CrowdStreet’s commercial real estate investment platform continues to find success and the Portland-based startup today announced a $ 3.5 million Series A funding round to help fuel growth.
CrowdStreet raises $3.5M for commercial real estate investment marketplace
Startup Spotlight: CPEsuite is a peer-to-peer marketplace for continuing professional education
Early last year, Evan Hiner, Gary Knopp, and Jassen Bowman connected at a Startup Weekend event over the shared goal...
Crema.co launches coffee marketplace to connect aficionados with rare roasts
Crema.co just launched a new online marketplace lets coffee fans find rare roasts that otherwise wouldn’t be so easy to come by. The Seattle startup tracks the origins of every bag it sells, telling the stories of the mom and pop shops where the coffee is roasted, as well as the farmers who grow the beans in some distant corner of the world....
Startup Spotlight: Upmod operates a marketplace for artisans who turn trash into treasure
Upcycling, while still a niche, is gaining popularity as consumers become more environmentally conscious. The trend involves repurposing waste into new and improved products that can be used or sold. Upcycling gained enough momentum by 2014 to warrant its own reality show, but the industry was much more of a gamble when Upmod launched in 2011. The Snoqualmie, Wash.-based startup decided...