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Wove raises $9M to help companies form strategic marketing partnerships
After rebranding earlier this year and scrapping pretty much their whole mobile ads business, Wove, formerly known as TapFwd, has a fresh plan to disrupt the marketing industry. Co-founders Eddie Sieg
‘Brotopia’ inspired OODA Health to raise its $40.5M round only from firms with female partners
OODA Health, a startup developing technology to make the U.S. healthcare payment system more efficient, has raised $40.5 million in a round led by Oak HC/FT and DFJ.
TaskRabbit kicks off Canadian expansion
TaskRabbit is kicking off its Canadian expansion in the greater Toronto area before rolling out in Vancouver in October and Montreal sometime in 2019.
Coinbase poaches LinkedIn’s head of data Michael Li
Coinbase continues to beef up its management team with another new hire in Michael Li, who’s joining the cryptocurrency trading platform as its VP of data. Li spent the last seven years at Link
HQ Trivia names new CEO and teases upcoming Wheel of Fortune-style game
HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll, formerly the company’s CTO, will take over as CEO. He’s replacing Rus Yusupov, who will now serve as HQ’s chief creative officer. According to Digiday, who fir
DOJ launches investigation into Tesla, Elon Musk’s tweets
Tesla’s stock is down 5 percent this morning after news emerged the U.S. Department of Justice had launched a criminal investigation into CEO Elon Musk’s Aug. 7 tweets about taking the com
Indigo raises $250M, launches marketplace to help farmers get paid for quality grain
Indigo, the startup bringing algorithms and machine learning to the agricultural industry, has raised a $250 million Series E, bringing its total raised to $650 million. The funding values the company
Instacart expands ALDI partnership
After pilot programs in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles and Chicago were “overwhelmingly positive,” per Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta’s statement, the grocery delivery service has decided
Apple’s iBooks revamp, Apple Books, is here
Apple’s new and improved iBooks app, now called Apple Books, has popped up on iPhones across the world today with the release of iOS 12, the software update available to download as of this mor
Base10’s debut fund is the largest ever for a Black-led VC firm
Adeyemi Ajao, the co-founder and managing director of Base10 Partners, was surprised to hear his firm's $137 million fund was the largest debut to date for a black-led venture capital firm.
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This is how much VCs are paid
Venture capital is known for being an opaque industry, so it's no surprise most of us have no idea what the average VC earns in a year.
Mary Meeker, author of the Internet Trends Report, is leaving Kleiner Perkins
Mary Meeker is leaving Kleiner Perkins to build a new fund and she's taking the firm's growth team with her, as first reported by Recode. Meeker, widely known for her annual Internet Trends Report, jo
Former Uber exec alleges ex-PR chief ‘destroyed his reputation’
A nasty legal battle is set to play out between two former Uber executives. Eric Alexander, the ride-hailing company’s former president of business in Asia-Pacific, has filed suit against form
Uber is investing $150M in Toronto to expand self-driving car efforts
Months after an Uber self-driving vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, the ride-hailing giant has announced it's adding a new engineering hub in Toronto and expanding its autonom
Brazilian startup Yellow raises $63M — the largest Series A ever for a Latin American startup
After selling their ridesharing startup, 99, to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion last year, Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas didn’t waste any time throwing their hats back in the ring. Months aft
Instacart links up with Walmart Canada to expand its same-day delivery service
Instacart has teamed up with Walmart Canada to bring shoppers in Toronto and Winnipeg same-day grocery delivery. The agreement is part of a pilot program for the two companies that will allow Instacar
Uber is getting a new look
Uber has broken up with the bits and atoms logo it unveiled in 2016. This morning, the company updated their website and app with a brand spankin’ new logo as part of a rebrand it’s rollin
Here’s how Apple’s stock fared during today’s big hardware event
Apple announced a whole bunch of new products today at its fancy Cupertino campus in what was its first hardware event since becoming a $1 trillion company. The company proudly unveiled the iPhone XS,
Fitbit stock sinking following Apple Watch announcement
Apple announced its latest and greatest Apple Watch in Cupertino today — The Apple Watch Series 4. Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) stock sank as a result. Right now it’s down more than 6 percent and
Ready, Set, Raise is a new accelerator built for women by women
Women in tech are not only significantly under-funded by venture capitalists, but they also often lack access to the early-stage support granted to their male counterparts. To enroll in a startup acce