With eCommerce taking off amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Bolt the checkout technology platform company is raising $50 million in a new round of venture funding. The Series C financing was led by Laurence Tosi at WestCap and included participation from existing investors Activant Capital, Tribe Capital, Glynn Capital, and Human Capital. With the latest round of funding Bolt has raised a total of $140 million since its inception in 2014. The eCommerce technology startup won’t dis

HomeLight analyzes more than 40 million real estate transactions and over 1.4 million agent profiles from major brokerages for each transaction. It says it connects a client to a real estate agent every two minutes and has seen a compound annual growth rate of nearly 150% for the past three years. It also doubled its employee base to 200 in just the past year. HomeLight launched in 2012 as a real estate matchmaker, using proprietary algorithms to connect buyers and sellers wi

Buying a home is one of the biggest, and most expensive, decisions in a person’s life. Over the past year or so, we’ve written about a slew of startups that have developed technology aimed at making the process smoother and cheaper in one way or another. Today, another such startup, San Francisco-based HomeLight, has announced a $109 million round of debt and equity funding. The financing round includes $63 million in Series C equity from venture capital firms and $46 million

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nav, a startup that gives small businesses free access to their credit reports, said on Monday that it had raised $44 million from investors including Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Point72 Ventures and Experian Ventures (EXPN.L). CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund and Aries also participated in the round which was led by Goldman Sachs, the companies said. Salt Lake City-based Nav plans to use the funding to continue to build out its technology and marke

Roofstock is a two-year-old, Oakland, Ca.-based marketplace for buyers and sellers of single-family homes that have tenants residing in them. The rather specific idea behind it is appealing on a couple of levels, including because both institutional and retail investors can buy and sell homes without forcing renters to leave the property during a transaction — a big problem for many families in the Bay Area, for example. Buyers also avoid the hassle of finding renters, gainin

Branch, a startup making tools to enable developers to provide links between websites and apps, has raised a $60 million Series C round of funding from Andy Rubin’s Playground Ventures, according to sources. Branch — formerly Branch Metrics — launched in 2014 to provide better analytics and improve app discovery and referral programs. It offers tools that app marketers can use to create deep links between web and app content, as well as email to app content. It works with ema

San Francisco, Calif. – August 7, 2014 – Life360, the leading Family Network, announced today that Expansion VC and other AngelList members plan to join the previously announced $50 million Series C financing in Life360 led by ADT. The Expansion VC Syndicate is aiming to raise $500,000 from key angels to join the round. “We’ve seen dramatic wealth creation in private markets as companies delay their IPOs,” said Ash Fontana, at AngelList. “Companies are staying private longer,

San Francisco, Calif. – March 7, 2013 – Life360, the leading location and communication app for families, today announced that BMW i Ventures, the venture capital company of German luxury car manufacturer, BMW Group, has made a strategic, long-term investment in the mobile app company. Using location-based technology, Life360 enables its more than 30 million users to set up a private family network to see where their loved ones are located, know when they need help and see wh