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Crunch Network
Why Ed Tech Is Taking Off In Latin America
The past three months have redefined the education technology market among startup companies. Concerns about free content from YouTube and educational nonprofits, as well as user engagement and retention, were beginning to sour investors on the opportunity afforded by providing for-profit education to the lifelong learning sector. Read More
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Crunch Network
The Billion Dollar Food Delivery Wars
Over the past 12 months, food and grocery delivery has been one of the hottest VC sectors. More than $1 billion was invested in 2014 – an almost fourfold increase year-on-year – with a further half a billion dollars invested in Q1 2015, according to CB Insights. Read More
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The Challenges of Teaching When Silicon Valley Doesn’t Care
I have been on a bit of an EdTech binge writing spree the past few weeks. Part of the reason is that I feel the vast majority of educators and entrepreneurs are finally realizing that Silicon Valley didn’t get it right the first time with our approach to technology and the classroom. Certainly, some content is more freely available than before, an absolutely wonderful improvement for… Read More
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Gillmor Gang: WonderLust
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, July 10, 2015. To my horror, the entire Gang agrees with The Robert and his passion for All Shiny Things VR. If the Watch is dead, long live the Watch. Plus, G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Rebecca Woodcock, Rosanna Y de la Cruz, Elisa Camahort Page, and Tina… Read More
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Invi’s SMS Replacement App For Android Exits Beta, Still Dreaming Big
U.S. startup Invi reckons there’s space for one more messaging app play. Not a little one either. Co-founder Iddo Tal sees a gaping hole in the market for a North America-focused messaging platform giant to flourish — and, he hopes, become a global marketplace for content distribution. Such stuff startup dreams are made on. Read More
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Crunch Network
All Hail The Mega-Processor!
Once upon a time, long ago, there were computers, and they were very large. Warehouse large. Multi-story large. Tractor-trailer large. So large that in those mythical days of yore, now lost in the mists of time, men were real men(1), women were real women(2), and bugs were actual physical bugs(3), to paraphrase Douglas Adams. Read More
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Crunch Network
A New User’s Guide To Understanding Snapchat
Snapchat was the first social network I was too old to understand. Read More
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Crunch Network
The Six Things The Most Productive People Do Every Day
I admit I stole this title. Part of being productive is to piggyback on the shoulders of greatness. So I decided to write down what six things I do every day that help me with productivity. They make work for you. Or not. They work for me, although I always need to improve. Read More
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Crunch Network
The Next Big Opportunity In Enterprise Starts In The Field
Aaron Levie of Box recently shared his perspective on the trillion dollar market for enterprise startups building solutions to help individual workers, broad job functions and entire industries go digital. Aaron argues that “…while information technology swept through most enterprises in the 90s and 2000s aiming to automate the back-office, this decade will be all about extending… Read More
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Sorry, A Bug Gave You More Instagram Followers And They’ll Disappear
No, your last selfie didn’t win you hundreds or thousands of new followers. Instagram confirmed to me today that a bug has caused some users’ follower counts to increase, but that this was a bug that’s being fixed. That increase in people’s follower count will disappear once the bug is completely fixed. Earlier today, a manager that works with big social media… Read More
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Crunch Network
Digital Government Is The New Social Network
Recently, New York and Chicago, each a leader in two important municipal reforms — the open data movement and centralized (311) call centers — released requests asking the private sector to help them build a platform more akin to Facebook than 311 as we know it. Read More
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Watch Microsoft Ventures Digital Works Accelerator Demo Day Presentations Right Here
The live stream has finished. Thanks for watching! TechCrunch is pleased to host the live video stream of the Microsoft Ventures Digital Works Accelerator demo day. Watch the presentations right here starting at 4:00 p.m. PDT. This is the second class from Microsoft Ventures’s Seattle Accelerator where 14 startups received mentorship, technology guidance and a $25,000 check with no… Read More
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Whistle While You Scroll, Or, How Facebook Could Win With Music Videos
FbMTV? Facebook is talking with record labels about paying them handsomely to share music videos to the News Feed, according to reports from Billboard and The New York Times. Normally, people go to YouTube to watch these mini music movies. But Facebook’s on a quest to conquer the video world, and it’s mounting an assault on YouTube’s most lucrative province. FaceTube A few… Read More
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Reddit Co-Founder Steve Huffman In For Reddit CEO Job, Pao Out
We’d been hearing that Steve Huffman, a co-founder of Reddit who also co-founded flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk, was being considered for the CEO job at Reddit. Now that move is confirmed. Huffman’s appointment follows turmoil at Reddit following the firing of Victoria Taylor, a community manager that the Reddit community relied on, last week. Y Combinator’s… Read More
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Apple Finally Fixes The iPhone Keyboard’s Worst Flaw In iOS 9
It’s the little things in life. Like, you know, being able to tell if your keyboard is currently set to use capital letters or not. With iOS 9, Apple is finally fixing one of the platform’s strangest quirks: the keyboard will no longer appear to be all caps, all the time. If you’re an Android user, or someone who just doesn’t think about stuff like this all that much… Read More
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This Pixar Artist’s Homemade Robot Is Adorable And I Want One
You’ve seen Atlas, the robot that can walk just like a human. You’ve seen Small Dog, the quadruped bot that can scale hills and climb stairs. But have you ever seen a robot that just makes you say “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwww”? Meet Mira — an adorable little mini-bot built by one of Pixar’s technical directors. Read More
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Backed By Tim Draper, DataWallet Pays Users To Share Their Online Data With Businesses
Consciously or not, there’s a kind of deal we make when we use many online services — in exchange for free access, we accept ads and give up some of our personal data. Now a startup called DataWallet is planning to make that exchange a little more rewarding, with real cash. Brands often want access to this kind of personal data, and DataWallet founder and CEO Serafin Lion Engel… Read More
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CrunchWeek: Microsoft Swings The Axe, Facebook Updates News Feed, And Reddit Melts Down
This week on CrunchWeek, we sat down to dig into the hottest stories from the last seven days: Microsoft’s massive writedown and layoffs, Facebook’s addition of new controls to users’ News Feeds, and Reddit’s community meltdown. Read More
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The Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted In Criminal Copyright Case
The founders of The Pirate Bay, arguably the world’s most visible torrenting site, were acquitted by a Belgian court Thursday of charges alleging criminal copyright infringement and abuse of electronic communications. “The Pirate Bay Four,” consisting of Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, have faced an almost comical amount of legal… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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IKKS
- Not available undisclosed
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Fashion
- Investors: Not available
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StoreHub
- $167K Grant
- HQ: Petaling Jaya, Selangor
- Categories: Enterprise Software, Point of Sale, iPad, Small and Medium Businesses
- Investors: Not available
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SpotiZZ
- $11K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Photography
- Investors: Not available
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Parcelled.in
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Logistics
- Investors: Not available
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ReNeuron Group
- 68M GBP Venture
- HQ: Guildford, Surrey
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Self Lender, Inc.
- $1.5M Seed
- HQ: Austin, Texas
- Categories: Consumer Internet, Personal Finance, Finance Technology, FinTech
- Investors: Not available
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Fingertouch
- $7.1M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Advertising
- Investors: Not available
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ThynkWare Innovation, Inc.
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Mountain View, California
- Categories: Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Innovation Engineering
- Investors: Not available
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247BusinessNews
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Darlington, Durham
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Auto Lotto
- $601K Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Ticketing
- Investors: Not available
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ActLight
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Lausanne, Vaud
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Social Trademarks
- 520K EUR Seed
- HQ: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Categories: Reputation
- Investors: Not available
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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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Innospark
- $6.5M Series B
- HQ: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Batch Inc
- $25K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Darenta
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Moscow, Moscow City
- Categories: Peer-to-Peer, Travel, Transportation, Marketplaces, Collaborative ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Footprints Childcare
- $672K Angel
- HQ: Haryana, Haryana
- Categories: Education
- Investors: Not available
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- $13M Grant
- HQ: Nashville, Tennessee
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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AreaMetrics
- $435K Angel
- HQ: Honolulu, Hawaii
- Categories: Software, Analytics, Bridging Online and Offline
- Investors: Not available
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Exicon
- $8.0M Series A
- HQ: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
- Categories: Cloud Computing, Apps, Mobile, SaaS
- Investors: Not available
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Pocket Money
- $100K Angel
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: Personal Finance, Teaching STEM Concepts, Kids, Task Management, Education ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Keynected
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Copley Retention Systems
- $1.5M Series A
- HQ: Weston, Florida
- Categories: Education
- Investors: Not available
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Formula XO
- $300K Convertible Note
- HQ: Sterling, Virginia
- Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics
- Investors: Not available
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BlueVox
- $410K Seed
- HQ: Henderson, Nevada
- Categories: Telecommunications, Information Services, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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PSafe
- $30M Series D
- HQ: Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Pinnacle Ventures, Redpoint e.ventures, Qihoo 360 Technology
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BitFury Group
- $20M Series C
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Bitcoin, Semiconductors, Hardware, Data Centers
- Investors: iTech Capital, DRW Trading Group, Georgian Co-Investment Fund
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Bluestone.com
- $16M Series C
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Curated Web
- Investors: Accel Partners, Kalaari Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Saama Capital ... See More
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TrapX
- $9.0M Series B
- HQ: San Mateo, California
- Categories: Computer Vision
- Investors: Intel Capital, Liberty Venture Partners
