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21:56 16.09.2015

LearnUp, A Startup Closing The Skills Gap For Entry-Level Job Seekers, Raises $8M From NEA, Shasta

In the time leading up to starting her next company, LearnUp co-founder Alexis Ringwald spent six months at unemployment centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area trying to learn exactly what was holding job seekers back amid the recession. One of the things she saw was a mismatch between the kinds of customer service and entry-level skills employers wanted to see with new and untested… Read More... →

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20:54 16.09.2015

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. Lightspeed raises $61M to expand its point of sale to retailers and restaurants worldwide As more mobile point-of-sale systems crowd the field, Montreal-based Lightspeed just snagged $61 million in funding to grow adoption of […]... →

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20:28 16.09.2015

Envoy, A Part-Time Concierge Service For Seniors, Raises $3M

Envoy, which provides early elderly care with a concierge service for tasks like delivering groceries, has raised $3 million and is launching today. Envoy’s pitch is that it provides a one-to-one concierge with seniors that don’t quite need full-time assistance, but periodically need help with tasks like running errands and for in-home help like plumbing. These tasks are… Read More... →

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19:00 16.09.2015

Envoy raises $3M for its on-demand senior care service and expands to San Antonio

As our lives get busier, who will take care of the elderly members of our family? If you’re a fan of the on-demand economy, then Envoy might be just the thing. It’s a family concierge service for seniors and family caregivers, and today it has launched in San Antonio, now making it available in 17 markets […]... →

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17:30 16.09.2015

Lumity Raises $14M To Crunch Data And Devise Better Health Insurance Plans For Companies

Lumity, which devises and recommends health care plans to employers by comparing employee profiles against its own historical data, said today that it has raised $14 million. Social+Capital led the round, with True Ventures and Rock Health participating. Read More... →

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15:00 16.09.2015

Panoply.io Raises $1.3M Seed Round For Its Data Warehousing Platform

Panopoly.io, a new data warehousing platform that recently launched its private beta, today announced that it has raised a $1.3 million seed round from the likes of Blumberg Capital, 500 Startups, and FundersGuild. The service sits on top of Amazon’s Redshift service. Panoply.io founder Yanic Leven argues that his service enables its users to “get a modeled scalable cloud… Read More... →

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14:33 16.09.2015

Lightspeed raises $61M to expand its point of sale to retailers and restaurants worlwide

As more mobile point of sale systems crowd the field, Montreal based Lightspeed just snagged $61 million in funding to grow adoption of its platform among mid-market retailers and restaurants worldwide. Though Square and PayPal are increasingly staking their claim to various retailers large and small, there are still a few alternative players competing to put a […]... →

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14:30 16.09.2015

Iron.io Raises $8M Series A Round For Its Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Services

Iron.io today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A round led by Baseline Ventures with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Divergent Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Cloud Capital Partners. The company previously raised a total of $5.5 million in seed funding. The company’s two flagship products are the IronMQ message queue service and the IronWorker worker platform… Read More... →

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14:30 16.09.2015

Lightspeed POS Raises $61M To Boost Its Retail And Restaurant Sales System

As Square gears up for a public listing that may come as soon as next month, another startup that makes point-of-sale systems for restaurants and other retailers has raised a big round of funding. Lightspeed POS, a startup based out of Canada that provides apps and other services for managing and selling inventory across both online and offline shopfronts, has picked up $61 million, money… Read More... →

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14:30 16.09.2015

AWS Lambda competitor Iron.io raises $8M

Iron.io, a startup with “task processing” software that can automatically do computational work in parallel or according to a specific schedule, is announcing today an $8 million round of funding. The startup was founded back in 2010, but things have become more interesting in the past year with public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services […]... →

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20:42 15.09.2015

Ivee launches preorders for its cheaper Amazon Echo competitor

Voice interaction platform ivee has begun an Indiegogo campaign for those interested in purchasing its smart voice assistant, throwing its hat into the ring to do battle against the likes of Amazon Echo, Google Now, Siri, Cortana, and the like. The company is looking to raise at least $50,000 over the next 46 days. With […]... →

3,241 venturebeat.com

20:42 15.09.2015

Ivee launches preorders for its cheaper Amazon Echo competitor

Voice interaction platform ivee has begun an Indiegogo campaign for those interested in purchasing its smart voice assistant, throwing its hat into the ring to do battle against the likes of Amazon Echo, Google Now, Siri, Cortana, and the like. The company is looking to raise at least $50,000 over the next 46 days. With […]... →

3,381 venturebeat.com

19:54 15.09.2015

Neighborly Raises $5.5M From Formation 8, Ashton Kutcher To Transform The Municipal Debt Market

For American cities that need to raise millions or billions of dollars to finance projects from local parks to suspension bridges, the fractal-like complexity of global financial markets means that funding is becoming ever more opaque and distant from the real-world work it supports. A startup called Neighborly is hoping to narrow that gap with a $5.5 million round of funding from Formation 8… Read More... →

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18:27 15.09.2015

Limejump Raises £1.4M To Use Big Data To Transform U.K. Energy Market

Limejump is a classic example of a startup bringing a big data and cloud-based solution to a legacy market, and in doing so has the potential to transform that market. Read More... →

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16:22 15.09.2015

Moviepilot Raises $16M For Its Fan-Centric Publishing Platform

Moviepilot, a movie site targeting (you guessed it) millennials, is announcing that it has raised $16 million in Series B funding. The company started in Germany before launching in the United States, and raising $7 million in funding, about three years ago, according to CEO Tobi Bauckhage (pictured above with his co-founders Jon Handschin and Benjamin Krause). Last year it sold the German… Read More... →

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15:30 15.09.2015

Datos IO Raises $12.5M Series A Round For Its Big Data Recovery Platfrom

When you have a lot of data in your data warehouse, NoSQL database or cloud-native data store, recovering all of that data after it has become corrupted or inaccurate is difficult. Datos IO, which was founded by a group of veteran Data Domain, Veritas and IBM researchers, is now trying to make it easier to recover data from these big data services. The company is launching out of stealth… Read More... →

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14:29 15.09.2015

Compass Raises $50M At An $800M Valuation Led By IVP To Supersize Its Real Estate Platform

While sites like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin have become synonymous with how people list and find property online, a startup out of New York called Compass has raised $50 million to help secure its place in the mix with a new platform that it believes could revolutionize the real estate market with big data and cutting edge algorithms that provide the most accurate pricing for homes and… Read More... →

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10:00 15.09.2015

Casual Trading App Bux Raises $1.9M

Dutch startup Bux is on a mission to open stock trading to a much larger market — namely, those who have never traded before. Its casual trading app for iOS and Android attempts to gamify trading (as if wasn’t gamified enough already) by letting traders start off with virtual currency before investing with real money, as well as compete with friends. Read More... →

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16:29 14.09.2015

MoEngage Raises $4.25M Series A To Grow In The U.S.

MoEngage, which provides user analytics and automated mobile marketing for some of India’s biggest mobile apps, is setting its sights on the rest of the world. The company announced today that it has raised $4.25 million in Series A funding, which it will use to target new customers in the U.S. Read More... →

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16:00 14.09.2015

Makeup Subscription Delivery Service ipsy Raises $100M

ipsy, an online makeup subscription delivery service, said today that it had raised $100 million. Users subscribe to ipsy, paying the company $10 per month, which then sends them a monthly package of makeup called a Glam Bag filled with various samples of products. It isn’t the only subscription service that targets the beauty industry, but it appears to at least have struck a… Read More... →

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