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HelloFresh Raises $126 Million In Series E From Rocket Internet
HelloFresh, the European startup that delivers perfectly portioned groceries and recipes for you to cook at home, has just announced the close of a $126 million Series E funding round led by previous investors Rocket Internet and Insight Venture Partners.
This brings the company’s total funding to $193.5 million. Read More
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Palantir Buys Fancy That To Add Retail, Shopping Data To Its Analytics Platform
Palantir is known for its data analytics platform that is used extensively in areas like law enforcement, financial and insurance research and healthcare. Now you can add retail and shopping data to the mix. It has acquired Fancy That, a startup that has built a platform to help retailers with their omnichannel strategies across physical stores, online, mobile and other platforms where… Read More
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Our Top Five Startups At StartX’s Fall 2014 Demo Day
StartX, the Stanford-funded and affiliated incubator, just held its demo day for the Fall 2014 batch of startups at its headquarters in Palo Alto. The companies presenting ran the gamut from bitcoin and cybersecurity to open source machine learning. After Raising $1.3M On Indiegogo, Airtame Closes $1.4M Seed Funding To Scale Up Wireless HDMI Dongle
Investors are wont to follow. It therefore shouldn’t be a surprise to see Airtame pick up a VC round of funding. TrialReach Raises $13.5M Series B To Match Patients To Clinical Trials
TrialReach is an interesting startup on a number of fronts. Firstly, the company is based in London but does most of its business in the “fast-moving” U.S. healthcare market. Secondly, and more significantly, it’s using technology to solve a very human problem and one of the biggest obstacles in medical research: matching the right patients with the right clinical trials. Read More
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Cemetery Drones And On-Demand Cookies: Meet 500 Startups’ New Batch
Diversity of ideas and founders is the 500 Startups way. So it’s fitting that the accelerator’s 11th Mountain View batch would feature an extraordinarily wide range of companies; from those tackling huge problems like recruiting and health in the Arab world, to more “niche to win” businesses focused on picture framing or cookie delivery. Investors I spoke to… Read More
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Stealthy Seattle Storage Startup Qumulo Snags $40M Investment
Qumulo (pronounced cume-u-low), a stealth storage startup out of Seattle, announced a $40M Series B investment today. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) with participation from existing investors Highland Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners. Company co-founder and CEO Peter Godman says the founders cut their teeth in the early 2000s at Isilon,… Read More
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Liftoff Raises $5 Million To Help App Makers Acquire Engaged Users, Not Just Installs
Mobile application marketers have traditionally chased new users through campaigns designed to prompt app installations. But a company called Liftoff is focused on helping companies acquire a more valuable customer base – those who take action beyond the install. That is, it helps target customers who do things like make purchases, renew subscriptions, reserve a hotel room, or whatever… Read More
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Fixed, The App That Fights Parking Tickets, Raises $650K More And Heads To Oakland
Fixed, the mobile app fights parking tickets on your behalf, which has been before today only available in San Francisco, is now expanding to the neighboring city of Oakland. It then plans to add on a new city at a rate of about one per month, the company says. The startup is also announcing an additional round of $650,000 in seed funding from a number of investors including Dave… Read More
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‘Neflix For Lego’ Pley Launches A Kit Crowdsourcing Platform And Raises $10M
While Lego’s own crowdsourcing platform exists, letting users submit ideas for community voting, eventually resulting in some being made, the process is slow and somewhat difficult to navigate. Now Lego set sharing platform Pley is debuting a crowdsourced set creation platform called PleyWorld that can see a submission go from concept to shipping product in as little as two weeks,… Read More
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