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Quotient Technology, a Silicon Valley-based company has acquired UK-based retail cloud platform startup Elevaate to boost its eCommerce offerings. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Elevaate is a retail cloud platform that unlocks new insights to increase online unit sales […]
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Location of Things platform startup MapAnything grabs $42.5 million Series C financing
The Location-of-Things (LoT) market is massive and growing. Research and insight firm, Markets and Markets, predicts that it will reach $27 billion by 2022, driven by the shifting demands of customers in the on-demand economy. MapAnything is a data visualization and […]
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BlackBerry said on Friday it will acquire Cylance, an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity startup, for $1.4 billion in cash plus the assumption of unvested employee incentive awards. The acquisitions will help expand BlackBerry’s QNX unit, which makes software for next-generation autonomous […]
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Top startup news stories you need to know this Friday, November 16
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Friday, November 16. Blablacar raises $113 million (€101 million) Series D extension, to acquire Ouibus. French popular carpooling platform BlaBlaCar has secured a $113 million (€101 million) […]
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Licensed exchange now offers Argentine peso funding to trade with several major cryptocurrencies; other Latin American fiat currencies coming soon SAN FRANCISCO & BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — November 15, 2018 — OKCoin, one of the world’s leading digital asset exchanges […]
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Shyft nabs $6.5 million Series A funding to offer scheduling flexibility and shift-swapping to retail and service workers
Shyft, a Seattle-based startup that helps workers swap shifts, communicate with each other, and make more money by covering shifts, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding to empower companies and their associates by offering scheduling flexibility and direct access to shift-swapping […]
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Major cryptocurrencies are under heavy attack as investors remain bearish on the future digital currencies like Bitcoin. The massive sell-off is unabated. After hitting its record high in December 2017, Bitcoin has fallen over 50 percent in 2018 and the […]
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VC Valuations Overview Startups have seen annual valuation gains across all stages, most notably in late-stage rounds, with median pre-money valuation of late-stage deals increasing 50.7% YoY. The median valuation step-ups for early-stage rounds increased from 1.7x in 2017 to […]
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Top startup news stories you need to know this Thursday, November 15
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Thursday, November 15. Simple Habit raises $10 million in funding for its meditation app. SimpleHabit, a 5-minute meditation app designed to help busy people stress less, achieve […]
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Rocket Lab secures $140 million in Series E funding to accelerate business of small rockets
Rocket Lab, a startup company that delivers a range of complete rocket systems and technologies for fast and low-cost payload deployment, has raised $140 million in Series E financing round to accelerate business of small rockets. The latest round brings total Rocket Lab […]
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Artificial intelligence startup RoadBotics raises $3.9 million to revolutionize and transform management of roadways and other infrastructure
RoadBotics, an artificial intelligence startup that was spun out of the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute in 2016, has raised $3.9 million in seed funding to revolutionize the way engineering firms, local governments and municipalities manage and maintain roadways and […]
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Crypto exchange startup KuCoin raises $20 million in Series A funding round to bring cryptocurrency to the masses
Cryptocurrency is alive and well! Investments and activities in crypto-based startups continue to accelerate. Much like the early days of the Internet, cryptocurrencies bring as much hope as they do risk, with more than a thousand cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings […]
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In an effort to kickstart adoption of the emerging technology, Microsoft announced this morning that it’s acquiring chatbot startup XOXCO for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2009 by Ben Brown and Katie Spence, XOXCO is a software product design and […]
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Top startup news stories you need to know this Wednesday, November 14
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Wednesday, November 14. Chinese tech giant Huawei to introduce augmented reality (AR) glasses in next one or two years. Huawei is entering the AR glasses market. […]
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Enterprise AI and NLP startup Pryon launches out of stealth with $4.5 million in seed funding
Pryon, an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) startup that emerges of stealth today, announced $4.5 million in seed funding to take the AI market to the next phase of Augmented Intelligence. The seed funding came from key investors […]
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Cryptowerk launches Cryptowerk Seal, a blockchain-based technology to certify data integrity of digital assets
Cryptowerk, a blockchain as a Service (BaaS) startup that makes it easy to seal digital assets and prove their authenticity at scale using any blockchain, today announced the launch of Cryptowerk Seal. Cryptowerk Seal is a blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that creates an immutable […]
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Applied AI startup Knowtions secures $5 million Series A funding to help health Insurers adopt artificial intelligence
There is a growing market to help property and casualty insurance businesses adopt AI, but health insurance is being left behind. Health insurance is at the intersection of two complicated fields, facing both difficulties in working with health data and […]
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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Tuesday, November 13
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, November 13. Sustainable clothing startup For Days secures $2.8 in seed funding to eliminate clothing waste. For Days, a zero waste, closed-loop startup company that […]
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithm Outperformed 80 Percent of Cardiologists in Detection of Heart Murmurs in Clinical Study
At the ongoing American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions held in Illinois, Eko, a cardiac monitoring company that combines non-invasive sensors with machine learning, presented a clinical study abstract revealing Eko’s heart murmur detection algorithm outperformed four out of five cardiologists for […]
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