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Pied Piper’s decentralized internet is planned for Dubai, courtesy of startup Moeco
We’re slowly moving from the Big Data era to the “OMG HOW MUCH DATA?!,” to use the technical term. But, all joking aside, it’s getting bigger, or worse, depending on your point of view. By some estimates over 2.5 Quintillion (yes, that’s a thing) bytes of data are now generated by us daily and this is increasing exponentially monthly. Of course, most of that data… Read More
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Uber Eats couriers in Europe to be offered free accident and sickness insurance
Uber has announced it’s launching a free insurance package for independent couriers delivering food for its Uber Eats business in nine European markets. It says all couriers with an active account in the covered markets will be able to take up the product free of charge. Read More
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Australia’s Airwallex raises $6M to grow its cross-border payment business
Airwallex, an Australia-based fintech startup that helps banks and businesses handle cross-border transactions at scale, has closed a $6 million investment ahead of a planned Series B next year. The new funding comes from Square Peg — a VC firm located in Melbourne, the same city as Airwallex HQ — which joins Tencent, MasterCard, Gobi Ventures and Sequoia China as backers of… Read More
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Loot, the digital current account aimed at students and millennials, banks £2.2M Series A
“There are two types of competition for us at Loot: the banks and the money management apps,” Loot founder Ollie Purdue tells me. The U.K. startup, founded in 2014 while now 24 year old Purdue was finishing up university, offers a digital-only current account aimed at students and millennials. Read More
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Go-Jek buys three startups to advance its mobile payment business
Go-Jek, the company leading Uber and Grab in Southeast Asia’s largest market, has bagged a hattrick of deals to advance its mobile payment strategy. Indonesia-based Go-Jek revealed it has acquired offline payment firm Kartuku, payment gateway Midtrans and payment and lending network Mapan for undisclosed sums. The company started out in 2015 offering a ride-hailing service for… Read More
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Crunch Report | FCC Kills Net Neutrality
The FCC kills net neutrality, Snapchat launches Lens Studio and Squarespace reportedly raises $200 million. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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The difference between good and bad Facebooking
“Social media” is a clumsy term that entangles enriching social interaction with mindless media consumption. It’s a double-edged sword whose sides aren’t properly distinguished. Taken as a whole, we can’t decide if it “brings the world closer together” like Facebook’s new mission statement says, or leaves us depressed and isolated. Read More
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With just one day left in open enrollment, companies turn to Stride Health for help
The compressed timelines of this year’s open enrollment period for government-mandated healthcare have left some companies in the lurch, and as the final hours to enroll tick by, they’ve turned to the startup company Stride Health for help. Stride manages a number of different tax and healthcare-related information for customers. Read More
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What telecoms and tech companies are saying about the FCC’s net neutrality decision
The FCC just voted to eliminate the net neutrality rules established by 2015’s Open Internet Order. Here’s what has been said so far. We’re still waiting to hear from others and we’ll update this list as we do. Read More
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Apple launches its podcast analytics service into beta
At WWDC this year, Apple announced it would soon offer its own podcast analytics service for show creators who publish on Apple Podcasts. Today, that service has launched into beta, offering podcasters the ability to track unique devices and playback metrics for their podcasts, including when listeners drop off in the middle of a show. This sort of client-side data is something podcasters… Read More
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Y Combinator is zeroing in on bigger, breakaway companies with a new growth-stage program
Y Combinator funds a lot of companies, but there’s always more it could be doing, said its president, Sam Altman. Altman added that YC is “always slightly broken, because we’re always trying to grow; we’re always trying to do new things.” Today, the outfit is taking the wraps off a new growth-stage program designed to help both YC companies and non-YC companies… Read More
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Uber investor Shervin Pishevar resigns from Sherpa Capital
Hyperloop One co-founder and early Uber investor Shervin Pishevar has announced his resignation from Sherpa Capital, the venture capital firm he co-founded, following sexual misconduct allegations. “I have decided on my own accord to end my association with Sherpa Capital, effective immediately,” Pishevar tweeted, as part of a lengthy statement. Read More
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A timeline of the FCC’s quest to destroy net neutrality
The FCC voted today to roll back the strong net neutrality rules established under the Obama administration in 2015. It’s distressing but at this point no longer surprising — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and his partisan pals have been working essentially since the election to accomplish this dubious goal. Here’s how it all went down over the last year. Read More
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Edge Mobile Payments buys what’s left of Plastc in hopes that there’s still life left in smart cards
The death of Plastc back in April looked to many like the final nail in the smart card coffin. After all, the news came only a few months after the space’s other big player, Coin, called it quits. Of course, the loss of Coin wasn’t totally in vain — the company was ultimately purchased by Fitbit. Now Plastc is getting a second lease on life of sorts. Read More
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Apple Maps gets indoor mapping for more than 30 airports
As of this morning, Apple Maps has expanded to include indoor layouts of 30 airports across the globe. The company has primarily hit American cities thus far, covering what looks to be most of the big cities across the contiguous U.S. There are some key international airports, as well, including Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Geneva, London, Berlin and a handful of Canadian locations. Read More
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New York attorney general announces a multi-state lawsuit challenging the net neutrality vote
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a leading voice in the fight against the FCC’s net neutrality rules repeal, has stepped forward with one of the first legal challenges to the commission’s controversial vote. Read More
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Chromecast is back on Amazon
Amazon will once again allow sales of Apple TV and Google Chromecast on its site, after banning them two years ago in an effort to promote its own Fire TV hardware to online shoppers. The addition of Apple TV is not surprising – Amazon and Apple came to an agreement earlier this year that included the launch of the Amazon Prime Video app for Apple TV, and the return of the Apple TV… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Squarespace
- $200M
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: web design, blogging platforms, internet, content, software
- Investors: General Atlantic
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Washington University in St. Louis
- $3.9M
- HQ: St Louis, Missouri
- Categories: education
- Investors: US Department of Energy
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Washington State University
- $10M
- HQ: Pullman, Washington
- Categories: universities
- Investors: Not available
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OKCoin
- Not available
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: bitcoin, e-commerce, finance, fintech, virtual currency
- Investors: Giant Network
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Ginkgo Bioworks
- $275M
- HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
- Categories: biotechnology, health care, medical
- Investors: Viking Global Investors, General Atlantic, Y Combinator, Cascade Investment ... See More
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Leadspace
- $21M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: predictive analytics, enterprise software, b2b, lead generation, marketing ... See More
- Investors: JVP, Arrowroot Capital
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True.
- 6.5M GBP
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: venture capital, finance
- Investors: Not available
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Teabox
- $7.0M
- HQ: Darjeeling, West Bengal
- Categories: tea, e-commerce, food and beverage
- Investors: RB Investments, Accel Partners, DBS Bank
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InSightec
- $150M
- HQ: Dallas, Texas
- Categories: health care, therapeutics, medical device
- Investors: York Capital Management, GEOC, Focus Holdings, Koch Disruptive ... See More
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ABILITY Network
- $545M
- HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Categories: health care, hospital, medical
- Investors: Not available
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Hashplay Inc.
- $1.1M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: mobile, data visualization, virtual reality, internet
- Investors: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Metatron Global
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homelane
- $10M
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: interior design, internet, manufacturing
- Investors: Accel Partners, RB Investments, Sequoia Capital
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Ampsy
- $3.0M
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: saas, social media, analytics, lead generation
- Investors: Not available
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CrossChx
- $5.0M
- HQ: Columbus, Ohio
- Categories: identity management, health care, business information systems, software ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Instana
- $20M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: enterprise software, machine learning, analytics
- Investors: Target Partners, Accel Partners
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Vaxess Technologies
- $1.5M
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: biotechnology, health care
- Investors: National Institutes of Health
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Splice
- $35M
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: music, media and entertainment, collaboration
- Investors: True Ventures, Union Square Ventures, DFJ Growth
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Canopy
- $3.4M
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: finance, saas, data visualization, analytics, wealth management, apps, big ... See More
- Investors: Credit Suisse, LionRock Capital (Hong Kong)
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Airwallex
- $6.0M
- HQ: Melbourne, Victoria
- Categories: finance, financial services, payments
- Investors: Tencent Holdings, MasterCard, Square Peg Capital, Sequoia Capital
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Kami Inc.
- $1.7M
- HQ: Auckland, Auckland
- Categories: internet, enterprise software, productivity tools, education
- Investors: Tin Fu Fund, Hong Kong X Technology Fund, Arm Accelerator
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Habidatum
- Not available
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: architecture, social media, property insurance, social network, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Mr Jeff
- $500K
- HQ: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana
- Categories: online portals, mobile apps, laundry and dry-cleaning
- Investors: AddVenture
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Reformation
- $25M
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: e-commerce, fashion, manufacturing
- Investors: Imaginary Ventures, Stripes Group, 14W
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Sirin Labs
- $118M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: security, manufacturing, mobile, mobile devices, privacy
- Investors: Not available
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Sunac China Holdings
- $1.0B
- HQ: Tianjin, Guangdong
- Categories: real estate
- Investors: Not available
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Aiva Technologies
- 650K EUR
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Kima Ventures, Undisclosed Investor
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Paddle
- $12M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: apps, analytics, internet, payments, software
- Investors: Kindred, BGF Ventures, Notion Capital, MacPaw
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Collective Retreats
- $10M
- HQ: Denver, Colorado
- Categories: hospitality, hotel, travel accommodations
- Investors: Not available
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Purplle
- 34M INR
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: retail, shopping, mobile apps, e-commerce
- Investors: Mountain Pine Capital, Suncoast Investments
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