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20:01 13.10.2015

Customer Service Startup Service Raises $3.1M Led By Founders Fund

Khosla Ventures famously backed Gripe.io, a startup which allowed disappointed customers to complain loudly on social media about service providers that had failed them (restaurants, hotels, airlines etc). After this barrage of criticism, the brand owner was supposed give in to this assault and settle with compensation. Unsurprisingly it didn’t work and Gripe closed. A number of other… Read More... →

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18:00 13.10.2015

Nucleus Raises $3.4M To Build A Smart Home Intercom

Available for pre-order today, Nucleus is a connected home device that lets families have two-way audio and video conversations in the home, between homes, or with any mobile device. Here’s how it works: Homes using Nucleus will ideally purchase multiple units for different areas or rooms in the house. Once connected, Nucleus lets users communicate with other Nucleus’ by… Read More... →

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16:02 13.10.2015

SentinelOne Raises $25 Million To Attack Security Threats At The Kernel

SentinelOne, a startup security software provider that attacks security threats at the kernel of devices, has raised $25 million in a new round of funding to tackle the problem of endpoint protection at the core of computing. Read More... →

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15:30 13.10.2015

Israeli Cybersecurity Firm Cybereason Raises $59M Series C Led By SoftBank

If you’ve been keeping up with the news, corporate security breaches are kind of a thing lately. Thus, it’s no surprise that Cybereason, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in thwarting major corporate cyber attacks, has garnered some interest from companies looking to protect their data from malicious hackers. Cybereason just completed a $59 million Series C round led by… Read More... →

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15:30 13.10.2015

Drone Maker CyPhy Raises $22 Million to Chase Business Customers and Consumers

Robot maker iRobot has long had two major lines of businesses: its famous disc-shaped vacuum cleaning robot called the Roomba; and another that robot that, well, disposes of bombs. Cofounder Helen Greiner says iRobot — now a publicly traded company currently valued at $940 million — “wouldn’t been able to have struggle through” without both. No wonder Greiner is… Read More... →

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14:31 13.10.2015

Testing Company Optimizely Raises $58M As It Moves Into Personalization

Optimizely, the company that has become synonymous with A/B testing, has raised $58 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Index Ventures, with general partner Ilya Fushman joining Optimizely’s board of directors. Optimizely has now raised a total of $146 million. Also participating in the new funding were past investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Battery… Read More... →

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14:30 13.10.2015

Optimizely raises a fresh $58M to expand content testing platform amid rapid growth

The online testing platform Optimizely said today it has raised a new $58 million funding round, which it will use to support its rapid growth in the web and mobile content optimization space. The San Francisco-based company has become perhaps the best-known A/B testing platform for marketers, app developers, and publishers. Its customers use the platform to run […]... →

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08:30 13.10.2015

France’s Doctolib raises $20.5M from Accel and BlaBlaCar founder to fuel European expansion

Doctolib, the Paris-based startup that helps patients find doctors and schedule appointments, has raised $20.5 million to help it expand into six new European countries. In addition to fueling new growth, the latest investment demonstrates the kind of maturity that France’s boosters hope to see more of from its growing startup economy. Stanislas Niox-Chateau, the company’s […]... →

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04:00 13.10.2015

Oyster’s Sunset Shows Subscriptions Alone Won’t Address Challenges Of Ad Blocking

Oyster, the “Netflix for books,” made headlines last week when the company announced it was shutting down. News then broke that Oyster’s cofounders and CEO would be joining the Google Play Books team in what looked like a thinly veiled “acqui-hire.” This announcement raises some important questions about what it takes to survive, not just in the e-book business,… Read More... →

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21:03 12.10.2015

Healthy Food Delivery Startup Thistle Raises $1 Million And Pivots To A Subscription Model

Fresh juice delivery turned healthy meal delivery startup Thistle switched over to a subscription-based healthy food business today. Thistle launched last summer in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. I remember walking by one day and seeing a pop-up out in front of West of Pecos. I can’t recall now what it was I tried, but I do remember the concoction was delicious and made me… Read More... →

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18:00 12.10.2015

Boostinsider Raises $1.5M To Pay Influencers For Sharing On Social Media

While companies have long been using social media influencers as native advertising, these influencers have traditionally been limited to online “celebrities” known for their large follower base. Although often successful, this strategy forces companies to bet on quality over quantity, essentially deciding that one tweet from someone with 100,000 followers will lead to more… Read More... →

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16:50 12.10.2015

Xpenditure Raises $5.7M To Kill The Monthly Expense Report

Belgium startup Xpenditure has closed $5.7 million in Series A funding. The Brussels-based company offers an expense management platform aimed at enterprises, SMEs and sole traders — basically anybody who has to track and action expenses — and, ultimately, promises to do away with the need to manually file monthly expense reports. Read More... →

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16:47 12.10.2015

Google, others help messaging startup Symphony raise $100M

(Reuters) – Messaging startup Symphony said on Monday it had raised more than $100 million in a new round of funding from investors including Google, Switzerland’s UBS Group AG and European venture capital firm Lakestar. Symphony’s chat service allows financial firms, corporate customers and individuals to put all of their digital communications on one centralized […]... →

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16:00 10.10.2015

Series A 101

In my prior life as a seed investor, I helped many companies raise Series A, some raise B and a few raise C. First time founders often ask about the process, once it’s clear there’s likely to be one, and while I always had a view from the outside, alongside or sometimes with the Venture firms, now that I’m a VC with my own Series A Term Sheet (TS) signed, I thought… Read More... →

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23:45 09.10.2015

Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place

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. Segment raises a $27M round to expand its ‘partner ecosystem’ Segment, a service that lets users collect consumer data for analytics and marketing, announced today that it closed a $27 million funding round. […]... →

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17:49 09.10.2015

Segment Raises $27 Million For Its “One API To Rule Them All”

Segment, a Y Combinator-backed startup that allows businesses to use a single API for event tracking in order to send data to hundreds of different tools and databases, including Google Analytics, MailChimp, KISSmetrics, Omniture, Mixpanel, Quantcast, Flurry, and much more, today announced an additional $27 million in Series B funding, led by Thrive Capital. Existing investors Accel… Read More... →

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21:18 08.10.2015

Everybody panic: Netflix raises price of its most popular plan by $1

Netflix is raising the price of its most popular package from $8.99 per month to $9.99 per month starting today. The updated price applies to new users in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Existing Standard subscribers don’t need to panic just yet. Netflix will let them continue paying the lower price fee until October next year. Here’s the statement from the […]... →

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20:48 08.10.2015

Netflix Just Raised The Price Of Its Most Popular Plan

Surprise! Netflix just got more expensive. The service’s most popular plan now costs $9.99. Existing customers will have a grace period, but the price is effectively immediately for subscribers in US, Canada and parts of Latin America. Netflix quietly raised prices for Europeans in late August. The price increase raises its Standard plan to $9.99 a month. This is the plan that streams… Read More... →

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19:00 08.10.2015

Mino Games raises $2.2M and launches Mino Monsters 2

Mino Games had a rare hit in the Mino Monsters free-to-play mobile game with 7 million downloads and $10 million in revenue to date. And that’s why it has been able raise new funding and move on to Mino Monsters 2: Evolution. The San Francisco company is announcing it has raised $2.2 million in funding […]... →

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17:27 08.10.2015

Reflektive Raises $3.6 Million From Andreessen Horowitz To Rethink Annual Performance Reviews

Everyone dreads them: The annual performance review. After all, it’s hard for employees to do much with a yearly sit-down where some past accomplishments and failings are outlined, and a vague improvement plan with far-off objectives is set in place. Numerous companies have emerged in recent year to kill such reviews, including pulse survey startups like Tiny Pulse that produce… Read More... →

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