It’s been seven months since the Los Angeles Times redesigned and re-launched their website. The site’s traffic is up, its reporters are writing digital-first stories, and readers are viewing the site easily on any device. Clearly things are going well.
Promenade got its start as BloomNation, a SaaS platform for small flower businesses, but the pandemic proved to its founders that its end-to-end e-commerce platform could prove invaluable beyond florists.
Newport Beach-based startup Swell Investing announced an investment of its own this morning, revealing that parent company Pacific Life had dedicated $30 million to Swell's growth and development, with half that figure earmarked for 2018 alone.