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The TechCrunch Barcelona Mini Meet-Up And Pitch-Off Is Go
Since I posted about a potential Mini Meet-Up in Barcelona I’ve gotten quite a few emails and requests to attend. To that end, I’ve decided to open Pitch-Off applications and RSVPs for a few days to get a rough number of how many people will attend. I don’t know if we’ll charge at the door or have to charge a nominal fee – 5 Euro or so – via EventBrite but… Read More
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Curioos Digital Art Platform Launches Augmented Reality App
In a world where we can order almost anything online, finding wall art for the home can actually be an overwhelming process online. There are just so many options, from traditional retailers to Art.com to sites that let you print out your Instagrams. But when it comes to digital art, there really hasn’t been a single marketplace for artists and buyers to put everything in one place. Read More
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Epoxy Partners With MCNs To Measure And Extend The Reach Of YouTubers
Epoxy was founded with the idea of helping YouTubers to engage with audiences and track their reach on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Vine. Today the company is announcing that it’s partnered with some of the largest new multichannel networks (MCNs) out there. Read More
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Fixed, The App That Fights Parking Tickets, Raises $650K More And Heads To Oakland
Fixed, the mobile app fights parking tickets on your behalf, which has been before today only available in San Francisco, is now expanding to the neighboring city of Oakland. It then plans to add on a new city at a rate of about one per month, the company says. The startup is also announcing an additional round of $650,000 in seed funding from a number of investors including Dave… Read More
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Amazon’s First Staffed College Campus Store Should Have Retailers Worried
Amazon is setting down roots in U.S. college campuses, and today it is celebrating the grand opening of its first ever staffed location at one of those schools. Purdue is the site of Amazon’s first campus drop-off and pickup location operated by actual amazon employees, and while it is in part a way for Amazon to expand its presence in the educational textbook market, the more… Read More
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Eero Is A Smart Wireless Routing System That Wants To Do For WiFi What Nest Did For Thermostats
Eero hopes to change the way we think about wireless routers. It hopes to make an affordable, smart wireless networking system that will do to WiFi routers what Nest did for thermostats or Sonos did for home audio. Read More
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Andrew Mason’s Audio Tour App Detour Goes Live And Hits The App Store
Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason wants to help tourists and locals in San Francisco to wander around and discover parts of the city they’ve never fully explored. After about six months of testing, his new app Detour is going live and is available for download in the Apple App Store. Read More
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GoSquared Launches People Analytics To Help Businesses Get A Better Understanding Of Customers
As GoSquared celebrates its 9th birthday — James Gill, James Taylor and Geoff Wagstaff started the company when they were just 14 — the London-based ‘startup’ is launching its most ambitious product to date. Read More
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Twitter’s Promoted Tweets Can Now Run On Other Websites And Apps
Twitter is expanding the potential audience for its Promoted Tweet ad campaigns by syndicating them to other services, starting with Flipboard and Yahoo Japan. In a blog post about the new ad capabilities, the company notes that tweets can already “flow from Twitter to other mediums seamlessly” — so why not do the same for Twitter’s ads? The post points to a number of… Read More
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DataStax Grabs Aurelius In Graph Database Acqui-Hire
DataStax scored a $106M funding pay day last September, and today it announced it was using some of that money to acquire open source graph database company, Aurelius, along with its engineering talent. No terms were disclosed, but all eight Aurelius engineers will be joining DataStax immediately. The new team will begin working on what they are calling “a massively scalable… Read More
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HTC America Just Did This… Take A Bow Peter Chou
Being the plucky mobile underdog in the fiery caldera of the smartphone market means HTC absolutely has to do things differently to grab some attention. So that means bringing “the ruckus” to its marketing messages, as it puts it. Read More
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NeuCoin Is A Bitcoin Alternative Designed For Microtransactions
Meet NeuCoin, a new cryptocurrency designed specifically to tip content creators and make online micropayments. NeuCoin is both a startup based in Paris and a new currency. It raised $2.25 million from dozens of business angels and signed partnerships with a few content distribution websites. NeuCoin explained me why we need yet another new cryptocurrency. Bitcoin presents a few risks when… Read More
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Guardant Health Secures $50 Million In Series C To Help More Doctors Track Cancer In Real Time
Guardant Health announced today that it has raised $50 million in Series C funding for its biopsy-free blood cancer screening test Guardant360. This puts the total funding for the medical technology startup at $90 million. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, with participation from Formation 8 and existing investors Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Read More
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China Now Has 557M Mobile Internet Users, Claims The Government
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a government organization, has released its latest report on Internet usage (link via Google Translate). It claims mobile Internet users reached 557 million as of December 2014, a growth of 11.4 percent from the year before. Read More
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Alibaba And Lending Club Launch Financing Program For U.S. Businesses
Alibaba.com and peer-to-peer financing site Lending Club have inked a strategic partnership designed to get more U.S. businesses to buy inventory from the e-commerce giant’s wholesale marketplace. The two will offer a new financial service called the Alibaba.com e-Credit Line that will let American companies apply for credit lines of $5,000 to $300,000 through the site, which they can… Read More
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Uber Is Finally Applying More Stringent Driver Background Checks In India
It took a tragic incident, but Uber is finally raising the intensity with which it checks the background of prospective drivers in India. Read More
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AnyPerk, A Platform For Delivering Perks To Employees, Raises $8.5M In Series A Funding
In the tech industry at least, it seems like the pressure for companies to provide “perks” to their employees has never been higher. But oftentimes, startups don’t have the ability to provide the same level of perks as larger established corporations do. That’s where AnyPerk, a startup itself, wants to help. AnyPerk, which makes a platform aimed at letting companies of… Read More
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Tablet Shipments Fell 12% In Q4 2014, Its First Decline Ever, Says Canalys
As phablets become more popular, consumers are waiting longer to upgrade their tablets or eschewing them altogether. As a result, worldwide tablet shipments plunged 12 percent year-over-year to 67 million units in Q4 2014, which research firm Canalys says marks its first ever decline after several quarters of slowing demand. Read More
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FirstCry.com, A Mumbai-Based Baby Products Store, Nabs $26M In New Funding
FirstCry.com is the latest Indian e-commerce company to scoop up funding. The startup, which is based in Mumbai, announced that it has raised $26 million led by Valiant Capital Partners. Existing investors also returned for the round, which brings the total FirstCry has raised so far to $55 million. India’s e-commerce market is one of the fastest-growing in the world and expected to be… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Tantan
- $5.0M Series A
- HQ: Not available
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HiberGene Diagnostics
- 2.0M EUR Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Zdorovio
- $100K Angel
- HQ: Moscow
- Categories: Fitness, Personal Health, Health and Wellness, Health Care Information ... See More
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EngagePoint
- $20M Debt Financing
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Medical
- Investors: Not available
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ParkENT Cycles
- Not available Product Crowdfunding
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Physical Security, Bicycles, Internet of Things, Startups
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Emerge Diagnostics
- $3.0M Venture
- HQ: Carlsbad, CA
- Categories: Health Care, Medical Devices, Diagnostics
- Investors: Not available
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Doctoriya
- $100K Angel
- HQ: Moscow
- Categories: Lead Generation, Private Social Networking, Mobile Health, mHealth, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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italist
- $500K Seed
- HQ: Mountain View, CA
- Categories: E-Commerce, Fashion, Marketplaces, Made in Italy
- Investors: Not available
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Off Grid Electric
- $7.0M Debt Financing
- HQ: Arusha
- Categories: Clean Technology
- Investors: Not available
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Wedding.com.my
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Weddings, Marketplaces, Social Commerce, Content Discovery, Visual Search ... See More
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Andy OS, inc.
- $3.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Cloud Computing, Software, Android, Operating Systems, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Uncover
- $1.5M Seed
- HQ: London
- Categories: Restaurants, Lifestyle, Mobile Commerce, Mobile
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ArangoDB
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Cologne
- Categories: Big Data, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Software, Databases
- Investors: Not available
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M-KOPA
- $12M Series D
- HQ: Dar Es Salaam
- Categories: Mobile, Renewable Energies, Environmental Innovation
- Investors: Not available
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SmartPocket
- $240K Venture
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
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Wave Life Sciences
- $18M Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Bonafide
- $850K Seed
- HQ: Rochester, NY
- Categories: Bitcoin
- Investors: Not available
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Cystinosis Research Foundation
- $490K Grant
- HQ: Irvine, CA
- Categories: Nonprofits
- Investors: Not available
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Thymes
- Not available undisclosed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
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Textio
- $1.5M Seed
- HQ: Seattle, WA
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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Impartus Innovations
- $4.1M Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Education
- Investors: Not available
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pixelHome
- 3K EUR Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
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Culture Machine
- $10M Series B
- HQ: Mumbai
- Categories: Digital Media, Entertainment, Media
- Investors: Not available
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Love Uncut
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Health and Wellness
- Investors: Not available
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Holachef
- $320K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Food Processing
- Investors: Not available
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Medocity
- $650K Seed
- HQ: Parsippany, NJ
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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MOON Wearables
- 100K NOK Grant
- HQ: Trondheim
- Categories: Computers, Hardware + Software, Internet of Things, Wearables, Mobile ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Pley
- $10M Series B
- HQ: San Jose, CA
- Categories: Curated Web, Toys, Collaborative Consumption, Marketplaces
- Investors: Not available
