Text size Arbor Investments focuses on food-and-beverage investments. Lacheev/Dreamstime Arbor Investments needed only 87 days to raise its fifth fund, collecting $1.5 billion in the latest bit of evidence that life goes on for private equity despite the pandemic. The pool is roughly double the $765 million secured by Arbor’s […]
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The Greenville City Council is set to restore $6.5 million to its current budget in February thanks to better than expected tax revenues. The city can fund employee pay raises, hire new staff and fund operational expenses such as purchasing additional vehicles, Assistant City Manager Michael Cowin said. Cowin updated […]
Sara Cummings, clad in an arctic-white anorak, baggy forest green cargo pants and thick-soled white hiking boots, is about to step in front of the camera at the Reese Cooper fashion show and lookbook shoot. This, in and of itself, isn’t noteworthy; this is the third job the L.A.-based model […]
If you feel a teeny, tiny pair of claws tugging on your hair tonight, willing you to buy a ticket for Ratatouille The TikTok Musical, don’t try to fight the will of your rodent pilot. First of all, having a talented rat take the reigns of your life for a […]
Airbnb Inc. pulled off one of the largest initial public offerings of 2020 despite a pandemic that laid waste to much of the travel industry. The lodging-booking platform priced its initial public offering at $68 a share Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported, well above its most recent target range […]
The first successful mining experiment in space has found that crucial metals could be extracted from Mars to help support a colony. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh sent their biomining technology, which uses microbes to extract the elements, to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 shuttle in […]
Katherine Homuth is on a mission to prove Sheertex is unbreakable. In fact, every order of the pantyhose comes with a break-proof test kit. “So customers can kind of go crazy experiencing the strength [of the material] and testing its limits before they wear their pair,” Homuth told WWD. “They’re […]
Rokt Pte Ltd., an eight-year-old e-commerce marketing software provider, has raised $80 million in Series D funding. The round, which was led by investment firm TDM Growth Partners, Rokt’s largest backer, raises the company’s valuation by 42% to more than $450 million, the company said. The investment in Rokt comes […]