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Rocket Internet’s Spotcap Raises Further €31.5M To Lend To Small Businesses
Spotcap, the Rocket Internet-founded fintech startup that operates an online lending platform for small businesses, has beefed up its coffers with €31.5 million in new funding. Read More
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Magic Leap Adds Alibaba’s Jack Ma To Board As New Funding Pushes Valuation To $5B
Magic Leap, the much-hyped augmented reality company, doesn’t officially have a product yet, but that isn’t stopping the company from focusing on the potential of the Chinese movie market. The Florida-based company is adding Alibaba founder and executive president Jack Ma to its board of directors as part of an upcoming Series C funding round that values the company at $5 billion. Read More
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Crunch Network
Let’s Fix Startup Board Meetings
I spend a lot of time in board meetings. Specifically, private company startup board meetings. Rooms filled with some of the most talented, bold, daring and dedicated people on the planet, devising solutions to some of the economy’s toughest problems. More often than not, however, most of these board meetings fail. Despite the good intentions and great experience in the room, the… Read More
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Don’t Mess With Musk
Earlier today, longtime Bay Area venture capitalist Stewart Alsop posted something fairly unexpected to Medium. In a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk titled “Banned by Tesla,” Alsop wrote of his surprise that Tesla would cancel the Model X he’d ordered and that Alsop has been eagerly awaiting. (Alsop says in the post it was to be red, with black leather seats and… Read More
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Bloomberg Beta On Investing In The ‘Future Of Work’
The future of work is increasingly top of mind for tech investors, who have a range of opinions about whether and how to address the growing income inequality that appears driven, in some part, by the winner-take-all dynamics of technology and globalization. Longtime VC Steve Jurvetson told this reporter back in September that income inequality will “kill us long before climate… Read More
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Watch This Trained Eagle Take Down A Flying Drone
As more and more civilians start flying drones, there will probably be an exponential rise in situations where authorities need to quickly take down a poorly-navigated drone hovering above a stadium or government building. But, since drone companies have yet to provide any sort of backdoor to manually takeover the device’s controls, authorities are on their own in figuring out… Read More
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NASA’s Super Guppy Gives Mars-Bound Spacecraft A Lift
Today the Orion capsule, NASA’s spacecraft designed to bring humans to Mars, starts its next phase of development at Kennedy Space Center. The remarkable part is that just this morning, that large spacecraft was at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. In order to carry Orion from New Orleans to Cape Canaveral, NASA recruited their Super Guppy aircraft. The Super Guppy has… Read More
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Meet The Competitors Vying For The Crunchie For VC Of The Year
We’re getting ready for the 9th Annual Crunchies here at TechCrunch, where some of the brightest startups, companies and leaders hope to win the coveted Crunchie award in one of the 12 categories up for grabs. Among that mix are those who write the checks to get these startups off to a good beginning – venture capitalists. Below are the VCs who have been selected as finalists for… Read More
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Evernote Will Shut Down Market, Its E-Commerce Effort, On Wednesday
Some more news from Evernote — the note-taking app and startup of the same name — that speaks to the company’s current rough patch: today it announced that as of Wednesday at 6pm Pacific, it will shutter Market, the e-commerce platform where it sold Evernote swag and Evernote-integrated office products, in an attempt to create another revenue stream around its more… Read More
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Pager Expands Its On-Demand Doctor Service By Letting Users Chat With Nurses
Pager isn’t just a doctor-on-demand service anymore. We’ve mentioned the New York City-based company as part of a broader group of startups aiming to bring doctors to patients’ homes, and to be clear, you’ll still be able use the app to set up medical house calls. Now, however, that’s just one part of a broader experience. Read More
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WhatsApp Hits One Billion Users, Remains In Search Of Revenue
You know what’s cooler than a (several hundred) million users? A billion users. Just over a week after announcing the scrapping of the Facebook-owned messaging service’s $0.99 annual fee, WhatsApp announced today that the product now has 1 billion users. The timing of the WhatsApp news may have been calculated: it comes on the same day that Google announced 1 billion users of Gmail. Read More
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Safe Harbor Deadline Passes Without A New Deal On Transatlantic Data Flows — Yet
A deadline to agree a new deal to govern transatlantic data transfers has passed without agreement on a new, safer ‘Safe Harbor’. But talks are continuing — and Věra Jourová, the EC commissioner heading the negotiations from the European side, said today that a deal “is close”, although she emphasized that “an additional effort is needed”. Read More
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Alphabet Becomes The Most Valuable Public Company In The World
Today was a huge day for Alphabet — the first day it finally broke out its “other bets” in its earnings report — and boy did the company not disappoint. The company smashed expectations on both ends, bringing in $21.3 billion in revenue and earnings of $8.67 per share. Analysts were expecting earnings of $8.09 on $20.8 billion in revenue. And with that, Alphabet… Read More
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Post-Morin, Path Gets Chatty
Korea’s Kakao is making a big change to Path eight months after acquiring the social app. Path people can now message each other inside the app, rather than having to open the separate Path Talk app. It could be a move to invigorate users, and streamline the product. While building an entire companion app for chat worked for Facebook, splintering users between Path and Path Talk might… Read More
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Yep, Sesame Street Now Has A Venture Fund
Collaborative Fund is bringing on a pretty big partner for a new seed-stage fund focused on improving children’s lives — and it’s not someone you’d expect to get into the venture capital game. Craig Shapiro’s venture is launching a new $10 million fund that’s tied to Sesame Workshop, creator of Sesame Street and other children’s programming. The fund… Read More
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Crunch Network
3D Touch Opens A New Dimension Of User Interaction
We spend so much time touching our devices — but what if they could touch us back? Apple’s recent leaps with 3D Touch technology show that this could soon be a reality. Feel a surface texture, communicate with braille, even play an instrument — the tactile capabilities of future technologies are set to transform our digital experiences. Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Techstars
- $28M Venture
- HQ: Boulder, Colorado
- Categories: Venture Capital, Finance, Startups
- Investors: Not available
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Pundit Arena
- 650K EUR Seed
- HQ: Cork, Cork
- Categories: Sports, Digital Media
- Investors: Not available
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Flyp
- $5.8M Seed
- HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
- Categories: Telecommunications, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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TalentIQ
- $500K Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Data Integration, Databases, Data Mining, Analytics
- Investors: Not available
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Phenom People
- $1.6M Series A
- HQ: Horsham, Pennsylvania
- Categories: Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
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Canadian Solar
- $40M Post IPO Debt
- HQ: Ontario, California
- Categories: Semiconductors
- Investors: Not available
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Kaizen Platform
- $8.0M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Sales and Marketing, Optimization, Analytics, Personalization, Advertising ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Juntos
- $2.7M Venture
- HQ: San Carlos, California
- Categories: Software, FinTech
- Investors: Not available
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centrose
- $1.4M Convertible Note
- HQ: Madison, Wisconsin
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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KAI-ISPYT INC.
- $700K Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Education, SaaS
- Investors: Not available
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Trade Machines FI GmbH
- 551K EUR Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: Berlin-baumschulenweg, Berlin
- Categories: Manufacturing
- Investors: Not available
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Lexumo
- $4.9M Seed
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: Data Security, Enterprise Software, Security, Cloud Security
- Investors: Not available
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KFit
- $12M Series A
- HQ: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur
- Categories: Fitness, Consumer Goods
- Investors: Not available
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CloudCodes
- $250K Private Equity
- HQ: Pune, Maharashtra
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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High Purity Quartz Materials
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Semiconductors, Solar, Renewable Energies
- Investors: Not available
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eNaturr
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast'
- Categories: Information Technology, Services, Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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The Helper Bees
- $20K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Atomation net
- $1.0M Venture
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Cloud Computing, Analytics, Technology
- Investors: Not available
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Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Delhi, Delhi
- Categories: Food Processing
- Investors: Not available
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BioniX Tech, Inc
- $9K Grant
- HQ: Delaware City, Delaware
- Categories: Mobile Devices, Medical Devices, Tablets, Internet of Things, Health Care ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Atlas5D
- $3.0M Series A
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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Kaymera Technologies
- $10M Venture
- HQ: Herzliya, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Cyber Security, Security, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Click Notices, Inc.
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Annapolis, Maryland
- Categories: Legal, SaaS, Rental Housing, Real Estate
- Investors: Not available
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Birch
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Gainesville, Florida
- Categories: Personal Finance, Finance, Credit Cards
- Investors: Not available
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We Got POP
- $660K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: SaaS, Film Production
- Investors: Not available
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Atomo Diagnostics
- $6.0M Debt Financing
- HQ: Leichhardt, New South Wales
- Categories: Medical Devices
- Investors: Not available
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Kurio
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya
- Categories: Content Syndication, Mobile Advertising, Apps, Mobile, News, Media
- Investors: Not available
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Oust Labs
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Cupertino, California
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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KnowBe4,LLC
- $8.0M Venture
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available