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SoftBank confirms $3.3B acquisition of Fortress Investment Group
Japan’s SoftBank has made another acquisition to widen both its business strategy, and its portfolio of investments. Today the company announced that it would pay $3.3 billion in cash to acquire the Fortress Investment Group, an asset manager and investor in its own right, with significant holdings in Lyft, ZestFinance, Xapo, Jawbone and other tech companies. This is SoftBank’s… Read More
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With $15M in funding, Caavo aims to unify all your streaming TV boxes and services
A startup called Caavo thinks it has a solution to the too-much-TV problem, with a device that brings together all the different streaming boxes and TV services you subscribe to. The company, which has raised $15 million in funding, provides a universal remote with voice control and a unified TV interface so users can search and discover all the TV content available to them. Read More
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Yelp launches new feature for asking and answering questions about any business
Yelp is releasing a new feature with the simple, self-explanatory name Questions and Answers. Well, mostly self-explanatory. This is distinct from Talk, a feature where Yelp users can ask an incredibly broad range of questions (as I write this, the New York page currently includes conversations about the travel time to the airport, when it’s legal to kick out a roommate and The… Read More
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VCs swipe left on dating apps
VC investment in dating startups declined over the past year, with smaller average rounds and fewer funded companies, according to Crunchbase company profile data. Read More
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Crunch Network
Investing in GoodBusiness
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companies that provide a social or environmental benefit as part of running their for-large-profit business. Indeed, $10 billion of that has been raised since 2010 alone. Impact VCs are VCs first that intend to generate market-beating financial returns because of, not in spite of, an impact-oriented investment thesis. Read More
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Crunch Network
Congressional Republican threats to Caltrain funding could cripple Bay Area’s growth
For $2 billion, Caltrain electrification would wire the line between San Francisco and San Jose and buy new high-performance electric trains, reducing local travel time by twenty minutes, and yet, the Republican Party is threatening to cancel the project. Read More
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PayPal buys TIO Networks for $233 million
PayPal has agreed to buy bill payment management company TIO Networks for $233 million in cash. The deal will allow PayPal to gain access to a market of customers who pay their utility and cable bills at kiosks in locations like Rite Aid. This will help the company reach the “underserved” chunk of North Americans who are living paycheck-to-paycheck, some who even lack bank… Read More
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This venture firm just produced one of the first detailed equity research reports on Snap Inc.
Many things that used to be true primarily of the public market now happen within the world of private company investing, including the participation of mutual fund investors. Now, you can add equity research reports to that list. Goodwater Capital — a two-year-old, consumer-tech-focused venture firm is today taking the wraps off a detailed snapshot of pre-IPO Snap, parent of the… Read More
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You can now use Signal for encrypted video calls
Open Whisper Systems, creator of encrypted communication platform Signal, released an update today as an open beta to enable encrypted video calling. The app previously offered fully end-to-end encrypted chat and voice calling, but the addition of video will make it even easier to convey information without compromising security. The update also promises to improve the existing, somewhat… Read More
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Startup Battlefield application deadline extended for Disrupt New York
Startup life is tough and hectic. You’re busy. We get it. That’s why we extended the Startup Battlefield Applications for TechCrunch Disrupt New York. You now have until February 28th at 12pm PT to get your startup application in. Apply now! Why apply? Well, the numbers are in and they speak for themselves. As of January 2017, the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield companies have… Read More
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In 2016 Lisbon fired-up its startup engines — 2017 will hear them roar
In the first of a new series focusing on city eco-systems, TechCrunch Editor-at-large Mike Butcher gets under the skin of one of Europe’s hottest startup cities. Being thrown into the fire of an economic recession made for a much more dynamic culture that many observers had typically come to expect from a southern European country. When the country had to turn to the European Union for… Read More
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Facebook is still figuring out how to tackle fake news
At CODE Media today, Facebook VP of partnerships Dan Rose said combatting fake news is “something that’s really important to us,” but acknowledged that the company is “just getting started” and “there’s a lot of work we can do.” Read More
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Crunch Network
Attack of the drones
A drone recently crashed into a Boeing 737 as it approached a landing strip in Mozambique. The damage to the aircraft was extensive. Over the last year, drone crashes have been reported at a nuclear facility, the Empire State Building and one crashed through a window into an office building. For some, the war of the machines has begun — and you don’t need deep pockets to play. Read More
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TheBlindGuide acquires UPenn startup ThirdEye, bringing computer vision to the visually impaired
There’s nothing quite like the atmosphere of a college hackathon. Amidst the free t-shirts and apps to help you find parties on campus always lie a few hidden gems for those with the patience to hunt. ThirdEye, one of those gems forged out of PennApps, UPenn’s hackathon, is being acquired today by TheBlindGuide for an undisclosed sum. Started by three current Penn… Read More
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To compete with YouTube, Facebook is preparing to launch connected TV apps
Facebook wants its users to upload and consume more videos, and it’s making a couple of changes to the way that it displays and distributes those videos. Today at CODE Media, Facebook VP of partnerships Dan Rose said the company would also launch a series of apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Samsung Smart TV. Read More
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Daimler’s Smart will focus on electric vehicles exclusively in North America
The adorable little Smart cars you see on North American roads from here on out will likely be primarily electric, as the company has decided to cease sales of its gas-powered Fortwo and Fortwo Cabrio in the U.S. and Canada from 2017 on. It sounds like the decision has less to do with overwhelming demand for electric Smart cars, however, and more to do with the North American… Read More
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Twitter quickly kills a poorly thought out anti-abuse measure
Twitter earlier this month announced a series of changes aimed at silencing abuse on its network, but a recent change to its service – which was quickly reversed following user feedback – indicates the company still doesn’t have a good handle on how to handle online harassment. Via a tweet posted yesterday by the Twitter Safety account, the company announced it would no… Read More
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Etsy Studio is a new marketplace for craft supplies
Etsy just announced what it’s calling its first marketplace in 11 years — Etsy Studio, where businesses can sell supplies to other Etsy users. CEO Chad Dickerson told me that while craft supplies were already available through the existing Etsy website, “It was a category that we didn’t focus on.” Then, about a year ago, the team started to work on the idea of… Read More
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Entoro Group acquires Offerboard, a platform for soliciting investments in private businesses
Entoro Group today announced that it has acquired OfferBoard, a company that removes barriers from the process of raising capital. OfferBoard isn’t AngelList nor FundersClub. It’s a platform designed to make crowdfunding work for growth capital. But instead of tech startups, the company supports general solicitation for multimillion dollar financing projects in spaces like… Read More
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Konvo
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Gold Coast, Queensland
- Categories: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software, Social Network, Social Media
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KoreConx
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
- Categories: Financial Services, Personal Finance, Crowdfunding, Legal, Venture Capital ... See More
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Samanage
- $20M Angel
- HQ: Cary, North Carolina
- Categories: IT Management, Information Technology, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Customer ... See More
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uBUTLER
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Categories: Virtual Goods, Virtualization, Virtual Reality
- Investors: Not available
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Pico.Buzz
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Haifa, Hefa
- Categories: Digital Media, Advertising, Sports, Event Management, Events
- Investors: Not available
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Frind
- 500K EUR Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Social Network, Web Apps, Events
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Commerce Signals
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: Retail, Mobile, Software, Analytics, Advertising
- Investors: Not available
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Camp Native
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Spearfish, South Dakota
- Categories: Marketplace, Adventure Travel, Travel
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Agolo
- Not available Venture
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Natural Language Processing, Apps
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Sense.ly
- $8.0M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Speech Recognition, Enterprise Software, Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Intuition Robotics
- $6.0M Series A
- HQ: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Social
- Investors: Not available
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SmartUp.io
- $5.5M Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Simulation, E-Learning, Apps
- Investors: Not available
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ORBI
- $3.0M Series A
- HQ: Berkeley, California
- Categories: Software, Hardware
- Investors: Not available
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InnovationQuarter
- Not available Seed
- HQ: The Hague, Zuid-Holland
- Categories: Business Development, Venture Capital
- Investors: Not available
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Safe H2O Inc.
- Not available Series A
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Health Diagnostics, Water Purification, Water
- Investors: Not available
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Devkittens
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland
- Categories: Information Technology
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Wiivv
- $4.0M Series A
- HQ: Vancouver, British Columbia
- Categories: Fashion, Fitness, Wearables, 3D Printing, Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Sankalpa
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: Crowdsourcing, E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Bamba
- $1.1M Seed
- HQ: Nairobi, Nairobi Area
- Categories: B2B, Emerging Markets, Enterprise Software, SMS, Mobile
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Perfect Channel
- 2.0M GBP Venture
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Marketplace, Auctions, Analytics, Trading Platform, Software, Predictive ... See More
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Travauxlib
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Marketplace, Construction, SaaS
- Investors: Not available
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onTracks
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
- Categories: Service Industry, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Applications
- Investors: Not available
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OneSkin Technology
- $400K Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Test and Measurement, Cosmetics, Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Conductor Technologies
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Berkeley, California
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Moka
- $2.0M Venture
- HQ: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya
- Categories: Mobile Payments, Point of Sale, Small and Medium Businesses
- Investors: Not available
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ClickWings
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Mexico City, Distrito Federal
- Categories: Telecommunications, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Payments, Wireless
- Investors: Not available
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House Doctor
- $13K Seed
- HQ: Not available
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VoltStorage
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Munich, Bayern
- Categories: Manufacturing, Cloud Storage, Electronics
- Investors: Not available
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TrueLayer
- $1.3M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available