| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.03.2021 | New York based company Hugging Face secures USD 40 million in its Series B round | Hugging Face, an American open-source NLP technology provider, announced on 11th March 2021 that it has raised US $40 million in its Series B round. The round was led by Addition along with eager participation from A.Capital, Lux Capital an... |
| 10.02.2021 | The Valentine's Delivery Rush Is About to Begin. Here Are the Startups Behind Poised to Flourish. | Valentine's Day is just around the corner and these flower delivery services are readying for the holiday rush. Americans order over 250 million roses for Valentine's Day, according to the Society of American Florists, and this year — with ... |
| 03.02.2021 | Ecommerce Platform BloomNation Helped Small Florists Grow. Now It's Going After Liquor Stores and Pizzerias | BloomNation wants to do for liquor stores what it did for flower delivery, but with robots.
A platform for local florists to sell arrangements to customers, BloomNation has been booming during the pandemic as video weddings and at-home birt... |
| 01.04.2017 | Ezra Galston: From Poker Player To Chicago’s Fastest Rising VC | Ezra Galston is a VC at Chicago Ventures. At CV, Ezra focuses on consumer facing investment and is actively involved with BloomNation, Kapow Events, Luxury Garage Sale, Shiftgig, SpotHero, Zipments, and Havenly. He writes one of my favorite... |
| 26.04.2016 | UrbanStems raises $6.8M for on-demand flowers | DC-based flower delivery service prides itself on full-time couriers and efficient supply chain
Editor's Note: Our annual Vator Splash Spring 2016 conference is around the corner on May 12, 2016 at the historic Scottish Rite Center in Oakla... |
| 26.04.2016 | 6 New Ways to Buy Mother’s Day Flowers | The piece originally appeared on TIME.
Startups around the country are developing new models of buying and selling flowers that limit spoilage, lower prices and bring an aesthetic that looks nothing like the kind of thing you’d find in a gr... |
| 21.01.2016 | When to Scale Your Startup and When to Chill Down | In the startup world, scaling is the key indicator of success; a startup that can offer sizable scale in a relatively short period of time often attracts the best and biggest investors. Those companies that fail to grow fast, well, ultimate... |
| 03.12.2015 | Holiday Shopping on Your Radar? Here are Deals from Our Portfolio Companies | Whether you’re happily or begrudgingly starting holiday shopping, hopefully we can make your life a bit easier. Here’s a list of deals offered from our portfolio companies. There’s lots of good stuff here – so #SupportAStartup this holiday ... |
| 17.07.2015 | UrbanStems Delivers Happiness (Well, Flowers) On Demand | On-demand flower-delivery startup UrbanStems is expanding to Brooklyn with the promise to deliver fresh bouquets of flowers, starting at $35, within two hours of ordering.
The company launched in D.C. last year, the week of Valentine’s Day,... |
| 21.05.2015 | This Budding Startup Is Changing How You Buy Flowers | As a world champion poker player, David Daneshgar could recall a hand from two years ago as if it were dealt to him yesterday. So it wasn’t exactly dumb luck when he made it to the final round of a 2011 poker tournament at Los Angeles’ Comm... |
| 01.04.2015 | 8 Entrepreneurs Share Their Rituals for Happy Meetings | Are happy meetings an oxymoron? Not if you take a cue from these startups and their awesome meeting rituals.
Our hatred of meetings is longstanding and, honestly, cliche at this point. GiveMore, for example, surveyed 1,600 people and enumer... |
| 29.03.2015 | Unpacking Etsy’s S1 | Ezra Galston Contributor
Ezra Galston is a venture capitalist with Chicago Ventures.
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| 24.03.2015 | Yelp Hooks Up With Startups To Offer A Larger Selection Of E-Commerce Bookings | As part of its ongoing efforts to transform itself from a reviews site into an e-commerce platform, Yelp announced today that it has partnered with startup Vimbly to offer activities bookings on its site and apps. Other startups it will wor... |
| 08.10.2014 | BloomNation.com Raises $5.55M in Series A |
SANTA MONICA, CA, Largest online marketplace for hand-crafted, locally delivered flowers, today announced it has raised $5.55 million to close its Series A financing.
>> Click here for more funding data on BloomNation
>> To ... |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation lands $5.5M to expand floral marketplace | Farbod Shoraka: Company is on track to hit a $10M gross revenue run-rate by yearend
One year after raising its seed round, BloomNation has closed its Series A for $5.5 million, led by Ronny Conway's investment firm, with participation from ... |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation Raises $5.5M Series A from Ronny Conway, Andreessen Horowitz & Others | BloomNation has just announced the closing of a $5.5 million round of Series A financing for its online marketplace for top florists and floral designers in the country. The round was led by Ronny Conway, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital ... |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation.com Raises $5.55 Million in Series A Funding from Top Investors Ronny Conway, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital and Chicago Ventures | 10/7/2014 – Santa Monica – BloomNation.com, the world’s largest online marketplace for hand-crafted, locally delivered flowers, today announced it has raised $5.55 million to close its Series A financing led by Ronny Conway, Andreessen Horo... |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation, Seeded in Chicago, Raises a $5.5 Million Series A to Disrupt the Flower Industry | A startup that was seeded in Chicago continues to grow.
BloomNation.com - the world’s largest online marketplace for hand-crafted, locally-delivered flowers - announced its $5.55 million Series A this morning; the round was led by serial in... |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation.com Raises $5.55M in Series A Financing | BloomNation.com, a Santa Monica, CA-based online marketplace for hand-crafted, locally delivered flowers, raised $5.55m to close its Series A financing.
Backers included Ronny Conway, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures and... |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation.com, Interview with CEO Farbod Shoraka | Following the close of the Series A funding round (read here), Farbod Shoraka, CEO of the Santa Monica, CA-based online flower marketplace BloomNation.com answered our questions about the company and its future plans.
FinSMEs: Hi Farbod. Fi... |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation snips off a fresh $5.55M for its virtual flower mall | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
BloomNation, a three year-old company that thinks... |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation snips off a fresh $5.55M for its virtual flower mall | BloomNation, a three year-old company that thinks flower shopping should be just as easy as shopping anywhere online, announced $5.55 million in a new round of funding.
BloomNation wants to help both florists and customers at the same time.... |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation Grows $5.6 Million Series A Round | - |
| 07.10.2014 | BloomNation, A Marketplace For Local Florists, Raises $5.6 Million Series A | BloomNation, a Santa Monica-based startup offering florists and floral designers a platform for running their business online, as well as a marketplace that connects florists and consumers, has now closed on $5.55 million in Series A fundin... |
| 07.10.2014 |
BloomNation.com Gets $5.55M For Local Flower Delivery
| Santa Monica-based BloomNation.com, the online floral arrangement marketplace headed by Farbod Shoraka, has raised $5.5M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The funding came from Ron Conway, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital... |
| 07.10.2014 | Funding Daily: In a flash | Flash storage just keeps on luring venture capital. The latest beneficiary: all-flash storage company SolidFire. Read on for details on the newest funding round for SolidFire as well as other freshly capitalized companies. SolidFire gets $8... |
| 07.10.2014 | Funding Daily: In a flash | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Flash storage just keeps on luring venture capita... |
| 06.10.2014 | BloomNation Grows $5.6 Million Series A Round | - |
| 04.08.2014 | 70 Startup Women Show Us What They Wear to Work | After publishing our piece “41 Startup Guys Show Us What They Actually WEAR to Work”, of course we had to follow that up with a piece highlighting the daily wears of startup women (equal opportunity, y'all!).
While Banana Republic's “Startu... |
| 24.07.2014 | 41 Startup Guys Show Us What They ACTUALLY Wear to Work | This Monday, Banana Republic pretty much stunned the world with the unveiling of its Startup Guy line of clothing. While it seems that Banana Republic no longer has the line featured on its website, the collection of looks displayed on Mond... |
| 17.07.2014 | What 50+ Entrepreneurs Eat for Breakfast | A heated discussion about the merits of the eggocado led me to wonder: what are entrepreneurs eating for breakfast? Is the stereotype of having no time to eat true – are the hustlers who need it most skipping “the most important meal of the... |
| 13.02.2014 | 4 Startups to Help You Send Fresh, Beautiful, and On-Demand Flowers this Valentine’s Day | On-demand delivery for all kinds of products and services is becoming more and more common. This is particularly good news for the procrastinators among us, especially when it comes to gift giving. Flower delivery is one area where this bus... |
| 13.02.2014 | TechCrunch Giveaway: A Bouquet Of Flowers | What is everyone doing tomorrow? You do know that tomorrow is one of the most romantic days of the year, right? Do you have plans? Dinner? A trip? Is dessert made? Well, thanks to BloomNation, you don’t have to add flowers to your checklist... |
| 06.02.2014 | Y Combinator’s BloomThat takes a tech-savvy approach to sending flowers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Flowers aren’t just about looking pretty. America... |
| 23.01.2014 |
MuckerLab Shows Off New Class Of Startups
| Santa Monica-based startup accelerator MuckerLab unveiled its latest class of startups yesterday at its Demo Day, showing off the third class of companies out of its program. MuckerLab's newest class includes BloomNation, a marketplace for ... |
| 25.10.2013 | BloomNation Launches Free Online Platform To Help Local Florists Connect With Consumers And Grow Their Businesses | Raises $1.65 Million from Top Investors Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, CrunchFund and MuckerLab |
| 24.10.2013 | BloomNation raises $1.65M to disrupt floral industry | The $34 billion category dominated by 1800Flowers has a new contender
In a world where new middlemen are emerging across all industries one would eventually have to blossom in the floral industry.
And one has. BloomNation, a Los Angeles-bas... |
| 24.10.2013 | BloomNation, A Platform For Local Florists, Raises $1.65M From Andreessen Horowitz & Others | BloomNation, a startup building a marketplace for florists and floral designers, has closed on $1.65 million in seed funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz, and includes participati... |
| 24.10.2013 | BloomNation Raises $1.65M in Funding | BloomNation, a Los Angeles, CA-based online consumer marketplace with more than 2,000 artisan florists across the country, raised $1.65m in funding.
Backers included venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures... |
| 24.10.2013 | BloomNation Launches with $1.65M Funding |
LOS ANGELES, CA, Online consumer marketplace with more than 2,000 artisan florists has received $1.65 million in funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on BloomNation
>> To export BloomNation funding data to PDF and Ex... |
| - | Flower delivery companies have emerged as unlikely winners of the pandemic as Americans send blooms to ease stress and connect over canceled celebrations | Americans are sending each other flowers because they can't get together. AP Photo/Seth Wenig
Flower delivery companies are booming during the coronavirus pandemic.
On Thursday, 1-800-Flowers reported record revenues and profit growth in it... |
