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Outschool goes to Sesame Street and picks up $1.4 million for its K-12 online learning marketplace
Now kids can potentially take a class to find out how to get to Sesame Street, thanks to a fresh $1.4 million in new funding for Outschool and its online learning marketplace from Sesame Street’s venture partnership with Collaborative Fund. Outschool, which graduated from the 2016 Winter batch of YCombinator, has pivoted a bit from its original pitch as a go-to shop for homeschooled kids… Read More
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LinkedIn’s head of China is leaving the company
LinkedIn’s head of China, a key figure in the launch of its business in the country in 2014, is leaving at the end of the month, the company has confirmed. Derek Shen, LinkedIn President of China who led the company’s controversial entry into China, will leave at the end of this month, according to a spokesperson. There’s no immediate replacement but head of international… Read More
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Company builder Entrepreneur First hires ex-Yahoo and Googler as new London head
EF is announcing a “strengthening and restructuring” of its leadership team as it focuses on scaling its programmes in London and Singapore. Read More
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Startup veteran founder/investor Wendy Tan White joins BGF Ventures
If there are some noticeable gaps in the European venture scene it’s these. The first is there is still a small number of European entrepreneurs who have built products and scaled and exited and then went on to become investors, relative to the size of the market. The second is the dearth of VCs genuinely obsessed with product over “the growth numbers” as they are in… Read More
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Reverso now lets you translate words using your voice
Dictionary app Reverso is getting a major update with a focus on voice features. In particular, you can now say a phrase to translate it. This might be particularly useful if you can’t spell a word or when you don’t know anything about a language and you can ask the other person to repeat a phrase to get a translation. Conversely, when you press the tiny speaker icon, the… Read More
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Jeff Bezos says Amazon will ‘keep investing’ in India as rivals raise new war chests
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has pledged to continue to invest in India as it bids to keep pace with rivals in the country that have landed large investments from big name backers. SoftBank and Alibaba have pumped close to $2 billion into Paytm lately while India’s original online retailer, Flipkart, won the backing of prestigious trio Microsoft, eBay and China’s Tencent via a recent… Read More
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A new wireless tower network grows in Africa as YC alum Tizeti raises $2.1 million
Wireless networking may be getting a high speed boost across Nigeria as YCombinator alumnus Tizeti looks to expand in the region. The company has raised $2.1 million in new financing from a slew of African and American venture firms to continue its expansion through Lagos and across Southern Nigeria. Alphabet may have scrapped its ambitious project to wire Africa (and the globe) with visions… Read More
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2-4-1 Disrupt Berlin tickets released this Thursday
Alright European startup fans, we’ve got quite the deal for you — we’ll soon be releasing a batch of 50 Disrupt Berlin 2017 tickets at the deeply discounted rate of two for the price of one. Yes, you read that right. This event is best described as the hottest startup show in Europe — you’re definitely not going to want to miss it. Read More
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Recapping the first TechCrunch China event in Shenzhen
Last week we hosted our first TechCrunch China event in Shenzhen, the hardware capital of the world. We were delighted to welcome thousands of attendees to the event, which included a host of top tech industry names, exciting up-and-coming startups, investors, students, hackers and much, much more. For those of you who didn’t make it, here’s a recap of what went down at the… Read More
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Starling Bank passports to Europe, first stop Ireland
London-based Starling Bank is continuing to gather momentum. After a staggered launch of its current account kicked off in March, the digital-only bank is announcing imminent expansion to Europe, starting with the Republic of Ireland where it has attained a so-called “banking passport”. Read More
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Yoyo Wallet raises £12M Series B led by Metro Group to expand in Europe
The race to digitise the loyalty card just got a shot in the arm with the news that Yoyo Wallet, the European-based mobile payment and customer loyalty platform, has raised a £12 million Series B round, led by the US wholesale and food retail giant Metro Group. The round is joined by the UK-based Woodford Investment Management and Touchstone Innovations. The deal is subject to FCA… Read More
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Pandora co-founder and CEO Tim Westergren will step down according to reports
Pandora’s chief executive and co-founder Tim Westergren intends to hand over the reins at the company, according to a report in Recode citing people familiar with the company’s plans. Read More
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Binary Capital co-founder Justin Caldbeck quits as Matt Mazzeo steps away from the firm
Justin Caldbeck, the co-founder of Binary Capital, and Matt Mazzeo, the firm’s newest partner, have both resigned from the venture firm, according to a statement from the firm’s remaining co-founder Jonathan Teo. The statement confirms reporting earlier in the evening on Sunday from Axios and comes as the investment firm struggles to remove the stain of allegations of sexual… Read More
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The “last mile” in education and training
After graduating from college in 1994, I spent a few years at McKinsey & Co. – a young kid in an ill-fitting suit naively but energetically attempting to convince experienced and jaded managers to do their jobs differently. One question that kept coming up for a number of clients was who was likely to win the war to bring broadband access to homes: telephone companies or cable companies. Read More
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Update: As Yahoo’s partnership with AT&T unwinds, users need to switch email addresses
As part of the new corporate merger of Yahoo and Aol under the Oath brand, it looks like Yahoo accounts will no longer be accessible through AT&T email addresses (or those of any A&T subsidiaries). Read More
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At this month’s WWDC, Apple unveiled refined accessibility tools
Cover Apple for a while and you start to notice a general cadence to the company’s behavior and strategy. To name one example, consider the last several macOS releases. In 2009, , Apple announced Snow Leopard, which famously eschewed new features for what the company described as “hundreds of refinements [and] new core technologies.” Snow Leopard subsequently set off a trend… Read More
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Transport’s coming upheaval
Technology is continuously reshaping our relationship with travel, and that change is accelerating to another inflection point. Advances in transportation technology reshape our lives and cities, and how and where we all settle. And American history guides us on what’s to come. Read More
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SpaceX successfully launches and recovers second Falcon 9 in 48 hours
SpaceX has succeeded in launching another Falcon 9 into space, this time for client Iridium, a global satellite telecommunications provider. The Iridium-2 mission on Sunday saw a Falcon 9 take off from SpaceX’s Vandenberg Air Force base in California, with a payload of 10 satellites destined to become part of Iridium’s NEXT constellation, which will comprise 75 satellites in total… Read More
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Zapp Inc.
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Group K Diagnostics
- Not available Seed
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- Categories: Health Diagnostics
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Citus Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Health Care
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Cylera
- $50K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Cyber Security
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Marmo Health
- $50K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Health Care
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LGD
- Not available Series A
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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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AmoebaX Ltd.
- Not available Seed
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AIMO
- Not available Seed
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Zegami
- $4.0M Seed
- HQ: Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Categories: Data Center, Database, Data Visualization
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eLum Technologies
- $3.5M Round
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QUANTTA ANALYTICS
- Not available Seed
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BitStar
- 300M JPY Series B
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Acudeen Technologies Inc.
- $6.0M Venture
- HQ: Makati, Manila
- Categories: Financial Services, Service Industry, Small and Medium Businesses
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Hug Innovations Corp
- 330M INR Series A
- HQ: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
- Categories: Service Industry, Social Innovation, Innovation Management
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Triaxa DeQ
- $200K Seed
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Falcon Therapeutics
- $700K Venture
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Therapeutics
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Valuer
- Not available Angel
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Westwell Lab
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
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Algorithmia
- $10M Series A
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Software
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Yoyo Wallet
- 12M GBP Series B
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Mobile, Mobile Payments, FinTech, Retail, Loyalty Programs
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Tradee SAS
- 1.0M EUR Seed
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Shopping, Mobile Apps, Marketplace
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fintonic
- 25M EUR Venture
- HQ: Madrid, Madrid
- Categories: Personal Finance, Mobile, Consumer Lending, Finance, FinTech, Big Data, ... See More
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OneAssist
- $18M Series C
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: Security, Financial Services, SaaS
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Neoway
- $45M Series B
- HQ: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
- Categories: Information Technology, Big Data, Information Services
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hosco
- 6.4M EUR Series A
- HQ: Geneva, Geneve
- Categories: Recruiting, College Recruiting, Hospitality
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Voodoo Manufacturing
- $5.0M Seed
- HQ: Brooklyn, New York
- Categories: Manufacturing, 3D Printing
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Noble Group
- Not available Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
- Categories: Industrial, Transportation, Supply Chain Management, Energy
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GenSight Biologics
- 22M EUR Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical, Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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