June 5, 2018
Hotel management platform Mews closes €6m Series A
Before we automate hotels with AI and robots (which will almost certainly happen) the first wave of this revolution will be brought by the software that runs hotels…
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June 4, 2018
Lendix raises $37 million for its lending marketplace
French startup Lendix has raised a new funding round of $37 million (€32 million). With this new influx of cash, the startup has one goal in mind. It…
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Microsoft promises to keep GitHub independent and open
Microsoft today announced its plans to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. Unsurprisingly, that sent a few shock waves through the developer community, which still often eyes…
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PlayVS, bringing esports infrastructure to high schools, picks up $15 million
PlayVS, the startup building esports infrastructure at the high school level, has today announced the close of a $15 million Series A funding round. The financing was led…
Read articleJune 2, 2018
Scaling startups are setting up secondary hubs in these cities
America’s mayors have spent the past nine months tripping over each other to curry favor with Amazon.com in its high-profile search for a second headquarters. More quietly, however,…
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The startup community must defend merit-based immigration
Bobby Franklin Contributor Bobby Franklin is the president and chief executive of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA…
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Rebel launches new tools for developers to build marketing emails
Until now, Rebel has been known as a platform allowing marketers to incorporate interactive elements into their emails. Today, it’s launching a new version of its API that…
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Bitcoin exchange abandons Poland even as the government invites it to a working group
In a delightful bit of irony BitBay, a Central European exchange, has shut down operations in Poland even as it received an invitation by the Polish government to…
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Walmart’s new personal shopping service Jetblack launches in New York
Walmart’s tech incubator is out with its first experiment. The incubator, known as Store No. 8, just launched Jetblack, a concierge-style service for requesting stuff and getting it…
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Weights & Biases raises $5M to build development tools for machine learning
Machine learning is one of those buzzwords that nearly every tech company likes to throw around nowadays — but according to Lukas Biewald, it represents a genuinely new…
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