startup funding

(Newser) - Stripe's new round of funding has left SpaceX and Instacart in the dust. The payments processing company announced it had added $600 million on Sunday, for a valuation of $95 billion. That shoots Stripe past SpaceX, which is valued at $74 billion, and Instacart, which is pegged at $39...

(Newser) - Kickstarter is set up to help dreamers in need of dollars (and, of course, it also helps James Franco sell invisible art )—but how many campaigns actually succeed? A new AppsBlogger.com infographic spotted by Mashable reveals that around 41% of Kickstarter campaigns fail. The infographic takes into account...

(Newser) - Rover.com , the online alternative for dog-boarding, has picked up $3.4 million in funding, reports All Things D . Rover has been compared to Airbnb, although Rover's latest round of funding looks pretty tame in comparison to the $112 million Airbnb picked up last July. But with just...