Eight Sleep Announces Strategic Investment to Revolutionize Sleep Fitness Movement
Tech World s Favorite Sleep Brand Backed by Army of Celebrities, Entrepreneurs and Pro Athletes
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MIAMI, June 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Eight Sleep, the world s first sleep fitness company, today announced it has raised equity from an array of talent to accelerate growth for the company. The round s notable investors, including Alex Rodriguez (retired MLB athlete and entrepreneur), Kevin Hart (actor and comedian), Kyle Vogt (founder of Cruise), Naval Ravikant (founder of Angelist), Anthony Pompliano (entrepreneur), Kris Bryant (Chicago Cubs outfielder), JD Martinez (Boston Red Sox outfielder), Sophia Amoruso (author and entrepreneur), are committed to helping the world achieve sleep fitness through Eight Sleep s full suite of sleep technologies. The announcement comes on the heels of SoftBank s selection of Eight Sleep as one of the companies to receive funds via a
/PRNewswire/ Simplified, a marketing-focused software launched in beta today and raised $2.2M in seed funding to build an entirely AI-backed design and.
Todd and Rahul’s Angel Fund closes new $24 million fund
After making investments in 57 startups together, Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra and Eventjoy founder Todd Goldberg are back at it with a new $24 million fund and big ambitions amid a venture capital renaissance with fast-moving deals a plenty.
“Todd and Rahul’s Angel Fund” announced their first $7.3 million fund just weeks before the pandemic hit stateside last year and they were soon left with more access to deals than they had funding to support; they went on raise $3.5 million in a rolling fund designed around making investments in later stage deals beyond Seed and Series A rounds.
Simplified raises $2.2 million in seed to bring automated content creation to marketers
Simplified, a marketing-focused design software looking to take on Canva, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by Craft Ventures. Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra and Todd Goldberg, former Uber CPO Manik Gupta, Pelican Ventures Ajay Yadav (also Roomie founder), Form Capital, 8Bit Capital, Early Grey Capital, GFR Fund, MyAsia VC and others participated in the round.
Simplified is aimed directly at marketers, who are inevitably responsible for generating an enormous amount of content across a variety of channels. The platform uses machine learning to automate as much of the content creation process as possible, including copy, imagery, format and sizing, and more.
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Proptech CEO pay, the #s behind Sonder’s $2.2B SPAC deal
Plus, a startup that tracks our cell phones raised $50M National /
Proptech’s payday
A year ago, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said he would forgo a salary after the tech brokerage had to furlough 40 percent of agents and staff. Other CEOs followed suit.
But in the end, the pandemic didn’t cause a housing meltdown or a meaningful deterioration in CEO pay.
In 2020, CoStar’s Andy Florance was compensated $21.3 million, according to the company’s recently filed proxy statement. Behind him was eXp World Holdings’ Glenn Sanford with $15.9 million and Zillow’s Rich Barton with $8.4 million. Kelman stuck to his word and collected a salary of $63,609 (instead of $300,000). Sanford also took a smaller salary $656,480 instead of $1.5 million.