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Portea Medical, One Of India’s Largest Home Care Providers, Gets $37.5M From Accel
Portea Medical, a startup that provides in-home healthcare in India, has raised a $37.5 million Series B led by returning investor Accel. The round’s other participants include International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, Qualcomm Ventures, and Ventureast. Read More
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Padlet Raises $1.2 Million For Its Easy-To-Use, Collaborative Website Builder
While there’s no shortage of online website builders today, most are focused on providing professionals or small business owners with an easy-to-use set of tools to quickly create their own web page without having to hiring an outside development firm. A company called Padlet, however, has gone in a different direction. Its simple and collaborative website creation platform can be used for… Read More
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Clover Health, A Data-Driven Health Insurance Startup, Raises $100M
Clover Health, an insurance startup based out of San Francisco, is hoping that with its data-driven approach it can rebuild healthcare for senior citizens from the ground up. It wants that by tracking all the inputs of a person’s medical history from insurance claims and determining who the highest-risk patients are. Clover Health then works with those patients to help them become… Read More
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Servy Raises $800K To Let Restaurants Offer Discounts In Exchange For Feedback
Servy, an app that lets restaurants offer a partial discount in exchange for private feedback, has just closed $800K in seed funding. Investors include RiverPark Ventures, Beacon Fund, Food-X, DreamIt Ventures, and Nick Kenner, CEO and Founder of Just Salad. Most online restaurant reviews are either written because of a fantastic or awful experience. Either way, these reviews live online… Read More
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Fundera Picks Up $11.5 Million In Series B Funding
Fundera, the online credit marketplace that helps small business secure loans started by GroupMe cofounder Jared Hecht, has today announced the close of a $11.5 million Series B funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity with participation from existing investors including QED Investors, Khosla Ventures, and First Round Capital. Alongside the funding, SGE’s Scott Feldman and… Read More
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DWNLD, The Easy-Bake Oven For Apps, Picks Up $12M In Series A
DWNLD, the publishing platform that takes any website and seamlessly turns it into an app, has today announced the close of a $12 million Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners. The platform, which was created by cofounder and CEO Alexandra Keating and cofounder Fritz Lanman, allows any web publisher to easily transfer all of their content over to a native app, without any coding… Read More
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On-Demand Delivery Service Quiqup Picks Up Backing From Delivery Hero And Global Founders Capital
London’s Quiqup, an on-demand delivery service that competes with Ingite alumni Jinn and U.S. Postmates (if and when it launches in the U.K.), has raised a “multi-million pound” Series A round from take-out ordering service Delivery Hero and Rocket Internet’s investment fund Global Founders Capital. Delivery Hero, of course, is also partially owned by Rocket Internet… Read More
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Limejump Raises £1.4M To Use Big Data To Transform U.K. Energy Market
Limejump is a classic example of a startup bringing a big data and cloud-based solution to a legacy market, and in doing so has the potential to transform that market. Soothe, An On-Demand Massage Service, Acquires Unwind Me
Soothe, which lets customers book in-home massages, has acquired competitor Unwind.me. Unwind.me took part in Y Combinator’s summer 2014 batch and its other backers include 500 Startups and Slow Ventures. Clear Labs Aims To Be Google Search For GMOs In Packaged Food
How much gluten, genetically modified organisms and other allergens are in that cereal you ate this morning? Not many people know what is in their food right now, but genomic data startup Clear Labs hopes to index all the packaged fare in the world so we do. The startup uses technology related to sequencing human genomes in clinical trials but applies it to food products. And it’s… Read More
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