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With the new money WellAware looks to double down on its expansion in the oil and gas industry in the U.S. and abroad. Read More... →

Yummly, the online recipe recommendation and food delivery service has raised $15 million in a new round of funding led by Bauer Venture Partners that values the company at $100 million. Read More... →

VentureClub объявил набор на инвесторскую стажировку в Азии, которая позволит познакомиться с инновационной инфраструктурой и венчурной экосистемой Сингапура и Гонконга. Цель программы – показать, какие проекты интересны азиатским компаниям и фондам, в том числе, пообщаться с представителями российских организаций в Азии и обменяться опытом по глобальному масштабированию своей деятельности. C 12 по 19 сентября участники стажировки встретятся с представителями Frontier Ventures, IncuVest Asia, JFDI.Asia, Inf... →

With $50 million in new funding, the online used car marketplace Shift is hoping to drive off the stereotypes and outrace the stigma associated with buying used cars. Read More... →

CatchThatBus, the startup behind a mobile app that covers bus booking and information in Malaysia and Singapore, has closed a $1.5 million bridge round ahead of a planned Series A raise and expansion across Southeast Asia. Read More... →

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Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. European payments processor iZettle raises $67M and launches a cash advance service for SMBs European mobile payments processor iZettle has announced a fresh €60 million ($67 million) raise. The round was led by Intel […]... →

Dubsmash, a roughly two-year-old, Berlin-based startup whose 10-month-old video messaging app lets users create and share dubbed “selfie” videos — you choose an audio clip, like part of a famous speech or song, then record yourself lip-syncing the words or lyrics — has just raised $5.5 million in Series A funding. Index Ventures led the round, with firm… Read More... →

Wiselike is joining the “Ask Me Anything” space with the beta launch of its platform today. To help mark this occasion, the company has also revealed it closed a $1.25 million seed round of funding. Led by GGV Capital, the investment will further the company’s mission of giving anyone a page to answer questions from their […]... →

Кластер космических технологий и телекоммуникаций фонда «Сколково» одобрил выделение гранта в размере 5 млн рублей компании «Лин Индастриал». Такую же сумму в компанию вложил сооснователь компании Wargaming Сергей Буркатовский. Об этом Firrma сообщили в «Сколково». «Лин Индастриал» создает семейство сверхлегких ракет «Таймыр», которые способны выводить на околоземную орбиту спутники массой до 180 кг. Согласно расчетам представителей компании, даже при доле в 1% рынка (четыре пуска в год), «Лин Индастриал» с... →

By Allison Martell and Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) – The owner of adultery website Ashley Madison had already been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members, according to internal documents and emails also released by hackers as part of their assault on the […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: Qbox, a startup that operates a cloud-based version of the Elasticsearch open-source search database for use in other companies’ applications, in announcing today that it has raised $2.4 million. Currently the startup makes it easier for companies to deploy and maintain services once they’ve chosen to use Elasticsearch. Developers no longer need to take time […]... →

European mobile payments processor iZettle has announced a fresh €60 million ($67 million) raise. The round was led by Intel Capital and Zouk Capital, both existing investors, and takes the company’s funding to almost €150 million ($168 million). While Jack Dorsey’s Square has been setting out to disrupt the epayments market for small to medium-sized […]... →

Activision Blizzard, the publisher of video games from World of Warcraft to Call of Duty, announced today that will soon join the S&P 500 stock market index. The addition of the video game company to the S&P 500 is a milestone that will likely raise awareness of the company among investors, as the index of […]... →

Главный юрисконсульт Google Кент Уокер (Kent Walker) отрицает злоупотребление компании своей позицией на рынке товарного поиска. Специалист утверждает, что действия компании и изменения пользовательского интерфейса призваны улучшить качество сервиса и пользовательский опыт. В сообщении блога Google Europe Blog под названием «Повышение качества не является анти-конкурентным действием» Уокер назвал выдвинутое Европейской комиссией «Заявление о возражениях» бездоказательным и необоснованным: «Google всегда р... →

Narvar, a startup that enables companies to better engage with customers after online purchases, said it has raised $10 million. Narvar provides companies with software that improves the post-purchase experience. That can include a better interface when it comes to shipping, more detailed text updates, and then of course options to return products and buy new ones. Those updates can even also… Read More... →

В редакцию ЦП поступило письмо от основателя проекта NoobStars Сергея Сафронова, полгода прожившего в Калифорнии в целях поиска инвестиций. Специально для наших читателей Сергей записал видеоролик, в котором поделился своими размышлениями о правильных питчах и рассказал, чем закончилась его поездка.... →

While Uber, Lyft, and similar ride-sharing services can help you get from one place to the next, they aren’t practical for hauling your large purchases – like those from an IKEA shopping spree, or a sofa you found on Craigslist, for example. That’s where a service called Lugg comes in. If Lyft is like your friend with a car, then Lugg is like your friend with a truck. The… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: As discussed in our recent research report on email marketing tool providers, the email marketing space has rapidly transitioned from a few small-business or enterprise-focused ‘batch and blast’ vendors to a layered, confusing mess of hundreds of tools. Klaviyo, an intelligent platform for email, is settings its sights to change that — which requires rethinking […]... →

Intercom, a startup that says it offers businesses a “fundamentally new” approach to communicating with their customers, has raised $35 million in Series C funding. Co-founder and CEO Eoghan McCabe (pictured above) said the way that most online companies currently talk to their customers is “totally fucking broken,” with products and teams acting in isolation from… Read More... →