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Roivant receives bad news — and so does Softbank
Last month, Softbank, through its massive Vision Fund, led the single biggest private financing round for a health care company ever — funneling $1.1 billion into the drug holding outfit Roivant Sciences. Today, the Japanese conglomerate might be regretting that decision. The reason: despite hundreds of millions of dollars poured into one of Roivant’s publicly traded… Read More
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Google Cloud acquires cloud identity management company Bitium
Google Cloud announced today that it has acquired Bitium, a company that focused on offering enterprise-grade identity management and access tools, such as single-sign on, for cloud-based applications. This will basically help Google better manage enterprise cloud customer implementation across an organization, including doing things like setting security levels and access policies for… Read More
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Crunch Network
How Europe’s changes to copyright law will affect America
Europe is considering changing its copyright law. At first blush, you might think that this couldn’t possibly affect the way you debate the news of the day online, upload family videos or run your startup. But popular proposals at the EU would strike at the heart of the internet’s openness and accessibility as a platform by raising new barriers to interactive online services… Read More
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Uber is pulling out of Québec due to regulatory issues
Uber is planning to cease operations in Québec next month due to some newly proposed regulations by the Ministry of Transportation. Uber’s last day of operations in Quebec will be October 14. Read More
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Yomee wants to take the guesswork out of culturing yogurt at home
In a post-Juicero world, the bar has been set high for any piece of smart kitchen hardware that only makes one type of food. Enter Yomee, which bills itself as the Keurig of fresh yogurt and is now raising funds on Kickstarter. Lecker Labs, the startup behind Yomee, hopes that its relatively low price (each unit will retail for $99) and cost-savings will let it succeed where Juicero failed. Read More
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Dyson is working on an electric car set to launch by 2020
Dyson, maker of high-tech vacuum cleaners and fans, has long been rumored to be getting into the car game. That’s no longer a rumor, as the company has confirmed that it’s working on a battery electric vehicle with an all-electric drivetrain to be launched by 2020. The news comes from Dyson founder and CEO James Dyson himself, who announced the project via an internal… Read More
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Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise edition, snaps up Walmart as a customer
Workplace — Facebook’s bid to take on the Slack, Microsoft and the rest of the players in the market of business chat and collaboration — is getting a big push today by way of a significant customer win. The company has signed on Walmart, the retailing giant and the world’s biggest employer with 2.2 million employees on its books. Walmart is rolling out Workplace to… Read More
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Microsoft Excel is about to get a lot smarter
Microsoft Excel users rejoice — your favorite spreadsheet is about to get a lot smarter. Thanks to the help of machine learning and a better connection to the outside world, Excel will soon be able to understand more about your inputs and then pull additional information from the internet as necessary. Read More
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Managed By Q, the office management system, acquires Hivy
Managed by Q, the platform that helps office managers handle day-to-day operations, has made its first acquisition, picking up Y Combinator graduates Hivy for an undisclosed amount. Managed By Q lets office managers book cleanings, handy work, IT help, and order office supplies thanks to a partnership with Staples. MBQ has raised upwards of $72 million and now serves New York, Chicago, San… Read More
Latest TC Videos
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Sketchfab’s app might be the best way to try ARKit
One of the big promises with iOS 11 is ARKit. This new framework makes it much easier to look at virtual objects in the real world using augmented reality. Sketchfab has been building the biggest 3D model sharing platform, a sort of YouTube for 3D models. That’s why today’s iOS update turns Sketchfab into a thorough augmented reality app. This implementation isn’t perfect… Read More
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Alibaba pays $807M to take majority ownership in logistics affiliate Cainiao
Alibaba is getting serious about logistics after it agreed to invest RMB 5.3 billion ($807 million) in order to take majority ownership in subsidiary company Cainiao. Cainiao was created four years ago alongside eight other backers to bring organization in Chinese logistics, particularly around e-commerce deliveries. The company raised its first outside funding in March 2016 —… Read More
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The NFL partners with Facebook to distribute game highlights and recaps on the social network
Facebook and the NFL this morning announced a new multi-year programming deal that will see the sports organization distributing official NFL video, including game recaps and official highlights, to the social network. According to the NFL, the videos and recaps will be from all 256 regular season games, plus the playoffs and the Super Bowl, and will be made available to Facebook users… Read More
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Yelp is betting on home services, which accounts for 20 percent of revenue
While many folks think of Yelp as a place to find a great place to eat, the company has been quietly infiltrating other categories. Home Services — stuff like plumbing, movers, mechanics, etc. — seem to be a booming business for Yelp, now representing 20 percent of the company’s overall revenue. So it only makes sense that Yelp has been tailoring features specifically for the… Read More
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Blue Origin selected as launch provider for satellite startup mu Space
Thai space startup mu Space will launch its first geostationary satellite with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, the companies announced today at the International Astronautical Congress in Australia. Mu Space, founded by Northrop Grumman Corporation alum James Yenbamroong, will launch its first geostationary satellite with a target date of 2021, with the aim of helping provide space-based… Read More
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Plume Labs’ air quality tracker is now available for pre-orders
Plume Labs wants to be the definitive startup when it comes to air pollution. The company has built an app, an API and now an air quality tracker. The Flow is a tiny Bluetooth device you pair with your smartphone to learn more about the air you’re currently breathing. It works both inside and outside and could be particularly useful if you live in a polluted city. It tracks… Read More
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Instagram now lets you choose who can comment on your posts
Instagram is celebrating its milestone of reaching 800 million users on the platform, and 500 million using it daily, with new comment moderation tools that make it easier to silence anyone being potentially offensive. The new comment tools mean that if you have a public account on Instagram, you can limit comments to specific groups of people, including your followers or people you follow. Read More
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Equifax CEO Richard Smith has ‘retired’ following huge data breach
Just over a week after Equifax’s chief security officer and chief information officer “retired,” the bungling company’s CEO has made the same move after a huge data breach impacted over 140 million customers. The company announced that Richard Smith has left his role as CEO and chairman of the board effective immediately following a huge security breach which is… Read More
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ProsperWorks
- $53M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: enterprise software, crm, software, saas, apps
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Fooda
- $12M
- HQ: Chicago, Illinois
- Categories: enterprise software, food and beverage, consumer, restaurants, consumer ... See More
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Transit
- $5.0M
- HQ: Montreal, Quebec
- Categories: travel, public transportation, ios, transportation, navigation, mobile
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Artivatic.ai
- 10M INR
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: software, internet of things, computer
- Investors: Not available
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Pathao
- Not available
- HQ: Dhaka, Dhaka
- Categories: logistics, payments, e-commerce, transportation
- Investors: Not available
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Eligo Bioscience
- $20M
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Eligo Bioscience
- $2.0M
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Eligo Bioscience
- $18M
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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MinionLabs
- 1.0M INR
- HQ: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Lively, Inc.
- $4.2M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: fintech, health care
- Investors: Not available
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ED Band, Inc.
- Not available
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: medical device, health care, medical
- Investors: Not available
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Yotel
- $250M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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QingTing FM
- 1.0B CNY
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
- Categories: ios, internet radio, mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Envoy Technologies Inc.
- $1.5M
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: car sharing, electric vehicle, real estate
- Investors: Not available
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Jingchi
- $52M
- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: software, computer
- Investors: Not available
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Tantalum Corporation
- 1.4M GBP
- HQ: Teddington, Gloucestershire
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Tantalum Corporation
- 2.5M GBP
- HQ: Teddington, Gloucestershire
- Categories: Not available
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Say2eat
- Not available
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: food and beverage, saas, machine learning, natural language processing, ... See More
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Tachyon Oil and Gas
- Not available
- HQ: Spring, Texas
- Categories: drones, oil and gas, drone management
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Humanetics Corporation
- $3.8M
- HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Bookwell
- $2.6M
- HQ: Sydney, New South Wales
- Categories: beauty
- Investors: Not available
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CrediFiable
- Not available
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Fidmi Medical
- $2.0M
- HQ: Misgav, HaZafon
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Boost Insurance
- $3.0M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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YoMob Technology
- $3.0M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Watu Credit
- $1.5M
- HQ: Mombasa, Coast
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Packet Greens
- $1.5M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Viseon Spine
- $5.0M
- HQ: Irvine, California
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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NingBo Marvoto Intelligent Technology Co.,Ltd
- $10M
- HQ: Not available
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Sky Labs
- Not available
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: health care
- Investors: Not available
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