Rhino raises $95M to scale its rental deposit replacing insurance product
Rhino today announced that it has raised $95 million, an investment that values the startup at just under $500 million. Tiger Global led the round, an investment that Rhino described as “pre-IPO” to...
View ArticleBilt Rewards banks $60M growth on a $350M valuation to advance credit card...
Bilt Rewards, a loyalty program for property renters to earn points on rent with no fees and build a path toward homeownership, announced Tuesday a round of $60 million in growth funding that values...
View ArticleHow did a rental startup I’d never heard of leak my home address?
I consider myself a fairly privacy-conscious person, going out of my way to evade online tracking and, for the most part, avoiding spam mail. But when I found myself staring at my home address on the...
View ArticleHey Obama, Where's the Startup Visa in the Startup America Plan? (TCTV)
Ankur Jain is the 20-year-old founder of the Kairos Society, a group that tries to discover the world leaders of the future and bring them together for support, mentoring and networking. He swung...
View ArticleMultinational Startups: The Future Or A Doomed Idea? (TCTV)
In our second segment with Ankur Jain of the Kairos Society, we talk about the idea of multinational startups. A lot of startups like to say they are “global from day one,” but typically that’s just...
View ArticleHumin Launches Knock Knock, An App For College Kids To Contact Each Other...
Ankur Jain, the founder of Humin – an app that aims to organize your contacts better than your smartphone – is sitting across from me in a conference room in downtown San Francisco and knocking on his...
View ArticleBilt Rewards’ valuation jumps to $1.5B following new $150M growth round
Bilt Rewards, which works with some of the country’s largest multifamily owners and operators to create loyalty programs and a co-branded credit card for property renters, entered unicorn status after...
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