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- Kencko Raises Another $10M to Make Eating Vegetables and Fruits Easy On-The-Go
- Impala Raises $1.05M for its Business Intelligence Platform for the Non-Profit World
- The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 1/25/2022
- Livepeer Raises $20M for its Decentralized Video Streaming Network Built on the Blockchain
- The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 1/24/2022
- #NYCtech Week in Review: 1/16/22 – 1/22/22
| Kencko Raises Another $10M to Make Eating Vegetables and Fruits Easy On-The-Go Posted: 25 Jan 2022 03:27 PM PST 5-a-day, developed by the World Health Organization, encourages everyone to have at least five portions of fruits and vegetables a day to improve health and wellbeing while decreasing mortality. However, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, only 9% of Americans are meeting the suggested intake requirements. Kencko is a direct-to-consumer food brand that's centered around making the recommended intake seamless with its line of flash-frozen, slow-dried organic fruits and vegetables. The company, founded in 2016, currently offers just-add-liquid smoothies and ready-to-eat gumdrops and is adding a bowl offering that requires you to just add hot water for a quick meal. All items contain no refined sugar, no artificial additives, are organic, sent in compostable packaging using carbon-neutral shippers. Kencko is available as a subscription with 30 smoothies priced at $83.70 (<$3 per smoothie). The offering is resonating with customers as the company indicated it's growing 500% per year on average. AlleyWatch caught up with Kencko CEO and Founder Tomas Froes to learn more about how his own personal experience with gastritis led to the AHA moment to launch the company, the company's strategic plans, and latest round of funding from investors that include Siddhi Capital, and included participation from both current and new investors including NextView Ventures, Riverside Ventures, Silas Capital, Cheyenne Ventures, Shilling Capital, Indico Capital, Mission Point, Gather Ventures, and Nextblue Ventures. |
| Impala Raises $1.05M for its Business Intelligence Platform for the Non-Profit World Posted: 25 Jan 2022 09:27 AM PST Technology is transforming the nonprofit space. With COVID limiting in-person activity, the nonprofit industry rushed to embrace digital adoption. The many functions of a nonprofit in terms of fundraising, outreach communications, finance, and service delivery have been integrated into digital workflows. Impala is vying to become the leader in business intelligence for nonprofits. The platform features vetted data about nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, their people, and their finances, enabling users to navigate the entire nonprofit ecosystem in a seamless manner. Given the resource constraints of many nonprofit organizations, Impala empowers them with the data to make informed decisions and maximize impact. The platform is offered on a freemium basis with full access to profiles; deeper intelligence on philanthropy comes with the paid version. AlleyWatch caught up with Impala Cofounder and COO Simon Dickson to learn more about the importance of leveraging data for impact-driven nonprofits, the company's future plans, and initial round of funding from Zack Rinat,, Zeev Ventures, Koa Labs, Amnon Landan, and Adam Berman. |
| The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 1/25/2022 Posted: 25 Jan 2022 08:27 AM PST The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 1/25/2022 featuring funding details for Order, Impala, and much more. |
| Livepeer Raises $20M for its Decentralized Video Streaming Network Built on the Blockchain Posted: 24 Jan 2022 09:27 AM PST 80% of all internet bandwidth is consumed by video streaming. Today's consumers of content expect low latency and multi-device playback. Transcoding is the process where videos are formatted to work properly across device ecosystems. This becomes an expensive proposition for content creators. Livepeer is a scalable open video infrastructure that's built on the blockchain to specifically use excess GPU capacity across nodes to transcode video. By leveraging decentralization, costs are reduced and reliability is improved without the threat of any outages that are associated with dependency on larger infrastructure providers like YouTube, Facebook AWS, etc. The Livepeer network has 70K+ GPUS, enough computing power to encode all video streaming on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook combined while delivering costs savings of up to 50x. AlleyWatch caught up with Livepeer CEO Doug Petkanics to learn more about how decentralization of the streaming market will lead to a better experience for all parties, the company's expansions plans, acquisition strategy, recent round of funding from investors that include Alan Howard and Tiger Global. |
| The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 1/24/2022 Posted: 24 Jan 2022 08:27 AM PST The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 1/24/2022 featuring funding details for TUN and much more. |
| #NYCtech Week in Review: 1/16/22 – 1/22/22 Posted: 24 Jan 2022 05:27 AM PST 14 new deals and $300M in funding for the week. NYC Tech News for the week ending 1/22 featuring news for Trading.TV, Chatdesk, StrongArm Technologies, and much, much more… |
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