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Running Through Walls: Grand Rounds CEO on healthcare startups and hiring
In this episode of Running Through Walls, I caught up with Grand Rounds CEO and co-founder Owen Tripp, one of the first successful technology entrepreneur crossovers to the fight against complexity and confusion in healthcare. Prior to Grand Rounds, Owen co-founded Reputation.com and grew the company into the worldwide leader in online reputation and privacy management. We talked about… Read More
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UK study quantifies Twitter’s misogyny problem
Online abuse remains the big hairy monster in the room for platforms powered by user-generated content. Twitter especially has had some very sizable and public problems with problem users. A UK thinktank has just published a new study quantifying the ongoing problem of misogynistic abuse on Twitter. Read More
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Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round; leaked deck reveals revenues, user numbers
Earlier this week, we reported that the messaging app startup Snapchat was raising more money. Now we have more updates for you. An SEC filing has been made today with information about Snapchat’s latest Series F round, in which it has raised $1.8 billion. Separately, we’ve also obtained a leaked pitch deck, revealing Snapchat’s revenue and forecasts. The Los… Read More
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Lenovo admits its Motorola business ‘has not met expectations’
Lenovo has admitted that it has failed to build on its acquisition of Motorola. The Chinese firm acquired the phone-maker from Google for $2.91 billion in late 2014 and, in its end-of-year earnings report published today, it said the deal “did not meet expectations.” Read More
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Indian startup ClearTax raises $2M from Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital
ClearTax, a startup that wants to make filing taxes online in India easier, has added $2 million to its total funding just one month after announcing its angel round. Read More
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New fantasy sports app SportsHero raises $2.4M ahead of planned Australia IPO
SportsHero is a new app that lets sports fans dabble in match predictions and show their skills off against friends and other game-watchers. The app is made by the team behind Singapore-based TradeHero, a virtual trading app backed by more than $10 million from investors, and it launched officially this week. Read More
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HP unveils a bunch of new Omen gaming hardware
To be fair, an omen isn’t necessarily a portent of negative things. If it was, we wouldn’t feel obligated to qualify it using words like “bad.” Still, the word carries with it some fairly ominous overtones, surely not helped by the 1979 film that carried the title, centering around a young antichrist. And if HP is attempting to leave things open to interpretation… Read More
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Sherpa, a Spanish-language AI-based personal assistant, raises $6.5M
We’ve seen a big rise in apps and bots, and a lot of them have something in common besides being based on artificial intelligence and machine learning: many of them are written first (or only) for English-speaking users. Now one of the more interesting personal assistant apps created first for Spanish speakers is announcing funding: Sherpa, a personal assistant app based out of… Read More
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Thiel says he decided several years ago to try to cripple Gawker
Earlier today, we speculated that billionaire Peter Thiel may have secretly financed a lawsuit to put Gawker Media out of business owing to a series of antagonistic stories about him written by Gawker’s now defunct Valleywag site nearly a decade ago. Thiel has since talked with New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and confirmed that not only has he provided Hulk Hogan (legally… Read More
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Crunch Report | Xiaomi Unveils Their Drone
Microsoft lays off 1,850 people, Slack hits 3 million monthly users, Boom makes your music sound like its in surround sound, Xiaomi unveils their drone and Pokemon Go launches into Beta all this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Supercomputers supercharge NASA’s simulated storms and improve hurricane forecasts
Understanding the complex order behind the apparent chaos of a tropical storm or hurricane is no easy task, but it’s worthwhile to try — such storms deal death and destruction globally, and the better we know them, the better we can prepare for them. Read More
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Meet the latest cohort of Acceleprise startups, and the apps they built to make work easier
Acceleprise, a San Francisco-based accelerator for enterprise tech and software-as-a-service startups, held a Demo Day for its third cohort of companies today. The accelerator invests $50,000 into each startup admitted to its program via convertible note financing, taking approximately a 5 percent stake under a $1 million cap. It admits 8-12 companies per cohort, and invests out of a $3.5… Read More
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Crunch Network
How do you outsmart malware?
The growth of data breaches in recent months and years is in large part because of the new generation of smart malware being developed on a daily basis. Malicious actors are constantly taking advantage of technological innovations and breakthroughs to devise new ways to flood the Internet with new malware that circumvent security tools, propagate within networks and siphon critical data for… Read More
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U.K. carrier Three says it will start trialling ad blocking next month with a 24-hour opt-in test
Back in February, U.K. mobile carrier Three said it would start to offer on its network opt-in ad blocking technology from Shine, potentially reaching 30 million customers in its network. Now the company is getting down to details: It will start to trial ad blocking in June in the U.K., with a 24-hour test for opted-in customers, the company said today. “We believe the current… Read More
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Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
Reddit never let you upload images, until now. That could dismantle Reddit’s informal alliance with image-sharing community Imgur. That’s where Redditors would typically post their images or GIFs and then share the links on Reddit. The image uploading feature begins rolling out today with 50 Reddit communities, including Art, Aww, Food, Funny, Gifs and EarthPorn (pretty nature pics). Read More
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Reddit CTO Marty Weiner on building a home for the Internet’s wildest community
Critical to this major effort is Marty Weiner. Weiner joined the Reddit team this past summer as the company’s first-ever CTO, and he’s spent the past 10 months building out areas for improvement on a site infrastructure that is increasingly less MacGyver’d together. Reddit is the 9th most-visited website in the United States, but when Weiner was hired last August, the… Read More
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Ripple is a Silicon Valley-based startup making milk from peas
The Bay Area fosters a culture of forward thinkers and new ways to solve problems in our world, including in our food system. Ripple Foods is one such startup in Silicon Valley hoping to disrupt the dairy industry with pea protein. The company joins a growing list of game-changing food startups that have launched out of the lab and into the consumer market in just the last few years. Read More
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Salesforce inks deal with AWS to expand international presence
AWS announced today that it was expanding its relationship with Salesforce.com, with Salesforce naming the cloud giant a preferred cloud provider. The agreement should help Salesforce increase its international presence without having to build its own data centers in countries that have data sovereignty laws, which require that data stays in-country. It’s expensive to build their… Read More
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Nuheara’s IQbuds are somewhere between wireless headphones and a hearing aid
I went into the Nuheara demo not knowing what to expect. Not in the sense of, “How good will these be?” so much as, “I’m not exactly sure what these things do.” Like, are they headphones? Are they hearing aids? The answer, interestingly enough, is a little bit of both. The IQbuds are, ostensibly, Bluetooth earbuds. That they’re completely wireless is enough… Read More
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SpaceX continues ambitious launch schedule with next mission, fifth one this year
Less than a month after their last successful mission, SpaceX is back at it. Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 5:40pm EDT tomorrow with telecommunications satellite Thaicom 8 on board. What’s truly notable is that tomorrow’s launch will be the fifth one for SpaceX this year, demonstrating an increased launch frequency compared to last year. In 2015… Read More
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Bridgewater Associates
- $22M Grant
- HQ: Westport, Connecticut
- Categories: Finance
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Affectiva
- $14M Series D
- HQ: Waltham, Massachusetts
- Categories: Analytics, Facial Recognition, Image Recognition
- Investors: Not available
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Dashlane
- $22M Series C
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Privacy, Identity Management, Security, Software, Cloud Computing, Payments ... See More
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Vivint Solar
- $75M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Provo, Utah
- Categories: Solar, Clean Energy, Energy
- Investors: Not available
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TransferWise
- $26M Series D
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Financial Services, Virtualization, Small and Medium Businesses, FinTech, ... See More
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Engage3
- $5.0M Series B
- HQ: Davis, California
- Categories: E-Commerce, Big Data, Internet of Things, Personalization, Retail, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Seismic Software
- $40M Series C
- HQ: Solana Beach, California
- Categories: Presentations, Enterprise Software, Sales Automation
- Investors: Not available
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Zubie
- $6.0M Venture
- HQ: Sullivans Island, South Carolina
- Categories: Hardware, Software
- Investors: Not available
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IcozWeb Digital Solutions
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Arrivo BioVentures LLC
- $49M Venture
- HQ: Morrisville, North Carolina
- Categories: Not available
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EquipmentShare
- $5.5M Series A
- HQ: Columbia, Missouri
- Categories: Payments, Peer to Peer, Construction
- Investors: Not available
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Glide
- $8.0M Series C
- HQ: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim
- Categories: Mobile, Messaging
- Investors: Not available
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Stem
- $15M Series C
- HQ: Millbrae, California
- Categories: Information Services, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Investors: Not available
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Optofidelity
- 3.6M EUR Venture
- HQ: Tampere, Western Finland
- Categories: Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
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Waverly Labs
- $1.3M Equity Crowdfunding
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Computer, Consumer Electronics, Wearables
- Investors: Not available
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Twenty Billion Neurons GmbH
- $2.5M Seed
- HQ: Berlin, Berlin
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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Wellth
- $2.0M Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: mHealth, Information Technology, Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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eero
- $50M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Internet, Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, Wireless
- Investors: Not available
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Demisto
- $6.0M Series A
- HQ: Cupertino, California
- Categories: Internet, Cyber Security, Developer Platform, Security
- Investors: Not available
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Advocate
- $500K Angel
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Government, Social Network, Politics, Digital Media
- Investors: Not available
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Braci
- 490K GBP Seed
- HQ: Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton
- Categories: Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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Expensya
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Accounting
- Investors: Not available
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ClickDimensions
- Not available
- HQ: Dunwoody, Georgia
- Categories: CRM, Marketing Automation
- Investors: Not available
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BonAppetour
- $500K Seed
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: Travel, Marketplace, Communities
- Investors: Not available
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PennyPass
- Not available Angel
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Mobile Payments, Payments, Journalism, Digital Media
- Investors: Not available
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Reall Investors
- Not available Product Crowdfunding
- HQ: Not available
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Firedrop.ai
- Not available Angel
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Not available
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magazine.live
- 250K EUR Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Digital Media
- Investors: Not available
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Segmentify
- 300K EUR Series A
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Marketing Automation, Real Time, E-Commerce, Big Data, Analytics, SaaS
- Investors: Not available
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Votiro
- $4.0M Series A
- HQ: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Security, Cyber Security
- Investors: Not available
















