SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Lenda, the most technologically advanced platform that allows homeowners to refinance or originate mortgages completely online, today announced the closing of a $5.25M Series A financing led by SF Capital Group. Additional investors in the round include CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund and inside investor, Rubicon Venture Capital. The company will use the new funding to fill key management positions, expand its reach to more sta

AutoFi has raised $10 million in its quest to make it easier to take out a car loan. The San Francisco-based financial technology company said on Thursday it has completed a Series A funding round, with investors including Crosslink Capital, Ford Motor Credit Company and Lerer Hippeau Ventures. AutoFi makes a white-label technology platform that allows car dealers to offer faster, online financing to customers. It recently partnered with Ford's financing arm, Motor Credit, an

Short-term rental management startup Pillow has raised $13.5 million in new funding, and is launching a new product to provide more transparency to apartment owners when renters make their apartments available on platforms like Airbnb. A few years ago, Pillow launched to help make renting out your apartment on Airbnb less of a hassle. That included things like helping hosts manage their calendar, set their pricing and dealing with the hand-off of keys and cleanings in-between

As publishers — scrambling for revenues and audiences in a rapidly changing media industry — try to get a grip on how to make the best use of social platforms like Facebook and Twitter (without simply conceding traffic to those social platforms), a startup that’s building tools to help them surface interesting content has raised $6.4 million in funding to grow its business. NewsWhip — which tracks what stories and themes are trending, along with influencers, and provides that

BOSTON, Oct. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Bison (Boston Illiquid Securities Offering Network, Inc.), a technology company focused on developing innovative software for the financial services industry, today announced a Series A round led by Hamilton Lane, a leading private markets asset management firm, with the participation of Boston-based venture firms GrandBanks Capital and Accomplice. This round of investment represents significant support from industry leaders in Bison, wh

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- HomeLight (http://www.homelight.com), the world's premier marketplace for finding real estate professionals, today announced it has raised $11MM in Series A funding. The new capital, led by Zeev Ventures, and joined by Dovi Frances of SGVC, will give HomeLight the ability to enhance its data-driven product offering as the smartest new way to find a real estate agent. It brings the company's total funding since inception to $15 mi

Roofstock, a San Francisco Bay Area-based online marketplace and community created exclusively for investing in leased single-family rental homes, closed a $7m Series A-1 round. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Grey Wolf and CSC Venture Capital. This followed a $6.25m Series A round raised in May 2015 and led by Khosla Ventures with participation from QED Investors and Nyca Partners, as well as Ron Conway’s SV Angel and Marc Benioff, founder

Walker & Dunlop, Inc. (NYSE: WD) and Rentlytics announced today that Walker & Dunlop has made a strategic investment in Rentlytics, a technology platform for owners and managers of multifamily real estate assets. The $9.1 million Series A round of funding led by Walker & Dunlop includes additional participation from both new and existing investors, including Grey Wolf. Rentlytics will use the funding for additional product development and market expansion. The cloud-based bus

SchoolMint: SchoolMint has raised $6.2M in Series A funding from an undisclosed group of investors. The San Francisco, CA-based startup offers a browser-based and mobile platform that helps schools and parents manage students’ applications and enrollment process in K-12 schools. SchoolMint charges schools a base price with additional features such as automated communication to parents available for an extra fee. #SeriesA #SchoolMint #Marketplace #schoolenrollment

Able, a non-bank commercial lender, Tuesday announced it has closed on $6 million in venture capital and plans to expand its services nationwide. Blumberg Capital and RPM Ventures led the round with participation from Peterson Partners and Expansion Ventures AngelList Syndicate. The Austin-based startup plans to use the money to begin offering loans in 40 states and the District of Columbia. It has 25 employees and expects to hire five more soon. It also plans to use the mone

RENO, Nev., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Filament, an enterprise technology company that creates smart industrial infrastructure by connecting existing machinery, equipment, and assets to a wireless sensor network, announced today that it has closed $5 million in funding led by Bullpen Capital. Joining the Series A round are Verizon Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Samsung Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Haystack, Working Lab Capital, Techstars, and existing investors. As the

UpCounsel, a marketplace for legal services, has pulled in $10 million in new funding to provide small businesses with attorneys at a fraction of the cost of a big law firm. Menlo Ventures led the Series A round, with participation from previous investors Homebrew and Metamorphic Ventures, which brings the company’s funding total to $13.9 million. When businesses hire a lawyer from a top firm, the majority of the legal fees they pay are not going directly to the attorney doin