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Xiaomi reveals its new Mi Notebook Air, Amazon launches its dedicated Amazon Kickstarter shop, Facebook crushes its Q2 earnings, it might be the end for helmet startup Skully, and Trump asks Russia to help hack Hillary Clinton’s email. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

LeadGenius announced today that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. Formerly known as MobileWorks, LeadGenius helps customers find likely sales leads and reach out to them with automated emails. The company says revenue increased 6x in the past 20 months, with customers including eBay, Box and Weebly. LeadGenius has now raised more than $21 million in funding. The new round was… Read More... →

Nearly one year ago LiveBlends was a Y Combinator smoothie delivery startup. The company has evolved since then, raised $3.8 million in seed from various investors and switched its name to Replenish. It’s also moved away from delivery and into manufacturing a line of Keurig-like self-cleaning smoothie machines. Replenish is still in the testing phase of the product, but… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис FlyStat, который предоставляет статистику об активности в подключенных Instagram-аккаунтах: это комментарии, лайки, число «живых» подписчиков и вовлеченность аудитории. Передаем микрофон.... →

A San Francisco startup that many people assumed was toast, Good Eggs, has raised $15 million in a new round of venture funding led by Index Ventures to expand its online, organic grocery business across the U.S. In recent years, Good Eggs tried to ramp up its eco- and farm-friendly grocery business only to face logistics problems, high costs and lagging customer satisfaction in some markets.… Read More... →

A San Francisco startup that many people assumed was toast, Good Eggs, has raised $15 million in a new round of venture funding led by Index Ventures to expand its online, organic grocery business across the U.S. In recent years, Good Eggs tried to ramp up its eco- and farm-friendly grocery business only to face logistics problems, high costs and lagging customer satisfaction in some markets.… Read More... →

As the world of DNA sequencing becomes more efficient and less expensive, a number of companies are sprouting up within the space. The latest, Phosphorus, has just raised a $10 million Series A led by FirstMark. Phosphorus is actually a spin-out from a previous genomics company called Recombine, which sold to CooperSurgical last year in a transaction valued at $85 million. Recombine, led by… Read More... →

Nestled in a valley between the two tailing ends of the Appalachian foothills, the southern city of Birmingham, Ala. seems an unlikely base of operations for a rival to San Francisco’s multi-billion dollar food delivery behemoth Instacart. But the two-year-old startup Shipt is doing exactly that, tackling not only its far better funded San Francisco-based rival, but the twin juggernauts… Read More... →

Today Big Health, which is already backed by Index Ventures, is disclosing that it has raised $12 million (£9.15m) in new funding led by Octopus Ventures. Also participating are Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Index, Sean Duffy (CEO, Omada Health), and JamJar Investments (the UK-based investment fund of the innocent drinks founders). Noteworthy is that Esther Dyson, and Peter Read are also… Read More... →

В редакцию vc.ru пришло письмо от основателя стартапа по доставке ингредиентов для приготовления еды Elementaree Ольги Зиновьевой. Предпринимательница рассказала о том, как проходит её рабочая неделя — в небольших зарисовках из жизни компании.... →

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Социальная сеть LinkedIn сообщила о покупке стартапа PointDrive. Подробности сделки не разглашаются. Предполагается, что приобретение поможет LinkedIn значительно улучшить собственную платформу и предложить клиентам больше возможностей для продажи В2В услуг через социальную сеть. Технологии PointDrive позволят заметно улучшить функционал инструмента LinkedIn Sales Navigator, предназначенного для поиска потенциальных клиентов. На сегодняшний день Sales Navigator предоставляет продавцу […]... →

Обозреватель vc.ru по следам материала об Ульяновске продолжает рассказывать о стартапах и инновационных компаниях из российских регионов. Во второй подборке — примечательные компании из Самары. Местные предприниматели рассказали, как им работается в городе, как они оценивают местный бизнес-климат и какие перспективы у городских инновационных компаний.... →

Израильский стартап Zeek, помогающий купить и продать ненужные купоны, привлек $9,5 млн в инвестиционном раунде B. В сделке приняли участие фонды Emery Capital и Target Global. Об этом сообщает TechCrunch. Лид-инвестором раунда стала компания Scale-Up Venture Capital. К раунду присоединились фонды Blumberg Capital, Qualcomm Incorporated (через венчурную компанию Qualcomm Ventures) FJ Labs, Ури Левин (Uri Levine), Ton Ventures, Radiant Venture Capital, iAngels. Привлеченные средства будут направлены на укреп... →

Israeli startup Zeek, whose app lets you buy and sell unwanted store gift vouchers, has closed $9.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Scale-Up Venture Capital, with participation from long list of additional investors, some of which contributed to the company’s Series A early last year. They include Blumberg Capital, Qualcomm Incorporated (via its venture investment… Read More... →

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With an IPO on the horizon, subprime lender Elevate will have an additional $545 million credit faculty to support its growing customers. Elevate’s niche right now is providing loans to borrowers with creditscores between 575 and 625. As the company expands, it wants to provide loans to customers with even lower credit-scores. Ken Rees, CEO of Elevate, is quick to note that 65 percent… Read More... →

Tracking your period, peeing on a stick and carrying around a thermometer have been the dominant technologies over the past twenty years to help families conceive. If it sounds outdated, that’s because it is. TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield alum Ava is hoping to change that with a wearable that helps couples pinpoint when a woman is in her fertile window and the time is right… Read More... →

We came to you last week with the dramatic departure of Skully’s CEO and co-founder Marcus Weller and now several sources from inside the company tell us the startup is no more. Operations have ceased within the company, and we’re told the website will be turned off at some point today. Weller has also been asked to sign a confidentiality deal with investors. Weller told… Read More... →