Full Harvest raises $2 million to stop farmers from tossing ‘ugly’ fruit and veggies
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding to reduce food waste at the farm level. Founded by Christine Moseley, formerly the head of business development for cold-pressed...
B3: Azul Holds Initial Public Offering
Source: Mondo Visione B3 welcomed airline Azul S.A. (ticker AZUL4) in a ceremony that marked its first initial public offering (IPO) and the start of trading in AZUL4 stock on Corporate Governance Level 2 this Tuesday, April 11. The ceremony was attended by Edemir...
Are You Losing Followers? Ask Yourself These Questions.
Author: Kelsey Humphreys / Source: Entrepreneur As a media entrepreneur trying to grow my online readership, YouTube viewership and audio listenership, I understand the struggle that is building a tribe. With fewer and fewer gatekeepers, the floodgates have...
3 Reasons That Experiential Learning Boosts Performance
Author: Phil Geldart / Source: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs and business owners, like all executives, are tasked with keeping an eye on business growth and ensuring that employees’ skills and values remain in line with the emerging needs of the organization....
Marble and Yelp Eat24 start robot food delivery in San Francisco
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Rules governing the use of food delivery robots remain to be seen across the US. But major food businesses are investigating the possibilities already. In the latest deal, Yelp Eat24 has begun testing delivery by...
6 Tips and Tricks to Get the Most Downloads for Your App
Author: Andrew Tang / Source: Entrepreneur Many startups spend huge amounts of money on advertising, yet neglect app store optimization. App store optimization is the most cost-effective method to organically increase your installs for a couple of reasons:...
Intel’s Kim Pallister and sci-fi novelist/Magic Leap game designer Austin Grossman at GamesBeat Summit
Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat Kim Pallister, director of Intel’s virtual reality center of excellence, will moderate a fireside chat with science fiction writer and Magic Leap game maker Austin Grossman our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2017: How...
Expansion Time? Altice Files with SEC for an Initial Public Offering
Author: Laura Hamilton / Source: CED The U.S. arm of European-based operator Altice NV, Altice USA, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) this week in an effort to potentially haul in $1 billion to $2 billion. Or at least those were the numbers...
Start-Ups Need to Stop Prioritizing Investments Over Sales & Silicon Valley Needs to Stop Making Up Valuations
Source: The Huffington Post If you take a trip across the digital landscape, you will see self-proclaimed entrepreneurs cropping up left and right. Sprinkled across the infinite plots are solopreneurs, proudly self-declared unemployable. These iconoclasts are...
The Family Office Index: 35 Chicago Family Offices Investing in Tech Startups
Author: Utsav Gandhi / Source: Chicago Inno With traditional venture capital, angel investors, private equity and newer models like equity crowdfunding, entrepreneurs today have more access to capital than ever before. Now, add to this list: the growing...
Megadeals Drive Uptick In Venture Investment, But VCs Remain Cautious
Author: Robert Hof / Source: Forbes U.S. megarounds Venture funding for startups is looking a little more promising--but only a little. The quarterly MoneyTree Report on investment in venture-backed companies, issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers and CB...
India-based doctor booking platform Lybrate quietly raises $3M more
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Indian health tech startup Lybrate has raised $3 million in new funding, according to a filing in the U.S., where it is incorporated. Lybrate declined to comment on the filing, nor would it provide details of the...
Orbital Systems raises $15M Series B for ‘NASA-inspired’ tech to save water when showering
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch Orbital Systems, a ‘clean-tech’ startup out of Sweden, has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The company’s founder and CEO Mehrdad Mahdjoubi has developed new re-purification technology, in collaboration with...
Zen Rooms raises $4.1M to expand its budget hotel network in Southeast Asia
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Zen Rooms, a budget hotel network targeted predominantly at Southeast Asia, has closed a $4.1 million Series A round to expand its presence in the region. The company, which was first founded by Rocket Internet in...
Index leads $5M Series A in Beamery’s ‘CRM for recruitment’
Author: Natasha Lomas / Source: TechCrunch London-based Beamery has closed a $5 million Series A for its candidate relationship software. The round is led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Edenred Capital Partners, GP Ventures and...
Newhall Land parent FivePoint files for initial public offering
Author: Patrick Mullen / Source: Santa Clarita Valley Signal FivePoint’s local offices in Valencia. Jana Adkins/The Signal The privately-held owners of Newhall Land, the developers of Valencia who hope to build another planned community of equal scope at...
China Logistics IPO Heats Up, Alibaba Waits
Author: Dimitra DeFotis / Source: Barrons China’s Best Logistics Technologies is tapping banks Tuesday to participate in a U.S. initial public offering, according to a Wall Street Journal story quoting anonymous sources. Alibaba Group Holdings (BABA) and its...
Virtualitics raises $4.4 million to power its Excel for VR
Author: Lucas Matney / Source: TechCrunch When you have so much data that the real world doesn’t do it justice, why not toss it into virtual reality? Virtualitics is aiming to bring insight through isolation, visualization and manipulation, giving you a...