Financing & Incubators

Magazine articles on venture capital, private funding, incubators and the IPO process.

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Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Bulletproof Raises $9 Million To Sell Butter-Infused Coffee Bulletproof, the company behind the popular and faddish Bulletproof coffee, has just raised $9 million to help build a chain of coffee shops
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Why This Mobile Game Company Raised $130 Million Social Gaming Network, the game publisher helmed by MySpace cocreator Chris DeWolfe, just raised a mammoth $130 million funding round from Korean gaming giant Netmarble.
Chemistry World July 22, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Silicone bracelet set to pick-up on chemical exposure The researchers behind the company, including co-founders Steven O'Connell and Kim Anderson, have initiated a Kickstarter online fundraising campaign to develop the wristband, which can currently measure more than 1400 chemicals.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Amazon Competitor Jet.Com Debuts With "Club Price Savings" After introducing a beta site for select customers in the spring, Jet is now launching with a valuation of $600 million -- and is rumored to be in talks to raise that number to $3 billion by the end of the year.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Is Airbnb About To Become A $24 Billion Company? Just two months after Uber announced its quest for a $1.5 billion round of funding that would value the company at $50 billion, Airbnb appears to be on a similar track
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber's Big Round Of Chinese Funding Could Signal IPO Uber has just secured a round of funding from Chinese investment management firm Hillhouse Capital Group, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Dollar Shave Club Is Now Worth $615 Million Dollar Shave Club, a darling of contemporary e-commerce thanks to its subscription razor deliveries, is now valued at $615 million, after raising $75 million in a new funding round.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Etsy Debuts Crowdfunding Platform, Takes On Kickstarter Today, the online marketplace announced Fund on Etsy, its own spin on the crowdfunding model made popular by Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2015 Lauren Schwartzberg	How Krash And Other Startups Are Taking Coworking Home Cohousing -- or co-living, as it's also known -- holds much the same appeal as coworking. Sharing living space is often more cost-effective than renting or buying, especially in hot startup markets, and members hope that spontaneous interactions will drive creativity.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	FTC Investigates Failed Kickstarter Board-Game Campaign The FTC is investigating a failed Kickstarter project based on the works of horror author H.P. Lovecraft -- and it's the first time ever the government is taking enforcement action against a project hosted on a crowdfunding program.
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