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StdLib just raised $2 million to connect businesses via APIs
Keith Horwood wants to be known in tech circles as an agent for good, and he seems to be working toward that end with StdLib, his roughly two-year-old startup that abstracts away infrastructure using “serverless” architecture, allowing developers to write everything from simple functions to complex business logic, then deploy their code as scalable, fully documented web APIs. Read More
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Token has made one ring to rule all your passwords, payments and physical access
Token’s ring uses a combination of fingerprinting and an optical proximity sensor to ensure that a user’s credentials can’t be accessed by a third party. Using an app, Tokenites can pair the ring and their biometric information with anything from their credit cards to their car keys. Read More
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Facebook now has 2 billion monthly users… and responsibility
Thirteen years after launching and less than five years after hitting 1 billion, Facebook now has 2 billion monthly active users. If getting to 1 billion was about building a product, and getting to 2 billion was about building a user base, Facebook’s responsibility is to build empathy between us at it reaches for 3 billion. Read More
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A massive new ransomware attack is spreading around the globe
A month after the WannaCry ransomware attack paralyzed connected systems worldwide, a new threat appears to be spreading quickly. As reports emerge, today’s attack paints a picture of businesses and governments around the world held hostage by a second major wave of ransomware. Read More
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Target’s next-day essentials delivery service opens to customers in pilot test
Target announced this morning it’s opening up a new, next-day home delivery service called Target Restock to consumers. The company had said in May the service was live and being tested with company employees, ahead of a consumer-facing pilot program that was due to arrive sometime this summer. The service is initially available to Minneapolis-area customers, which is near Target… Read More
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Yahoo Mail rolls out a rebuilt, redesigned service, including a new ad-free option
Following its Verizon acquisition, Yahoo today is rolling out a revamped and rebuilt Mail application for its 225 million monthly active users. The update includes a new design, feature set, and technology stack, as well as a new subscription plan for desktop and mobile called Yahoo Mail Pro. The news is part of several changes ahead for Yahoo, under its new corporate parent – Oath… Read More
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Watch this Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer made entirely on a 1984 Apple IIc
Sometimes I see something that makes me wish we’d never evolved our technological graphics capabilities beyond where they were at in the 1980s. This shot-by-shot remake of the Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer is such a thing. Created by Twitter user Wahyu Ichwandardi, this was created using a vintage Apple IIc computer from 1984, using Dazzle Draw, a bitmap paint program from the same year. Read More
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Pandora CEO Tim Westergren is officially out amid company shakeup
Following rumblings of a shakeup over the weekend, Pandora confirmed today that co-founder Tim Westergren is stepping down from his role as CEO. Naveen Chopra, who stepped in as the company’s CFO back in February will be filling in the top spot as interim CEO while the board of directors looks for a permanent replacement. Westergren was one of three founders of the music streaming service. Read More
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View raises $200M for their electrochromic smart glass
When you hear about companies raising tons of money for “smart glass,” the first thing that hits your mind might be something augmented reality-related like the HoloLens. But View, which just closed a $200 million funding round, is using smart glass to make better windows that adjust to the outdoor environment. Read More
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JASK emerges from stealth with $12 million and an automated threat detection service
JASK is emerging from stealth today with $12 million in the bank and a machine learning technology that automates network monitoring and management for overtaxed security teams. The thesis behind JASK’s service is the somewhat depressing (and frightening) thought that these days there aren’t enough security experts to meet the demands of running a modern business. Read More
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Facebook improves its AI Messenger assistant ‘M’ with new wits
Facebook M, the company’s AI-powered assistant that lives inside Messenger, was launched widely back in April, giving suggestions to users based on the context of their conversations. Today, M is getting a bit smarter and more socially capable. Read More
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App economy to grow to $6.3 trillion in 2021, user base to nearly double to 6.3 billion
The global app economy will be worth $6.3 trillion by 2021, up from $1.3 trillion last year, according to a new report this morning from app analytics firm App Annie. During that same time frame, the user base will almost double from 3.4 billion people using apps to 6.3 billion, while the time spent in apps will grow to 3.5 trillion hours in 2021, up from 1.6 trillion in 2016. These… Read More
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Justin Kan’s video Q&A app Whale gets Tinder-style swipes in major redesign
Whale, the Q&A app backed by Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, has gotten a major update and refreshed design that makes it easier to discover video content on the service. The iOS-only app launched in October 2016, pivoting from a music app after Kan was inspired by Chinese Q&A service Fenda. The goal was to enable users to ask questions or get advice from subject matter experts, such… Read More
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Feather launches a high-end furniture rental service for liminal living
People already rent housing and lease cars, why not rent the furniture, as well? Read More
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Nootrobox is now HVMN and will sell biohacking products beyond nootropics
If none of what’s in the above headline makes sense, you probably haven’t been following the biohacking trend for the last couple of years. But Silicon Valley is brimming with tech execs trying to become faster, stronger and smarter by “hacking” their genetic code through various experimental methods called biohacks. Read More
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Box deepens partnership with Microsoft and turns its attention to AI and machine learning
When I spoke to Box CEO Aaron Levie last year at the Boxworks customer conference, I had to ask the obligatory machine learning question. Surely Box was of sufficient size with enough data running through its systems to take advantage of machine learning. All he would say was they were thinking about it. Today, the company announced a deepening relationship with Microsoft in which Box will… Read More
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Online thrift store ThredUP is opening physical retail locations
ThredUP, the online secondhand clothing store that has raised over $130M in funding is going old school. The startup has announced they will be opening at least five brick and mortar retail stores by the end of the year, with the first one soft-opening today in San Marcos, Texas. Why San Marcos, a small town of ~60,000 located somewhere between the cities of San Antonio and… Read More
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Fiverr launches a Pro tier and acquires video production marketplace Veed.me
Freelance marketplace Fiverr has for years worked on connecting buyers and sellers of online services that range from writing to design to programming to digital marketing. Today the company is launching Fiverr Pro, a new offering that highlights a curated group of professional freelancers on its marketplace. Read More
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Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $100M investment fund
Cloudflare launched a brand new app development platform today called Cloudflare Apps, and announced the $100 million Cloudflare Developer Fund, started by its investors to back some of the better ideas. The platform lets developers build apps that take advantage of the Cloudflare ecosystem, place them in the Cloudflare Apps store and provide an easy way to add new functionality such as a map or… Read More
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Zapp Inc.
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Group K Diagnostics
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Citus Health
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Marmo Health
- $50K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Health Care
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LGD
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Elimu Digital Media
- $100K Grant
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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
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- Categories: Social Innovation
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AmoebaX Ltd.
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Cylera
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AIMO
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CredoLab
- $1.0M Seed
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TAPPED Birch Water
- 223K GBP Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: London, England
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Mitoconix Bio
- $20M Series A
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Sentiance
- 8.0M EUR Series C
- HQ: Antwerpen, Antwerpen
- Categories: Advertising, Predictive Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning ... See More
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Auth0
- $30M Series C
- HQ: Bellevue, Washington
- Categories: Information Technology, Developer APIs, Software, Identity Management
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Klarna
- Not available Private Equity
- HQ: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan
- Categories: E-Commerce, Payments, FinTech, Financial Services
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Sumo Logic
- $75M Series F
- HQ: Redwood City, California
- Categories: Analytics, Enterprise Software, SaaS
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Glooko
- $35M Series C
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: Mobile Apps, Diabetes, Health Care, mHealth, Analytics
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Catalant
- $41M Series D
- HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
- Categories: Consulting, Enterprise Software, Small and Medium Businesses, Professional ... See More
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Your.MD
- $10M Venture
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Artificial Intelligence, mHealth, Health Diagnostics, Health Care
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Tradee SAS
- 1.0M EUR Seed
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Shopping, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
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Drive.ai
- $50M Series B
- HQ: Mountain View, California
- Categories: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software, Machine Learning, Artificial ... See More
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Riskified
- $33M Series C
- HQ: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Fraud Detection, E-Commerce, Risk Management, Machine Learning, FinTech ... See More
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PromoRepublic
- $1.2M Seed
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: B2B, Small and Medium Businesses, SaaS, Social Media Management, ... See More
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Thorn
- Not available Series A
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Non Profit, Charity
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BHSL
- 7.0M EUR Venture
- HQ: Limerick, Limerick
- Categories: Renewable Energy
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Flip
- $2.2M Venture
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Leasing, Mobile, Real Estate, Peer to Peer
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DiffBlue
- $22M Series A
- HQ: Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Software Engineering
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Tine Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: SaaS, Augmented Reality, Health Care, Enterprise Software
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