Exclusive: Cross Border Angels invests in ed-tech startup eShiksa
Author: Vijayakumar Pitchiah / Source: VCCircle Pravin Sharma, founder & CEO of eShiksa Jaipur-based eShiksa, an education management portal, has raised an undisclosed amount from Cross Border Angels & Experts (CBA; previously Cross Border Angels), an...
Marketing tech company Zeta Global raises $140M at a $1.3B valuation
Author: Frederic Lardinois / Source: TechCrunch Zeta Global, the marketing tech company that has recently acquired the likes of eBay’s enterprise arm and Acxiom Impact, is preparing for another round of acquisitions and investments in its technology. To do...
China’s Didi Chuxing is raising up to $6 billion at a valuation of over $50 billion
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Didi Chuxing, the on-demand giant that drove Uber out of China, is set to become the world’s second-highest valued tech startup. Beijing-based Didi is in the process of raising a round that could reach as high as $6...
Mobile gaming startup Mech Mocha raises Series A round
Author: Arti Singh / Source: VCCircle Bangalore-based mobile gaming startup Mech Mocha Game Studios Pvt. Ltd has raised $5 million (Rs 32 crore) in its Series A round led by venture capital firms Accel Partners and China’s Shunwei Capital, a company...
Need to Ask for a Favor? Don’t Hide Behind Email.
Author: Nina Zipkin / Source: Entrepreneur For some people, they never feel more at home then when they are striking up a conversation with a stranger. Just friends you haven’t met yet, right? But for many, especially introverts -- even the outgoing ones --...
More than 800 startups ask FCC chair to not kill net neutrality
Author: Taylor Hatmaker / Source: TechCrunch Today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released the broad strokes of his plan to abandon consumer protections to the benefit of large corporate players in the telecommunications industry. While major telecom companies are...
A Look at the Benefits of Money-Back Guarantees in Modern Marketing
Author: Larry Alton / Source: Entrepreneur In pursuit of gaining a competitive advantage in crowded industries, many brands offer money-back guarantees. The idea is that they build trust with customers and remove any unnecessary friction from the conversion...
Why Life Is Too Short to Work Somewhere You Don’t Care About
Author: Venturer / Source: Entrepreneur On this episode, Entrepreneur Network partner Venturer spotlights founder and CEO of Jurni Inc. Edreece Arghandiwal, who tells his story of weighing traditional Afghan views on work and entrepreneurship, and how deaths...
Why Your Startup Doesn’t Need Significant (if any) Early Stage Funding to Succeed
Author: Reuben Yonatan / Source: The Huffington Post For startup founders, money is close to the first thing on your mind. While it is important to properly manage your financials, it isn’t a good idea to pursue early — stage funding. Venture capitalists and...
Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 26
Author: Erin Griffith / Source: Fortune Good morning! New Money: Education startup EverFi has raised a giant new round of funding from Rise, social impact fund managed by TPG Growth. A few notes, via my colleague Robert Hackett: This the third-largest ever...
Spotify acquires blockchain startup Mediachain to solve music’s attribution problem
Author: Sarah Perez / Source: TechCrunch Spotify has acquired the Brooklyn-based blockchain startup Mediachain Labs, whose team will join the company’s office in New York where they will work on developing better technology for connecting artists and other...
Huddly raises $10M to “reinvent the camera” with a computer-vision platform for video meetings
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch Huddly, a Norway-based startup that sells a camera targeting remote company meetings (or huddles) and is building out what it describes as a “computer-vision” platform to help managers glean better data from those...
Paktor, a major rival to Tinder in Asia, moves into live-streaming via merger deal
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Dating app Paktor, often dubbed ‘The Tinder of Southeast Asia,’ just sealed up its move into live-streaming and media content after it announced a merger deal with Taiwanese startup 17 Media. Under the deal, a new...
OverOps scores $30 million led by Lightspeed Ventures
Author: Ron Miller / Source: TechCrunch OverOps, a startup that wants to help companies find software bugs more efficiently than by pouring over log files, announced a $30 million Series C round led by Lightspeed Ventures with participation from Menlo...
9 Computational Drug Discovery Startups Using AI
Author: Nanalyze / Source: Nanalyze Recently we talked before how big data is the new frontier with just .05% of all data available today having been analyzed. There are really two reasons why this number is so low: 98% of big data has only been created in...
Credit Suisse Plans $4 Billion Rights Offering, No Swiss IPO
Source: SWI swissinfo.ch (Bloomberg) -- Credit Suisse Group AG announced plans to raise $4 billion in a rights offering, abandoning plans to hold a partial initial public offering of its Swiss business. “We have decided not to pursue a partial initial public offering...
Oddup raises US$6M from Times Group and Spotify to help VCs rate startups before investing; to expand to India
Author: Sainul Abudheen / Source: Yahoo! News Oddup, a Hong Kong-based online research platform that provides transparency to startup investing using data and analysis, has raised US$6 million in Series A funding led by Brand Capital, the investment arm of...
And the WRAL TechWire Startup Award Winners Are…
Source: ExitEvent Tuesday night’s WRAL TechWire Awards were as much a celebration of the Triangle’s progress as a tech hub as recognition of the impressive technology companies and executives here. A sold out crowd gathered at Google Fiber’s new space in Raleigh for...