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Ford’s Chariot shuttles are expanding to New York City
Ford is adding its largest market yet for Chariot, the crowd-sourced shuttle service that it acquired last September. Chariot began operations in San Francisco, where the former startup ran commuter routes of its branded transit vans, and expanded to Austin after that. In August, it’ll begin service in New York City, with two debut routes running from the Lower East Side to Midtown… Read More
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Salesforce claims you can set up customer service in Service Cloud update in less than a day
Salesforce announced an update to its Service Cloud today, which the company says enables non-technical administrators to build a customer service organization with connected services in less than day. That’s a bold claim, even for the marketing department, but the Service Cloud app builder has been built on top of the Salesforce Lightning development platform and designed to drag and… Read More
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Verizon Q2 meets on $0.96 EPS, sales down 2% YOY, plans $1B in ‘synergies’ in Oath
Verizon Communications has been investing in building out new areas of business like media and wireless services to offset declines in legacy products like fixed telephony, and today it released Q2 results that underscored that strategy. Verizon reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.96 (with GAAP EPS of $1.07), and revenues of $30.5 billion, citing growth in wireless customers (which… Read More
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Twitter’s user growth goes nowhere and the stock is collapsing
The small nice-ish story Twitter had going for itself for the past few quarters was that, at the very least, its monthly active users were growing quarter-over-quarter. While MAUs might not be the right number to look at these days, for better or worse it’s one of the core metrics that Twitter is judged on for now — and that didn’t pan out when it reported its earnings today… Read More
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Baidu teams up with PayPal to take its Chinese mobile wallet global
PayPal has continued its strategy of expanding its presence on mobile after it revealed a tie-up with Baidu. The arrangement will allow the Chinese firm’s 100 million mobile wallet users to make payments to PayPal’s 17 million merchants through the Baidu service. The news is the latest in a series of recent partnerships from PayPal, which this month expanded its integration… Read More
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Devialet announces surround sound TV speaker with Sky
French speaker maker Devialet just announced a brand new speaker in partnership with British broadcasting company Sky. The Sky Soundbox is a single speaker designed for your TV. It’s roughly the size of a gaming console and it is supposed to produce surround-like sound. This partnership is something brand new for the French startup. Most people know Devialet for its expensive… Read More
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Callsign pulls in $35M Series A for its adaptive authentication platform
London-based Callsign has closed a $35 million Series A, led by Accel and early stage investor PTB Ventures, for an authentication platform which uses deep learning technology to power adaptive access control for enterprises — saying it can verify a person is who they say they are just from a swipe on a touchscreen. Read More
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Cool Cousin’s social app for travellers raises $2M round, led by Elevator Fund
Imagine if you could go to the profile of a friend of Foursquare and instead of scrolling through the long list of coffee shops they’d checked into in Berlin, you could simply click a button and add all their recommendations to your personal map in one go. That’s essentially the offering of Cool Cousin, an app and web site which is mining one of the last bastions of social media… Read More
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Flipkart is all set to buy rival Snapdeal in major Indian e-commerce consolidation
The long running saga over the future of Indian e-commerce firm Snapdeal may be close to a conclusion at last. The company has been repeatedly link with an acquisition by rival Flipkart, and now a deal worth a touch under $1 billion has been agreed to in principle. That’s according to a report from Reuters which claims the Snapdeal board has signed off on a takeover from Flipkart that… Read More
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Brolly, an ‘AI-driven’ insurance app, raises £1M seed round led by Valar Ventures and Pi Labs
Brolly, a U.K. ‘insurtech’ startup that offers an app to help you manage and purchase various insurance products, has raised £1 million in seed funding. Valar Ventures, the U.S.-based venture fund backed by Peter Thiel, led the round, with Pi Labs co-leading. Entrepreneur First (EF) also participated via the company builder’s £40 million “Next Stage Fund”. Read More
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LG says its flagship G6 smartphone isn’t selling as well as expected
LG’s mobile business is in a sticky patch after the company admitted its flagship LG G6 smartphone hasn’t sold as well as expected. LG Electronics itself posted a business-wide operating income of KRW 664.1 billion (USD 588.2 million) on overall revenue KRW 14.55 trillion (USD 12.89 billion). While LG’s operating income rose by 14 percent year-on-year to outpace a four… Read More
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WeWork launches dedicated China business backed by $500M from investors
WeWork is making a big move to win the co-working market in China after it announced the creation of a standalone WeWork China business, backed by $500 million from existing backers SoftBank, Hony Capital and other undisclosed investors. This fresh influx of capital is not tied to a recent $760 million financing round that closed earlier this month, at a reported valuation of $20 billion. Read More
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Slack is raising a $250 million round at $5 billion valuation
Enterprise messaging service Slack is raising a $250 million round at a $5 billion valuation, TechCrunch has confirmed. We’re hearing that SoftBank, Accel Partners and other existing investors participated. The $250 million financing amount was reported by Bloomberg. Axios first had the names of the lead investors. Recode originally reported on a $500 million round last month, but… Read More
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In the murky world of ICOs, this young founder aims to lead the way
When it comes to initial coin offerings, or ICOs, there’s plainly a lot that investors still don’t understand. Though start-ups and founders have raised more than $1 billion so far 2017 by selling customized virtual currencies to anyone willing to buy them, it’s been unclear whether and which tokens might eventually be categorized as securities; how ICOs impact… Read More
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Crunch Report | SEC Starts Regulating ICOs
Smallest spacecraft ever launched makes it into low-earth orbit, the SEC starts regulating ICOs and a new dating app only for verified Twitter users. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Amazon Prime Now launches in Singapore, its first market in Southeast Asia
It’s official — Amazon has launched its Prime New delivery service in Singapore, its first market in Southeast Asia. The Amazon apps went live in Singapore early last night local time, and Prime Now — an aggressive two-hour delivery service — is available to Singapore’s population of over five million people from today. The launch includes “tens of thousands… Read More
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HTC teases a standalone Vive VR headset for China
Today at ChinaJoy, HTC announced that it is working on a standalone headset for Chinese markets built on its own Viveport content platform. The headset appears to be cosmetically identical to the one which HTC is bringing to the U.S. with Google. The differences between the headsets seem to lie largely on the differences in tracking technologies and VR platforms themselves. While the U.S. Read More
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HotelTonight now lets you upgrade to a suite for 50% off
Hotel Tonight just launched a new feature that lets users upgrade to suites on the cheap. If available, the option will pop up during checkout, and will always cost less than 50% of the standard upgrade rate. And at first glance prices in the app seem pretty affordable — some hotels are offering upgrades for less than $50, with only a few hotels pricing upgrades in the hundreds. Read More
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A running list of every company backed by the $93B SoftBank Vision Fund
When SoftBank announced the first close of its $93 billion Vision Fund back in May, it was hard to understand how the company would even manage to deploy so much capital in an already saturated ecosystem. For starters, it seemed like a good idea to keep a running list of all Vision Fund investments for reference. We will update this list on a regular basis. Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Group K Diagnostics
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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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Marmo Health
- $50K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Health Care
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Premy
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Limitless
- 60K EUR Angel
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NANO Security Ltd
- Not available Venture
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doogy AS
- 2.0M NOK Angel
- HQ: Oslo, Oslo
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Cosme Hunt
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Cosmetics, Beauty, Shopping, Shopping Mall
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Supply Dynamics
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BrandTotal
- $2.0M Seed
- HQ: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
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KinChip Systems
- $700K Seed
- HQ: Claremont, Western Australia
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Xchime
- $106K Product Crowdfunding
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Krazyheadphones
- Not available Seed
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Elimu Digital Media
- $100K Grant
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Thinkerbell Labs
- 13M INR Angel
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QianCheng technology
- 200M CNY Series B
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
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Signature Medical
- $2.5M Series A
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Naveego
- $500K Seed
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Corvi LED Light
- $10M Round
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The iStartup
- Not available Angel
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- Categories: Advertising
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Aiqudo
- $5.2M Venture
- HQ: California City, California
- Categories: Apps
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Sentient Science
- $22M Series B
- HQ: Buffalo, New York
- Categories: Energy, Digital Media, SaaS, Advanced Materials
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WalkMe
- $75M Series E
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: SaaS, Customer Service, Enterprise Software, Internet
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Big Switch Networks
- $31M Round
- HQ: Santa Clara, California
- Categories: Software, Network Security, Data Center
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Marqeta
- $25M Round
- HQ: Oakland, California
- Categories: FinTech, Payments, Transaction Processing
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August Home, Inc.
- $25M Series C
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Smart Home, Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things
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Dreamleague Gaming
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Pasadena, California
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USA Technologies
- $43M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Malvern, Pennsylvania
- Categories: Mobile Payments, Payments, Internet of Things, E-Commerce, Wireless, ... See More
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Complexa
- $62M Series C
- HQ: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Categories: Health Care, Therapeutics, Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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