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Led by Stellar cofounder Joyce Kim, SparkChain Capital is a new $100M fund for blockchain and cryptocurrency startups
Over the past 18 months, investments in blockchain startups tackling a variety of problems have climbed. SparkChain Capital, a new $100 million early-stage fund launched by SparkLabs Group, wants to contribute by backing blockchain and cryptocurrency-related companies that are solving real-world issues. Read More
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Relativity Space wants to launch rockets for 90% less with 3D printing
A new startup called Relativity Space founded by two aerospace engineers wants to use massive 3D printers to produce rockets without humans required on the factory floor, with the ultimate aim of driving the price of rocket launches down from their current rate of around $100 million to just about $10 million per launch. Bloomberg reports that Relativity’s founders think using 3D printing… Read More
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Cisco’s buying machine learning startup Perspica and folding team into AppDynamics
Cisco announced today that it intends to acquire Perspica, a machine learning-driven operations analytics firm that has raised $8.5 million. Cisco intends to fold Perspica’s team into AppDynamics, the company it purchased earlier this year for $3.7 billion. Cisco did not share the Perspica purchase price. All of these machinations have a purpose. Cisco is of course at its heart a… Read More
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The canaries in a coal mine
I’ve seen startups come and go over the years and I was particularly interested to see what happened to August Smart locks today. The company originally tapped Yves Behar to make a better smart lock, one that would meld with the sensitivities of a certain kind of smart home stylist with the high-concept, high-tech design of the Nest thermostat. The products, while beautiful, were unusable… Read More
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Elon Musk’s Boring company readies its second, poetic tunnel digger
The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s third or fourth company (who can keep track) is nearly ready to double its tunnel digging capacity: The venture’s second boring machine is “almost ready” according to Musk, and it’ll be named ‘Line-Storm,’ borrowing its name from a poem by Robert Frost. Maybe this is what Steve Jobs really always meant when he talked… Read More
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Feather raises $3.5M to rent furniture to millennials
The furniture rental industry is stuck in the last. Current options involve old-school companies like CORT where most of the inventory will make your apartment look like a dorm room, or a place like Rent-A-Center where you’ll almost certainly pay many times what the item is actually worth. Enter Feather, a company trying to breathe some life into the aging industry by letting… Read More
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Swedish lock giant Assa Abloy acquires smart lock maker August Home
The smart home market continues to heat up, and the legacy giants do not want to get locked out: quite literally. This morning, Assa Abloy, the $23 billion Swedish lock giant that owns Yale and many other brands — announced that it is buying US-based smart lock maker August Home to double down on new technology. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed but we have asked both August… Read More
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London-based on-demand delivery startup Jinn shutters
Jinn, the London-based startup that offers a same-hour ‘shop on your behalf’ delivery app that operates quite similarly to Postmates in the U.S., has shut down, with the company in the process of going into administration. Read More
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Hiya, a Whitepages spinout, nabs $18M to for its smart caller ID technology
Hiya came to life a year ago when it was spun out by Whitepages to take on TrueCaller and others in the world of smart caller ID services. Using machine learning analytics on a vast database of calling data (3.5 billion calls to date), Seattle-based Hiya’s mission has been to supercharge the humble phone call — by providing detailed information about who is calling you, whether… Read More
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European house removals platform Movinga raises up to another €22M
Movinga, the European platform for house removals that was seemingly written off last year, continues to perform what appears to be an impressive turn around. The Berlin-headquartered startup has closed a new funding round of up to €22 million led by Santo Venture Capital, the venture arm of the Strüngmann family office, with participation from existing backers Earlybird Venture Capital… Read More
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Safaricom launches innovation center to move beyond M-Pesa
Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecom company and provider of the nation’s mobile money service, M-Pesa, has launched a new innovation center in Nairobi. Named Safaricom Alpha, a priority of the incubator is to identify spending patterns on mPesa and turn those insights into additional Safaricom products — according to Chief Innovation Officer, Kamal… Read More
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Tony Fadell’s newest product? An investing and advisory firm called Future Shape
Tony Fadell is starting yet a new chapter. Fifteen months after leaving Nest Labs, a maker of digital thermostats and smoke detectors that Fadell cofounded and sold to Google for $3.2 billion in 2014, Fadell is taking the wraps off a new investment and advisory firm that’s working with engineers and scientists called Future Shape. The firm’s site, which appears to have gone live… Read More
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Crunch Report | Snapchat Halloween Costume
Duo Security raises $70 million, a close look at Apple’s self-driving car, Snapchat’s Halloween costume and Abu Dhabi’s state fund is doing business in San Francisco. All this on Crunch Report! Read More
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This ultra-cute tiny PS4 controller is a great option for children and the small-handed
If you like playing console games with the younger generation, you may have come across the issue of their tiny hands being unable to perform certain combos, reach certain buttons easily, and so on. While this makes them satisfying opponents, it might be better if they had a controller more suited to their physiology. Well, good thing there is one! Read More
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MongoDB prices its IPO at $24 per share
MongoDB has finished up what is essentially the final step in going public, pricing its IPO at $24 and raising $192 million in the process. The company will debut on the public markets tomorrow and will once again test the waters for companies that are looking to build full-fledged businesses on the back of open-sourced software. MongoDB provides open-sourced database software that can be… Read More
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Truffle now lets you share your food tips via iMessage
While you’ve already got Yelp and other apps to help you figure out where to eat, Truffle is designed specifically for sharing recommendations with friends and other people you know. A new update should make that sharing even easier. The big addition is an iMessage app, which means (you guessed it) that Truffle is now integrated with iMessage. Read More
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Coursera’s chief product officer just left to become a VC
Tom Willerer, who has spent the last four years with the online education company Coursera — the last two as its chief product officer — is moving on from the outfit to become a venture capitalist. Specifically, Willerer is joining Venrock, a venture firm founded nearly 50 years ago to build off the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller family. Read More
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Blue Apron is laying off hundreds of employees
As Blue Apron approaches its next earnings report in a couple of weeks, the company said Wednesday that it is laying off 6 percent of its staff as part of “a company-wide realignment of personnel to support its strategic priorities.” Blue Apron was one of the big — and most anticipated — consumer IPOs of the year, but it’s also now one of the companies that… Read More
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eBay is having a pretty bad day
eBay is not having a great afternoon after posting a pretty ho-hum third quarter that fit roughly in line with analyst estimates, but perhaps not seeing the kinds of leaps that Wall Street is looking for heading into the fourth quarter. The company said it added an additional 2 million active buyers and now says it has 168 million global active buyers. But even with buyer numbers as large as… Read More
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Myntra
- 500M INR Debt Financing
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: shopping, e-commerce, fashion, internet
- Investors: Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Duo Security
- $70M
- HQ: Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Categories: network security, cyber security, computer, enterprise software, cloud ... See More
- Investors: Redpoint, Meritech Capital Partners, Workday, Lead Edge Capital, True ... See More
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Wattpad
- 50M CAD
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
- Categories: digital media, social media, mobile
- Investors: Tencent Holdings
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Canadian Solar
- $60M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Ontario, California
- Categories: solar, energy, manufacturing
- Investors: Not available
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Meituan-Dianping
- $4.0B Round
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
- Categories: information services, guides, apps, advertising, internet, local business ... See More
- Investors: IDG Capital Partners, Capital Group, Tencent Holdings
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Azure Power
- 2.0B INR Debt Financing
- HQ: New Delhi, Delhi
- Categories: renewable energy, solar, energy
- Investors: International Finance Corporation, PROPARCO, DEG, Helion Venture Partners ... See More
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Automile
- 280M SEK
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: automotive, saas, developer apis, b2b
- Investors: Insight Venture Partners
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NATIVE INSTRUMENTS
- 50M EUR Private Equity
- HQ: Berlin, Berlin
- Categories: musical instruments, music
- Investors: EMH
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Menu Group (UK) Limited
- $3.0M
- HQ: Yerevan, Yerevan
- Categories: e-commerce, hospitality, delivery, delivery service
- Investors: SOL ventures, Hayastan 1, Perea Capital
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BaseHealth
- $8.5M
- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: medical, fitness, health care, genetics, biotechnology
- Investors: HBM Healthcare Investments AG
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EnteroMedics
- $61M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Categories: biotechnology, medical device, therapeutics
- Investors: Not available
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GuiaBolso
- $39M
- HQ: São Paulo, Sao Paulo
- Categories: credit, personal finance, fintech, financial services, consumer lending ... See More
- Investors: QED Investors, Vostok Emerging Finance, Endeavor Catalyst, Omidyar Network ... See More
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WIFIPLUG
- Not available
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: manufacturing, ios, smart home, consumer electronics, internet of things ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Bespoke Post
- $8.0M
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: lifestyle, consumer goods, men's
- Investors: Scout Ventures, KiwiVenture Partners, Walden Venture Capital
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MyRealTrip
- 7.0B KRW
- HQ: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi
- Categories: collaborative consumption, travel
- Investors: Mirae Asset Venture Investment, SmileGate Investment, IMM Investment, IBK ... See More
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Mya Systems
- $18M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: human resources, machine learning, artificial intelligence, recruiting, ... See More
- Investors: Foundation Capital, Emergence Capital Partners
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Global Savings Group
- 9.0M EUR Debt Financing
- HQ: Munich, Bayern
- Categories: e-commerce, service industry, coupons
- Investors: Not available
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Global Savings Group
- 10M EUR
- HQ: Munich, Bayern
- Categories: e-commerce, service industry, coupons
- Investors: Rocket Internet, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, ... See More
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Movinga
- 22M EUR
- HQ: Berlin, Berlin
- Categories: supply chain management, internet, service industry, logistics
- Investors: Santo Venture Capital, Earlybird Venture Capital, Rocket Internet
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ASOCS
- $10M
- HQ: Rosh Ha'ayin, HaMerkaz
- Categories: mobile, telecommunications, virtualization
- Investors: Fornaciari Trust, Taylor Frigon
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Kingo
- Not available Debt Financing
- HQ: Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Categories: renewable energy, solar, energy efficiency
- Investors: Developing World Markets
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FluGen
- $14M Grant
- HQ: Madison, Wisconsin
- Categories: health care, pharmaceutical, biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Janasense
- 177K EUR Debt Financing
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: internet of things, elder care, health care, cloud computing, smart home, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Zinka Logistics
- 500M INR Debt Financing
- HQ: Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Categories: supply chain management, internet, transportation, logistics, information ... See More
- Investors: InnoVen Capital
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LenDen Club
- $500K Seed
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: lending, internet, peer to peer
- Investors: Venture Catalyst
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Douleutaras
- 1.8M EUR
- HQ: Athens, Attiki
- Categories: professional networking
- Investors: VentureFriends, PJ Tech Catalyst, AddVenture
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Bolt Mobility
- 3.3M EUR Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: Delft, Zuid-Holland
- Categories: mobile, automotive
- Investors: Not available
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Appzio
- 450K EUR Convertible Note
- HQ: Sofia, Grad Sofiya
- Categories: android, software, mobile apps, enterprise software, mobile, apps, ... See More
- Investors: UniCredit Bulbank
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Fieldly
- 2.8M SEK
- HQ: Helsingborg, Skane Lan
- Categories: mobile, saas, construction, software
- Investors: Not available
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Hiya
- $18M
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: mobile
- Investors: Lumia Capital, Nautilus Venture Partners, Balderton Capital
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