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YouTube TV triples its footprint with launches in 10 more U.S. markets
YouTube TV, Google’s entry in the crowded market of live TV streaming services, is now available in ten more U.S. metros, the company announced this morning. In nine of the ten markets, the service will include the live local feeds from all four major broadcasters – ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC. The ability to watch live television from major broadcasters has been one of YouTube… Read More
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McDonald’s is offering branded lazywear to celebrate you truly giving up
McDonald’s is offering delivery across North America through UberEATS, and in case you wanted to fully embrace what it means to order McDelivery to your home instead of mustering the energy to leave your shadowy lair for 15 minutes, it’s offering a special collection of branded loungewear that says “I earned this on-demand Big Mac with my suffering and… Read More
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Google Cloud gets a new networking algorithm that boosts internet throughput
Google today announced that TCP BBR, a new congestion-control algorithm is now available to its Cloud Platform users. The general idea here is to improve on the existing congestion-control algorithms for internet traffic, which have been around since the 1980s and which typically only take packet loss into account (when networking buffers fill up, routers will discard any new packets). Read More
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The IAB finalizes its new ad standards
The Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade group representing online publishers and advertisers, has released new standards around mobile and web advertisers. Not every publisher and advertiser will follow these standards, but the standards are important because they help establish best practices around what is and isn’t acceptable for the industry. If done right, they help maintain… Read More
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Legendary Pokémon are headed to Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go’s getting Legendary Pokémon, those ultra rare, ultra powerful pocket monsters that typically figure prominently in the narrative arc for the main series console games. The Legendary Pokémon will appear as Eggs at gyms, and they’ll act as bosses for the new Raids that the game recently introduced – once defeated, you’ll get a chance to catch them, much like… Read More
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Truphone now offers iPad data plans in the UK through the Apple SIM
Apple has yet to make any moves to expand the Apple SIM to devices beyond the iPad (despite occasional flurries of rumors to the contrary), but the number of carriers that work with the Apple SIM is growing, potentially laying the groundwork for a time when it might. Today comes the latest development on that front. Truphone, a UK startup that crafts low-cost calling and data plans for users… Read More
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Anti-drone radio wave startup SkySafe secures $11.5M from Andreessen
Drones are a threat to both military and public safety, whether flown by a terrorist or just a reckless pilot. SkySafe’s radio wave technology can detect and stop rogue drones from entering unauthorized areas like military bases, stadiums, prisons and airports. Read More
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Wire launches e2e encrypted team messaging in beta
End-to-end encrypted messaging platform Wire is targeting Slack’s territory with a new messaging for teams product, called Teams. Read More
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Affirm now has 1,000 retail partners
Today Affirm has announced that it has more than 1,000 merchants signed up to offer its financing options at checkout, helping to reduce the friction around making large purchases and, by extension, increasing sales for its partners. Read More
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Slidebean picks up $850K and launches a new version of its presentation-building tool
Slidebean, the app that wants to take on Prezi and PowerPoint, is launching version 3.0 of the service on the heels of an $850K seed round from CaraoV. The idea behind Slidebean is relatively simple. Presentations/decks are a fact of life for many professionals, but creating those presentations isn’t as simple as inputting the information you want. More often than not, professional… Read More
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Elon Musk says he has ‘verbal’ okay to build multi-state underground Hyperloop
Elon Musk said on Twitter that he received “verbal government approval” to build an underground Hyperloop transit network connecting New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC, with stops connecting each city center, and a dozen more entry or exit elevators located within each city. The project would be run through The Boring Company, Musk’s tunneling venture, which… Read More
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D-ID’s tech protects your privacy by confounding face recognition algorithms
Unless you literally wear a mask all the time, it is almost impossible to completely avoid cameras and face recognition technology. Not only is this a privacy concern, but it also presents a potential liability for companies that need to protect personal data. D-ID, a startup currently taking part in Y Combinator, wants to solve the problem with tools that process images to make them… Read More
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Movidius launches a $79 deep-learning USB stick
Movidius and Intel have put deep-learning on a stick with a tiny $79 USB device that makes bringing AI to hardware a snap. In April of last year, Movidius showed off the first iteration of this device, which they then called the Fathom Neural Compute Stick. The company wasn’t able to get the product out as quickly as they had hoped because they were a little busy getting acquired by… Read More
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Google brings its GIF-making Motion Stills app to Android
Google last year introduced an app called Motion Stills that aimed to help iOS users do more with their Live Photos – including being able to crop out blurry frames, stabilize images, and even turn Apple’s Live Photos format into more sharable GIFs. Today, Google says it’s bringing Motion Stills to Android, along with a few changes. Obviously, Android users aren’t in… Read More
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Managed private cloud stacks trying to find their way in the enterprise
For a long time, traditional IT resisted the cloud, but that has changed in recent years as companies have come to realize that they can’t survive without the agility, scalability and economics that only a public cloud approach can provide. Yet in spite of the clear advantages the public cloud brings, there are still many companies out there that resist it for a variety of… Read More
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Freshdesk owner Freshworks acquires Joe Hukum as it plans a move into chatbots
After raising $55 million last year to build its business beyond its existing help desk services, today Freshworks (the parent company of Freshdesk) has made an acquisition to help it fill out that strategy. The company has acquired Joe Hukum, a startup out of India that offers a platform for businesses to build their own chatbots. I’ve asked, but the companies are not revealing any terms… Read More
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Sears starts selling Alexa-enabled Kenmore appliances on Amazon in bid for relevance
It’s hard to see this move as anything but a temporary reprieve for the once-mighty Sears brand. The mall mainstay has fallen on hard times in recent decades as online retail has taken over — and now, the company is signing on with Amazon to sell its Kenmore brand through one of the key contributors to that on-going downside. While the move feels a bit defeatist, it’s a… Read More
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Vimeo promotes Anjali Sud to CEO after canceling SVOD plans
IAC-owned streaming video site Vimeo has a new CEO: Anjali Sud, who previously led the company’s creator business. The appointment comes as the company has scrapped plans to launch a subscription video-on-demand service and decided instead to double down on bringing more professional and semi-professional creators to the platform. Read More
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PebblePost raises $47M as it uses online data to fuel direct mail marketing
PebblePost, a startup that uses online data to target consumers with printed mail, has raised $47 million in a combination of equity and debt. That includes the $15 million, RRE Ventures-led Series B that the company announced in February. The equity portion of the funding has been expanded to $20 million, with another $27 million coming from a loan facility from Horizon Technology Finance, plus… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Group K Diagnostics
- Not available Seed
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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
- Not available Angel
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Limitless
- 60K EUR Angel
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MortgageGym
- 20K GBP Series A
- HQ: Camberley, Surrey
- Categories: Social Network
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Elimu Digital Media
- $100K Grant
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Relab.co.nz
- Not available Seed
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EatOut.co.ke
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Nairobi, Nairobi Area
- Categories: Restaurants, Online Portals
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Xiaomai
- 125M CNY Venture
- HQ: China, Kagoshima
- Categories: Retail, E-Commerce, Shopping
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Dynamic Yield
- $0K Series C
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Predictive Analytics, Collaboration, Messaging, Advertising, Publishing, ... See More
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LendKey Technologies, Inc.
- $8.0M Series C
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: FinTech, Finance, Consumer Lending
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LendKey Technologies, Inc.
- $5.0M Debt Financing
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Finance, Consumer Lending, FinTech
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Cadence
- $650K Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Translation Service, Service Industry, Business Development
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Dreamleague Gaming
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Pasadena, California
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PebblePost
- $27M Series B
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Personalization, Real Time, Ad Retargeting, Marketing, Ad Targeting
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Slidebean
- $450K Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Productivity Tools, Presentations, SaaS, Enterprise Software
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Ada Support
- $2.0M Seed
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SoT - Security of Things
- Not available Series A
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Arzeda
- $12M Series A
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Biotechnology
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Receipt Bank
- $50M Series B
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Small and Medium Businesses, Information Services, Accounting
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Tine Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Augmented Reality, Enterprise Software, Health Care, SaaS
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Insight Engines
- $16M Series A
- HQ: San Francisco, California
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Northern Vertex Mining
- $20M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Mining Technology, Mining, Mineral
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Northern Vertex Mining
- $15M Post IPO Debt
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Mining, Mining Technology, Mineral
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Cubyn
- $7.0M Series A
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Shipping
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Minka
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- HQ: Bogotá, Distrito Especial
- Categories: Venture Capital, FinTech
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Trevi Therapeutics
- $50M Series C
- HQ: Sandy Hook, Connecticut
- Categories: Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Health Care
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Dote Shopping
- $7.2M Round
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Internet, Retail, E-Commerce, Shopping
- Investors: Not available
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