Spoonflower, a venture capital funded design sourcing website, will extend its services into production of customized, digitally-print occasional chairs in September 2016, at a new website, selling at a new website, Roostery.com

Gridiron Capital acquired cabinetry manufacturer Designer’s Choice, Inc., a 160-employee Rockledge, Florida firm producing stock and semi-custom kitchen cabinets, which now becomes part of Essential Cabinetry Brands portfolio.

In an SEC filing, Ecovative Design says investors put $4 million into its efforts to use mushroom-derived adhesives in place of plastic polymers for produce plywood and other engineered panel in furniture and architectural millwork.

There’s cause for business owners to be optimistic for the year ahead. But that optimism depends upon how agile, adaptable, creative and resourceful entrepreneurs can be in planning for, or reacting to, market conditions, revenue and brand-building opportunities and other key concerns, and how well they maintain a forward-thinking mindset.

A hand-held router that uses machine vision and GPS to guide its cutting path is getting closer to market. A product of MIT grad student research, the first version was presented in a Siggraph 2012 paper by Alec Rivers, Ilan E. Moyer and Fredo Durand. Now moving into the world of venture capital funding, the router has been redesigned, and renamed, Shaper.

Interior Define, an online, build-to-order furniture company launched six months ago, is turning heads in the financial industry and is closing in on an additional $1 million in funding from venture capitalists.

Move Loot Raises $2.8M Seed Round From First Round Capital, Index Ventures and Others; Company Disrupting Peer-to-Peer Commerce and Growing 40 Percent Month-Over-Month

Move Loot Raises $2.8M Seed Round From First Round Capital, Index Ventures and Others; Company Disrupting Peer-to-Peer Commerce and Growing 40 Percent Month-Over-Month