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The Series D raise brings Devoted Health’s total funding pot to $1.99 billion.

ShelfLife, a marketplace for raw materials, raises $3 million seed round Two years ago, Lillian Cartwright teamed up with some fellow Harvard Business School students to launch a new spiked seltzer brand called Astrid. Despite all the tools that make launching a D2C brand easier than it’s ever been, the team ran into complications when it came to securing raw materials. This piece of the supply chain is still stuck in the past, according to Cartwright, who explained that most of it is still b...

Disrupt 2020 was an absolute banger of a conference, but we’re not ones to rest on our laurels. We have an incredible Disrupt in store for you this September 21-23, with an amazing line up of speakers across the hottest of topics, like crypto, health/biotech, SPACs, the creator economy, and the usual spread of startup […]

CHARLOTTE - Carewell, which calls itself a Chewy.com for caregivers in its job descriptions, has raised nearly $25 million from four investors according to an

Expressable launches with millions for scalable speech therapy Speaking isn’t simple for at least 40 million Americans, so a new Austin-based startup is scaling a solution. Expressable is a digital speech therapy company that connects patients to speech language pathologists (SLP) via telehealth services and asynchronous support, and it has raised a new $4.5 million seed round. The early-stage startup is launching with an explicit focus on serving the approximately five million children in th...

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Queenly raises $2.3M for its dress marketplace One of our favorite companies from the most recent Y Combinator batch has closed a seed round. This morning Queenly announced that it has closed a $2.262 million round, following its $800,000 pre-seed raise. TechCrunch covered the company in February, noting that the company was building something akin to the StockX for women’s formal wear. Queenly runs a marketplace that allows individuals and small stores to resell dresses after they’ve been ...

Whoop, a Boston-based sports wearable company backed by Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, is set to open its first European office in Dublin. Following questions from the Sunday Independent, the company, which raised $100m in Series E Funding at a $1.2bn (€1bn) valuation last October, confirmed its plan to set up its Irish base. Alex Jacobs, a senior manager of PR and communications for Whoop, said: "Following a year of hypergrowth, Whoop plans to open its first European office in Ireland and furthe...

SHARE Shares in Datadog Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today after the data monitoring and analytics provider’s 2021 earnings guidance came in lower than expected and the company announced the acquisition of two startups. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Datadog reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of six cents a share on revenue of $177.5 million, up 56% over the same quarter in 2019. Analysts had predicted a profit of two cents a share on revenue of $163.6 millio...