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Let’s Talk About Uber, Congestion And Urban Air Quality
The U.K. government’s Department for Transport (DfT) has released updated statistics on the number of taxis and private hire vehicles operating in England — which shows a marked increased in the latter since 2013. In case you were wondering, ride sharing service Uber soft-launched in London in summer 2012. Coincidence? I’d wager not. Read More
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Google’s Container Engine For Running Docker Containers On Its Cloud Platform Is Now Generally Avaiable
Google’s Container Engine, its service for running and managing Docker containers on its cloud platform using its open source Kubernetes system, is now out of beta and generally available. This means Google now considers it ready for production use and backs it with a 99.95 percent uptime SLA. Google made an early bet on containers for running its own data centers and over the last year… Read More
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Storefront Launches RetailGrade, A Scoring Tool For Pop-Up Shops
Despite a growing number of direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar shopping still accounts for 94 percent of retail sales in the U.S. That’s why Storefront, a startup that provides brands with temporary retail space, is launching RetailGrade, a new tool that makes reaching these offline shoppers a lot more straightforward. Since launching in San Francisco in 2012, Storefront… Read More
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Wuzzuf Secures Egypt’s Largest Funding Round, Led By European VCs
BasharSoft, the startup behind leading Egyptian recruiting Wuzzuf, has spent the last 5 years surviving the turmoil of Egypt’s recent history. But it’s come through that to become a rare-commodity: An Egyptian company that has raised significant European VC cash. It’s just closed a Series A of $1.7 million from Sweden-based Vostok New Ventures and UK-based Piton Capital… Read More
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MOCACARE Gets $2M Series A To Create Consumer Health Trackers
MOCACARE, the maker of heart tracker MOCAheart, plans to develop new products and find distribution channels in China after raising a $2 million Series A. Read More
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Hybrid Cloud Vendor Velostrata Comes Out Of Stealth With $14M Investment
Velostrata, an early stage hybrid cloud startup, emerged from stealth today announcing a $14 million Series A investment. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners and Greylock IL Partners. The company has a sophisticated hybrid cloud solution that decouples storage from compute resources, leaving the storage in place on-premises while running a virtual machine in the cloud. The… Read More
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Intercom Raises $35M To Make Businesses Smarter About Their Customer Communication
Intercom, a startup promising businesses a “fundamentally new” approach to communicating with their customers, has raised $35 million in Series C funding. Co-founder and CEO Eoghan McCabe (pictured above) said the way that most online companies currently talk to their customers is “totally fucking broken,” with products and teams acting in isolation from one another. Read More
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Hyper Brings You The Best Of Internet Video, Every Day
Hyper, a curated video discovery platform, is launching today to provide you with a daily dose of the best short-form video content that the Internet has to offer. Powered by $1.1 million in seed funding from Advancit Capital, Lowercase Capital, Broadway Video Ventures, Freelands Ventures and Mesa Ventures, film producer Markus Gilles and cinematographer Jonas Brandau left Berlin’s… Read More
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Rovio To Cut 260 Jobs As The Angry Birds Franchise Becomes Irrelevant
It looks like Angry Birds maker Rovio is having some troubles to pay the bills. The Finnish company is about to cut 260 jobs after reducing its workforce by 110 employees in October 2014. At the end of 2013, the company had 800 employees in total. Read More
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ZeroStack Hopes To Put Private Clouds Within Reach of Mid-Market
ZeroStack, a company that hopes to help mid-market companies set up a private cloud more easily, exited stealth today and announced $5.6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Foundation Capital. ZeroStack also announced that Mark Leslie, founder and CEO and Veritas will be joining the board of directors. The promise of private clouds has been mostly confined to larger… Read More
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Airbnb Removes Top Host In Asia From Its Service With No Explanation
‘Sharing economy’ companies like Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit and others have grown popular for offering new types of work, and by association, additional incomes to people worldwide. While making a little side money comes in handy, a cautionary tale from a top Airbnb host in Asia shows the potential perils of becoming too reliant on these services. Read More
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Formerly Known As Bolt, Charge Messenger Raises $1.7M Seed Round And Launches Web Client
With messaging apps like WhatsApp, Line, and Viber fighting for growth around the world, is there room for smaller, newer players? Charge Messenger thinks so and to prove that point, it just announced $1.7 million in seed funding and a new web client that lets users sync chats on their iOS and Android devices to desktop. Read More
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PredictSpring Helps Brands Embrace Mobile Shopping
Longtime Googler Nitin Mangtani (manager for a number of products including Google Shopping) has founded a startup of his own, PredictSpring, where he’s working to help brands and retailers get up-to-speed with mobile commerce. To illustrate why PredictSpring is necessary, Mangtani pointed to numbers from comScore showing that while 60 percent of retail browsing happens on mobile… Read More
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More Layoffs For Intuit As Company Continues Realignment
Intuit is laying off 249 employees, mostly in the company’s Small Business Group, according to an internal memo from CEO Brad Smith reviewed by TechCrunch. We first heard about the layoffs this morning, and Intuit also confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch. In June, Intuit laid off 399 employees as part of a company realignment. Last week as part of its quarterly earnings, the company… Read More
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A Few Thoughts On Tech Stocks
Shares in technology companies have recently come under intense pressure, similar to other equities, markets, commodities and more. How far tech shops have declined, however, is worth digging into. After all, if the value of public tech companies has declined sharply, it could impact the value of private startups like Uber or Dropbox. Read More
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“Desksourcing” Is A New Labor Market Concept In The Mobile-First World
I’ve always been fascinated by how labor markets work. People are the foundation for how things get done. How we organize across and within companies impacts both creativity and efficiency. The first big labor market shift in my lifetime that I can remember was outsourcing. Fueled first by globalization and ignited further by Internet connectivity, arbitrage opportunities in labor… Read More
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Founders Fund Leads $33.5M Round For Modumetal, Maker of Nanolaminated Metals For The Oil And Gas Industry
Founders Fund, the venture firm co-created by Peter Thiel, is entering yet another surprising area that you don’t commonly see with Silicon Valley VCs. They’re backing a materials sciences company called Modumetal, which is making nanolaminated metals for use in the oil and gas industry. With currently used metals, pipes and equipment can corrode pretty easily, leading to $2.2… Read More
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Gmail To Auto-Populate Google Calendar With Things Like Flights, Hotel Bookings And Ticket Details
For a while, Gmail data like flight information has been surfaced in Google’s search product. One could imagine that that data would make sense in other places…like Google Calendar. Ding ding! Google announced today that it’s starting to roll out features that will place ticket, flight, hotel and restaurant info onto Google Calendar. Automatically. Read More
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Green Plate
- $150K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
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Qyk
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Apps
- Investors: Not available
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Tappx
- 20K EUR Convertible Note
- HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia
- Categories: Communities, Apps, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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EverCloud
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Haifa, Hefa
- Categories: Cloud Computing, Information Technology, SaaS, Virtualization
- Investors: Not available
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SpotiZZ
- $11K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Photography
- Investors: Not available
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Alleys Wonderlab, Inc.
- $600K Seed
- HQ: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi
- Categories: Maps, Navigation, Travel & Tourism, Video
- Investors: Not available
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Modumetal
- $34M Venture
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Manufacturing
- Investors: Not available
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Cybrary
- $400K Seed
- HQ: Greenbelt, Maryland
- Categories: Education
- Investors: Not available
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QuVa Pharma
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Sugar Land, Texas
- Categories: Food Processing
- Investors: Not available
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Gauntlet Pi
- $8.5M Debt Financing
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: Real Estate
- Investors: Not available
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StockRadar
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: Finance, FinTech
- Investors: Not available
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go.dayuse
- $0K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Travel, Adventure Travel, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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ToursOnTheWeb Pte Ltd
- Not available undisclosed
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS, Marketplaces, Travel, Tourism
- Investors: Not available
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Flykt
- 120K EUR Seed
- HQ: Porto, Lisboa
- Categories: Online Travel
- Investors: Not available
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onstream
- $2.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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PRINTool
- 1.0M RUB Grant
- HQ: Moscow, Moscow City
- Categories: Industrial Automation, 3D Printing, Open Source, New Product Development ... See More
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PijnZorg
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Eemnes, Utrecht
- Categories: Health Care, Health and Wellness, Life Sciences
- Investors: Not available
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Chronicled
- $1.4M Convertible Note
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
- Investors: Not available
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G-KEEP
- $300K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Farmers Market, Transportation, Fuels
- Investors: Not available
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Causemo
- $4.0M Venture
- HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
- Categories: Mobile, Internet, Big Data, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Investors: Not available
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RURALTY International
- $2.0M Private Equity
- HQ: Surrey, British Columbia
- Categories: Real Estate
- Investors: Not available
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Flykt
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Porto, Lisboa
- Categories: Online Travel
- Investors: Not available
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Cabify
- $12M Series B
- HQ: Madrid, Madrid
- Categories: Mobile, Internet, Taxis
- Investors: Not available
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Nok Nok Labs
- $16M Series C
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: Security
- Investors: Not available
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Fanatics
- $300M Private Equity
- HQ: Jacksonville, Florida
- Categories: E-Commerce
- Investors: Silver Lake Partners
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Coursera
- $50M Series C
- HQ: Mountain View, California
- Categories: Education, EdTech
- Investors: New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Times ... See More
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EHang
- $42M Series B
- HQ: San Carlos, California
- Categories: Drones
- Investors: GGV Capital, ZhenFund, PreAngel, OFC, LeBox Capital, GP Capital
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Scality
- $45M Series D
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Storage, Cloud Data Services, Software
- Investors: Menlo Ventures, Idinvest Partners, Omnes Capital, Iris Capital, Bpifrance ... See More
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AMCS
- 45M EUR Venture
- HQ: Oxford, Pennsylvania
- Categories: Environmental Innovation
- Investors: Insight Venture Partners, Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF)
