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Velocity, a revenue-based financing platform in India, raises $20 million led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures

Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures has doubled down its bet on Velocity, which operates a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses in India, just months after it f

Edtech’s newest unicorn, ApplyBoard, lands $1.4B valuation with fresh funding

Brothers Martin, Meti and Massi Basiri all left Iran to study abroad in Canada. After struggling with every aspect from the visa process to grade conversions, the brothers saw an opportunity to make t

Velocity raises $22.5M Series B to build ‘Uber for Experiences’

Digital hospitality platform Velocity announced this week that, following its $16 million Series A last year, the company raised $22.5 million led by DIG Investments. The company creates curated dinin

Mobile payment app PaidEasy buys Happy, first winner of the Make It In Brooklyn pitch competition

Just over a year after it won the inaugural Make It In Brooklyn pitch competition (and the $50,000 cash prize that went with it) the Brooklyn-based startup Happy has been acquired by PaidEasy, a New Y

Maide Turns Your iPad Into A 3D Controller

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Inspiring: Kik Founder Donates $1M To Kickstart University of Waterloo Seed Fund

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ted.png" /> The founder of messaging app <a href="http://kik.com">Kik</a>, 23-year-old entrepreneur <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person

Hands on galleries of Velocity Mobile’s new handsets (103, 83, 301)

Velocity Mobile brought a trio of shiny new handsets to CTIA today, and we got to spend just a bit of time with all three: the 103, 83, and 301. In the flurry of crazy that is CTIA scheduling, I wasn&

Velocity Mobile launches at CTIA

Launching at CTIA is Velocity Mobile, a new smartphone player. The only downside is they run Windows Mobile. Heh. The company’s first two WinMo devices, the Velocity 103 and 111 will run on 3.5G, ha