Fastly, the content material supply community that’s raised $219 million in financing from buyers (according to Crunchbase), is prepared for its shut up within the public markets. The eight-year-old firm is one among a number of companies that enhance the obtain time and supply of various web sites to web browsers and it has simply filed for an IPO. Media corporations like The New York Occasions use Fastly to cache…

Howdy and welcome again to Equity, TechCrunch’s enterprise capital-focused podcast, the place we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a little bit of a reunion with Kate and Alex on as typical, with the addition of Extra Crunch denizen extraordinaire Danny Crichton. Danny, you could recall, has been a semi-regular Fairness co-host over the previous 12 months. As Kate explains up entrance, Fairness is out a day early…

Techstars – Boston is celebrating its tenth anniversary at the moment. Through the years, it has helped contribute to the Boston startup ecosystem, graduating 155 startups over that point, a few of which have gone onto profitable exits, whereas elevating over $1 billion in funding. Amongst these, the largest is PillPack, the net pharmacy that Amazon acquired last year for nearly a $1 billion, whereas Kinvey, a cell backend startup,…

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LumApps, the “social intranet” for the enterprise, has closed $24 million in Sequence B funding. The spherical is led by earlier backer IdInvest, and will likely be used to scale LumApps’ international gross sales and advertising and speed up product growth. Based in Paris in 2012 — and now additionally with places of work in London, Tokyo, San Francisco and New York — LumApps has developed a social web-styled intranet…

BentoBox, which helps restaurant homeowners construct mobile-friendly web sites, has raised $16.Four million in Sequence B funding. This won’t appear to be the largest alternative, significantly since shoppers are connecting with eating places in so many different locations on-line — studying critiques on Yelp, making reservations on OpenTable, ordering supply on GrubHub and so forth. However founder and CEO Krystle Mobayeni mentioned that’s precisely why BentoBox is vital. “Sadly, the…

Klaviyo, a Boston-based e mail advertising and marketing agency based in 2012, went about constructing its e mail advertising and marketing enterprise the quaint means. First it constructed a worthwhile firm, then it went on the lookout for funding to speed up the expansion. At this time, it introduced an enormous $150 million Collection B with all the sum coming from Summit Companions. The corporate had raised simply $8.5 million…