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Opinio is the latest hyperlocal delivery startup in India to score funding. The company announced today that it has raised a $7 million Series A from Delhivery, a logistics firm, Sands Capital, and Accel Partners. Read More... →

Augmented reality startup Magic Leap, which Google placed a $500 million bet on back in 2013, today showed off some brand-new raw video footage recorded with the technology last week. It includes a floating drone and solar system in an office somewhere — and it’s pretty freaking awesome. The clip was demoed at the WSJD […]... →

Один из основателей PayPal Макс Левчин инвестировал в облачную платформу для работы и сотрудничества Scalus. Проект привлек $10 млн. В сделке приняли участие фонды Google Ventures, SherpaVentures, DCVC и другие инвестороы. Scalus – платформа для управления рабочей средой. Scalus позволяет компаниям автоматизировать распределенные системы, необходимые для эффективного масштабирования, автоматически складывающиеся в повседневной деятельности и документооборота. Среди особенностей платформы: возможность отслеж... →

Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис Collective Health, который помогает крупным компаниям обеспечивать медицинские услуги для работников. 20 октября стартап объявил о привлечении $81 млн финансирования.... →

Honestbee just raised $15 million for its on-demand grocery delivery service, but it has loftier aspirations. Head of marketing Shane Chiang says the Singapore-based company launched as a “social impact business” to give employment to people who can’t hold a regular job, such as stay-at-home parents, caregivers, and students. Honestbee’s part-time shoppers collect… Read More... →

Despite a checkered history with online platforms, developers are always looking for the next big distribution model, and a small but growing number is betting that the popular group-messaging platform Slack is the way to go. One such startup, Austin-based Howdy, may be the first to nab venture funding based largely on that vision. Specifically, the company, which has developed… Read More... →

Host of ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Tyra Banks talked about her new business venture Tyra Beauty, ‘smizing’ and empowering women entrepreneurs with “f-you” money onstage at the Wall Street Journal Live conference today. “Every woman needs ‘f-you’ money’ to be able to do things independently,” she explained to an audience… Read More... →

This week’s episode of Cribs takes us to free credit and financial management platform Credit Karma. This growing financial startup just put the finishing touches on its new office space in the Phelan – a historic building in downtown San Francisco that also houses Nextdoor and Medium. The Phelan sits just off of Market Street in San Francisco’s bustling financial district. Read More... →

People have been talking about the death for Flash for years and years, and now it seems like the nails are finally being driven into the coffin, particularly in advertising But Rob Cromer, co-founder and CEO of New York City startup Adcade, said the shift to the HTML5 format won’t be easy for everyone. There are teams of designers and developers who’ve spent years working… Read More... →

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Microsoft today announced that its OneNote notetaking app for iPad can now work with startup FiftyThree’s iOS-centric Pencil stylus, and documents made with Paper notetaking app on iOS can now be sent to OneNote. The news is especially interesting because it shows Microsoft more strongly supporting FiftyThree, which saw Apple announce its own stylus for […]... →

Enterprise health insurance services platform Collective Health has raised a healthy $81 million in Series C funding to help the startup continue to grow its team as well as cover the U.S. market. Ali Diab co-founded Collective Health with his friend Rajaie Batniji, a physician and political economist at Stanford University after Diab had a terrible experience going the rounds with his… Read More... →

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One in five adults in America experienced a mental health issue last year, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Meanwhile, one in ten people under the age of 18 went through a period of major depression in 2014. Despite the prevalence of mental health issues among both children and adults in the U.S., less than 20% of children and 44% of adults get treated. Lantern,… Read More... →

Stealthy San Francisco-based digital healthcare startup Amino has been quietly amassing a database of U.S. consumer healthcare data since late 2013 to underpin the product it’s launching today: a search platform powered by heathcare transaction data from 188 million Americans — garnered from U.S. health insurance data — to make it easier for consumers to locate a doctor or… Read More... →

Yet more consolidation afoot in the world of digital music, and a new chapter for eMusic, one of the very first download sites that let you download music in the form of MP3 files, has been acquired by TriPlay, which operates various cloud-based media services, including MyMusicCloud. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The companies say that it was a mix of cash and stock, with… Read More... →

Boardlist, the online repository of board-ready women that launched in July, recently helped facilitate the placement of a woman of color to a startup’s board of directors. Karla Martin, director of global business strategy and strategic planning at Google, is Challenged’s newest board member. “It’s not that I lack board experience, they just tend not to care about… Read More... →

There is no shortage of sites that help you book your travel, whether it be Expedia or Orbitz or Priceline. But the inspiration for that travel often comes from content created by travel experts in the media business. Curacity, a new startup formed by EveryDay Health cofounder Michael Keriakos, aims to change that with a fresh $1.4 million seed round, led by Greycroft. SBNY, Pinnacle… Read More... →

Hardware accelerator Highway1 has opened up applications for its sixth batch, but this time there’s a twist: the organization is increasing its investment up from $50,000 to $100,000 for each participating startup. From now until November 16, startups can apply for a spot in this program run by Highway1’s Brady Forrest (the cofounder of the […]... →