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Getting Breach Notification Right
President Obama proposed in January the first federal standard for data breaches, requiring that companies notify customers of privacy-related breaches within 30 days of discovery. Other standards and regulations exist (47 states at last count had some form of regulation regarding breach disclosure), but there is currently no federal standard to act as a uniform baseline. Read More
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YC-Backed GitLab Is Like GitHub But For Enterprise – You Know, Like GitHub Enterprise
GitLab calls itself the open-source GitHub that companies can run on their own servers. Like GitHub, it offers an open source git repository. Also like GitHub, it has a cat creature mascot. “But sometimes you want your hub protected on your own servers, behind your own firewall for certain geographic reasons,” Dutch co-founder of GitLab Sytse Sijbrandij told me over the phone from… Read More
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CrowdFlower Launches Open Data Project Covering Everything From Climate Change To #ThatDress
Crowdsourcing company CrowdFlower allows businesses to tap into a distributed workforce of 5 million contributors for basic tasks like sentiment analysis. Today it’s releasing some of that data to the public through its new Data for Everyone initiative. Founder and CEO Lukas Biewald (a friend of mine from college) told me that last year, the company quietly began asking some of its… Read More
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Six Months After Acquisition, Caviar Has Tripled Order Volume And More Than Doubled Headcount
Last August, payments startup Square acquired San Francisco-based food delivery startup Caviar for a reported $90 million. Since then, the company has been growing fast, both in terms of order volume and the size of the internal team. For Square, the acquisition follows a trend of diversifying the company’s portfolio of products and services. As it moves beyond just providing a card… Read More
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Wealthfront Now Manages More Than $2 Billion In Client Assets
Wealthfront, the automated investment services company that competes with traditional financial advisory behemoths like Fidelity, has today crossed the $2 billion mark in terms of assets managed. The achievement for a company, which one year ago was managing approximately $500 million in client assets, is impressive, and it makes Wealthfront the first in its space to rake in that much… Read More
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Pebble Time Is Now The Most-Funded Kickstarter Project Ever
Pebble’s extra bump from the Pebble Time Steel announcement has put it over the edge, helping it break the record for most-funded project of all time on Kickstarter. The Pebble Time campaign beats out the Coolest Cooler, a camper cooler with various tech-friendly additional features. It’s currently sitting at just under $13.5 million, with 24 days left in the campaign still to… Read More
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Google Stops Updating Chrome For Android 4.0
Google today announced that Chrome 42 will be the last version of its mobile browser to run on devices that still use Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), which launched in 2011. Chrome will still continue to run on these devices, but Google will freeze development, and Android 4.0 users will not receive any updates beyond Chrome 42, which is set for release in mid-April 2015. Version 42… Read More
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BriefMe Launches Socially-Ranked News App In Latest Entrant In Front Page Revolution
Primacy is the most important decision facing news editors on a daily basis. What stories do they want to bring attention to? Newspapers can showcase their best content by placing it on the front page, above the fold. Television news programs can place it on the chyron at the bottom of the screen, boldly demanding the attention of viewers. And websites showcase their important stories with… Read More
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Cylindo Raises $1M To Create 3D Furniture Models And Expand In The US
Product visualization startup Cylindo has raised $1 million in new funding. CEO Janus Jagd told me the company emerged from his own struggles moving into a new apartment, where he and his girlfriend wanted to visualize how their living room would look with a bunch of new furniture. To do that, Jagd said he built a 3D room model on his own and gave it to furniture merchants. Read More
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YC-Backed TeamNote Provides Enterprise Communications For Companies With People Out In The Field
Y Combinator-backed TeamNote is building an enterprise communication app that isn’t so much focused on the team, but on helping home base get important information to and from workers in the field. Read More
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Hold My Beer, Because You’re About To Ride A DIY Gas-Powered Go-Kart
If you’ve ever dreamt of pulling a Little Rascals and riding down a massive hill on a wooden scooter, have we got a Kickstarter for you. The PlyFly Go-Kart is a flat-pack built-it-yourself go-kart that runs on a gasoline engine and can go up to 25 miles per hour. The kit is made of cut wood and assembles in about a day. It includes a 2.5 or 4 HP gas engine for maximum rev action. The… Read More
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Sync, BitTorrent’s Free File Sharing Service, Exits Beta With A $40 Pro Tier
BitTorrent is today taking one more step ahead in its bid to create a revenue-generating business out of its peer-to-peer file-sharing network. Sync, the desktop and mobile file synchronising service that BitTorrent presents as an alternative to cloud-based services like Dropbox, is today exiting beta as Sync 2.0. As part of that, BitTorrent is introducing a business-focused Pro tier… Read More
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Luxe Confirms $20M In New Funding, As It Hires A Business Chief And Expands To New Markets
Last week we reported that on-demand valet startup Luxe had raised $20 million in Series A funding from Venrock Partners and Redpoint Ventures to expand its service into new markets. Today the company is confirming that funding, while also providing a bit more detail about where and how it hopes to grow. Read More
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Paperspace Lets Anyone Access A Better Personal Computer That Lives In The Cloud
Imagine never having to buy new and expensive hardware to upgrade your personal computer with more speed and storage space. That’s the vision behind Y Combinator-backed Paperspace, a new company launching today, which is building a full, personal computer that lives in the cloud, which you access from any web browser. Similar, to some extent, to enterprise-grade solutions like… Read More
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New Federal Regulation Deters Experts On Road To Security
Security experts were abuzz last month in anticipation of President Obama’s proposal for new federal regulations that would concentrate on bolstering the nation’s stance on cybersecurity. Last year was witness to a number of high-profile breaches, which shone a light on the possibility of nation-state-backed cyberattacks and espionage and even drove the federal government to… Read More
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Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra Confirms “No Plans” To Push Its App Store Outside China
Rumors that Google feels threatened by the fast-paced rise of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, which has built its own UI atop Android and in China also offers its own app store (rather than pre-loading Google Play), were presumably front of mind for Xiaomi VP and former Google employee Hugo Barra today. Read More
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SMB Business Management Startup Booker Books $35 Million In New Funding
As more business moves online, service industry professionals are leveraging new tools to improve how they connect with their customers. To serve those customers, Booker has raised $35 million in new funding to help small- and medium-sized businesses providing services in the offline world to manage customer relationships online. Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Customfurnish.com
- $2.5M Seed
- HQ: Hyderabad
- Categories: E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Artiphon
- $200K Product Crowdfunding
- HQ: Nashville, TN
- Categories: Consumer Electronics, Hardware + Software, Hardware
- Investors: Not available
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Leixir
- $10M Series B
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Services, Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology, Dental
- Investors: Not available
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Vapogenix
- $5.1M Series B
- HQ: Houston, TX
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Apse
- $350K Seed
- HQ: St Louis, MO
- Categories: Agriculture, Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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GlimpzIt
- $1.1M Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Sales and Marketing, Software, Social Media, Content, Crowdsourcing
- Investors: Not available
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REscour
- $1.3M Seed
- HQ: Atlanta, GA
- Categories: Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate
- Investors: Not available
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Zervant
- 1.5M EUR Seed
- HQ: Espoo
- Categories: Internet, Small and Medium Businesses, Freelancers, Sales and Marketing, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Chrono Therapeutics
- $100K Venture
- HQ: Waltham, MA
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Bridestory
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Weddings
- Investors: Not available
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Nexus eWater
- $2.1M Series A
- HQ: Canberra
- Categories: Renewable Energies
- Investors: Not available
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Aura Biosciences
- $21M Series B
- HQ: Cambridge, MA
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Vanhawks
- $1.6M Seed
- HQ: Toronto, ON
- Categories: Product Design, Design, Bicycles
- Investors: Not available
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GameIN30
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Mobile Games, Mobile, Games
- Investors: Not available
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Intruo.com
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Kornatka
- Categories: Home & Garden, Real Estate, E-Commerce Platforms
- Investors: Not available
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Aware3
- $1.0M undisclosed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Tricida
- $30M Series B
- HQ: Menlo Park, CA
- Categories: Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
- Investors: Not available
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Macrolide Pharmaceuticals
- $22M Series A
- HQ: Newton, MA
- Categories: Pharmaceuticals
- Investors: Not available
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PILIHDOKTER.COM
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Jakarta
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Tech Bureau, Inc.
- 100M JPY Series A
- HQ: Osaka
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Building Energy
- $300K Debt Financing
- HQ: Portland, OR
- Categories: Data Centers, Information Technology, Databases
- Investors: Not available
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FashionValet
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Fashion
- Investors: Not available
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DineMob
- $25K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Crowdcredit
- $1.7M Venture
- HQ: Tokyo
- Categories: Crowdfunding, Consumer Lending, P2P Money Transfer, Financial Services
- Investors: Not available
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IXIA
- $100M Post IPO Debt
- HQ: Calabasas, CA
- Categories: Web Hosting
- Investors: Not available
