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Strava launches posts to bring athletes back for everything else beyond their workouts
When you walk upstairs at the Strava offices over on Third Street in San Francisco, you’ll find boards as tall as your typical human. They’re covered with images — screenshots of Instagram posts, comments and a whole lot of paper cutouts of other social networks printed onto little sheets — and they served as the launchpad for Strava’s latest product as it tries… Read More
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Unpacking the late-stage funding round at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin
TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin this December is a chance for the European tech scene to take stock and assess the biggest trends affecting the industry. One of those trends is that European startups are raising later and later rounds while staying in Europe. Three of the best examples of this is Skimlinks, MOVE Guides and Talent Clue. All three have raised large, late-stage rounds from their… Read More
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BridgeU raises $5.3m to close the gap between education and industry needs
Students deciding on their next phase in higher education face a daunting choice and a array of options. Most schools have zero capability to deal with sifting 40,000 undergraduate courses in the UK, alone. Why not apply big data to the problem and create an ‘adaptive learning platform’ which actually helps students make these crucial decision, based on real data. That’s… Read More
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Docker gives into inevitable and offers native Kubernetes support
When it comes to container orchestration, it seems clear that Kubernetes, the open source tool developed by Google, has won the battle for operations’ hearts and minds. It therefore shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention that Docker announced native support for Kubernetes today at DockerCon Europe in Copenhagen. The company hasn’t given… Read More
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Spotahome raises €13.6M to let you view and book mid to long-term accommodation online
Spotahome, a Madrid-based startup that lets you view and book mid to long-term accommodation online, has closed €13.6 million in Series A backing. This brings the total raised to €20.7 million since the ‘proptech’ company was founded in 2014. Read More
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Google Maps ditches automatic calorie estimates after users say it’s not helpful and even potentially harmful
Google Maps will remove a widely criticized experimental iOS feature that estimated how many calories its users could potentially burn by walking a route. A Google rep told TechCrunch that the decision was “based on strong user feedback” and the calorie estimator will no longer appear in Google Maps for iOS starting this evening. Read More
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Uber-SoftBank deal “very likely” to be finalized in the next week
The Uber-SoftBank deal is almost done, said Arianna Huffington on stage at WSJ D.Live in Laguna Beach on Monday. When pressed whether SoftBank’s multi-billion dollar investment in Uber could be finalized within the week, the Uber board member replied that it’s “very likely.” She confirmed media reports that the proposed deal would involve both a direct investment in… Read More
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Crunch Report | TBH, Facebook Bought TBH So Snap Couldn’t
Facebook acquires tbh, the Samsung connected tag, Terminal offers international-office-as-a-service and IBM now has its own blockchain solution. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Opternative sues Warby Parker for allegedly stealing its online eye exam
Eyewear e-commerce giant Warby Parker is accused of signing partnership contracts and NDAs with online eyeglass prescription test startup Opternative, then stealing the technology to launch its own competing “Prescription Check” feature. That’s according to a legal complaint filed by Opternative last month that was unsealed today as the lawsuit unfolds. Read More
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Indiegogo is now an e-tailer, too
Indiegogo, the nine-year-old, crowdfunding site, is changing things up, it announced today. Not only can startups now raise money through the site, but in what seems like a natural evolution, they can now sell what they make once their goods are in production. In what seems a bigger twist, the San Francisco-based company will also now sell other items, too, opening its new platform —… Read More
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Upload exec tasked with turning things around at the troubled VR startup has already quit
The executive tasked with building back community trust in Upload, the VR startup shaken by a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee earlier this summer, has quit less than six weeks after officially announcing she had joined the team as COO, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. Anne Ahola Ward joined as COO of Upload, which runs co-working spaces in its LA and SF offices as well as… Read More
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Mapping the blockchain project ecosystem
It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees without a comprehensive view of what the proverbial forest looks like. As a result, here’s a compiled a list of all of the decentralized blockchain-based projects that I have been following, and was able to dig up through research, along with recommendations from friends in the ecosystem. Read More
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Netflix’s original content costs are ballooning
Netflix today once again showed that its subscriber growth is on a tear — especially its growth internationally — but a note in the report may indicate one of the biggest challenges the company faces going forward. Netflix took home 20 Emmy awards this year, and that’s thanks to its enormous investments in original content. Shows like “Stranger Things,”… Read More
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Alphabet’s Project Wing now delivers burritos by drone in southeastern Australia
It’s been a while since we last heard from Project Wing, X’s moonshot drone delivery project. But after a few fallow months, the team posted an update today and it looks like the project has made quite some progress. Alphabet’s X unit is now testing the Project Wing drones in southeastern Australia, where its flying machines are making deliveries right to its… Read More
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Netflix crushes its own expectations for subscription growth again
Netflix is still on its rounded-up-to-pretty-great run as it continues to add more and more subscribers, and once again is outstripping its own estimates for growth. Today the company said it added 5.3 million new total subscribers, with 850,000 coming in the U.S. and 4.45 million coming from international markets. Netflix is spending very aggressively on original content, and so far it looks… Read More
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Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run
Facebook wants tbh to be its next Instagram. Today, Facebook announced it’s acquiring positivity-focused polling startup tbh and will allow it to operate somewhat independently with its own brand. Read More
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Silenced by ‘free speech’
There’s a fundamental incongruency between being pro ‘free speech’ and operating a global social network for civil public discussion. Twitter is struggling with it. Facebook is struggling with it, too. And it can’t be solved by a little more transparency or by hoping average citizens will do the right thing. The principle of free speech on which the United States… Read More
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The end of oversharing
The early 2000s were the era of user-generated content. Companies like Associated Content and Shareasale rewarded content producers richly – one friend of mine made millions on YouTube in 2004 because he was one of the few serial content producers on the platform. The future was going to be broadcast in all of its gritty glory. Bloggers would win forever and ever. The voices of the… Read More
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Airbnb eyes expansion with affiliate program for sites with 1M+ users, new API
While Expedia and Priceline roll out ways to encroach on Airbnb’s space with their own private home listings for travellers, the $31 billion venture-backed Airbnb is also looking at new ways to boost its own traffic and bookings. Airbnb is now rolling out a new call for affiliate partners, where high-traffic sites with over 1 million visitors can embed Airbnb property listings and… Read More
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Washington University in St. Louis
- $3.7M Grant
- HQ: St Louis, Missouri
- Categories: education
- Investors: National Institutes of Health
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Digital Asset
- $40M
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: finance, fintech, financial services, risk management
- Investors: Jefferson River Capital
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Pluto TV
- $5.0M
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: internet, media and entertainment, video
- Investors: Samsung Ventures
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Appear Here
- 10M GBP
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: commercial real estate, fashion, retail, shopping, brand marketing, real ... See More
- Investors: Fifth Wall
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LimeBike
- $50M
- HQ: San Mateo, California
- Categories: internet of things, transportation, ride sharing, mobile apps
- Investors: DCM Ventures, Coatue Management, Durant Company, GGV Capital, Section 32, ... See More
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WIFIPLUG
- Not available
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: consumer electronics, manufacturing, internet of things, smart home, ios ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Chope Group
- 18M SGD
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: restaurants, hospitality, reservations, internet
- Investors: Moelis Australia Asset Management, C31Ventures, Susquehanna International ... See More
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Match2One
- 20M SEK
- HQ: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan
- Categories: machine learning, digital media, small and medium businesses, advertising ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Gushcloud
- $3.0M
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: internet, advertising, mobile
- Investors: YG Entertainment
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Abeona Therapeutics
- $14M Grant
- HQ: Cleveland, Ohio
- Categories: health care, genetics, biotechnology, wireless, medical device
- Investors: Not available
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VersaPay
- $11M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Vancouver, British Columbia
- Categories: payments, service industry, enterprise software
- Investors: Not available
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BridgeU
- $5.3M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: machine learning, education, edtech, saas, analytics, big data, enterprise ... See More
- Investors: Fresco Capital, Octopus Ventures, Downing Ventures
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Janasense
- 177K EUR Debt Financing
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: health care, internet of things, artificial intelligence, apps, smart home ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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LevelTen Energy
- $6.8M
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Element 8, Techstars Ventures, Prelude Ventures, LLC, Avista, ... See More
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KrazyBee
- $8.0M
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: financial services, fintech, e-commerce
- Investors: E City Ventures, RK Ventures Group, Shunwei Capital, Xiaomi
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NimbeLink
- $1.2M
- HQ: Plymouth, Minnesota
- Categories: embedded systems, software
- Investors: Not available
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eROCKIT
- Not available Round
- HQ: Berlin, Berlin
- Categories: battery, automotive, transportation, e-commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Collectly
- $1.9M Round
- HQ: Walnut Creek, California
- Categories: apps, debt collections, financial services
- Investors: Pulsar Venture Capital
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BikesBooking.com
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Dublin, Dublin
- Categories: tourism, transportation, leisure, e-commerce, travel
- Investors: Enterprise Ireland
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CASI Pharmaceuticals
- $2.4M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Rockville, Maryland
- Categories: health care, medical, pharmaceutical
- Investors: Not available
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RenewBuy
- 600M INR
- HQ: Gurgaon, Haryana
- Categories: auto insurance, insurance, financial services, internet
- Investors: Amicus Capital
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CoinLoan
- Not available ICO
- HQ: Tallinn, Harjumaa
- Categories: fintech, finance, cryptocurrency, lending
- Investors: Not available
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Tatcha
- Not available Private Equity
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: beauty, retail, e-commerce
- Investors: Castanea
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Firefly Media
- $262K
- HQ: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Categories: social news, news, marketing
- Investors: Not available
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BELL RESOURCES
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Sydney, New South Wales
- Categories: mining, wind energy, oil and gas, solar, renewable energy
- Investors: Not available
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Welcome Pickups
- 1.6M EUR Seed
- HQ: Athens, Attiki
- Categories: transportation, travel, e-commerce
- Investors: Openfund, VentureFriends
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Kalahari Biltong
- Not available
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: AccelFoods
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Hkpickup Limited
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
- Categories: retail technology, logistics, e-commerce, supply chain management
- Investors: Axis Capital Partners
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TreasuryXpress
- $5.0M
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: software
- Investors: Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), Azure Capital Partners, iSME Capital ... See More
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Sankalp Semiconductors
- $5.0M
- HQ: Hubli, Karnataka
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Stakeboat Capital
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