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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. TrapX Security catches a $9M round Security startup TrapX Security announce today that it closed a series B round led by Intel Capital and Liberty Israel Venture Fund. The $9 million round will […]... →

We’d been hearing that Steve Huffman, a co-founder of Reddit who also co-founded flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk, is currently being considered for the CEO job at Reddit. Now that move is confirmed. Huffman’s appointment follows turmoil at Reddit following the firing of Victoria Taylor, a community manager that the Reddit community relied on, last week. Alexis… Read More... →

Consciously or not, there’s a kind of deal we make when we use many online services — in exchange for free access, we accept ads and give up some of our personal data. Now a startup called DataWallet is planning to make that exchange a little more rewarding, with real cash. Brands often want access to this kind of personal data, and DataWallet founder and CEO Serafin Lion Engel… Read More... →

Lucas Carlson, the chief innovation officer at publicly traded telecommunications company and cloud provider CenturyLink, is leaving the company next week, VentureBeat has learned. The departure comes two years after CenturyLink acquired Carlson’s startup, AppFog. He’ll spend his last day at the company next week, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat. CenturyLink has […]... →

Bolt is a San Francisco-based startup that makes electric motorbikes. The bikes are handmade in a small garage on the edge of town and come with the same type of lithium-ion batteries used in Teslas. Co-founder Nathan Jauvtis grew up riding and assembling motorcycles and bikes, but he really liked the idea of building his own bike – one that would be clean and easy to ride. He started… Read More... →

iTech Capital вложился в BitFury – стартап, который развивает инфраструктуру платежной системы Bitcoin.... →

There’s been a lot of talk in venture circles lately about “signaling risk” and seed-stage investments. The gist: When earlier backers are high-profile venture firms, and these firms decide not to participate in a startup’s next round, it hurts the company’s ability to raise a Series A round. Although this concern isn’t exactly new, recent numbers… Read More... →

Athens, Greece-based mobile survey platform Pollfish has closed a Series A funding round of $2.5 million. The round was led by Odyssey Investment Partners, PJ Catalyst, Woodside Group and several unnamed angel investors. It brings total funding to $2.8 million since the company was founded in n 2013. Pollfish says the new capital will be used for continued U.S. expansion. Read More... →

While Greece and its creditors continue to play a game of chicken, a startup out of Germany putting a big data spin on the business of loaning money is raising a large round of funding. TechCrunch has learned that Kreditech, an online finance startup that loans money to consumers who have little or no credit rating, is raising around $110 million in a Series C round of funding at a… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — мобильное приложение TouchBag, которое помогает собрать чемодан в дорогу. Передаём микрофон.... →

Muere la revolución. Spanish smartphone maker Geeksphone has confirmed it’s stepping out of the mobile making game almost six years after founding a startup business to build handsets for an enthusiast community of geeks looking for something a little different to mainstream smartphones. Read More... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис Cups, который предлагает предоплаченную подписку на кофе в независимых кофейнях и местных заведениях.... →

Splunk announced this evening it had purchase Caspida, a Palo Alto startup that uses machine learning techniques to help identify threats from inside and outside the company, for $190 million, The deal has already closed, the company reported. Splunk helps companies deal with the onslaught of machine data coming from IT systems using data science techniques and automation to make sense of it. Read More... →

Disrupt SF is right around the corner, and spots in the Startup Alley are filling up fast. If you want to get in on the action, now is the time to get your act together and sign up. Startup Alley is one of the best parts of Disrupt. In the Alley, hundreds of companies proudly display and discuss their technology to enthusiasts eager to hear their story. For three days, software and hardware… Read More... →

Disney just announced the second batch of companies that will participate in the Disney Accelerator. The program will again be a three-month mentorship period powered by Techstars, and each company will receive up to $120,000 in investment capital. While some of us doubt the benefits of a corporate accelerator, companies from the first batch have reached some impressive milestones, with all… Read More... →

Publicly traded log analytics company Splunk announced today that it has acquired Caspida, a cybersecurity startup, for a total of $190 million. “Splunk customers now have out-of-the-box user behavioral analytics to help detect, respond to and mitigate these threats,” Splunk said in a statement on the news. Caspida built tools that rely on machine learning […]... →

Ангел и основатель компании SmartHub Богдан Яровой рассказывает о свободном графике бизнес-ангела, просторе для творчества и финансовых преференциях венчурного рынка ранних стадий. Богдан насчитал целых семь причин стать отчаянным инвестором ранних стадий. Причина 1. Внутренний рост За 20 лет работы в банке я прожил все фазы развития этого сектора: от чистого адреналина на старте до построения хорошо систематизированного бизнеса. К сожалению, теперь в этой индустрии основное внимание уделяется не развитию, ... →

Фонд iTech Capital инвестировал в стартап BitFury, специализирующегося на поддержке криптовалюты. Это первый случай, когда российский фонд вкладывается в биткоины. Это первый случай, когда российский фонд вкладывается в биткоины.  Общий объем инвестиций составил $20 миллионов. В раунде также приняли участи фонды DRW Venture Capital и Georgian Co-Investment Fund. По словам представителя фонда Алексея Тельнова, iTech Capital возглавил раунд. BitFury – одна из компаний, которая обеспечивает работу технологии B... →

Last year’s $500 million acquisition of DeepMind by Google undoubtedly put Artificial Intelligence (AI) squarely in the minds of investors and media alike. So much so that there’s a tendency to re-badge any tech comprising of algorithms and machine learning as AI. However, regardless of where that line starts and stops, Munich-based Neokami claims it’s the real deal. Read More... →

PSafe, the leading antivirus player in Brazil, is announcing a $30M Series D to take its security and privacy app suite to the rest of Latin America. Read More... →