Tim Draper is backing Indian startups again with Blume Ventures allianceAn early stage fund that’s becoming a major player in India’s burgeoning tech scene, Blume Ventures, has joined the Draper Venture Network, the investors announced on Monday. Members of the DVN collaborate on investments, share business intelligence and syndicate their deals to firms in Silicon Valley, with portfolio services provided by a local team there. [ Tech Crunch ] PitchBook brings company financial data to its mobile appFinding financial data, particularly for private companies, is no small task. It usually requires a solid BS detector for researching online and a network of knowledgeable sources to bounce numbers off of — not something that can easily be done over coffee or in the middle of a meeting. PitchBook, a PE and VC database, is integrating financial data into its mobile app to chip away at this problem. [ Tech Crunch ] AI and Bitcoin Are Driving the Next Big Hedge Fund WaveHow BuzzFeed makes money from its Tasty food videosTasty is the fastest growing part of BuzzFeed. It reaches 500 million people a month. That’s one in two Americans, says McCollum. Two years ago, Tasty realized that the optimal length for a food recipe video is 40 seconds, but McCollum says that formula is old and may not still be the optimal length today. [ Re/code ] First They Got Sick, Then They Moved Into a Virtual UtopiaReal-life Fran was a hiker and a dancer. But when Parkinson’s stole her mobility, she discovered a community of peers settled in Second Life. [ Backchannel ] Lawsuit alleges billion-dollar startup Magic Leap is a hostile working environment for womenA newly filed lawsuit by a former Magic Leap VP alleges that the company is a hostile working place for women, a condition that has led to the company missing internal deadlines, according to the complaint. [ Business Insider ] How Machine Learning Can Benefit Your SaaS StartupFrom the millions of Amazon Alexas to the self-driving car, new products are coming to market infused with machine learning. The innovation offered by machine learning techniques are real, and they will changed the SaaS world. But how? How can startups use machine learning to their advantage? Tech workers demonstrate in downtown San Francisco against Trump’s immigration plans
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