Startups & Leaders

Atlanta started 2021 off with Calendly and Salesloft crossing the $1 billion valuation mark, putting the focus on the city’s impressive productivity and ‘SalesTech’ space.  Michael Gorodisher has watched the...

REAL ESTATEBoston to restrict parking at new developmentsBoston will set a ceiling on how much parking it allows at new housing and commercial development, particularly near transit. The Janey administration...

COLUMBIA — When Mapquest co-founder Chris Heivly comes to a city seeking his help to attract more fast-growing technology companies, he spends the first 100 days meeting with the founders...

The startup myth goes something like this: You launch a startup in your dorm room, get into Y Combinator, find product-market fit, experience hockey-stick growth, raise some funding and expand...

The Milwaukee area's largest business group is promising to put more emphasis on funding startup firms.The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce said it's best known for attracting corporations and helping...

Built Technologies, a construction finance platform, announced $125 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $1.5 billion. Lead investor TCV, along with Brookfield Technology Partners, 9Yards Capital, XYZ Venture...

OptoScale is a forerunner in capturing and analysing high-value data for fish farmers – an annual market it estimates will grow from approximately $10 million today to $400 million by...

Funding to Europe and Israel's software startups is up three-fold to $29 billion in 2021. That funding figure grew faster than for the US, where funding doubled to $48 billion....

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alviere, the leading embedded finance platform enabling any brand to deliver financial products and services to its customers and employees, today announced that it had raised $70 million...

Halo launched focusing on structured notes, stock market investments that give holders protections against market declines, which have historically been reserved for high-net-worth individuals and institutions. By offering everyday consumers...