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Inkitt, a ‘reader powered’ book publisher, raises $3.9M to discover the next best-selling author
Inkitt, which bills itself as “the world’s first reader-powered book publisher,” has raised $3.9 million in pre-series A funding, in a round led by Redalpine, with Frontline Ventures, Speedinvest and a number of private investors also participating. The Berlin-based startup is part writing and reading community, and part publishing house, with one aspect feeding the other. Read More
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Photo marketplace Picfair raises £1.5M, aims to ‘weaponise’ photographers
Picfair, the London-based photo marketplace founded by ex-journalist Benji Lanyado, has raised £1.5 million in new funding — capital it plans to use to market its “fair trade photography” proposition to the plethora of companies that need authentic photo content. Read More
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Backed by Accel, GlowRoad helps Indian women build home businesses
Indian e-commerce company GlowRoad is built on a simple premise. By connecting manufacturers with resellers and using drop shipping, it keeps everyone’s overhead costs low. The Bangalore-based startup, however, doesn’t just aspire to be an online reseller network. Founded by a former physician, GlowRoad’s goal is to give housewives and stay-at-home mothers a low-risk way to… Read More
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TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Australia joined by leading Aussie names
As you’ve probably gathered TechCrunch is headed to Australia to find the most disruptive early-stage startups, in partnership with ELEVACAO. As we like to say these days, ‘all roads lead to Disrupt’ and our focus now is to reach out internationally to find the best startups for our Disrupt stages, from all around the world. TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Australia is… Read More
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Report: Jared Kushner used a private email server for White House work
President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and official White House adviser, Jared Kushner, used a private email server — set up after the election — to conduct White House business, according to a new report in Politico. Kushner used the private account in tandem with his official White House email account to correspond with current and former senior White House officials… Read More
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SAP is buying identity management firm Gigya for $350M
SAP, the German enterprise software giant, today announced an acquisition to strengthen its hybris e-commerce division. It has acquired Gigya, a firm that helps online properties manage customer identities and profiles. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed officially, but our sources tell us it is for $350 million. This was the same figure that was reported yesterday when the news leaked… Read More
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Crunch Network
The cambrian moment in our innovation economy
According to Re-Imagine group chairman and serial tech entrepreneur Peter Hirshberg, we are at a decisive moment in our innovation economy. Silicon Valley – or, at least, the “ethos of Silicon Valley” – is spreading all over America, Hirshberg insists. And Silicon Valley is reinventing what he calls “secondary” places like Youngstown, Ohio or… Read More
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The Startup Alley from this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco
At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco we always have a huge and varied array of companies presenting. Here’s a taster of the Startup Alley from this year, featuring companies from many of the pavilions at the event. Enjoy! Health and BioTech Pavillion Korea Pavillion Germany Pavilion Hardware Pavillion IOT Pavilion UK and Brussels Pavilion AR/VR Pavillion Read More
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Crunch Network
The new electronic police state
Although the Fourth Amendment protects us and our “effects” from “unreasonable searches and seizures,” Customs and Border Protection agents can take advantage of an exception to this constitutional protection and search our electronic devices at airports without first establishing reasonable suspicion or securing a warrant. It’s a problem that’s only… Read More
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The abyss of analytics
I want to talk about a mistake I see client after client making. (I work at a tech consultancy. We have a lot of clients. Not all of them make this mistake! …But many do.) That mistake is to obsess over analytics data, without any strategy; to assume that all that needs to be done is to gather as much data as possible, and then this data will magically become knowledge, and knowledge… Read More
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Crunch Network
How to announce a funding round
Attracting investment is a milestone for any startup – it’s a vote of confidence from a respected outside expert in your space and a signal that your company is positioned for the future, which is important to prospective partners and customers, as well as future investors. Beyond that, new funding can also increase your visibility, attracting the attention of top talent and… Read More
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Crunch Network
Five billion-dollar businesses for the driverless future
Massive opportunities in urban transportation are emerging as the industry transitions from per-vehicle to per-mile economics Growing up, I dreamed of owning cars I would be proud to wax, polish, and cruise around my neighborhood. Today, I dread the prospect of being weighed down by a rapidly depreciating hunk of plastic and metal. Now all I want is a pleasant transportation… Read More
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Automakers accelerate their interest in startups
It’s no secret that automakers have shown more interest in startups lately. Nor is it any secret what’s driving that surge, given the massive shifts the industry faces from the rise of electric cars, autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing services and other emerging technologies and transportation business models. We set out to quantify combined investment by automakers in startups… Read More
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Southeast Asia games firm Sea, formerly Garena, files for $1 billion US IPO
Southeast Asia-based games and e-commerce firm Sea, formerly known as Garena, has officially filed for its much-anticipated U.S. IPO. The company, which is valued at over $3.75 billion, will list on the New York Stock Exchange as ‘SE’ and is looking to raise $1 billion. Sea is best known for its Garena gaming business, which predominantly focuses on PC games but also includes… Read More
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Beats Studio 3 bring premium noise canceling and battery life at a premium price
Beats had a handful of different sounds on hand to test the Studio 3 ahead of launch. The demo was designed to showcase the range of the headphones’ new adaptive noise-canceling technology — but there’s only so much you can get from a demo in that kind of controlled environment. Read More
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This news-reading AI could scan for police shootings nationwide
Ask how many people have been killed in the last couple decades by police officers, and results vary widely. Local and federal authorities may track them differently, likewise activist and research groups. One project hopes to keep better tabs on police-related fatalities by having an AI system extract them from news reports nationwide. Read More
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Don’t wait for the Apple Watch to dole out medical advice anytime soon
Could the Food and Drug Administration classify the Apple Watch as a medical device? It’s a question many have asked over the past couple of years, but the stakes are now higher for the Watch with its newfound ability to detect atrial fibrillation, or an irregular heart rhythm. Already, Apple is rumored to be working on an Apple Watch sensor that would detect and monitor glucose… Read More
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Dispatches on diversity: Uber, sexual harassment and venture capital
Racism. Sexism. Discrimination. Harassment. Those words often come up in questions pertaining to the state of diversity in Silicon Valley. Read More
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Twitter is testing a Twitter Lite Android app, first in the Philippines
Twitter today has nearly four times as many monthly active users outside the U.S. as it does in its home market — 260 million versus 68 million — and this week it quietly launched a new app in an effort to boost those numbers further. The social network is testing a Android app for Twitter Lite, a native app version of a mobile web site Twitter launched earlier this year that… Read More
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Prosper
- $50M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: personal finance, finance, fintech, lending, crowdfunding
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Deliveroo
- $385M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: food and beverage, delivery, restaurants, marketing
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RateSetter
- $10M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: financial services, fintech, peer to peer, lending
- Investors: Not available
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Stafory
- Not available
- HQ: Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg City
- Categories: recruiting, staffing agency, artificial intelligence, professional ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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DITTO.com
- $1.0M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: augmented reality, e-commerce, eyewear
- Investors: Not available
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Rimac Automobili
- 30M EUR
- HQ: Sveta Nedelja, Zagrebacka
- Categories: automotive, transportation, software, hardware
- Investors: Not available
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Ace Turtle
- Not available
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: retail technology, internet, e-commerce
- Investors: Not available
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iHear Medical
- $2.3M
- HQ: San Leandro, California
- Categories: health care
- Investors: Not available
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Jayride
- $8.0M
- HQ: Sydney, New South Wales
- Categories: travel, transportation, e-commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Meetingpackage.com
- 1.2M EUR
- HQ: Espoo, Southern Finland
- Categories: marketplace, e-commerce, hospitality
- Investors: Not available
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Dropsource (Queue Software Inc.)
- $5.3M
- HQ: Raleigh, North Carolina
- Categories: apps, mobile apps, web development, software
- Investors: Not available
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The Curious AI Company
- $3.7M
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: artificial intelligence, machine learning
- Investors: Not available
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ED Band, Inc.
- Not available
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: health care, medical device, medical
- Investors: Not available
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EquitySim
- $3.1M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: simulation, machine learning, recruiting
- Investors: Not available
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HelloGold
- Not available
- HQ: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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DispatchHealth
- $31M
- HQ: Denver, Colorado
- Categories: medical, health care
- Investors: Not available
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Surterra Holdings Inc.
- $3.0M
- HQ: Atlanta, Georgia
- Categories: marijuana, wellness, therapeutics
- Investors: Not available
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BetterTradeOff
- 2.0M SGD
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: fintech
- Investors: Not available
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Mondo
- 1.0M GBP
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: digital marketing, marketing, information technology
- Investors: Not available
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FEops
- 6.0M EUR
- HQ: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen
- Categories: simulation
- Investors: Not available
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Manifold.co
- 18M CAD
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: cloud computing, internet, developer tools
- Investors: Not available
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Kopano
- Not available
- HQ: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa
- Categories: Not available
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Early Birds
- 5.0M EUR
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: internet
- Investors: Not available
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Synup
- $6.0M
- HQ: Wilmington, Delaware
- Categories: software
- Investors: Not available
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advisorhunter.com
- Not available
- HQ: Fremont, California
- Categories: home renovation, home improvement, web design
- Investors: Not available
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Apiax
- $1.5M
- HQ: Zürich, Zurich
- Categories: legal
- Investors: Not available
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Ever AI
- $16M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: artificial intelligence
- Investors: Not available
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ProAxion
- $500K
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Tachyon Oil and Gas
- Not available
- HQ: Not available
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oDoc
- $1.0M
- HQ: Colombo, Western
- Categories: information technology
- Investors: Not available
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