Pet Plate Closes $9 million Series A
Pet food startups continue to rake in the capital. Pet Plate, a NY-based pet food subscription service, secured $9 million in series A funding. The round was led by DFE Capital Management and 301 INC, the venture capital arm of General Mills. To date, Pet Plate has...
RIP Mousr
Pet tech is tough. Mousr, an app-controlled robotic cat toy that boasted it could see and react to a cat’s movements just like real prey, has been discontinued. Petronics (also know as Sprite Robotics), the Illinois company that created Mousr, funded the product...
Furbo Sued for Patent Infringement
Tomofun, the manufacturer of the popular Furbo pet camera, has been sued for allegedly infringing on a patent for an interactive pet camera. The lawsuit was brought by DoggyPhone LLC, a Bellevue, Washington company, that claims it has a patent for an enhanced system...
TeleVet scores $2 million
The telehealth market is heating up. Austin-based TeleVet received $2 million in a seed funding round. Televet makes a communications platform that allows vets to talk to customers by text, voice or video chat. It markets the platform to veterinarians, so that they...