Petfolk Raises $36M!

Issue #114

November 1st, 2024

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📱 Can telemedicine help the rural veterinary crisis?

🇳🇵 Beautiful photos from Nepal where locals honor dogs in an annual event called “Kukur Puja”

🐱 This dog has one job, and he takes it very seriously

🏥 America’s best animal hospitals in 2025

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• Veterinary urgent care raises $36M - Petfolk just raised their Series C led by Deerfield Management.

• Beyond farming - Tractor Supply is acquiring Allivet, a Leading Online Pet and Animal Pharmacy in an all-cash deal.

• New leadership - PetSmart has appointed Ken Hicks as its president and chief executive officer.

• A pure acquisition - PureBites has agreed to acquire Bar W Foods & Eighteen Below Partners LLC.

• Grubhub x PetSmart - Grubhub (owned by Just Eat Takeaway) just partnered up with PetSmart, this is Grubhub’s first foray into the pet retail space.

• Organic juice for pets? - Kreation, a 25-unit organic juicery brand from Los Angeles is expanding into the pet space via Kreation Pets.

• Dogs are getting trading cards now - Forget famous baseball players we’ve never heard of. Topps, the trading card company Fanatics acquired for $500m in 2022 is partnering with the Westminster Kennel Club.

• Rover invests in cats - Rover is expanding their European presence with their latest acquisition of the cat-sitting community platform Cat in a Flat.

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• Forget human perks, employees are looking for pet perks - People are looking for companies that offer more pet perks. Pets are no longer an afterthought, they are the main consideration.

• Horrific news - A massive fire tore through an upstate New York animal shelter, killing all 44 of its dogs.

• Still indecisive? - A new UK review that was published found a lack of evidence relating to the impacts of neutering female dogs before or after puberty in five key areas of dog health.

• $20k Donation - VICTOR Super Premium Pet Food, has donated $20,000 to two nonprofits that work to provide veterans with trained service dogs.

• Go home (to your tree), youre drunk - Getting tipsy might not be an exclusively human behavior according to the latest research.

• History found - Archaeologists in Jerusalem uncovered the oldest evidence of a cat kneading on a 1,200-year-old jug.

• New Ollie Treats - The fresh dog food brand just launched its brand-new Salmon Jerky Treat.

• Is pumpkin good for pooch? - Short answer, yes!

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