| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.05.2026 | Kalos Ventures Closes $78.8 Million Inaugural Fund Focused On Workforce, Care And Education | Kalos Ventures Management has announced the final close of its oversubscribed $78.8 million inaugural fund, backed by investors including ZOMA Capital, GCM Grosvenor, MassMutual, Sorenson Impact Advisory, and Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda Fre... |
| 22.09.2025 | Tilt Raises $7.1M Seed Funding | Tilt, a Miami, FL-based provider of an AI-powered direct indexing platform, raised $7.1M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Portage and Lerer Hippeau, with participation from Golden Ventures, Real Ventures, Cumberland Investments, and FJ... |
| 10.11.2017 | PayPal launches Money Pools, where groups chip in to raise money to buy things | When Airbnb acquired and subsequently shut down Tilt — a platform that let people pool together to pay for items or events — many (including former Tilt employees) were left wondering what could and would replace it.
PayPal has stepped into... |
| 22.02.2017 | Airbnb finalizes deal to buy social payments startup Tilt | Airbnb has finalized its deal to buy social payments startup Tilt, TechCrunch has confirmed. We reported on the acquisition talks last month, but now everything has been made official.
We are told that investors will be getting back about $... |
| 17.02.2017 | Soon You’ll Be Able to Rent Richard Branson’s Island on Airbnb | Airbnb is serious about becoming more than just a home-sharing company.
On Thursday, the startup announced that it has acquired high-end rental company Luxury Retreats. This is Airbnb’s largest acquisition yet, costing roughly $300 million ... |
| 25.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 25 | NEVERMIND!
Twelve hours ago, I was prepared to write a straightforward, borderline boring analysis of the AppDynamics IPO, slated for this morning. Then …a catalyst changed things. Specifically, Qatalyst Group.
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| 15.01.2017 | Innovation under the hood will rev the engines of a fintech revolution | Matt Heiman Contributor
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| 06.01.2017 | Three Tips for Boosting Organic Growth of Your Startup | Recently, Mike Duboe, Head of Growth at Tilt and Jareau Wade, Commerce Platform Manager at Pinterest lead a Growth Study Hall at the Galvanize San Francisco campus. The Study Hall began with a summary of the early days of Tilt when Mike and... |
| 27.01.2016 | Hardware, Less Hard | How can hardware startups compete in the software-centric startup world?
With iteration time measured in days rather than seconds, the burden of marginal costs, and often unexpected hurdles such as the impact of Chinese New Year, hardware ... |
| 13.11.2015 | Tilt Prepares For Global Launch By Announcing Rollouts in The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway | This week, crowdfunding platform, Tilt, announced it is making the final preparations to launch globally starting in November by hitting five additional international markets by early 2016.
Tilt, which was founded in 2012 by James Beshara a... |
| 09.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 9, 2015 | DigitalOcean secured $83M; Influitive raised $30.5M; News In Shorts nabbed $20M
GitLab received $1.5 million in new financing. The financing comes from Khosla Ventures, 500 Startups, Crunchfund, Sound Ventures and Liquid 2 Ventures. The new... |
| 09.07.2015 | 13 People Who Could Be Twitter’s Next CEO | It’s a tight round of “Game of CEO’s” at Twitter right now as the board circles in on a short list of who might have the right stuff for the job.
So far we’ve heard the board is looking for someone who can focus solely on Twitter (and not s... |
| 08.07.2015 | Tilt Raised Around $30M At A $400M Valuation In Its Most Recent Funding Round | TechCrunch is hearing from multiple sources that Tilt has raised around $30 million in its most-recent funding round as it pushes to expand internationally.
“We weren’t in fundraising mode — there was strong outside interest with minimal di... |
| 22.05.2015 | Edtech: The Main Source of Teacher Stress? EdSurge Podcast, Week of May 18 - May 22 | Let's talk about teacher stress -- A new report from the AFT dives into the details about why exactly teachers are stressed. This week on the show we go even further, asking what role edtech plays in causing or alleviating stress in the cla... |
| 20.05.2015 | Tilt’s Global Ambitions Grow As It Reaches A $400M Valuation | This year — like many rapidly growing startups — is a year of major international expansion for Tilt, a startup centered around funding projects that is well on its way to being worth $400 million.
Tilt serves as a way for people to raise m... |
| 12.05.2015 | Former Facebook PM Who Had Attempted Everest Summit Raises $40K For Nepalese Villages | Parts of the tech community in San Francisco and New York are still reeling from the loss of Google’s Dan Fredinburg, a gregarious and idealistic engineer who was trying to summit the Mount Everest for the second time when a major earthquak... |
| 08.04.2015 | These 6 Tips Will Help You Secure Edtech Funding | A firm believer in the idea that "technology has the power to drive equity," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released Tuesday the Department of Education's Ed Tech Developer's Guide, a 68-page report intended to serve as a prim... |
| 10.02.2015 | Top 10 Y Combinator Companies by Funding Stage | Mattermark just released a new report with Y Combinator‘s top startups to graduate from its program. Since it was founded in 2005, Y Combinator has put hundreds of startups through its program. The program offers entrepreneurs access to an ... |
| 09.12.2014 | Parse founder Tikhon Bernstam on Silicon Valley investors being scared of Australia and why bootstrapping is underrated | A lot of Silicon Valley investors believe good deals will come to them, which leads them to missing out on good deals outside of the United States, and contributes to Australia’s venture capital problem, according to Parse and Scribd founde... |
| 26.10.2014 | This Scientist Is Using Open Sourced Software Techniques To Turn Bugs Into Patent-Free Drugs | Chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs.
Yonemoto proposes a $75,000 stretch goal to fund an experiment he hopes wi... |
| 28.08.2014 | Tilt, The Startup Formerly Known As Crowdtilt, Drops Fees For Groups Pooling Money | Tilt, the group funding startup that recently chopped its name down from its former moniker “Crowdtilt”, announced today that it’s chopping its fees, too.
The San Francisco company has dropped the fees on its “Collect” feature, which lets g... |
| 31.07.2014 | Crowdtilt Changes Its Name To Tilt As It Looks Beyond The Crowdfunding Niche | San Francisco-based startup Crowdtilt announced today it has changed its name to Tilt as part of a “broader vision” of being a general platform for funding all types of projects.
In an interview this week, Tilt’s founder and CEO James Besha... |
| - | Hardware: How to Iterate Fast | How can hardware startups compete in the software-centric startup world?
With iteration time measured in days rather than seconds, the burden of marginal costs, and often unexpected hurdles such as the impact of Chinese New Year, hardware ... |
