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BlockScore Lands $2M In Funding For Making I.D. Verification Easier
In 2012, about 7 percent of all people aged 16 or older in the U.S. experienced identity theft, with their financial losses totaling $24.7 billion. Christopher Morton is familiar with the crime because in 2007, he had his identity stolen. Fortunately, the thieves were prevented from obtaining new credit cards, but Morton became interested in how identity verification systems work. With… Read More
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Ex-CBSi Execs Get $3M For Sapho, A Smart Stream For Disparate Enterprise App Updates
As executives at CBS Interactive, Fouad ElNaggar, Peter Yared, and Charles Christolini were all too familiar with one of the biggest IT problems that big companies face: millions of dollars get invested into software for companies to work better, but getting people in the company to engage with that software regularly was nigh on impossible.
Yared calls this “the dirty secret of… Read More
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Algolia Raises Another $1.2 Million For Its Real-Time Search API
French startup Algolia raised $1.2 million as an extension of the company’s existing seed round to turbocharge your website’s search engine. It brings the total funding of the startup to $2.8 million. The round extension was led by Storm Ventures, with angels coming from Box, Eventbrite, Google, Microsoft and Stripe. Chrisoph Janz of Point Nine Capital is also joining the… Read More
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Puppet Labs Raises $40M More To Take Its IT Automation Business Global
Puppet Labs, whose IT automation software is used by the likes of Google, Twitter, Salesforce and AT&T among 18,000 others, is today announcing another $40 million in venture backing, money that it will be investing in “engineering, product and international expansion,” CEO and founder Luke Kanies tells TechCrunch.
The funding, which comes from Puppet Labs’ existing… Read More
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With A New Focus On Brokers, Nestio Is Ready To Change The Apartment Hunt
Nestio has been serving the real estate community in New York since 2011, but is today marks the company’s biggest release yet, as real estate brokers are finally being invited to the platform. After pivoting from a consumer product to an enterprise platform, Nestio worked to bring landlords into the service to supply vacancy info as soon as it happens, and now brokers can tap into… Read More
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