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Cleo, a chatbot that wants to replace your banking apps, raises £2M led by LocalGlobe
Cleo, the London-based fintech startup that offers an AI-powered chatbot to help you manage your finances, has closed £2 million in further funding, adding to an impressive list of backers that already includes Skype founder Niklas Zennström. The new round is led by LocalGlobe, the seed VC firm founded by father and son duo Robin and Saul Klein, with participation from a number of… Read More
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Elon Musk shares footage of The Boring Company’s first working car elevator
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is getting closer to becoming a reality. The businessman conceived the idea in December in response to the pain of clogged up roads and traffic jams, and it has begun to take shape thanks to work carried out this summer. The basic idea is that underground tunnels can transport vehicles from A to B more quickly and efficiently than roads, with no time… Read More
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Yelp adds C-section rates and other stats for all baby delivery hospitals in California
Having a baby and want to know if your hospital is particularly C-section happy? Yelp aims to make that process a bit easier with the addition of a new maternity care rate feature. Expectant mothers have been able to get similar information about the maternity care of a particular hospital from state websites already but the information is often hard to find. Yelp, which rolled the feature… Read More
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Tencent backs Indian education startup BYJU’s at a valuation of $800 million
Tencent, Asia’s highest-valued tech company, has continued to invest in India after it backed online education service BYJU’s. The startup that includes the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Sequoia among its investors. The size of the investment has not been disclosed, but a source close to the deal told TechCrunch that it values BYJU’s around the $800 million mark. Tencent… Read More
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Crunch Report | Facebook Smart Speaker on the Way
Facebook is apparently working on its own smart speaker and has acquired digital rights management company Source3, SoftBank could bet billions on Uber, Duolingo raises $25 million and more. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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This facial recognition system tracks how you’re enjoying a movie
As moviemaking becomes as much a science as an art, the moviemakers need to ever-better ways to gauge audience reactions. Did they enjoy it? How much… exactly? At minute 42? A system from Caltech and Disney Research uses a facial expression tracking neural network to learn and predict how members of the audience react, perhaps setting the stage for a new generation of Nielsen ratings. Read More
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Spin brings its pick-up-anywhere bike sharing to South San Francisco
Spin, the bike-sharing service that lets you pick up and drop off a bike anywhere in a city, is coming to South San Francisco. The company’s dockless bike-sharing service made its debut in Seattle last week, and is now spinning its way down south to the Bay Area. Read More
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AI Grant aims to fund the unfundable to advance AI and solve hard problems
Artificial intelligence-focused investment funds are a dime a dozen these days. Everyone knows there’s money to be made from AI, but to capture value, good VCs know they need to back products and not technologies. This has left a bit of a void in the space. AI Grant aims to bankroll science projects for the heck of it to give untraditional candidates a shot at solving big problems. Read More
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Here’s the schedule for when Legendary Pokémon will come and go in Pokémon GO
Ever since the first Legendary Pokémon (read: ultra strong, ultra rare Pokémon that require groups of 10-20 players to capture) appeared in Pokémon GO shortly after the upset that was GO Fest, one thing has remained unclear: were the Legendaries here to stay? Read More
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Canaan Partners just closed on $800 million — its biggest fund (by a lot)
It’s a years-long trend with no end in sight: venture firms are raising record amounts, owing to growing and sustained fascination from endowments, pension funds, family offices and others who see the sweeping, tech-driven changes all around — from self-driving cars, to new plant-based foods, to far more targeted drugs — and want to be part of that evolution. Read More
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SEC regulators are coming after ICOs
It looks like ICOs, shorthand for initial coin offerings, are about to undergo a lot more scrutiny. The SEC has concluded that the digital currency financing events will be regulated as securities, meaning unregistered offerings could be subject to criminal punishment. The decision was announced on Tuesday. To reach its findings, regulators evaluated an offering facilitated by “The… Read More
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Blue Apron COO Matthew Wadiak steps down in post-IPO shakeup
Blue Apron announced several changes at the executive level today, including co-founder Matthew Wadiak stepping down from the COO role to become a senior advisor. Wadiak’s changing role comes after a painful IPO for the meal kit delivery service, which first had to reduce its original IPO price and has since seen a significant drop in its share price. Read More
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$47 billion has been invested into ridesharing startups — here are 10 other things that money could buy
When the ridesharing industry emerged in 2007, few would have believed it would grow into the cash-eating behemoth it is today. Dozens of companies, in hundreds of markets, have garnered just over $47 billion in equity and debt investment. To put that into perspective, we’ve put together a list of 10 things you could have bought instead. Read More
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AT&T’s streaming service DirecTV Now nears half a million subscribers
DirecTV Now, AT&T’s live TV service aimed at cord cutters, has now reached nearly 500,000 subscribers only 7 months after launch, the company announced today as part of its Q2 2017 earnings release. That uptick comes from the addition of 152,000 subscribers this past quarter, and is up from the 200,000 DTV Now subscribers the company had reported in January, following its first month… Read More
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ABC News teams up with ATTN: to produce original news videos for social media
ABC News announced today it’s teaming up with digital media company ATTN: to develop original news videos that will be distributed across social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The partnership aims to produce videos targeting audiences who no longer tune in to traditional news broadcasts aired on television. However, the news footage featured in the program will… Read More
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iRobot’s CEO defends Roomba home mapping as privacy concerns arise
iRobot CEO Colin Angle has been talking about his company’s plans to map user homes with the Roomba for a while now, but a recently published Reuters interview has raised a number of new privacy concerns. Of particular note is a bit where the executive speculates that the company “could reach a deal to sell its maps to one or more of the Big Three [Amazon, Apple, Google] in the… Read More
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Sage Group buys Intacct accounting software for $850M
British enterprise software company Sage Group has agreed to purchase Intacct, a 19-year-old accounting software company, for $850 million, the companies announced today. A cash and stock transaction, the deal aims to help build out Sage’s cloud financial management offerings. Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Group K Diagnostics
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Citus Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Health Care
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Marmo Health
- $50K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Health Care
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Premy
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Limitless
- 60K EUR Angel
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NANO Security Ltd
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Cosme Hunt
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Shopping Mall, Beauty, Shopping, Cosmetics
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Elimu Digital Media
- $100K Grant
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The iStartup
- Not available Angel
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- Categories: Advertising
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hearX Group
- $500K Grant
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Noticeboard - Team Communication Platform
- $1.2M Seed
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Okami Medical
- $4.5M Series B
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hearX Group
- $2.2M Seed
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Rodeo Therapeutics
- $5.9M Series A
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Greenspace
- $1.4M Seed
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
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SimilarWeb
- $47M Series F
- HQ: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Market Research, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Internet, Advertising, ... See More
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Duolingo
- $25M Series E
- HQ: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Categories: Education, Language Learning, E-Learning, Internet
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Cypress Creek Renewables
- $450M Debt Financing
- HQ: Santa Monica, California
- Categories: Solar, Renewable Energy
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Vicarious
- $50M Series C
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Video, Software, Content, Machine Learning
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Toast
- $101M Series C
- HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
- Categories: Restaurants, Mobile, Analytics, Point of Sale
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Dreamleague Gaming
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Pasadena, California
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PerimeterX
- $23M Series B
- HQ: San Mateo, California
- Categories: Computer, Security, Network Security
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BYJU'S
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- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Education, EdTech, Higher Education, Secondary Education
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Bricata
- $8.0M Series A
- HQ: Columbia, Maryland
- Categories: Network Security, Computer
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Sebacia
- $20M Series D
- HQ: Duluth, Georgia
- Categories: Medical Device, Developer Tools, Manufacturing
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Sebacia
- $16M Debt Financing
- HQ: Duluth, Georgia
- Categories: Manufacturing, Developer Tools, Medical Device
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KRY
- $20M Series A
- HQ: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan
- Categories: Health Care, Medical Device, Hospital, Biopharma
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Convoy
- $62M Series B
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Logistics, Marketplace, Service Industry, Virtual Goods, Transportation ... See More
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Prospera Technologies
- $15M Series B
- HQ: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Software, Agriculture, Data Integration, Computer, Machine Learning
- Investors: Not available
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