The GeekWire Awards Startup CEO of the Year finalists are Luis Ceze of OctoML; Maria Colacurcio of Syndio; Mike McSherry of Xealth; Ray Meiring of Qorus Software; and Alessya Visnjic of WhyLabs.
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We’re excited to annouce defy portfolio company Honorock’s recent fundraising round led by Owl Ventures!
The Briefing: 23andMe Going Public Via SPAC, Klobuchar Proposes Sweeping Changes To Antitrust Enforcement, BigChange Lands $102M, And More
Meanwhile, GajiGesa, founded in 2020 and based in Jakarta, raised $2.5 million in seed funding to expand its financial wellness platform for workers in Indonesia. Defy.vc and Quest Ventures co-led the round and were joined by a group that included GK Plug and Play and Next Billion Ventures.
Moment House Adds Seven Key Execs as the Livestream Boom Looks Like It’s Here to Stay, Post-Pandemic
Lest anyone think that the entertainment livestream revolution is a product of the pandemic that will taper off as soon as quarantining does, Moment House CEO and co-founder Arjun Mehta has the language to describe what’s happening in the space.
PocketSuite Partners With ShearShare to Help Stylists Boost Business
PocketSuite, the provider of an all-in-one app for solo businesses, today announced a partnership with ShearShare, the largest marketplace of on-demand salon and barbershop booth rentals worldwide. The partnership will allow PocketSuite Pros who book a chair on ShearShare to receive a discounted rental, while ShearShare stylists, will get a 25% discount on PocketSuite for one…
PocketSuite Partners With ShearShare to Help Stylists Boost Business
PocketSuite, the provider of an all-in-one app for solo businesses, today announced a partnership with ShearShare, the largest marketplace of on-demand salon and barbershop booth rentals worldwide. The partnership will allow PocketSuite Pros who book a chair on ShearShare to receive a discounted rental, while ShearShare stylists, will get a 25% discount on PocketSuite for one year.
VC Daily: Venture Funding Soars to Start Year
3PL Central Acquires Skubana, Expanding Inventory and Order Management Offering for Ecommerce
3PL Central, a leader in cloud-based Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) built to meet the unique needs of third-party logistics (3PL) warehouses, has acquired Skubana, a leading inventory management system and ecommerce operations platform. With this acquisition, 3PL Central expands its supply chain technology offering to include intelligent order routing and inventory management to create one of the first software…
The Skubana Story: Spicy Sichuan to Exit
Defy portfolio company, Skubana, announced its successful acquisition by 3PL Central and its partner, Mainsail Partners. While it serves as a meaningful exit for Defy and the founders of Skubana, Chad Rubin and DJ Kunovac, the team will remain to build a next-generation end-to-end commerce platform that combines 3PL’s warehouse management system (WMS) with Skubana’s industry-leading inventory…