According to Melnick, the company had targeted a final sum closer to $30 million, but interest in putting more capital into the business by the company’s extant investor set led to a larger Series C. The Zebra previously raised a number of Seed rounds , and a $17 million Series C led by Ballast and a $40 million Series B led by Accel.
Happily, The Zebra released some hard performance numbers in conjunction with its round, which not only show why the company was able to raise more capital but also why its space is hot.
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Data predicted coronavirus and where it may spread next - Marketplace
Three weeks before the Chinese government announced travel restrictions on the coronavirus epicenter of Wuhan, medical data nerds were already detecting signs of an outbreak. Employees at the Canadian startup BlueDot found their computers picked up early warnings from online chatter across China.
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“Three cases outside of China have been identified, two in Thailand one in Japan, all travelers from Wuhan.”
Bogoch and his team got it exactly right. How? First, they ran the numbers on historical travel patterns.
Emerge raises $20M to take its digital freight marketplace for truckers up a gear –
Trucking is currently the most popular mode of transporting freight in the U.S., accounting for around $12.5 billion of the $17 billion freight market, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics . But with thousands of small and single-vehicle operators and legacy (often paper-based) systems underpinning communications, it’s also one of the most inefficient.
Now there are signs that this is changing. A startup out of Phoenix, Ariz. called Emerge , which has built a platform for shippers and brokers to find and allocate truck freight more effectively across the long tail of available truck-based carriers (a little like a Flexport but for trucks), is announcing a round of $20 million, funding it will use to continue building out its technology, as well as to keep expanding business.
IPsoft Introduces the World's First Marketplace for Digital Employees™: DigitalWorkforce.ai
Businesses can now hire cloud-sourced, AI-powered digital workers to build a hybrid workforce for better enterprise scale, productivity and efficiency
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" The world of work is changing dramatically. By 2025, I predict that the workplace will be 50-50 human-digital colleagues. We're excited to launch DigitalWorkforce.ai as a major milestone in the evolution of the hybrid workforce, which is the next step in the skilled base economy and the world's first in what will be defined as the hybrid workforce economy," said Chetan Dube , CEO and Founder of IPsoft.
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Grace's Marketplace Launches Grocery Delivery | Progressive Grocer
Grace's Marketplace, with two stores in the New York City area, will offer same-day delivery of gourmet products, fresh produce, premium seafood and meats, party trays, and prepared foods.
"It's central to our history to find new ways to provide New Yorkers with our carefully curated menu of old-world style ingredients and recipes. We found that large providers such as Instacart and Amazon weren't the right fit for the Grace's Marketplace brand, which has always focused on high-touch customer service and same-day freshness," said Daniel Soares, strategy director at Grace's.
Los Angeles’ Gento wants to build an on-demand healthcare staffing marketplace –
With a fresh commitment of $5 million for its on-demand staffing and care management service for at-home healthcare and nursing facilities, Los Angeles-based Gento is looking to grow.
The new financing came from Palisades Growth Capital , and the company said it would use the money to expand nationally and invest more capital in research and development.
Founded as Nursing Without Walls, Gento is the brainchild of Victor Gajendran, who worked as a senior director of technology at Zynx Health, a Los Angeles-based technology company working on data analysis of clinical research to improve outcomes in healthcare.
Bode Introduces the Industry's First Digital Marketplace for Real Estate Transactions
Bōde's latest innovation means Calgary buyers can use one of the world's most sophisticated and advanced systems for making real estate transactions. With consumers increasingly making purchases through digital marketplaces, Bōde meets the modern buyer's desire for convenience, self-service and the ability to source the best value for their hard-earned money.
Like other online shopping and e-commerce pursuits, 92% of Canadians start their search for their home online. Saving searches, sharing listings and creating favorite lists are all a part of the market research and organization phase of your home selection. In many countries around the world, including Australia and Denmark, the next step of requesting a showing, communicating with the seller and making an offer is done by the buyer without an agent.
Tech Talk: Facebook Marketplace - The Times
WORLD WIDE WEB-It seems like everyone is on social media. These days there are several newer or emerging social media platforms, but Facebook, the classic, is still maintaining its foothold with 2.37 billion active users.
In recent years, Facebook has worked to create transparency in its user base. They've chosen to focus on verified first and last names as opposed to Instagram handles, for instance. Funkyjazzguy88 is now John Smith.
Doing away with creative usernames makes their platform-within-a-platform, Facebook Marketplace, a viable solution to find and make offers for items directly through Facebook's mobile application. Users can also list real estate rentals.
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The Zebra raises $38.5M as the insurance marketplace race heats up https://t.co/BKbTGJeYyh by @alex https://t.co/Cvdl7MkJMT TechCrunch (from San Francisco, CA) Wed Feb 05 13:45:05 +0000 2020
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