Farmers Business Network cultivates $40 million to help farmers buy seeds at favorable prices

 GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) and DBL Partners co-led a $40 million investment in Farmers…

Sudden Coffee aims to stir up instant brewing with third wave tech

 The world of coffee is one often torn between the old and the new, traditional brewing…

Snap has already tumbled 11% on day four

 Snap, the parent of Snapchat, had a great first two days on the stock market, only…

Spacer acquires Roost to grow its peer-to-peer parking empire

 Australian peer-to-peer car parking marketplace Spacer has acquired U.S.-based Roost, which provides the same services stateside…

Spotify acquires audio detection startup Sonalytic

 Streaming music service Spotify announced this morning it has acquired a company called Sonalytic, makers of…

Giphy quietly acquired imoji to build out its emoji and sticker business

 Last week, GIF-finding platform Giphy revealed a new line of business offering artist-created stickers in Apple’s iMessage…

Hubble raises $16.5 million to deliver affordable daily contact lenses

 A subscription commerce startup that sells its own brand of daily disposable contact lenses, Hubble, has…

Confluent raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka

 Confluent, the commercial company built on top of the open source Apache Kafka streaming database project, announced…