Verse grabs $20.5M to take its p2p payments play beyond Europe
Author: Natasha Lomas / Source: TechCrunch Social payments app Verse has closed a $20.5 million Series B round of funding from its existing investors. The round is led by Spark Capital, with eVentures and Greycroft Partners also participating. It raised its...
CrowdStrike, the firm investigating Russian hacks, raised $100M, now valued around $1B
Author: Ingrid Lunden / Source: TechCrunch The business of hacking has dealt a huge blow to our democracy, not to mention a plethora of organizations and individuals, and our collective sense of sanity. One silver lining, however, has been that it has led to...
Flying Fish takes off to help fill Seattle-area venture-capital void
Author: Rachel Lerman / Source: The Seattle Times Geoff Harris, Heather Redman and Frank Chang plan to raise $80 million for their VC fund, Flying Fish Partners. (Flying Fish Partners) Three Seattle angel investors have banded together to form a new...
The Problem With Whole Foods Is the Doritos They Won’t Sell
Author: Gene Marks / Source: Entrepreneur I never do my food shopping at Whole Foods. It's not that I don't like, or appreciate the store. It's a very nice store. In fact, they just re-opened one right near me that's twice the size of the original. It's got...
The Future Is Green and Growing Fast
Author: Sherry Gray / Source: Entrepreneur Even as President Donald Trump repeals environmental “job-killing” regulations and promises to double down on fossil fuels, jobs in sustainability-related fields rank near the top of the list for fastest-growing...
10 Social Media Tips for Students to Improve Their College Admission Chances
Author: Matt Sweetwood / Source: Entrepreneur I applied to college by filling out an application with a pen and typing my essays on a typewriter. When I wanted to fill out another application, I repeated the entire process over again. Only a few people...
Apple is shoring up Siri for its next generation of intelligent devices
Author: John Mannes / Source: TechCrunch Apple once led the pack with its intelligent assistant Siri, but in just a few years, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have chipped away at its lead. Siri is a critical component of Apple’s vision for the future, so...
The Power of Having Trusted Critics in Your Life
Author: Matt Mayberry / Source: Entrepreneur It's so easy for us as busy leaders and entrepreneurs to get caught up in the swing of things that the result is our vision and decision-making ability becomes extremely cloudy. I can almost guarantee that at some...
How to Set Fitness Goals You’ll Actually Achieve
Author: Jennifer Cohen / Source: Entrepreneur In any aspect of life, setting goals is necessary to achieve success. In the 1960s, pioneering goal-setting researcher Dr. Edwin Locke found that employees were much more likely to be both productive and...
How Marketing Psychology Can Improve Your Bottom Line
Author: Amar Hussain / Source: Entrepreneur Small changes can make a huge difference. We often underestimate the value of the little things: a sentence, a button, a color. Those who’ve spent any time conducting A/B split tests know, though, that small...
DefinedCrowd is teaching machines to better understand the complexities of language
Author: Brian Heater / Source: TechCrunch What DefinedCrowd offers isn’t particularly easily to distill into a quick elevator pitch. Taking the stage today as part of the Disrupt New York Battlefield, the Washington state-based company deals in complex...
How the new Flying Fish venture fund aims to change the game for Seattle startups
Author: Clare McGrane / Source: GeekWire Heather Redman, co-founder of the new Flying Fish Partners venture capital firm, wearing her unicorn blouse. Investor and technology executive Heather Redman has a bold plan for Flying Fish Partners, the new venture...
To stop hackers from invading self-driving cars, Karamba Security raises $12 million
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch By 2020, an estimated 75 percent of cars will be internet-connected worldwide, according to estimates from the FBI, Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That...
Lost item finder Tile grabs another $25 million in funding
Author: Sarah Perez / Source: TechCrunch Tile, the company that makes connected devices – which you add to keychains, bags, suitcases, laptops, or keep in your wallet in order to track items when they go missing – today announced it has raised a Series B-1...
To Raise or Not to Raise, That Is the Question
Author: Murray Newlands / Source: Entrepreneur Editor’s Note: In the new podcast Masters of Scale, LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman explores his philosophy on how to scale a business -- and at Entrepreneur.com, entrepreneurs are...
Want to Maximize Your Sleep? Use This Nap Entrepreneur’s 5 Top Tips.
Author: Nina Zipkin / Source: Entrepreneur If you catch yourself yawning at your desk or you struggle to get through the day after a night tossing and turning, you aren’t alone. According to 2016 study from the CDC, one in three American adults don’t get...
The Downside of Popularity: How This Company Dealt With Overnight Success
Author: Nikita Richardson / Source: Entrepreneur Most new business owners worry about getting customers through the door. Not Andrew Blackmon, co-founder of online tuxedo rental service The Black Tux. He was worried about getting trampled by them. When The...
Symphony, a messaging app backed by Wall St, gets $63M at a $1B+ valuation
Author: Ingrid Lunden / Source: TechCrunch Symphony, a secure messaging app that counts 15 of the world’s biggest banks among its investors and 200,000 paying customers, has raised a new tranche of funding to fuel its expansion into new markets. Symphony has...