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$100M Grant for the Web fund aims to jump-start a new way to pay online
Getting paid for providing content online isn’t simple, and as the ad-based economy continues to collapse pretty much everyone is looking for alternatives. One problem: While the web is great at moving images and audio and files around, it has a real problem with money. Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons hope to change that with a native web payments standard and $100M to get it off the ground. [ Tech Crunch ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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When New School Meets Old School, Fieldwire Nets $33.5M For Construction Tech
This morning, Fieldwire, which has developed a cloud-based software product designed for those working in the construction field, announced it has raised $33.5 million in its largest funding round to date. Menlo Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from existing investor Brick & Mortar Ventures, Hilti Group, and Formation 8. With this latest round, San Francisco-based Fieldwire has now raised about $40.4 million since its inception in 2013. As part of the financing, Menlo Ventures Partner Tyler Sosin is joining Fieldwire’s board. [ Crunchbase ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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This Dubai AI start-up wants to transform healthcare
It's midnight. You want to book a doctor's appointment -- and you want to do it now. You know of a clinic. But which doctor is best for you? What if your medical file has clues that will help determine the best treatment for you? And how can you get the best personalized service? These are some of the problems that Melda Akin's Dubai-based firm, Dimension14, wants to find solutions for. And she believes artificial intelligence, or AI, can help solve them. [
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Israeli Research Firm IVC Announces Strategic Partnership with Crunchbase
The London-based developer-first security company Snyk has secured a €63 million investment, led by Accel and existing investors GV and Boldstart Ventures. With Snyk’s revenue exceeding 4x growth this year, the new funding will be used to fuel the company’s next phase of global growth. “Increasingly, enterprises around the world understand that the combination of DevOps adoption and growing security awareness are driving the security industry to
urgently adapt in order to keep up,” said Guy Podjarny, founder and president at Snyk. [ calcalistech] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Scoop: Checkr seeks up to $175M at unicorn valuation
Checkr is seeking to raise up to $175 million in Series D funding, PitchBook has learned. The new round would vault the company to unicorn status with a valuation of up to $2.275 billion, per a PitchBook estimate—more than double the $900 million valuation it reached just last year. [ Pitchbook ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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March Capital Partners To Raise €410M Fund
March Capital Partners, a Santa Monica, CA-based technology investment firm, is raising a €410m fund. Per an SEC filing with the SEC, March Capital Partners Fund III, L.P., has not raised funds, yet. The document lists Managing Directors Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and James Montgomery as people related to the offering. They lead the firm along with Managing Director Jim Armstrong. [ Finsmes ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Our Distributed Future And The Impact It Could Have On Startups
Guest writers: Evan J. Zimmerman is the Chairman of Jovono, a venture capital firm. He is also the Chairman of the Clinton Health Access Initiative technology council and cofounder of Mighty Mug. Follow him on twitter @ejzim. Daniel Imberman is an Apache Airflow committer, an engineer at astronomer.io, and a full-time digital nomad. He currently lives in any city that will tolerate him. Follow him on Twitter @danimberman. Distributed companies
are experiments in technology and management. The challenges are interesting and consequential, both for companies and even the economy at large. The result is a fertile area of experimentation of the kind that is always fun to watch and important to participate in. Distributed work is a very big idea that will reverberate across the entire startup ecosystem, and there is no better time than now to dive in. [ Crunchbase ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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India’s OkCredit raises $67M to help small merchants digitize their bookkeeping
OkCredit, a Bangalore-based startup that enables small merchants to digitize their bookkeeping, has raised $67 million in a new financing round to grow its business in the nation. The Series B financing round for the two-year-old startup was led by Lightspeed and Tiger Global. The new round, which follows the Series A in June, increases OkCredit’s total raise to $83 million. [ Techc Crunch ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Working With Data In Latin America: Challenges And Strategies
Guest post by Geoffrey Michener, CEO and Founder of Dataplor, a company that helps global companies succeed in emerging markets by providing hand-collected and triple-verified micro-business data. The collection of qualitative and quantitative market data provides critical insights around the globe. Governments, investors, and citizens benefit from the continuous supply of this forward-thinking information. According to ESOMAR and BDO, the global market research
industry grew 6% in 2017, reaching a value of $76 billion. Around the world, quantitative research generated 81% of all spending, while qualitative research accounted for 14%, a 1% decline from the previous year. The remaining 5% of industry spending was seen across other research methods. [ AVC ]
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MoviePass will shut down on September 14th
MoviePass’ all-you-can-watch movie theater membership always seemed too good to be true. After multiple price hikes, business model changes, temporary shutdowns and raising a mountain of money less than a year ago, the company seems to be calling it quits. [ Crunchbase ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Proust Goes Tech With Maia Bittner, Co-founder of Chime-Owned Pinch
For Maia Bittner, the daughter of “hippies,” her love for technology started with eBay. And it didn’t hurt it that she found out what that e-commerce site was when she was an 11-year-old living in “the middle of nowhere” Washington State. She would buy video games from garage sales, then auction those same discs off on eBay for a profit. “I was like, literally, strangers are sending me money in the
mail,” she told Crunchbase News over the phone. She loved the concept of mail so much that she would’ve made “a career out of it.” Fast forward two decades and a move to the Bay area, Bittner resorted to founding her own company: Pinch. [ Crunchbase ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Big Tech is “scary” because it wants to be the solution to everything, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says
Tens of millions of American jobs could be eliminated by automation in the near future, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says it’s foolish to let the source of that disruption — the technology companies pushing advanced robots and artificial intelligence — also position themselves as the solution. [ Vox ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Metabolism Hacking Company Lumen Raises $8.5 Million
Israel-based metabolism tracking company Lumen, incorporated as Metaflow Ltd., has raised a $8.5 million funding round, the company announced Monday. The round was led by Hong Kong-listed H&H company and Unorthodox Ventures, with participation from Disruptive Venture Capital and Gigi Levy, bringing the company's total raised to date to $15.5 million. [ calcalistech ]
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WeWork Founder’s Fortune Plunges as Angst Spreads Ahead of IPO
Adam Neumann was poised to become one of the world’s richest entrepreneurs.This year, more than a decade after launching WeWork, the space-sharing real estate firm planned to go public with some bankers saying its valuation as a listed company could soon reach $65 billion. That would have pegged Neumann’s current 22% stake in the unprofitable business at $14 billion, at least on paper, catapulting him into the ranks of the world’s 150 richest people. [ Bloomberg ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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E973 Webflow CEO Vlad Magdalin grew no-code startup to $20M in rev, pioneering Pegasus movement
Beekeeper, the Switzerland and U.S.-based startup that provides a mobile-first communications platform for employers that need to communicate with blue-collar and service-oriented workers, has raised $45 million in Series B funding. The round was co-led by Thayer Ventures and Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank, with participation from previous backers including Atomico, Alpana Ventures, Edenred Capital Partners, Fyrfly, Hammer Team, investiere, HighSage
Ventures, Keen Venture Partners, Samsung NEXT, Swiss Post and Swisscom. [ Tech Crunch ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Kara Swisher interviews Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Recode Decode | Full interview
Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings (0700) has invested an additional USD 300 mln into Zhuanzhuan in a recent series B funding round. Founded in 2015, Zhuanzhuan is a Chinese-based online marketplace in which users can set up their own stores to sell second-hand goods or purchase products from other sellers. The platform records more than 10 million user transactions annually. Zhuanzhuan currently operates as a second-hand goods trading unit of China's largest online
marketplace, 58.com (WUBA). [ China Knowledge ] Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Walmart E-Commerce CEO Marc Lore | Full interview | Code Commerce 2019
Marc Lore sits down with Recode’s Jason Del Rey for an in-depth conversation at Code Commerce in New York City. Lore is president and chief executive officer of Walmart E-Commerce US. He was appointed in September 2016 when his company Jet.com was acquired by Walmart Inc. In his role, he accelerates Walmart’s US e-commerce growth and customer reach, leading Walmart.com and Jet.com. Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Scott Galloway, Pivot co-host and professor of marketing at NYU Stern | Code Commerce 2019
Scott Galloway teaches brand strategy and digital marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business. He writes a weekly newsletter, No Mercy / No Malice, and is the co-host of Recode’s Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher. Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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Soft Robotics CEO Carl Vause | Full presentation | Code Commerce 2019
Carl Vause is CEO of Soft Robotics Inc. Vause partnered with Dr. George Whitesides of Harvard University in 2013 to explore commercial applications for the groundbreaking soft robotics work pioneered at the Whitesides Research Group, in partnership with DARPA. Soft Robotics was formed to commercialize this research in late 2013, and Vause joined as CEO. Prior to joining Soft Robotics, Vause held a variety of senior positions in global technology companies. Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
Bitcoin, Silicon Valley, & The Future of Money (w/ Tim Draper & Mike Green)
Outspoken bitcoin bull and noted Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper joins Thiel Macro’s Mike Green for a discussion on how the worlds of venture capital and crypto are colliding. The two investors also discuss crypto's potential impact on fiat currency, and the ways in which new rules and regulations could alter the future of trading. Filmed on November 1, 2018 at World Crypto Con in Las Vegas. Checkout 15K+ Venture Capital Data on our platform.
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