December 17, 2019
Need more buttons for your PS4 controller? This gadget adds two on the caboose
When you play games on your PS4, it’s fair to say that your thumbs and index fingers are generally doing most of the work. Why not put the…
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December 17, 2019
Domio raises $100M in equity and debt to take on Airbnb and hotels with its curated apartments
Airbnb has well and truly disrupted the world of travel accommodation, changing the conversation not just around how people discover and book places to stay, but what they…
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Virtual product placement is coming for TV and movies and Ryff has raised cash to put it there
In a world where ad rates are declining for traditional broadcast media, the corporations responsible for making the fictions that millions devour daily need to find a new…
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Google details its approach to cloud-native security
Over the years, Google’s various whitepapers, detailing how the company solves specific problems at scale, have regularly spawned new startup ecosystems and changed how other enterprises think about…
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Trialjectory uses self-reported clinical data to match cancer patients with clinical trials
Trialjectory, which is developing a new technology service to match cancer patients with clinical trials, has raised $2.7 million to finance its continued growth. Led by Contour Venture…
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Hugging Face raises $15 million to build the definitive natural language processing library
Hugging Face has raised a $15 million funding round led by Lux Capital. The company first built a mobile app that let you chat with an artificial BFF,…
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Uber doubles down on micromobility
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the grey space in between. Today we’re looking into Uber’s bike bet and…
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EF’s Matt Wichrowski is joining Berlin enterprise and ‘deeptech’ seed firm Fly Ventures as partner
Entrepeneur First, the London-headquartered “talent investor” and company builder backed by Silicon Valley’s Greylock, is losing long-time employee Matt Wichrowski to a career in venture capital. TechCrunch has…
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Odoo grabs $90M to sell more SMEs on its business app suite
Belgium-based all-in-one business software maker Odoo, which offers an open source version as well as subscription-based enterprise software and SaaS, has taken in $90 million led by a…
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Oto snags $5.3M seed to use AI to understand voice intonation
Oto, a startup spun off from research at SRI International to help customer service operations understand voice intonation, announced a $5.3 million seed round today. Participants in the…
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