by Adre's IT | 26 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, DNA testing, executive order, Lumigo, Startups, the zebra, Xuan Yong
A year ago, Mike Butcher reported that Faye hopes to do for travel insurance what Lemonade did for general insurance, and that’s as good a summary of what Faye does as anything. The company was kind enough to share its (lightly redacted) pitch deck with me so I...
by Adre's IT | 6 April, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, billy, Entrada Ventures, IPO market, Picus Capital, real estate agents, Startups, the zebra, trimble, Ultium Cells LLC
Construction insurance company Billy announced today the closing of an additional $2.5 million led by Entrada Ventures and MetaProp, bringing its total funding to $6.7 million. Nyasha Gutsa and Grant Robbins started the company in 2020 as a pandemic project. Gutsa...
by Adre's IT | 30 September, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, fertility, microsoft windows, Planck Re, real estate agents, Startups, the zebra, Venture Capital
When insurtech company Metromile went public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in February last year, it was valued at over $1 billion. A year and five months later, Lemonade acquired the company for less than $145 million. As the markets turned early...
by Adre's IT | 23 October, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, Alex Stamos, faraday future, Fundings & Exits, lunar, Space, Startups, stix, TC, the zebra, venture capital Firms
Earlier this week I asked startups to share their Q3 growth metrics and whether they were performing ahead or behind of their yearly goals. Lots of companies responded. More than I could have anticipated, frankly. Instead of merely giving me a few data points to learn...
by Adre's IT | 9 October, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, Alan Patricof, SEC, Startups, TC, the zebra
From a cluster of insurance marketplace startups raising capital earlier this year, to neoinsurance provider Lemonade going public this summer at a strong valuation, Hippo’s huge new round and Root’s impending unicorn IPO, 2020 has proven to be a busy year...
