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LendUp gets strategic investment from PayPal and adds to its executive team
LendUp has built business providing personal loans to customers that traditional financial institutions wouldn’t touch. As it looks to expand into credit cards and other services, the company has raised some strategic funding from PayPal and also has expanded its executive ranks. Read More
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Google unveils Advr, an experimental Area 120 project for advertising in VR
Google today is more formally taking the wraps off its internal incubator, Area 120, with the launch of a dedicated website, alongside the launch of one of the program’s more interesting projects to date: a way to advertise within VR. The new experiment, which is simply called Advr, involves a cube-like ad format which allows video ads to run in a 3D/VR environment. Area 120 was launched… Read More
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Coca-Cola has built a commercialization ‘Bridge’ to startups worldwide
Why would a 131-year-old soda company with $44 billion in international sales possibly want to partner with small, pre-revenue technology companies emerging from places far-flung from its Atlanta headquarters? If the company is Coca-Cola (and it is), the answer is all about strategy. Read More
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Even a $2.2 billion investment couldn’t solve LeEco’s money problems
LeEco wanted too much too fast, and its overzealousness caught up with it almost immediately. Chairman Jia “YT” Yueting has long acknowledged the company’s cash problems in the wake of its rapid growth, but while PR has tried to backtrack and otherwise spin his statements in the past, new comments this week paint an even bleaker picture of the company’s health. During… Read More
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Zume Pizza adds extra automation as it rolls out to new cities
Zume Pizza has its eyes set on disrupting legacy pizza players like Pizza Hut and Domino’s by improving on both speed and quality with the help of robots. Over the last two years, founder Julia Collins has been steadily adding new machines to her pizza assembly line to maximize consistency without resorting to cheats that sacrifice the pizza itself. Today the company is announcing… Read More
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Hear how Houzz’s Adi Tatarko and Alon Cohen built a $4B company at Disrupt SF
Teamwork makes the dream work, as the saying goes. And in the case of Houzz, the founding team of Adi Tatarko and Alon Cohen have made that dream work in spades. The husband and wife duo has built a massive startup out of what started as a online look book for their own home improvement project in the leafy streets of Palo Alto. But surprisingly, they have spent almost no time talking about… Read More
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Mysterious stealth gaming startup Wonder announces $14 million in funding
Ah, another day, another stealth mobile gaming startup getting funded by Shakira. LA-based Wonder announced today that it has closed a Series A round of funding. The startup is building what it claims to be a new breed of “VR-ready” gaming hardware in secret, but seems to have been gesturing loudly about just how secret it is. Read More
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Intercom lands former Intuit exec Karen Peacock as its new COO
Intercom, a business messaging tool that enables companies to communicate directly with customers in an online context, announced today that it has hired former Intuit SVP Karen Peacock as company COO. She joined the company May 30th, but they are making the news public for the first time today. Peacock comes with an impressive resume that starts with a BA from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford. Read More
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Blue Apron significantly lowers its valuation with slashed IPO pricing
Blue Apron — the next big consumer IPO for 2017 — isn’t looking as good as it was just a few weeks ago. The company said in an updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it would cut its IPO price range target. Read More
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Waymo’s self-driving van hits the desert to see if it can stand the heat
Testing self-driving cars in California is like playing a video game on the “easy” setting, because it’s nice all the time and basically temperate year-round. Autonomous vehicles face significant challenges when it comes to more extreme weather conditions, which are a standard part of certifying any current cars for legal road-ready status. Waymo, Alphabet’s… Read More
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Snapchat now lets you create custom geofilters right in the app
Snapchat introduced a way to create custom geofilters back in February of last year, and now it’s making the feature easier to use. U.S. Snapchat users can now create and submit custom filters directly in the app, rather than having to go to the studio website to make their custom filter. The mobile creative studio is now located in settings, under a menu item called “On-Demand… Read More
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Tablo’s new Android TV app turns the Nvidia Shield into a cord-cutter’s DVR
On the heels of launching its next-gen DVR for cord cutters who want to record TV over-the-air from a digital antenna, the maker of the Tablo DVR is today releasing a new app for Android TV owners, for recording live TV without the need for additional DVR hardware. The app, Tablo Engine, initially works with the Nvidia Shield. Of course, you’ll still need an HDTV antenna in order to… Read More
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LiveLike will now let you watch sports with your Facebook friends in VR
LiveLike, the service that partners with sports broadcasters to create and host their VR viewing experiences, is going social. LiveLike’s VR experience is a “virtual suite” overlooking the field, where you can select different camera angles, look around the suite, view pre-produced content, etc. And now you’ll be able to do this with friends. Read More
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Watch the trailer for Penny Arcade’s live action Automata sci-fi noir series
If you follow long-running video game focused comic series Penny Arcade, then you’re probably aware that they occasionally take breaks from the regular strip to create mini-series. One of those is Automata, a sci-fi film noir detective story about a hardboiled human sleuth and his robot partner. Penny Arcade ran a Kickstarter to fund the creation of a live action series based on the… Read More
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Amazon disputes claims that Echo Show’s Drop-In feature is a security risk
Drop-In is a strange and mostly ill-advised feature. It’s a way of offering instant communication between Echo devices — essentially a phone call that doesn’t require the receiver to pick up in order to initiate. Hence, “dropping in.” Amazon introduced it with the new Show and is rolling it out to older Echo devices as a way of facilitating the new intercom feature… Read More
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Tinder’s new subscription, Tinder Gold, lets you see who already likes you
Tinder this morning announced it will begin testing a new service called Tinder Gold in select markets, aimed at increasing the number of paying users for its popular dating app. With Tinder Gold, which will be an upgrade available to both existing Tinder Plus subscribers as well as free users, users will have a direct way to see all those who have already swiped right on their profile, through… Read More
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As Egnyte turns 10, it moves into data protection
Egnyte had a big milestone last week. It turned 10 years old, which is a pretty big deal for a startup. The company has survived and even thrived, but as it moves into its second decade, it recognizes that it can’t live on file sync and share alone, and today it announced the general availability of a new product called Egnyte Protect. The product was introduced in Beta last year, but… Read More
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Citus Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Health Care
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Group K Diagnostics
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Health Diagnostics
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Marmo Health
- $50K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Health Care
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LGD
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
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Elimu Digital Media
- $100K Grant
- HQ: Not available
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Liveplay
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: Media and Entertainment
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Teens Do Good
- $1K Grant
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Social Innovation
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Cylera
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Cyber Security
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AmoebaX Ltd.
- Not available Seed
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AIMO
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
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HoloEyes
- 150M JPY Series A
- HQ: Not available
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Acquired.io
- $2.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Developer Platform, Management Information Systems, Mobile Apps
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Tine Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Health Care, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Augmented Reality
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iKentoo SA
- 5.0M CHF Private Equity
- HQ: Genève, Geneve
- Categories: Point of Sale, Payments, Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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Flashnode
- 2.0M EUR Venture
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: Information Technology, Data Integration
- Investors: Not available
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Humm.ly
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Alternative Medicine, Wellness, Health Care, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Minka
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Bogotá, Distrito Especial
- Categories: FinTech, Venture Capital
- Investors: Not available
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Intrinio
- $1.0M Angel
- HQ: Saint Petersburg, Florida
- Categories: FinTech, Developer APIs, Finance, Analytics
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Rubique
- $3.0M Venture
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: Financial Services
- Investors: Not available
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Xcalar
- $21M Series A
- HQ: San Jose, California
- Categories: Software, Information Technology, Big Data, Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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Poster House
- $60K Private Equity
- HQ: Not available
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Someonew
- $50K Convertible Note
- HQ: Not available
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Dochase Ads
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Lagos, Lagos
- Categories: Mobile Advertising, Social Media Advertising, Local Advertising, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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NuEyes
- Not available Round
- HQ: Newport Beach, California
- Categories: Augmented Reality, Medical, Eyewear
- Investors: Not available
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