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/PRNewswire/ -- Wheel, the health tech company making virtual care work for everyone, announced a $50 million Series B investment led by Lightspeed Ventures...
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A new development studio founded by two industry veterans - David Li and Bao Lam - has raised $3.2 million in a round of seed funding. The round was led by Amy Wu, partner at Lightspeed Ventures, with additional investment from Vermillion Ventures, Riot Games head of live support Logan Margulies, Pragma CEO Eden Chen, and Scopely VP of product Alex Paley. Hidden Leaf was founded in late 2019 by Li and Lam - who previously held product management roles at Zynga and Super Evil Megacorp, and PUBG Corp, respectively. The pair also held product management roles at Riot Games. Hidden Leaf has also...
Carted co-founders Mike Angell and Holly Cardew. Source: supplied. Aussie startup Carted has secured a massive $13 million in seed funding, to build out its next-generation universal e-commerce API. And these founders have global domination in their sights. Carted was founded by Holly Cardew, who also founded image-editing-for-e-commerce startup Pixc; and Mike Angell, who has worked as an engineer at Shopify and was previously chief operating officer at Culture Kings. These are founders with deep e-commerce experience, and an acute awareness of the challenges facing online retailers. In Marc...
× Offer for sale, done right, becomes a window of win-win prospects — for promoters and private investors as well as institutional and common investors Ever since SEBI tweaked the OFS rules in 2014 allowing non-promoters holding more than 10 per cent equity to offload stakes, the primary market opened the floodgates for Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) exits. PE players could now afford to stretch their holding spans, help their firms achieve significant scale and size, escape the IPO lock-ins, and fetch attractive returns through market sale, not party-specific block deals. ...