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Our DJ, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy dancefloor come, thy steps be done, on earth, as it is at Dance Church. The 11-year-old startup, which started back in 2010 as an in-person experience, has seen tremendous growth, especially as people were forced out of dance studios because of COVID-19. Fueled by […]

Aspiring business founders who are current students or alumni from historically Black colleges and universities have a chance to win $1 million from Michael B. Jordan’s Invesco QQQ Legacy Classic competition.

Kepemimpinan AC Ventures yang terbukti dalam mencari startup lokal pada tahap awal ditambah rekam jejak mumpuni disebut memperkuat keputusan investasi Capria Ventures.

Formative, a Los Angeles, CA-based SaaS real-time student data platform provider, raised $70m in minority funding. The round was led by global growth investor Summit Partners, with participation from existing investors including Emerson Collective, Fika Ventures, Mac Ventures and Rethink Education. Tom Jennings, a Managing Director at Summit Partners, will join Formative’s Board of Directors. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product enhancement efforts, increase teacher an...

The fund itself is part of its broader $1.25 billion racial equality and economic opportunity effort.

More funding flows into Pipe, as buzzy fintech raises $250M at a $2B valuation At the end of March, TechCrunch reported that buzzy startup Pipe — which aims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue” — had raised $150 million in a round of funding that values the fintech at $2 billion. Well, that deal has closed and in the end, Miami-based Pipe confirms that it has actually raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation in a round that was “massively oversubscribed,” according to co-founder and ...

Washington state-based launch company, Stoke Space Technologies, has raised $9.1 million in seed investments to develop a completely reusable rocket that the company claims will offer launch services 20 times cheaper than offerings today. The round was co-led by NFX and Y Combinator, Liquid2, Trevor Blackwell, Kyle Vogt, Charlie Songhurst, and others. SpaceX is able to land and reuse the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket, and Rocket Lab is working toward this as well, but Stoke aims to ha...

Stoke Space aims to take reusable rockets to new heights with $9M seed Many launch providers think reusability is the best way to lower the cost and delay involved in getting to space. SpaceX and Rocket Lab have shown reusable first stages, which take a payload to the edge of space — and now Stoke Space Technologies says it is making a reusable second stage, which will take that payload to orbit and beyond, and has raised a $9.1 million seed round to realize it. Designing a first stage that ...