Rooms service, even at the finest of hotels, can be hit or miss. Usually expensive, untimely, and a hodgepodge of items, in-house hotel dining is often best avoided. Butler Hospitality addresses this through its cloud kitchen for hotels, where the company takes over hotel kitchens and provides turn-key food and beverage services that make room service profitable again. Founder and industry veteran Tim Gjonbalic shares more about how Butler elevates the in-house dining experience at hotels, how the company weathered the downturn in the hospitality industry due to COVID-19, and the company’s $15M Series A round from investors that include &vest, Scopus Ventures, Mousse Partners, Kraft Group, and Loeb.nyc.
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The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/13/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/13/2020 featuring funding details for UiPath, Paige, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.
Meet the 10 Startups in Techstars 2020 NYC Class
An exclusive first look at the Techstars NYC Accelerator’s 2020 Class focused on Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
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The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/10/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/10/2020 featuring funding details for Parade and much more.
CALA Raises $3M to Help Influencers and Creators Launch Fashion Brands From Scratch
CALA is a full-stack managed solution for people looking to launch their own fashion and clothing line. Design, sourcing, sales, and fulfillment are all handled on the platform, which is also supported by a network of experts. Newbie fashion entrepreneurs are often overwhelmed with all the moving parts and CALA makes it easy all for a monthly subscription fee and percentage of sales. CEO Andrew Wyatt shes some light about the company’s traction which includes clients like NFL player Travis Kelce, rapper A$AP Ferg, and model Tatiana Ringsby. The company, founded in 2016, also just closed its seed round from investors that include Maersk Growth and Real Ventures.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/9/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/9/2020 featuring funding details for Kindbody, SIMULATE, and much more.
TARA Biosystems Raises $10M to Grow Human Tissue Outside of the Body to Aid in the Development of New Drugs
The average time to get a drug to market, crossing FDA hurdles, is 12 years and costs in excess of $1B. And in those twelve years, there is animal testing, human trials, and dozens of other steps that a company needs to go through. TARA Biosystems has found a way to generate human tissue OUTSIDE of the body that can be used in the drug development process to test safety and effectiveness without harming animals or risking human life. CEO Misti Ushio shares some insight on the potential of in vitro biology for drug development, TARA Biosystem’s different lines of business, and recent funding round from investors that include OMX Ventures, Merieux Equity Partners, Partnership Fund for New York City, Trancos Ventures, DEFTA Partners, and Tachyon Ventures.
Onna Raises Another $27M for its Enterprise Knowledge Sharing API
A recent survey found that most large companies use an average of 129 apps – that’s up nearly 70 percent in four years. As technology and apps get added to the stack, the process of finding information becomes difficult and tedious. Onna is the knowledge sharing and search platform that enables enterprises to access the information they need through its open API that integrates with the most widely-used apps. CEO Salim Elkhou walks us through how Onna is powering knowledge infrastructure, the company’s expansion plans, and recent round of funding from investors that include Atomico, Nauta Capital, Slack Fund, and Glynn Capital.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/7/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/7/2020 featuring funding details for CALA, Chainalysis, and much more.
These are the 16 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of Q2 2020
Everything you need to need to know about the largest NYC startup funding rounds of Q2 2020; broken down by industry, stage, investors, and more…