and Plated to deliver pre-portioned ingredients and instructions so that you can make a thirty-minute meal that tastes great and didn’t require rifling through any grocery store aisles.
