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Slack raises a pretty big chunk of change from SoftBank, the DOJ is investigating an Equifax stock dump and Google debuts payments app Tez in India. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Posted by jkuriaIn this post, we share a CRO case study from Protalus, one of the fastest-growing footwear companies in the world. They make an insole that corrects the misalignment suffered by roughly 85% of the population. Misalignment is the cause of most back, knee, and foot pain. Back pain alone is estimated to be worth $100 billion a year. Summary We (with Protalus’ team) increased direct sales by 91% in about 6 months through one-click upsells and CRO. Based on the direct sales increase, current run... →

It’s impossible to ignore the rush of ICOs in venture capital land. The new fundraising dynamic has helped companies raise more than $1.7 billion this year to date. Huge sums of money tend to catch the attention, but experts in the industry argue that there’s far more to ICOs, also known as token sales, than simply the cash. Eyal Hertzog, a co-founder of Bancor Network —… Read More... →

Roku, the digital streaming business, is looking to raise about $204 million when it goes public later this month. According to a SEC filing revealed Monday, the company plans to price its shares between $12 to $14. This is more than double the $100 million that forecast in the IPO filing earlier this month. That’s because that number is a placeholder and often changes. If it goes public… Read More... →

Venture investing in Latin America continues to pick up the pace, with new deals in financial technology services leading the way. One example of investors’ renewed interest in regional financial services companies is the $14 million in financing that ComparaOnline just wrapped up. The company, now backed by private equity firm Bamboo Capital Partners and the International Finance Corp.,… Read More... →

Slack has raised another huge new round of financing that values the company at more than $5 billion, this time led by Softbank — which seems to be investing in everyone at this point. This seems like another huge investment from a $100 billion fund that is dumping an enormous amount of money in some of the biggest deals in Silicon Valley, this time participating in a $250 million round… Read More... →

Фонд Altair VC и бывший вице-президент по коммуникациям компании Acronis Маша Дрокова инвестировали в американский стартап Piper в раунде А. Об этом Firrma сообщили участники сделки. В разговоре с журналистами Firrma управляющий партнер Altair VC Игорь Рябенький отметил, что его фонд оказался «среди основных инвесторов», сумму сделки он раскрыть отказался . Маша Дрокова ранее вкладывалась в проект.  По данным VentureBeat, общая сумма раунда составила $7,6 млн. Лид-инвестором выступил сделки выступил америка... →

Максим Зябкин, CEO и основатель кросс-платформы для перемещения грузов по трубопроводам Maxitube, специально для Firrma написал колонку о решениях в сфере smart logistics. В середине 2017 года население Земли перевалило за отметку в 7,5 млрд человек. Мировое сообщество осознает проблемы демографического роста – нехватка пространства, пищи, ресурсов и пр. Сегодня большая часть людей по всему миру живет в городах. Еще в 2007 году городское население планеты впервые в истории превысило сельское. Данные ООН сви... →

SpaceX releases a fail video showing all of its explosions, marijuana delivery startup Eaze raises $27 million, Nestlé buys a majority stake in Blue Bottle Coffee and BTC China is suspending trading. All this on Crunch Report! Read More... →

In an era where art is shared and streamed for free, Patreon offers new hope for turning content creation into a career. Illustrators, comedians, game makers, and musicians use Patreon to let fans pay a monthly subscription fee for special access to their work. In exchange, Patreon takes only a tiny 5% cut. With 50,000 creators and 1 million subscribers on board paying an average of $12 per… Read More... →

Over $10 billion is wasted every year due to fraudulent e-commerce charges and that number is growing. This is not only costly and time-consuming for the businesses, but also the credit card companies and customers. But now there are several startups including Signifyd that believe they can use technology to cut down on some of this fraud before it occurs. Another is CashShield, which has… Read More... →

Costanoa Ventures has raised a $175 million fund, the the third fund for the Palo Alto-based venture firm. With a focus on enterprise technology, Costanoa Ventures typically invests at seed stage and Series A. The new fund brings the total capital for the five-year-old firm to $500 million under management. Founder and managing partner Greg Sands came from Sutter Hill and before that, was… Read More... →

Snappr, the on-demand photography service that was part of YC’s Winter ’17 batch, has closed $2M in seed funding. Investors include Airtree Ventures (the largest VC fund in Australia, where Snappr was founded), Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps and Justin Waldron, co-founder of Zynga. As a refresher, Snappr is a marketplace for people looking to book a photographer for a… Read More... →

Two years ago, at the age of 34, Tammy Sun decided to freeze her eggs. Though larger tech companies like Apple and Facebook had started offering this service as a perk to retain female talent, it was not something Evernote, whom Sun worked for at the time, provided. So several shots, doctors visits and $30,000 out of her own pocket later she got the idea to make the process easier and more… Read More... →

Clinch aims to create video ads that are personalized for each viewer, and it’s raised $3 million to bring that technology to the United States. It’s not the only personalized video ad technology on the market, but CEO Oz Etzioni argued, “Nobody is doing what we’re doing.” By that, he means that Clinch’s ostensible competitors started out in display… Read More... →

Commercial real estate can be a lucrative investment, but it can be hard to come up with the money to buy a stake in the first place. That’s the idea behind RealtyShares, a platform which pools together debt and equity investments for apartments, office buildings and retail centers. Now the San Francisco-based startup has gained enough traction to find another big investment for itself. Read More... →

What if you could accurately predict the resale value of a home before buying it?  A startup called HouseCanary claims that its data can help you with that. Touting a system that can forecast a sale price within 2.5%, co-founder and CEO Jeremy Sicklick told TechCrunch that Eric Schmidt, Kobe Bryant and other well-known names are betting on his startup because they believe it will make… Read More... →

Adam Braun, a consultant-turned-educational non-profit founder, will say he’s had a lot of good fortune that’s helped him position himself in a way to see the education system from a birds-eye view — and hopes he can help address the problem of student debt with a venture-backed startup. That’s why Braun, with his experience at Bain and then at Pencils for Promise,… Read More... →

Фонд Altair VC вышел из бостонского стартапа Mobee. Об этом Firrma сообщил управляющий партнер фонда Игорь Рябенький.  Экзит связан с объединением Mobee с компанией Quad Analytix. Объединенная компания будет названа Wiser Solutions, которая станет аналитической платформой для розничной торговли. Кроме денег, Altair VC также получил долю в объединенной компании.  Как рассказал собеседник Firrma, Altair VC инвестировал в стартап Mobee в 2015 году в ходе раунда А. Его возглавил Flint Capital, для которого объе... →

The facial recognition system built into the iPhone raises plenty of questions. Can I fool it with a photo? (No.) Will it work if I’m sleeping and someone puts my iPhone up to my face? (It shouldn’t, unless you sleep with your eyes open.) Who better than Apple’s Craig Federighi to answer all these burning questions? No one — no one except for a fake Craig Federighi… Read More... →