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Zoom brings a dash of augmented reality and artificial intelligence to meetings in latest release
At Zoomtopia, Zoom’s very first user conference this week, the company announced a series of enhancements to its popular meeting software including the introduction of augmented reality meetings, automated intelligent transcripts and full integration with several partners including Slack and Workplace by Facebook. Let’s start with AR. While it’s a limited feature for now, it… Read More
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Spielberg-backed VR startup grabs $20M led by AMC to bring headsets into movie theaters
Though consumer VR is off to a slow start, many believe that location-based experiences could represent a more sustainable future for the industry, giving consumers higher-quality content in an experience that’s a lot more like going to see a movie. In fact, trying out VR at the movie theater is exactly what many startups are trying to get done. Today, a VR startup called Dreamscape… Read More
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Eligo Bioscience raises $20 million to target the microbiome more precisely
French startup Eligo Bioscience just raised $20 million to develop next-gen biotherapeutics. Khosla Ventures is leading the round. This is also Khosla Ventures’ first investment in a French startup. Existing investor Seventure Partners is also participating, and the startup received a $2 million grant from the Worldwide Innovation Challenge. Eligo Bioscience has been working on a new way… Read More
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Investors can now make trades on Yahoo Finance
It’s no longer just a place to look up stock market data and company news. Yahoo Finance is now introducing trading directly via its app. With 75 million monthly active users, Yahoo Finance (our sister brand) has become a popular home for all things investing, other than investing itself. Now the group is introducing a partnership with TradeIt, which allows users to sync their… Read More
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Plex adds personalized, streaming news to its media player software
Media player software maker Plex is today making good on its acquisition of streaming news startup Watchup from earlier this year with the integration of a dedicated news hub within its app. The feature delivers a way to browse and discover news from publishers worldwide, and introduces a personalized newscast that adapts to your interests based on what programming you watch and skip, among… Read More
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Rocket Lab’s next private pad rocket launch to fly Planet and Spire satellites
Rocket Lab is a startup aiming to break new ground in the world of commercial space business: The company hopes to be the first in the world to regularly offer commercial orbital launches of small payloads from its own private launch facility, aboard its own private rockets. Now, it’s gearing up for its second ever test launch from its facility on the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand… Read More
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Daimler answers Elon Musk’s Twitter challenge on EVs
Elon Musk uses Twitter to express his thoughts frankly and directly, and he just took issue with a USA Today story about the size of a rival automaker’s bet on electric vehicle technology. Musk noted that the reported $1 billion Daimler was spending on taking on Tesla was not enough for such a large company – and Daimler agreed. In response to Musk’s tweet that the $1… Read More
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Vimeo acquires Livestream, launches its own live video product
After abandoning its plans to launch a subscription video-on-demand business earlier this year, IAC-owned streaming video site Vimeo announced today that it’s acquiring the live video streaming platform, Livestream, and launching its own live streaming product, Vimeo Live. The move to integrate Livestream’s technology into Vimeo will allow video creators to capture, edit, stream… Read More
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Splunk expands machine learning capabilities across platform
Splunk has always been data central for IT operations info, but as the logs fill up with ever-increasing amounts of data, it has become impossible for humans to keep up. Recognizing this, Splunk started building in machine learning and artificial intelligence last year, and this week they are enhancing those capabilities to make it easier to surface the data that’s most critical. The… Read More
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ProsperWorks raises $53M for its G Suite-centric CRM service
ProsperWorks, a service that offers a set of Google-centric CRM tools, today announced that it has raised a $53 million Series C round led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from GV (the fund you probably still remember as Google Ventures). This new round brings the company’s total funding to $87 million, which, in ProsperWorks’ own words, makes t the “#1 funded… Read More
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IVP announces $1.5 billion venture fund
IVP, one of the original late-stage venture capital firms, is announcing its sixteenth fund. And at $1.5 billion, it’s the largest yet. This brings the group’s total committed capital to $7 billion. With a slew of exits this year, including Snap, AppDynamics, MuleSoft and Yext, and a historical IRR of 43%, it was enough to convince LPs that they’re ready for a little more money. Read More
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Lively raises $4.2M as it adds investment capabilities for health savings accounts
Lively co-founder Shobin Uralil likes to describe the health savings account as the “401(k) for healthcare” — but that it’s woefully underused as an investment vehicle like a 401(k). So instead of just relying on it as a way to pay for healthcare, Uralil and his co-founder Alex Cyriac set out to build a way to not only help people start up health savings accounts, but… Read More
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Transit raises another $5M from Accel to become a hub for public transportation
Transit started off as a slick app that helped you get in a complex metro area with public transportation, but now co-founder Jake Sion has higher ambitions than that: being the go-to spot for getting from point A to point B, regardless of method. WIth bike-sharing, ridesharing, carsharing, and plenty of other methods of transportation that you can plant “sharing-” at the front… Read More
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Twitter says it hasn’t deleted Trump’s provocative North Korea tweet because of “newsworthiness”
After North Korea’s top diplomat described President Donald Trump’s recent tweets about the country as a “declaration of war,” Twitter explained why it hasn’t deleted the offending tweets. Read More
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JD X taps Nvidia for drone deliveries, rescue and agricultural use
GPU maker Nvidia has announced that it will work with retail giant JD.com to help with an outdoor robotics initiative that sprung out of JD X, the commerce company’s innovation lab. JDrone and JDrover are two new robots, the former aerial and the latter ground-based, and both Nvidia’s Jetson platform for embedded AI-based navigation intelligence. JDrover is going to be put to use… Read More
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Crunch Report | Apple’s Siri Embraces Google
Looking at Instagram’s growth numbers, SAP is buying Gigya for $350 million, Apple’s Siri switches from Bing to Google for web searches and Google and Levi’s connected jackets now on sale. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Nvidia picks up Alibaba and Huawei as partners for smart city platform
Nvidia’s Metropolis AI smart cities platform sounds like a story arc for DC’s superman comics, but it’s actually a GPU-based intelligent monitoring tool that can enable things like easing traffic congestion, allocating city services and even finding lost individuals. To that end, Metropolis has picked up two new partners in Alibaba and Huawei, and Nvidia’s also… Read More
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ProsperWorks
- $53M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: enterprise software, crm, software, saas, apps
- Investors: Not available
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Fooda
- $12M
- HQ: Chicago, Illinois
- Categories: enterprise software, food and beverage, consumer, restaurants, consumer ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Transit
- $5.0M
- HQ: Montreal, Quebec
- Categories: travel, public transportation, ios, transportation, navigation, mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Artivatic.ai
- 10M INR
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: software, internet of things, computer
- Investors: Not available
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Pathao
- Not available
- HQ: Dhaka, Dhaka
- Categories: logistics, payments, e-commerce, transportation
- Investors: Not available
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Eligo Bioscience
- $20M
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Eligo Bioscience
- $2.0M
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Eligo Bioscience
- $18M
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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MinionLabs
- 1.0M INR
- HQ: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Lively, Inc.
- $4.2M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: fintech, health care
- Investors: Not available
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ED Band, Inc.
- Not available
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: medical device, health care, medical
- Investors: Not available
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Yotel
- $250M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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QingTing FM
- 1.0B CNY
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
- Categories: ios, internet radio, mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Envoy Technologies Inc.
- $1.5M
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: car sharing, electric vehicle, real estate
- Investors: Not available
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Jingchi
- $52M
- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: software, computer
- Investors: Not available
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Tantalum Corporation
- 1.4M GBP
- HQ: Teddington, Gloucestershire
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Tantalum Corporation
- 2.5M GBP
- HQ: Teddington, Gloucestershire
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Say2eat
- Not available
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: food and beverage, saas, machine learning, natural language processing, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Tachyon Oil and Gas
- Not available
- HQ: Spring, Texas
- Categories: drones, oil and gas, drone management
- Investors: Not available
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Humanetics Corporation
- $3.8M
- HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Bookwell
- $2.6M
- HQ: Sydney, New South Wales
- Categories: beauty
- Investors: Not available
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CrediFiable
- Not available
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Fidmi Medical
- $2.0M
- HQ: Misgav, HaZafon
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Boost Insurance
- $3.0M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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YoMob Technology
- $3.0M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Watu Credit
- $1.5M
- HQ: Mombasa, Coast
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Packet Greens
- $1.5M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Viseon Spine
- $5.0M
- HQ: Irvine, California
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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NingBo Marvoto Intelligent Technology Co.,Ltd
- $10M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Sky Labs
- Not available
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: health care
- Investors: Not available
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