30-second summary: Amazon focuses on small and medium businesses and decides to invest $18 billion this year to help small and medium-sized businesses succeed in its store. Sellers saw record-breaking sales, surpassing $3.5 billion in total across 19 countries. Independent third-party sellers, mostly SMEs saw a 60% increase vs Amazon […]
Sydney-based design tool Canva announced on Wednesday that it has raised an $85 million funding round. They previously received funding in May 2019 at a $2.5 billion valuation. This week’s funding round brings Canva to $3.2 billion. Canva’s CEO and cofounder is 32-year-old Melanie Perkins. According to Canva’s site, Perkins […]
Mobile marketing platform CleverTap this morning announced completion of a $35 million Series C funding round. This brings their total valuation to $385 million, up from $150 million at the beginning of 2019. Funding was led by previously existing investors, Tiger Global Management and Sequoia India. CleverTap distinguishes its product […]
The CDP industry continued to expand in the first half of 2019, according to the latest semi-annual report from the CDP Institute. The industry has reached 96 vendors, 9,026 employees, and $2.4 billion in funding, as seen in the graph below. The CDP Institute defines a customer data platform as […]
Last week, these marketing technology companies received funding: Improvado raised $8 million to automate full-stack marketing analytics Bridge Connector raised $10 million for integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaas) 6sense raises $27 million for real-time predictions of product purchases Top funding news in marketing technology last week: Improvado raised $8 million to automate full-stack marketing analytics What […]
Last week, these marketing technology companies received funding: CleverTap raised $26 million for its customer management tools Streetwear marketplace BUMP raised $7.5 million Dote raised $12 million and introduced live-streamed shopping parties Klaviyo raises $150 million through the Series B funding The top funding news in marketing technology last week: […]
This past week, these marketing technology companies got funding: Keen Decision Systems closed Series A funding (undisclosed amount) ezCater received $150 million in Series D-1 funding at a $1.25 billion valuation Bitglass raised $70 million in Series D funding SaaS startup SurveySparrow received $1.4 million in seed funding Red Points announced that […]
Last week, these marketing technology companies got funding: Software company Vlocity received $60 million Series C funding on $1 billion valuation Online marketplace 1stdibs raised $76 million in new Series D funding Amify secured $5.8 million Series A funding Digital asset management platform PhotoShelter received $8 million from Level Structured Capital Design workflow […]
Last week, these marketing technology companies got funding: Digital identity startup Passbase has raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding AI photo startup Polarr has raised $11.5 million Series A, bringing total funding to around $13.5 million Big data AI startup Noble.AI raised an undisclosed second seed round of funding, closing at $8.6 million […]
This morning, search marketing intelligence platform Adthena announced $14 million Series A funding. The funding came from Updata Partners. They plan to use the money to accelerate the company’s US growth as well as to continue to develop and improve their product offering. About Adthena Adthena does “competitive intelligence through […]