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18:27 30.07.2015

Olio Raises $10 Million To Build More Fancy Smartwatches

Smartwatch underdog Olio has raised a $10 million Series A led by New Enterprise Associates. The cash will go to expand Olio’s manufacturing prowess and bring on new hires for the budding company. In addition to the raise, the company has announced a number of new models including a 24 carat gold model for $1,195 on a leather strap. We first met Olio last March when they announced the… Read More... →

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17:22 30.07.2015

YC-Backed PersistIQ Raises $1.7M To Create Smarter Automation For Salespeople

Sales workflow startup PersistIQ has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. This is one of those stories where the startup says it raised the money months ago, got busy and only decided to announce the news now. Investors in the seed round include Point Nine, Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator and undisclosed angels. (PersistIQ was incubated last year at Y Combinator.) Read More... →

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16:00 30.07.2015

Thrive Market, A Health-Conscious Costco On The Web, Raises $30M

The demographic of health-conscious consumers is growing rapidly, and yet there is no dominant online player that provides high quality, organic, natural products to those consumers. Thrive Market, an LA-based startup that just closed a $30 million Series A round, is looking to do just that. The company aims to be a hybrid of Whole Foods and Costco, where users pay $60/year for a membership… Read More... →

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14:31 30.07.2015

GoButler raises $8M to get you anything you want by sending a text

GoButler is launching its text-based personal assistant out of beta today, and announcing an $8 million series A. GoButler is “like an Amazon for the on-demand world,” says CEO Navid Hadzaad. The free service utilizes existing on-demand apps and e-commerce sites like Uber, Seamless, and Expedia to get you whatever you want just by sending a text […]... →

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13:59 30.07.2015

FreedomPop Raises $10M More, Inks Strategic Deal With New Investor, Asian Carrier Axiata

FreedomPop, the U.S. wireless carrier startup that has been building a business based on completely free voice and data services, has raised another $10 million in funding from two strategic investors, the pan-Asian mobile carrier Axiata and an unnamed tech investor based in the U.S., the company is announcing today. The deal with Axiata will mean that FreedomPop will be expanding its… Read More... →

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10:00 30.07.2015

Video Ad Company Jun Group Raises $28M In Its First Venture Round

Jun Group was founded back in 2005, but according to founder and CEO Mitchell Reichgut, the video ad company has never accepted any venture funding — until now. “We really have been independent since day one,” Reichgut said. (Jun Group has taken money from Western Technology Investment, but it was debt, not equity financing.) Read More... →

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02:34 30.07.2015

Caller ID App Truecaller Is Raising $100M At A $1B Valuation

Communications apps that strike a chord with users across different markets are hot property these days, and it looks like another one of them may soon enter the so-called unicorn club. TechCrunch has learned that Truecaller — a caller ID app that now has 150 million users — is looking to raise around $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. We’re hearing that Truecaller… Read More... →

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02:33 30.07.2015

GitHub Raises $250M Series B Round To Take Risks

GitHub, the software development collaboration and version control service based on the popular open source Git tool, today announced that it has raised a $250 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital and Institutional Venture Partners also participated in this round. The company, which was founded back in 2008, has now taken a total of $350 million… Read More... →

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02:19 30.07.2015

Holland’s Catawiki Raises $82M To Take On eBay In Collectible Auctions

While eBay is doubling down on its core business after its split from PayPal, an upstart out of Europe is looking to muscle in on the business where eBay first made its name, collectibles. Catawiki, a Dutch online auction business, has raised $82 million to scale its business on the continent and beyond. The Series C was led by Lead Edge Capital — an investor in other… Read More... →

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02:00 30.07.2015

Catawiki raises $82M to grow its online auction house for collectibles such as dinosaur bones

Netherlands-based online auction house Catawiki raises $82M Series C round.... →

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21:13 29.07.2015

Tictail Doubles Down With Thrive Capital, Creandum, Raises $22M To Carve Out Online Marketplace

With both the Shopify and Etsy IPOs, the last year has been a big one for tech companies catering to independent online retailers. Now Tictail, a Swedish company that has migrated to the United States, is hoping to make its mark with a product that’s somewhere in between those two platforms. They’ve just raised $22 million in funding from their existing investors including… Read More... →

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20:22 29.07.2015

Equity Crowd Funding Platform Seedrs Raises $15.6M To Launch In US

Equity crowd funding platform Seedrs has raised a $15.6 million (£10 million) Series A round led by Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc (WPCT) and Augmentum Capital, the money from which will be used to launch in the US market. Seedrs had previously raised $7.2 million from Faber Ventures and it’s own crowd-funding campaign. Furthermore, Seedrs is to launch a £2.5 million crowd… Read More... →

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15:23 29.07.2015

AltspaceVR raises $10.3M to grow its virtual reality platform for shared experiences

AltspaceVR raises $10.3 million for its shared VR experiences platform.... →

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14:31 29.07.2015

VR Chat Room Altspace Raises $10.3M To Sell Virtual Events

Pay-Per-Virtual Reality could become a…thing thanks to Altspace. The VR chat room and communication platform just raised a $10.3 million Series A to give us a digital place where we can hang out. But with this funding bringing Altspace to $15.7 comes a need to device a business plan. While Altspace is focused on growth now, it’s co-founder and CEO Eric Romo tells it could… Read More... →

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14:30 29.07.2015

Occipital Raises $13M Series B For Its Computer Vision Platform

Occipital made its first splash years ago with the RedLaser barcode scanning app and 360 Panorama app. Since then, however, it has moved into the 3D scanning and computer vision space and the company today announced that it has raised a $13 million Series B round from Intel Capital, Shea Ventures, Grishin Robotics and previous investor Foundry Group. This new funding round brings… Read More... →

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14:00 29.07.2015

Smart Spreadsheet Service Blockspring Raises $3.4 Million

Blockspring, a service that connects to spreadsheets like Excel and Google Spreadsheets to easier import data, said it has raised $3.4 million. Instead of having to write specific code to import and sort data in a spreadsheet, Blockspring has several connections to services like Google Search that will automatically populate spreadsheets with data. The company plans to release several… Read More... →

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10:12 29.07.2015

Lending Platform China Rapid Finance Raises $35M Series C At A $1B Valuation

China Rapid Finance, which claims to be the country’s largest online consumer lending marketplace, has closed a $35 million Series C led by Broadline Capital. The round pegs the company’s pre-money valuation of $1 billion. China Rapid Finance is reportedly gearing up for an initial public offering in the U.S. Read More... →

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18:00 28.07.2015

Tripping.com Raises $16 Million To Be The Kayak For Long-Term Rentals

Tripping.com, a search engine for long-term rental properties, has secured $16 million in new funding to build out its one-stop shop for vacation homes. While a variety of hotel booking platforms, as well as Airbnb, have the short-term vacation rental space covered, Tripping is geared toward longer trips, with an average stay of just over a week. Steadfast Venture Capital led the Series B… Read More... →

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16:01 28.07.2015

Medical Office Software Maker Kareo Raises $55M

Kareo, a startup that provides small medical practices the tools they need to run their business, has pulled in $55 million in funding to accelerate expansion in doctors’ offices across the country. Montreux Equity Partners, a late-stage health tech fund, led the round, with participation from Silver Lake Partners as well as all previous investors including Greenspring Associates… Read More... →

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14:30 28.07.2015

MacroFab Raises $2M In Seed Funding To Help Hardware Startups Manufacture PCB Boards

MacroFab, a platform to help hardware startups prototype and manufacture PCB boards, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Techstars Ventures. Any company that has worked with manufacturers to produce PCB boards knows how hard it can be. The process is old fashioned and time intensive, with lots of back and forth between the manufacturer and client. Prototyping PCBs is also very… Read More... →

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