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Crunch Report| Airbnb Raises $1 Billion
Google’s Jamboard will cost $5,000 plus an annual management fee, Airbnb closes Series F to go over $1 billion, Google goes after Slack and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are expecting their second baby. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Chowbotics raises $5 million for salad-making robots named Sally, of course
Chowbotics Inc. has landed $5 million in a Series A round of venture funding to develop what it’s calling food service robots. These are machines designed to prepare food in restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, or food courts in airports, malls and hospitals. The company’s flagship product, Sally, is a salad-making robot that uses 20 different food canisters to prepare and… Read More
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Oculus CTO John Carmack is suing ZeniMax for $22.5 million
The feud between Oculus and ZeniMax Media is opening back up once again, this time with the CTO of Oculus, John Carmack, suing his former employer for earnings that he claims are still owed to him. The suit is largely unrelated to the $6 billion trade secrets suit which ended last month with a $500 million judgment against Oculus. Instead Carmack is suing Zenimax Media for $22.5 million that… Read More
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NASA’s interplanetary radar spots tiny derelict satellite in forgotten lunar orbit
Radar can detect things like asteroids millions of miles away, and it’s easy to track satellites in Earth’s orbit, but there are middle distances that aren’t so easy to monitor. Lunar orbit is one of them. But because using terrestrial radar to find and track satellites, spacecraft and other objects that have gone dark would be handy, NASA researchers made it work anyway. Read More
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Watch ‘High Resolution,’ a video series about design
Ever wonder how design has helped drive success for businesses like Airbnb, Facebook, Slack and IBM? How about how their teams are structured? How they operate? What their processes look like? High Resolution is bringing clarity to these questions, and we’re doing it 25 times. We’re sitting down with 25 masters of the digital design industry to learn how they approach… Read More
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Done with Uber? Here are some alternatives
I have to admit I’m pretty reliant on Uber. With a sub par public transportation system, the ridesharing app makes it significantly easier to find my way around San Francisco. Apart from the occasional delay or aggressive driver, the service has been pretty dependable overall. But like many users, as evidenced by the “delete Uber” social media campaign… Read More
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Google’s Cloud Platform improves its free tier and adds always-free compute and storage services
Google today quietly launched an improved always-free tier and trial program for its Cloud Platform. The free tier, which now offers enough power to run a small app in Google’s cloud, is offered in addition to an expanded free trial program (yep — that’s all a bit confusing). This free trial gives you $300 in credits that you can use over the course of 12… Read More
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Astro raises an $8 million Series A for its AI-powered email solution for teams
On the surface, Astro, launching its public beta today, is a nifty but not completely necessary email client that combines machine intelligence and a bot interface to improve workflows and increase the signal to noise ratio of mail for power users. But the real story is that the startup, backed with a new $8 million Series A led by Redpoint, is gearing up to pitch enterprises on… Read More
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The Kairos Society, an organization for young entrepreneurs, has raised its own venture fund
The Kairos Society isn’t just trying to bring the next generation of entrepreneurs together — it’s investing in their companies, too. The organization today announced a seed fund called Kairos Society Ventures, and the portfolio already includes Abaris (which offers a private-sector alternative to social security), Brazilian education startup Me Salva, Colombian… Read More
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Teaching robots to trust
Robots have begun to play an increasing role in life and death scenarios, from rescue missions to complex surgical procedures. But the question of trust has largely been a one-way street. Should we trust robots with our lives? The Human-Robot Laboratory at Tufts University is teaching robots how to trust, amongst other things.
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Snap opens second Spectacles pop-up shop in Venice, LA
Snap today took another step on its quest to truly become the “camera company” it says it is. Following the November 21st launch and subsequent February 20th close of its NYC pop-up shop, it’s now opening a temporary store on the Venice boardwalk near its Los Angeles headquarters. Of course, would-be camera sunglasses buyers don’t have to trek to a physical location… Read More
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Twitter tests a feature that warns users of profiles with ‘potentially sensitive content’
Twitter confirmed it’s testing a new feature that flags users’ profiles as potentially including “sensitive content.” When you click on one of these profiles from a link on Twitter, or if you visit the profile’s web page directly, you won’t be immediately shown the users’ tweets. Instead, a warning message displays, reading “Caution: This… Read More
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At least Facebook’s unfair Instant Articles now let sites show more ads
Facebook’s Instant Articles were always a bad deal for news outlets. While quick to load so they drove more readers, the hosted-on-Facebook mobile web format sterilized the design of publishers and severely limited how many ads and other business-critical units they could display. Publishers need paying subscribers, event attendees and loyal daily readers, but they traded those for… Read More
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Google makes it easier for companies to transfer data to its cloud
Onstage today at Google’s Cloud Next conference, the company announced a series of new tools to assist users with data preparation and integration. The updates bolster both the power and agility of Google Cloud for businesses. The first of these releases is the new private beta of Google Cloud Dataprep. Dataprep makes the data preparation process more visual. The tool includes… Read More
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are expecting another baby girl
Mark Zuckerberg is sure to get a ridiculous amount of likes for his latest post. The Facebook founder, now 32, posted this morning on his Facebook profile page he and wife Priscilla Chan are expecting a second daughter. No names have surfaced yet for the baby but this is very good news for the couple as they had some difficulty getting pregnant the first time. Zuckerberg wrote about the… Read More
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Names and definitions of leaked CIA hacking tools
The WikiLeaks-hosted “Vault7” collection of documents allegedly leaked from within the CIA’s Computer Operations Group is a messy mix of jargon, incomplete info and broken links. So for your convenience I’ve gone through the whole pile of docs and listed as many of the tools and techniques mentioned by spook IT as I could find. Read More
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iRobot’s CEO on bringing robots into the home
In many ways, Roomba represented the culmination of lessons learned from more than a decade’s worth of trying and often failing to develop a viable commercial application for robotics. iRobot CEO Colin Angle, the man behind the Roomba, discusses the company’s military roots and tempering public expectations about what robots can and cannot do.
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Google’s Jamboard will cost $5,000, plus an annual management fee
Google’s delivering on its promise of keeping its interactive whiteboard under $6,000. Priced at $4,999, the Jamboard is just a hair more expensive than the 55-inch version of Cisco’s Sparkboard and considerably less so than the $8,999 Surface Hub, which was both the first of the trio to be announced and first to market when it started shipping last March. Google’s… Read More
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Google adds add-on support to Gmail
Here’s some welcome news for Gmail users: Google is adding support for third-party add-ons that can integrate directly into the service. There are plenty of services that add functionality to Gmail already, of course, but they typically do that through a browser extension. With this new capability, which Google announced at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, users will be… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Airbnb
- $448M Series F
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Travel Accommodations, Hospitality, Marketplace, Travel, Sharing Economy ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Shazam
- Not available
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Music, Android, iOS, Ediscovery
- Investors: Not available
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Viva Republica
- $48M Series C
- HQ: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi
- Categories: Software, FinTech, Transaction Processing
- Investors: Not available
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TurnKey Vacation Rentals
- $21M Series C
- HQ: Austin, Texas
- Categories: Tourism, Travel, Leisure
- Investors: Not available
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Cradlepoint
- $89M Series C
- HQ: Boise, Idaho
- Categories: Wireless, Cloud Management, Network Hardware
- Investors: Not available
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Chairish
- $8.0M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Internet, Furniture
- Investors: Not available
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Prevedere
- $10M Series B
- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Software, SaaS
- Investors: Not available
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Astro Technology
- $8.3M Series A
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: Collaboration, Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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Kidizen
- $3.2M Series A
- HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Categories: Collaborative Consumption, Parenting, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Mimo
- 650K EUR Seed
- HQ: Vienna, Wien
- Categories: Mobile Apps, E-Learning, Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
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PleaseFund.Us
- $25K Grant
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Crowdfunding
- Investors: Not available
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DashTag
- 500K EUR Seed
- HQ: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland
- Categories: Wearables, Sports
- Investors: Not available
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Endor
- $5.0M Seed
- HQ: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning
- Investors: Not available
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Kiddom
- $6.5M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Investors: Not available
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cloud.IQ
- 4.0M GBP Series A
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: E-Commerce, Retail Technology, SaaS, Apps, Software
- Investors: Not available
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RealConnex.com
- $3.5M Series A
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Real Estate, Business Development, Professional Networking
- Investors: Not available
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The Hustle
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: News, Internet, Business Development
- Investors: Not available
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Simplifeye
- $3.0M Venture
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Wearables, Apps, Medical
- Investors: Not available
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Small Giant Games
- 5.4M EUR Series A
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: Video Games, PC Games, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Skoove
- 1.2M EUR Venture
- HQ: Berlin, Berlin
- Categories: Music Education
- Investors: Not available
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AgroSavfe
- 11M EUR Series B
- HQ: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Travauxlib
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: SaaS, Construction, Marketplace
- Investors: Not available
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onTracks
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
- Categories: Enterprise Applications, Service Industry, Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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ManeStreem
- $400K Convertible Note
- HQ: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Categories: Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
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Holo
- $120K Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Messaging, Mobile Advertising, Location Based Services
- Investors: Not available
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mycs
- 10M EUR Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available