Extra Crunch roundup: Toast and Freshbook S-1s, pre-pitch tips, flexible funding lessons

The digital transformation currently sweeping society has likely reached your favorite local restaurant. Since 2013, Boston-based Toast has offered bars and eateries a software platform that lets them manage orders, payments and deliveries. Over the last year, its customers have processed more than $38 billion in gross payment volume, so Alex Wilhelm analyzed the company’s […] Continue reading Extra Crunch roundup: Toast and Freshbook S-1s, pre-pitch tips, flexible funding lessons

Zeal banks $13M to offer employers a ‘build your own’ payroll product infrastructure

Enterprises use Zeal to pay large volumes of workers and keep payment data on their own native systems. Continue reading Zeal banks $13M to offer employers a ‘build your own’ payroll product infrastructure

Forward Kitchens cooks up $2.5M to transform existing kitchens into digital storefronts

Forward Kitchens provides a turnkey tool for restaurants to set up an online presence. Continue reading Forward Kitchens cooks up $2.5M to transform existing kitchens into digital storefronts

Virtual dressing room startup Revery.ai applying computer vision to the fashion industry

Revery.ai is developing a tool that leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence to create a better online dressing room experience. Continue reading Virtual dressing room startup Revery.ai applying computer vision to the fashion industry

Y Combinator-backed Adra wants to turn all dentists into cavity-finding ‘super dentists’

Adra is bringing AI into the dentist’s day-to-day workflow so they can spend less time finding cavities and more time with patients. Continue reading Y Combinator-backed Adra wants to turn all dentists into cavity-finding ‘super dentists’

Rutter comes out of stealth with $1.5M in funding for its e-commerce API

Rutter is developing a unified e-commerce API that enables companies to connect with data across any platform. Continue reading Rutter comes out of stealth with $1.5M in funding for its e-commerce API

CommandBar raises $4.8M to make web-based apps searchable

James Evans and his co-founders at CommandBar were working on a different software product when they hit a wall while trying to find certain functionalities within the software. Continue reading CommandBar raises $4.8M to make web-based apps searchable

Netflify snags YC alum FeaturePeek to add design review capabilities

Netlify, the startup that’s bringing a micro services approach to building websites, announced today that it has acquired YC alum FeaturePeek. The two companies did not share the purchase price. With FeaturePeek, the company gets a major upgrade in its design review capability. While Netlify has had a previewing capability called Deploy Previews in the […] Continue reading Netflify snags YC alum FeaturePeek to add design review capabilities