The latest funding round is now confirmed for GoFundMe in a blog post this week. The blog post, published June 18 on the company’s site, will give GoFundMe the ability to grow. It will no longer be bootstrapped. The venture capital funding round now puts the startup at a value of $500 million.
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On-demand delivery is a booming area for startups, and the latest one to emerge is Routific, which started officially this week. The new startup is not looking to be the next Uber out there but instead to provide the technology for businesses to use for their delivery services. It aims to help small-sized companies.
Do you remember Sean Parker? He was the teen that changed the face of the music industry. Yes, he was the co-founder of Napster. Now Parker is back, this time with a political-centered app. It is called Brigade. The application provides a simple way to give your political stance. Parker helped develop the app, along with Matt Mahan, an engineering team and product talent specialists. The work behind the scenes has been going on for about a year. Mahan is the former CEO and president of Causes.
The startup called Are You a Human has received $4.2 million in funding. That money will be put toward managing the bots that are causing Internet issues. Detroit Venture Partners were the leaders in the Series A round. Some of the organizations involved were Foundry Group Angles, NCT Ventures, and MDC Dream Ventures.
A ruling from the California Labor Commission is that at least one driver at Uber driver is its employee. The startup had been sued by Barbara Ann Berwick, who filed a claim earlier in the year when she said she was not paid for work she had done. It is through that lawsuit that the California Labor Commission has come to decide that Uber is not solely a software company meeting consumer demand.
As Cisco Live is such a popular show, its third-party vendors are announcing their new products. As those third-party vendors depend on Cisco for their own businesses, they want to make sure the Cisco Live show continues to be successful. That is why they unveil products at the launch event and before it starts.