-
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 got 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
-
Feather launches a high-end furniture rental service for liminal living
Indeed, people already renting housing and lease cars, why not rent the furniture as well? Read More
-
Nootrobox is now HVMN and will sell biohacking products beyond nootropics
If none of what’s in the above headline makes sense, you probably weren’t 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. These would be the people drinking buttered coffee… Read More
-
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
-
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 retails 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
-
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
-
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
-
Ludlow Ventures has closed its second fund with $45 million
Ludlow Ventures, a young, early-stage venture firm in Detroit, has closed its second venture fund with $45 million in capital commitments, founder and managing partner Jonathon Triest tells us. Ludlow’s team, which includes partner Brett deMarrais and associate Blake Robbins, was originally targeting $40 million; its investors, or limited partners, include numerous family offices… Read More
-
Uber now lets you request a ride for someone else
Uber is adding a new feature that lets you specify someone else in your phone’s contact book as the rider for the trip. It was always possible to hail a ride and specify another pickup point if you wanted to, but the new feature really streamlines the process, allows both rider and driver to contact one another directly and still makes sure the requester is the one who foots the… Read More
-
Microsoft looks to the cloud to make Windows 10 safer for enterprise users
We already knew that the next version of Windows 10, the Fall Creators Update, will feature a large number of new tools for consumers. While it was always clear that business users would also get their fair share of updates, Microsoft remained pretty quiet about what those would look like. That’s changing this week, as the company today announced a number of new security features for… Read More
Latest Videos
-
Drive.ai raises $50M for retrofit kits to bring self-driving to existing fleets
Self-driving technology startup Drive.ai has raised a $50 million Series B funding round, led by NEA and with participation from GGV and previous investors, including Series A lead Northern Light. The new funding will help the company pursue its evolved business strategy, which now focuses on creating retrofit kits that can be used to add self-driving capabilities to existing commercial… Read More
-
Visa takes a strategic stake in Klarna, the finance startup out of Sweden
Klarna, the $2 billion+ startup out of Sweden that works with some 70,000 e-commerce sites to enable payments and provide flexible financing to make purchases, is adding one more key investor to help take its next steps into a wider range of services. Today it announced that credit card giant Visa is making an equity investment in the company, and as part of it, the two are forging a… Read More
-
Flip gets $2.2 million to grow its marketplace for long-term sublets
For anyone who’s ever wanted to break a lease, but felt trapped by their contract, Flip has the service for you. The company, which allows users to sublet or get out of their lease, has just raised $2.2 million in new financing to grow its business and is looking to expand beyond its suite of offerings to renters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. Vila said Flip is… Read More
-
Crunch Network
Rumors of the demise of augmented reality developers have been greatly exaggerated
With the announcement of Apple’s ARKit, I’ve been bombarded with questions about what ARKit means for Augmented Reality (AR) developers, specifically ones building hard mobile AR technologies. We, along with our friends at Modsy, were even called out in a recent TechCrunch piece as being “Sherlocked” by Apple. So let me make it very clear up front what ARKit does to the… Read More
-
ChargePoint takes over GE charging stations
ChargePoint announced that it will become the exclusive operator of all of GE‘s electric charging stations, which means nearly 10,000 places to plug in will be transferred to the new company’s management. That total adds 1,800 commercial charging stations and 8,000 residential chargers to ChargePoint’s already huge network. Not that existing users will notice much difference… Read More
-
Sumo Logic lands $75 million Series F, on path to IPO
Sumo Logic, the cloud-based log analysis platform, announced a $75 million round today, as the seven year old company could be entering the home stretch before an IPO. While CEO Ramin Sayar was not ready or willing to commit to an IPO timeline, he did admit it was the next logical step for the company, and that the size of the investment gives him the capital to build toward that… Read More
-
Google fined €2.42BN for EU antitrust violations over shopping searches
The European Commission has fined Google a record-breaking €2.42 billion for antitrust violations pertaining to its Google’s Shopping search comparison service — in what is widely considered the most significant antitrust ruling in Europe since the 2004 Microsoft decision. Read More
-
Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro announces $100M startup fund
Security firm Trend Micro is the latest corporate to jump into the startup investment world after it unveiled a $100 million corporate fund today. It is predominantly looking at opportunities in the internet-of-things (IoT) space, but the exact scope of how it will operate is not clear. The company is headquartered in Japan and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where its current value… Read More
-
Your.MD raises $10M to grow AI-driven health information service and marketplace
Your.MD, an AI-driven health information service delivered via a bot, has raised $10 million in new funding. Read More
-
Capnamic closes €115M fund for ‘digital transformation’ of Germany, counts Cisco and Axa as LPs
Capnamic Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Berlin and Cologne, is announcing the final closing of a new €115 million tech fund. The VC says it will invest in tech companies predominantly in the German-speaking region of Europe, with a focus on “B2B solutions, digital infrastructure, and digital transformation”. Read More
Recent Funding Data by
-
Zapp Inc.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Group K Diagnostics
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Health Diagnostics
- Investors: Not available
-
Citus Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
-
Marmo Health
- $50K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
-
LGD
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Elimu Digital Media
- $100K Grant
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Liveplay
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: Media and Entertainment
- Investors: Not available
-
Teens Do Good
- $1K Grant
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Social Innovation
- Investors: Not available
-
AmoebaX Ltd.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Cylera
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Cyber Security
- Investors: Not available
-
AIMO
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Stashfin
- $5.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
DiffBlue
- $22M Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Dook Book
- $18M Series A
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Mojiit
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Nuance Energy
- $3.0M Venture
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
BitStar
- 300M JPY Series B
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Zegami
- $4.0M Seed
- HQ: Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Categories: Data Center, Data Visualization, Database
- Investors: Not available
-
Beauceron Security
- $500K Venture
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
M2I Life Sciences
- 12M EUR Venture
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Hana Financial
- $100M Debt Financing
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
OMG Digital
- $1.1M Seed
- HQ: Ghana, Ebonyi
- Categories: Marketing, Digital Marketing, Social Media Management
- Investors: Not available
-
RecommenderX
- Not available
- HQ: Dublin, Dublin
- Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Data Visualization, FinTech, Analytics, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
-
Aernnova Aerospace
- 900M EUR Private Equity
- HQ: Álava, Asturias
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Upstream Security
- $2.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
RentTrack
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
eLum Technologies
- $3.5M Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Hug Innovations Corp
- $5.0M Series A
- HQ: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
- Categories: Innovation Management, Social Innovation, Service Industry
- Investors: Not available
-
Aphea.Bio
- 9.0M EUR Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Acessa Health
- $30M Series A
- HQ: Brentwood, California
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
Message Us