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Instagram Marketing Startup Popular Pays Raises $2M
Popular Pays, a Y Combinator-backed startup connecting Instagram users with marketers, has raised $2 million in funding. Under the Popular Pays model, businesses describe the kind of campaign they’re looking to create, then Instagrammers can apply and list how much money they’d want to participate. The marketer chooses the users they want to work with, those users starting posting… Read More
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Apple Launches Back To School Deal, Offering Free Beats Headphones With Mac Purchase
Apple launched its 2015 Back to School deal today, offering those who purchase a new Mac, under education pricing, a free pair of Beats Solo 2 on-ear headphones. Users will also be able to upgrade to a pair of wireless Beats Solo 2 headphones for $100. The education deal is open to qualifying students, parents of students, faculty and staff that purchase a Mac between now and September 18. Read More
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Kamcord Update Brings Live Game Streaming To Mobile Devices
Kamcord, the YC-backed company that enables game recording on mobile, is the latest company to jump on the mobile live-streaming bandwagon after it added the feature to its Android and iOS apps. Read More
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Flickr Brings Back Its “Pro” Subscription Plan
Flickr announced today it’s bringing back its “Pro” subscription plan aimed at power users of Yahoo’s photo-sharing service, which will introduce a variety of new features, including access to improved analytics, software discounts, and more, as well as allow for an ad-free experience. Pro users will also again receive a “Pro” badge highlighted on… Read More
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Annoyed By Mobile Sites That “Ask” You To Download Their App? You’re Not Alone
Your team has spent many many months perfecting your mobile app, so of course you want people to download it. You want to get your app high up in the app store charts. I get it. Totally. However, you (and a lot of companies) have gotten overly aggressive with how you go about “suggesting” that we download your app. You know what I’m talking about. The… Read More
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Taste Testing With teaBOT, The Robot That Brews Up Loose Leaf Tea In Under 30 Seconds
Toronto-based teaBOT is a robot that whips up customized cups of loose leaf tea in under 30 seconds. The startup launched in 2013 as a way to eliminate long lines at cafes by delivering automated grab-and-go cups of tea. teaBOT is now in the U.S. with the current Y Combinator batch. Most tea needs at least 10 minutes to brew, after getting the water to the desired temperature. Each type of… Read More
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Fly Or Die: Harman Kardon AKG N90Q
The Harman Kardon AKG N90Q headphones are, in short, awesome. Harman has long been one of the top names in audio, but its newest pair of over-ear headphones — the latest in Quincy Jones’ signature line — add a new type of technology called TruNote, which uses microphones to custom tailor music to your environment. And it goes beyond loud cars driving by or noise from being on… Read More
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Crunch Network
What The Tech Bubble Means Outside Silicon Valley
It’s a place, a mindset, a nickname, a metonym, an innovation hub, a TV show and a standard against which all cradles of technology are measured. Silicon Valley prides itself on having a meta-status that defies easy categorization, but this cannot save it from the impending bubble. According to investors like Mark Cuban, Chris Sacca, Bill Gurley, Manish Goyal and Bharat Ramnani… Read More
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Amazon Opens Huge Photo Studio In London To Feed Its Fashion Ambition
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos once famously said that in order to be a $200 billion company, Amazon had to learn how to sell clothes and food. And while the company has been steadily growing the latter business with initiatives like Amazon Fresh, today it took a step down the catwalk to build up the former. Amazon has opened up a new photography studio in Shoreditch, London — a… Read More
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Latin America Looks To Spur Later Stage Venture Investments
The seeds of a venture investment scene are beginning to sprout at the early stage in Latin America and now countries like Colombia and Chile are taking steps to make sure young companies can take root. Chief among these initiatives is a new push by the Colombian financial services firm Bancoldex, the once-state-owned bank of Colombia, which is working to raise a $500 million… Read More
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Slack Integrates With Google Calendar To Add Events To Channels
Slack, the popular office communication tool, will now integrate with Google Calendar, letting events automatically post reminders inside slack channels. Here’s how the integration will work: After linking a Google account to Slack, you can choose any calendar and instruct it to post to certain Slack channels. For example, you could have events from your company’s development… Read More
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Twitter Makes It Easier To Target Ads Around Big Events
Twitter is announcing a straightforward way for advertisers to join in the social media conversation around major events. Not that the service has lacked ads around, say, the Super Bowl. But Ameet Ranadive, the company’s senior director of revenue products, said that until now, buying those ads has been a “very manual” process, with advertisers piecing together the right… Read More
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Google Brings Its 360-Degree Movies App, Spotlight Stories, To iOS
Google Spotlight Stories, a mobile app featuring immersive, 360 degree animated films originally developed by Motorola ahead of its 2011 Google acquisition, has now made its way to iOS devices. The app had been available on Android phones since fall 2013, when Google first introduced the new mobile storytelling format to consumers. The app itself is intended for entertainment purposes, as… Read More
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Picasa Desktop Users Prompted To Move To Google Photos Backup Instead
As part of the transition to Google’s new photo hosting and sharing service, Google Photos, launched this May, users of Google’s older Picasa desktop software are now being prompted to upgrade to Google Photos Backup for saving their images to Google’s cloud storage. The change could signal the beginning of a plan to migrate Picasa users over to the newer Google Photos… Read More
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Japan’s Nikkei Buys The Financial Times Group From Pearson For $1.3B
Some more M&A afoot in the media industry. Pearson has sold the Financial Times Group to Japan’s Nikkei Inc for £844 million ($1.3 billion) in cash. The news comes after a morning of fervent speculation that the Financial Times was on the block, with some speculating that Axel Springer would be the buyer. In addition to the iconic pink newspaper, the group includes the FT.com… Read More
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Centro Acquires Facebook Ad Startup GraphScience
Ad tech company Centro is announcing that it has acquired social ad startup GraphScience. Founded in 2001, Centro has built a platform for digital marketers to manage their campaigns. GraphScience, meanwhile, allows advertisers to create and optimize personalized Facebook ads. With the acquisition, Centro can significantly expand its social media capabilities. Read More
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Hometeam Emerges From Stealth To Bring Better In-Home Care To Seniors
Hometeam, a New York-based startup providing in-home care to seniors, is publicly launching today after operating in a stealthy beta for two years. Powered by $11 million in funding from Lux Capital, IA Ventures, and Recruit Strategic Partners, Hometeam was founded by Josh Bruno, a former investor at Bain Ventures, in 2013. Since then, the company has placed over 250 caregivers in hundreds… Read More
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With $20M In The Bank, JetSmarter Is Building The Uber Of The Skies
JetSmarter, a private air transportation startup, wants to make commuting by private jet a reality for all travelers. With $20 million in Series B funding from The Saudi Royal Family, music and entertainment moguls including Jay-Z, and executives at companies such as Goldman Sachs and Twitter, the company will take a big step closer to that goal. Originally launched in 2013 as a booking… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Pipa+Bella
- $650K Angel
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail, Jewelry
- Investors: Not available
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RaNA Therapeutics
- $55M Series B
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Keynected
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Apps, Mobile, Social Media
- Investors: Not available
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Exicon
- $8.0M Series A
- HQ: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
- Categories: Apps, Mobile, SaaS, Cloud Computing
- Investors: Not available
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Travel Startups Incubator
- $500K Venture
- HQ: Orlando, Florida
- Categories: Online Travel, Mobile, Travel
- Investors: Not available
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Double
- 75K GBP Angel
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Match-Making, Social Media, Online Dating
- 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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Terbium Labs
- $3.7M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Data Security, Information Security, Network Security, Cyber Security
- Investors: Not available
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Clover
- $2.0M Venture
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
- Categories: Mobile, iOS, Online Dating, Match-Making, Apps, Location Based Services ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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JetSetGo
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Travel
- Investors: Not available
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Fingertouch
- $7.1M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Advertising
- Investors: Not available
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Blue Earth Diagnostics
- 18M GBP Series B
- HQ: Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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SutroVax
- $22M Series A
- HQ: South San Francisco, California
- Categories: Bio-Pharm
- Investors: Not available
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PhotoniCare
- $250K Venture
- HQ: Champaign, Illinois
- Categories: Medical Devices
- 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: Developer Tools, Mobile Games, Mobile
- 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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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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Leadspace
- $18M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Enterprise Software, Predictive Analytics, Lead Generation
- Investors: Not available
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GenSight Biologics
- $36M Series B
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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UXPin
- $5.0M Venture
- HQ: Mountain View, California
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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Tracktivity
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Houston, Texas
- Categories: Sports
- Investors: Not available
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SGN (Social Gaming Network)
- $130M undisclosed
- HQ: Culver City, California
- Categories: Games
- 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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Giosis
- $82M Series A
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: E-Commerce, Online Shopping, Brand Marketing
- Investors: Oak Investment Partners, Brookside Capital, eBay, Singapore Press Holdings ... See More
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JetSmarter
- $20M Series B
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Saudi Royal Family, Shawn Carter
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Hometeam
- $11M Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: IA Ventures, Lux Capital, Recruit Strategic Partners
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Remedy Partners
- $50M Series B
- HQ: Darien, Connecticut
- Categories: Health and Wellness
- Investors: Bain Capital Ventures
