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FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Home valuation fintech pioneer HouseCanary, Inc. today announced it has closed a $65 million growth funding…
JANUARY 22, 2020
Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular games, will now be an official high school sport and college sport, thanks to an LA-based startup called PlayVS. The company has partnered with Epic Games…
JANUARY 22, 2020
Today we are thrilled to announce an agreement with The Walt Disney Company to acquire FoxNext Games Los Angeles and Cold Iron Studios in San Jose…
JANUARY 5, 2020
Here’s one of those “why didn’t they do this sooner” deals. HP just announced at CES that it will be the first PC company to integrate Tile’s…
DECEMBER 29, 2019
DECEMBER 6, 2019
Headed by ex-O Negative Media CEO Driver and former Disney Interactive and Electronic Arts…
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Scopely is now a unicorn. The privately held free-to-play mobile-games publisher announced a $200 million Series D funding round, bringing it to $458 million raised to date…
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Goldman Sachs is recognizing ringDNA CEO & Founder, Howard Brown as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2019 at its Builders + Innovators Summit in Santa Barbara, California. Goldman Sachs selected Howard as one of 100 entrepreneurs…
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Tile, the leading cloud-based finding platform, and Skullcandy Inc., the original lifestyle audio…
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
German tech firm TeamViewer pulled off Europe’s biggest initial public offering of 2019 on the Frankfurt stock exchange on Wednesday. TeamViewer priced its IPO at €26.25 euros per share…
AUGUST 6, 2019
Swedish payments provider Klarna has announced a new round of equity funding, adding $460 million at a post-money valuation of $5.5 billion, which makes it one of the most highly valued private…
JULY 26, 2019
CJ Prober, Tile Inc CEO, discusses the company’s new funding, products, and plans for the future…
JULY 1, 2019
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming 11 health-tech companies from across the United States and Europe to its newest accelerator class. The companies are innovating solutions for a wide variety of healthcare challenges…
JULY 1, 2019
Leading global payments provider, Klarna, today announced its multimarket partnership with Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF), a leading global specialty retailer of apparel and accessories for men, women and kids…
JUNE 25, 2019
Scopely, the mobile game company behind big brand tie-ins like The Walking Dead: Road to Survival, WWE Champions and Wheel of Fortune: Free Play, hit $1 billion in lifetime revenue. Six of the game’s franchises are set…
JUNE 13, 2019
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented Epic Games, the software developer behind the Unreal Engine and “Fortnite,” with a BAFTA Special Award Wednesday night at E3. The honor was presented at the London West Hollywood hotel…
JULY 1, 2019
Whether we characterize men’s grooming prospects as a crisis or not is beside the point. As a form, brand narrative has an inherent validity because it is the key…
JUNE 13, 2019
Fortnite creator Epic Games has acquired Houseparty for an undisclosed amount, the developer for the video group chat app for teens announced Wednesday. The win-win deal gives Houseparty access to the game…
JUNE 17, 2019
You know the feeling; you want—no, you’ve convinced yourself that you need, that new pair of jeans. The only trouble is, they’re selling at a pretty hefty £99 and there’s the small matter of the rent to pay. And buying food…
APRIL 4, 2019
Major investors in Custom Ink, Washington’s homegrown online T-shirt company that began 19 years ago in a Bethesda basement, are cashing out their shares under an agreement with the private-equity firms Great Hill…
MARCH 20, 2019
Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney kicked off the company’s annual Game Developers Conference keynote with some big news for creators: a commitment to hand out $100 million to game makers, film and…
MARCH 1, 2019
Who teaches as many students as the Los Angeles Unified School District and has on its platform as many teachers as New York City? …
JANUARY 23, 2019
On a morning half-choked by smoke from the nearby California wildfires, Mariam Naficy, the CEO of Minted, unlocks the heart…
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Dell Technologies Inc (DELL.N) returned to public markets on Friday, nearly six years after the company’s founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell took it private in what was then the biggest buyout since…
DECEMBER 5, 2018
When Derek Jeter founded The Players’ Tribune in 2014, he did so to give fellow athletes an outlet where they could tell their stories directly to fans. He was immediately joined by the likes of…
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Throughout Kobe Bryant’s 20-year career in the NBA, he was known for his exhaustive work ethic and never being satisfied with his exhaustive work ethic and never being satisfied with his accomplishments…
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Minted, a company we’ve been covering on this site for a decade-plus, plans to double down on its wholesale and licensing business, which helps larger retailers sell stationery, art and home decor designed by its community…
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
The balancing act of maintaining a high quality online teaching platform with meteoric global growth is a constant battle for the CEO…
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
The multitude of restaurant reservation apps diners have to pick from is down one: Reservation platform Resy has purchased competitor Reserve for an undisclosed…
JULY 1, 2019
As he casually strolled into the Los Angeles Lakers practice facility during the week leading up to the start of NBA training camp this fall, Kobe Bryant was clad in his usual black Nike trackpants and tee, wearing an unlaced pair of…
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
Zoom Information, Inc. [ZoomInfo], the leading growth acceleration platform for sales and marketing teams, has announced the acquisition of Datanyze, the…
AUGUST 11, 2018
Cindy Mi, the 35-year-old founder and CEO of the online-class startup VIPKid, remembers the day the education system failed her. Mi was 14 and had just moved to Harbin…
JULY 31, 2018
LegalZoom, the leading provider of…
JUNE 15, 2017
Scopely, the mobile game developer whose titles include a hit spinoff of “The Walking Dead,” announced $60 million in a Series C financing. The latest round brings Scopely to $160 million…
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
