Amazon.com's venture-capital fund invested in DefinedCrowd and gained access to the technology startup’s finances and other confidential information. Four years later the marketplace launched an artificial-intelligence product that does almost exactly ...

Sequoia, the well-know Silicon Valley venture capital giant, is to open a London office and has poached Luciana Lixandru from European firm Accel to run it, "The Telegraph" reports. ...

U.K.-based SuperAwesome works with brands for children to help them market and communicate with kids ages six and 16, from online to television. ...

From a surge in plant-based start-ups to China flexing its cultural clout, the following are some of the top items to watch for in 2020: ...

The company now estimates it supports more than 8,000 businesses, up from 3,000 in 2017. ...

Joe Marchese, former president of ad revenue for Fox Networks Group, Wednesday announced that his next act would be to serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Human Ventures, a VC firm ...

The acquisition of Nextopia on Thursday makes it the second ecommerce search company Scaleworks bought in the past few months. The first, SearchSpring, was acquired in May 2019. ...

The latest round will allow Adthena to build out AI capabilities, support the launch of new channels, and gain a stronger U.S. foothold. ...

The CPG food giant looks to go beyond brand extensions to fuel growth with "disruptive" food innovations. ...

Chamath Palihapitiya has decided that he doesn’t want to run a tech venture capital firm saturated with “Stanford MBAs in fleece vests,” CNBC reports. In addition, the founder of Social ...

The integration creates a tool that leverages the engine within the Yext Knowledge Network to control business brand data on popular digital services like Yelp, Foursquare, TripAdvisor, Facebook and Al ...

Sigstr, provider of a email signature marketing platform, has a customer base of over 400 companies and an employee count of almost 60. The company is the first to launch ...

The funds will be used to drive adoption and distribution of its Houndify voice AI platform across verticals such as automotive, the Internet of Things, consumer products, and enterprise apps ...

The technology comes from veterans of Israel's elite security and intelligence units who have accumulated 25 years of experience in online identity theft and through their military service and activity ...

In 2017, PitchBook and the NVCA counted 8,076 deals taking place -- a decline compared to recent years. The researchers attribute the incongruity to the changing nature of the VC ...

The venture capital fund is looking for investments in areas ranging from improvements to readers' experience to ad tech. That includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, payment tools, and new forms ...

With the investment, You & Mr. Jones becomes a stakeholder in Pinterest -- one the largest strategic venture capital infusions the company has made to date. The inspiration comes from ...

A group of leading venture capital firms are suing the Trump administration for torpedoing the immigration program on which their collective health relies. “To the National Venture Capital Association -- ...

High-tech startups with Series A funding can get support in a new program from HubSpot. The initiative could help email technology startups and other new businesses. ...

WorkSpan announced a $9 million series A funding round on Tuesday. Led by Mayfield, the financing was unveiled in conjunction with the company's global debut after an early availability prog ...

New York City is already a hub for digital media, advertising, and all manner of tech startups. Now, the city has pledged $250 million to launch Civic Hall, a hub ...

Snap Inc. is looking to land deals with agency holding companies in advance of its initial public offering. But, as the Wall Street Journal reports, "it isn’t just cozying up ...

Google now tops the list of the most active corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) making investments during the first half of 2016, according to one firm tracking investments. ...

Metamarkets, a provider of interactive analytics for programmatic marketing, said it has closed a $14.25 million credit facility with Wellington Financial LP and City National Bank. ...

Venture Beat reports that AdStage announced Monday a $2 million funding round from Verizon Ventures to establish a product suite around marketing technology. AdStage -- primarily a social advertising management service for ...

London ad tech firm Ogury has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Idinvest Partners, according to Tech City News. "Existing investors Ventech, CoVent Partners and ACG ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that startups are increasingly having trouble raising funds if they call themselves an "ad tech" company. "Martech" is the preferred moniker apparently. "It has become ...

Refinery29 is one of a few leaders in the space that has tens of millions of readers and a sky-high valuation. On its site, Refinery29 attracts about 25 million monthly uniques. But when ...

 Snapchat raised $175 million from Fidelity Investments, bringing the youth-skewing vanishing-message service to more than $1.3 billion raised to date. It maintains its $16 billion valuation. The infusion is nice ...

Moz, a Seattle marketing-software company, announced Tuesday that it had raised a $10 million series C financing round entirely from an existing investor, Foundry Group. It brings the company's total financing ...