Watch out, Slack: Utah-based enterprise data management company Domo announced $131M in Series D funding yesterday, from BlackRock, Credit Suisse and others, at an unchanged valuation of $2B. Domo, which also announced a freemium messaging service to rival Slack, says it didn’t need the money and plans to go public within the year. Other billion-dollar companies from Utah include InsideSales, PluralSight, and Qualtrics. India’s grocery delivery wars intensify. BigBasket, a Bangalore-based grocery delivery service, recently announced $150M in new funding led by The Abraaj Group with participation from International Finance Corporation, Bessemer Venture Partners, and other new and existing investors. The news comes just two months after one BigBasket competitor, Grofers, pulled out of nine Indian cities in January, and another, PepperTap, shuttered operations in six cities. Here’s what you missed at YC Demo Day. Y Combinator kicked off Demo Day 1 for its Winter 2016 batch in Mountain View yesterday, where 60 startups pitched to a full house of investors and press. Companies in this batch spanned a variety of sectors and target markets: Among them are Nurx, the Uber for birth control, and Hykso, a boxing and MMA analytics provider. TechCrunch has the full recap. Interactive data visualizations on the Unicorn Leaderboard This quarter has already seen 8 new unicorn companies. In 2015, CrunchBase recorded 77 new unicorns, an average of 19 per quarter. Check out the latest investors and companies on our interactive timeline visualization. |