Monday.com raises $50M at a $500M valuation led by Stripes for its workplace collaboration toolsThe more that we digitise our interactions with work colleagues, the more we will need tools to help handle that process more smoothly. Today, Monday.com — one of the wave of startups that works in the larger category of workplace collaboration tools — is announcing a significant growth round that speaks to this demand. The company (formerly known as Dapulse when it was founded in Tel Aviv) has raised $50 million that sources close to the company tell me was made at a pre-money valuation of $500 million. [ Tech Crunch ] Olio, the app that lets you share unwanted food items with your neighbours, picks up £6M Series AOlio, the hyperlocal food sharing app that wants to help tackle the world’s food waste epidemic, has picked up $6 million in Series A funding. The U.K. startup offers a location-based app and website that lets you list and post a photo of unwanted food items to be shared with other people in the same neighbourhood. That is, food that you might otherwise throw away. [ Tech Crunch ] Why This Venture Capitalist Raised a $13 Million Fund In an Era of Mega-FundsSC Moatti has access to one of the largest communities of product managers in the world. Now, she has raised more than $13 million for a debut fund to invest in companies building “products that count.” Moatti sold her last company to Facebook and worked at the tech giant for almost two years as a product leader. Shortly after her departure, she founded venture firm Mighty Capital alongside Products That Count, a community of more than 200,000 product executives. [ Fortune ] How Theresia Gouw Became America's Richest Female Venture CapitalistTheresia Gouw, 46, began forging a path that led her to become a top American venture capitalist decades ago. She was the first person in her high school in a small town outside of Buffalo, N.Y. to go to Brown University. In the 1990s, she was the first female investor at Palo Alto-based venture capitalfirm Accel Partners. She then became the firm’s first female partner and first female managing partner before leaving Accel four years ago to co-found Aspect Ventures, one of the first female-led venture investing firms in Silicon Valley. [ Forbes ] ScaleVP raises $400M to invest in the future of workScale Venture Partners, a VC firm that backs SaaS and cloud infrastructure companies focused on changing the future of work, has announced a $400 million close for its sixth namesake fund. The firm is best known for notable exits including cloud storage unicorn Box, which went public in 2015, and DocuSign, an electronic signature platform that debuted on the NASDAQ in April and brought in more than $600 million in the process. [ Pitchbook ] GrubMarket gobbles up $32M led by GGV for its healthy grocery ordering and delivery service As consumers become more discerning about the food that they are eating, a wave of startups has emerged that are catering to that demand with convenient alternatives to the more ubiquitous options that are available today. One of these, GrubMarket — which sources organic and healthy food directly from producers and then and delivers it to other businesses (Whole Foods is a customer) as well as consumers at a discount of 20-60 percent over other channels — is today announcing a $32 million round to grow its already-profitable business, including making acquisitions and expanding on its own steam as it eyes up a public listing. [ TechCrunch ] Success with Snap helps venture firm Lightspeed raise $1.8 billion for new fundsChina’s Technology Sector Takes On Silicon ValleyRibbit, Index Lead Fintech Unicorn HuntersAd-Tech Company MediaMath Raises $225 MillionSocial fitness app Keep raises $126 million in series D fundingAn Interview with Sallie Krawcheck, Ellevest and Rebecca Blumenstein, The New York TimesAn Interview with Harit Talwar at the 2018 Future of Fintech ConferenceE835: Panda Daniel Singer camera brings to life movie in your head, takes on Snap & FB, GenZ secretsE835: Panda.af founder Daniel Singer created a voice-controlled camera that brings to life the movie in your head, takes on Snapchat & Facebook, shares the secrets of Gen Z & being a serial entrepreneur at 18 |