Another week, another $25.2 million dollar average funding deal size across 200+ companies. Most of them were .com related, with .IO, .AI, and .CO bringing up the rest of the TLDs worth mentioning. Also, a domain hack! See if you can spot it. The more-than-2-TLDs breakdown in this week’s list: .com – 135 .io – …
Another week, another just mind boggling amount of money invested into companies with some really terrible domain names (because many of them with “get” or “my” or “go” modifiers can’t get their .com because A WHOLE EXISTING COMPANY is built on it. Seems like a questionable move, but what do *I* know? Average amount of …
Some thoughts: Anthropic (of or relating to humans) is an AI company that raised $124m. Kind of an obscure dictionary word, so I love it as a brand. HelloResolve.com just raised $60m, but they don’t have Resolve.com, which currently, er… resolves to a “coming soon” page for a physician job search. I have to imagine …
The only startup that launched with a premium .com this week is Choco, a young startup from Berlin with plenty of momentum that’s aiming to attract restaurants and suppliers. The company just raised a $33.5M funding round and aims to make ordering and communication with suppliers faster and simpler. A quick look at DomainIQ reveals …
81 Newly Funded Companies and their Domain Names: Choco.com, Dash.co, Repeat.app Read More »
Let’s say you’ve started a company and lovingly named it Mable. You raised a cool $3M in funding. Would you do like one of the startups on this week’s list and launch on MeetMable.com, fork out $275,000 to purchase the exact-match Mable.com domain or maybe you opt to save yourself some dough and spend $9,888 …
You don’t need a great domain name to raise money for a startup. As this week’s list shows, you don’t even need a decent or average domain name. You can raise millions and launch on a $10 domain name that was hand-registered the night before. It’s often only when a startup experiences significant traction and …
86 Newly Funded Companies and their Domain Names: EverBody.com, Glamera.com, Workona.com Read More »
Last week, a cool $728M in capital was raised by 158 new startup companies. They all need a domain name and an increasing number of them is starting out with a non-com these days. .Ai, .Io and .Co remain popular choices among today’s startups and just like a couple of years, there’s a very small …
158 Newly Funded Companies and their Domain Names: Landline.com, Skew.com, Vested.co Read More »
Back in January 2015, shortly after starting this blog, I decided it would be a good idea to publish a weekly list of recently funded startups and their domain names. You can find the very first list I published here and together with the help of Candace Cook we published almost 160 lists, covering and …
This post covers new startups funded during Week 2 of 2018 (Jan 8th-14th). Eighty eight (88) newly funded startups raised more than $647,041,138. The funding rounds was led by Blackfish, a Chinese consumer finance platform, who raised $145M in Series A funding. Of the 88 startups, 62 of them chose to use a dot-com domain …
88 Newly Funded Startups and their Domain Names: RootCloud.com, FirstAgenda.com Read More »
This post covers new startups funded during Week 52 of 2017 (December 25th – 31st), and Week 1 of 2018 (January 1st -7th). A whopping $2,173,997,144 in funding was raised by 102 startups on our list. Suning Finance, one of the top leading financial groups in China, led the rounds by raising almost $827M in venture funding. …
102 Newly Funded Startups and their Domain Names: Handful.com, Akiri.com Read More »
