Lili, a startup building banking products to meet the needs of freelance workers, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in seed funding.The startup takes its name from its founders, CEO Lilac Bar David and CTO Liran Zelkha, who previously founded Israeli challenger bank Pepper. Bar David told me that More

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.ZoomInfo went public yesterday. After pricing its IPO $1 ahead of its proposed range at $21 per share, the company closed its first day’s trading worth $34.00, up 61.9%, according More

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.The ZoomInfo IPO slipped through our fingers in the last news cycle, so we’re going to catch up.Founded in 2000, the company has had a somewhat complicated history. ZoomInfo raised More

When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence its original name). We had no idea how big at the time. Today, NetApp announced plans to acquire the startup.The More

Danggeun Market, the startup behind Karrot, South Korea’s largest neighborhood marketplace and networking app, announced today that that it has raised a $33 million Series C. The round was led by Goodwater Capital and Altos Ventures.The funding brings Danggeun Market’s total raised so far to $40.5 million. Its list of More

Data, the cliche goes, is the new oil of the digital economy. But Truth{set} co-founder and CEO Scott McKinley wants to know: “Why does no one care about the quality of that fuel?”That’s an issue McKinley saw in his seven years as an executive at Nielsen, where he said he More