undisclosed
$10.8m
Investment Notes: Atticus
Blackbird announces its investment in Atticus's $10.8 million raise and profiles the startup's founding team, product craft, and enterprise customers.
Company
Lyft
Funding history
Investors
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Lyft raised.
What Lyft bought
Companies Lyft acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
People
Coverage
Stories naming Lyft. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Seed
$19m
Investment Notes: Voyantis $19m Seed
Square Peg's investment note explains why it co-led predictive growth platform Voyantis' $19 million seed round with Target Global, covering the founders' backgrounds and the market shift toward predicting customer lifetime value.
2 deals
Auto tech startup Splend secures $150 million to build a fleet of 10,000 EVs by 2024
Vehicle subscription firm Splend, founded in Australia and now London-based, has banked $150 million in a Pollen Street Capital-led round to grow its electric fleet to 10,000 cars by 2024.
2 deals
e-bike startup Zoomo tops up Series B with another $28 million
Delivery e-bike firm Zoomo has added US$20 million to its Series B, led by Collaborative Fund, three months after an $80 million round backed by the Atlassian founders' vehicles, lifting total funding beyond $100 million.
2 deals
Non-alcoholic spirits startup Lyre’s hits $500 million valuation on $37 million raise
Non-alcoholic spirits maker Lyre's raised $37 million led by D Squared Capital at a $500 million valuation, with earlier backers joining; funds go mainly to marketing and more than 50 new jobs.
Also Startup Daily
5 deals
Insurtech Cover Genius hits unicorn after $100 million series C raise
Sydney insurtech Cover Genius raised a $100 million Series C led by Sompo Holdings to reach unicorn valuation, with G Squared participating, capping a strong month for Australian startup funding rounds.
2 deals
Your 90-second guide to the day in tech
Daily roundup noting Babel Finance's US$40 million Series A and Malcolm Turnbull backing Cado Security's US$10 million Series A, alongside Peloton earnings, Afterpay's share slide and Gravity Industries' marine jet suit trials.
Also SmartCompany
7 deals
Ignition Lane's Weekly Wrap: VC investment peaks, cowtech as bro, Big Tech earnings soar
Weekly roundup covering Main Sequence's second-fund close, operating partner hires at Blackbird and AirTree, raises by Sea Forest, Adventus.io, Halter and others, acquisitions by Equiem, Stripe and Toyota, plus Big Tech earnings.
Unnamed stage
$34m
Your 90-second guide to the day in tech
Daily tech roundup: Lyft sells its self-driving unit to Toyota, Sea Forest raises for Tasmanian seaweed farming, Kogan founders' past share sale resurfaces, plus Tesla results and a TikTok radio launch.
News
Does COVID-19 spell the end of the bike-sharing boom?
Pandemic disruption hits shared mobility: Uber pauses its Jump e-bikes in Australian cities weeks after launch, Lime suspends nearly all markets ahead of a reported down round, and Ride scooters stops Adelaide operations.
Exit / M&A
Airbnb loss balloons to $478 million ahead of IPO plans
Airbnb's nine-month 2019 loss reached US$322 million, clouding its 2020 listing plans; the piece also recalls its HotelTonight and UrbanDoor acquisitions and its 2017 funding round valuation.
7 deals
Switched off over Christmas? Here’s the startup news you might have missed
A holiday roundup of startup headlines: several Australian funding rounds, Airwallex's funds frozen amid a fraud probe, Fintech Australia's policy submission, and Travis Kalanick selling his remaining Uber stake.