U2’s The Edge invests in Coras’ ‘event ticketing under one API’ in €1.9M fundraise
Author: Mike Butcher / Source: TechCrunch In the ticketing world you have hotels.com and booking.com for hotels, CarTrawler for car hire and Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport for airlines. All of these have a similar business model called open distribution. But...
ffVC and NYU are mixing researchers with investors in the name of machine intelligence
Author: John Mannes / Source: TechCrunch The timing was perfect. Just as startups were settling into NYU and ffVC’s new brains-meet-money accelerator, “AI Nexus Lab,” Uber acquired Geometric Intelligence. In a stroke of luck, the startup that would become...
There’s a new buyer on the security tech block with Armor’s $89 million new round
Author: Jonathan Shieber / Source: TechCrunch Security technology services provider Armor is getting ready to do some shopping for new technology thanks to $89 million in fresh funding. The company, which was majority owned by the private equity firm The...
Sharethebus becomes Bus.com and raises $5M for event shuttle management
Author: Darrell Etherington / Source: TechCrunch It’s actually a pretty great URL: Bus.com. It’s also a much better brand identity than Sharethebus, which is the old name of the company that just raised a $5 million Series A round from Jackson Square...
7 Things Entrepreneurs Need to Know About the State of Venture Capital
Author: Nina Zipkin / Source: Entrepreneur Raising venture funding is never easy, but it would seem that the industry as a whole is trending in a positive if more measured direction. While there has been a slight increase in the amount of money that was...
Exclusive: Health-tech startup Konsult raises seed funding
Author: Shruti Jain / Source: VCCircle Delhi-based healthcare tele-consultation platform Konsult App Pvt Ltd has raised $500,000 (Rs 3.25 crore) in two rounds of seed funding from a consortium of investors from the US, the UK, Netherlands and Australia. Koen...
Free Drink App Hooch Is Growing A Market By Giving Its Products Away
Author: Cheryl Conner / Source: Forbes This week I spoke to Lin Dai, CEO of NY-based Hooch, about an interesting approach to PR. Since its inception in 2015, Hooch has been steadily growing audience to 100K subscribers, many of whom are paying $9.99 per...
3 Unusual Ways to Get the Support You Need
Author: Natalie MacNeil / Source: Entrepreneur On this episode, Entrepreneur Network partner Natalie MacNeil explains the double-edged sword of entrepreneurship. While it is incredibly liberating to be able to make your own decisions, it's also easy to get...
How to Protect Your Assets in Every Situation
Author: Mark Kohler / Source: Entrepreneur In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Mark Kohler discusses the importance of protecting yourself from your assets . . . and your assets from yourself. Whether you have a problem with a rental property or an...
The 4 Ways to Discover Your Purpose in Life
Author: Patrick Bet-David / Source: Entrepreneur In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Patrick Bet-David explains the four ways to discover your purpose in life and the three types of people he meets while giving his inspirational speeches. Which way...
The 4-Step Guide to Getting Paid to Do What You Love
Author: Greg Rollett / Source: Entrepreneur Everyone wants to get paid to do something they love. But, loving a thing -- and even being good at it -- isn't enough. "I love sitting on my hammock and watching my kids play, but I haven't figured out a way to...
Leveraging Technology to Build Your Brand
Author: Business & Burgers / Source: Entrepreneur On our first episode of Business & Burgers, Alan Taylor and Scott Duffy take us to the award-winning Muldoon's Dublin Pub in Newport Beach, Calif. and sit down with world renowned artist, Noah Elias. Elias...
For Easter, Pizza Gets a Makeover With Cadbury Creme Eggs
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur Forget the pepperoni -- Easter is just around the corner, and it’s time to celebrate… with a Cadbury Creme Egg pizza. Before you turn away in disgust, this is no savory-meets-sweet mashup like a spaghetti donut. The...
Warren Buffett’s Face Will Be on Cherry Cokes in China
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur Coca-Cola introduced its Cherry flavor to the Chinese market on March 10, but get this: its cans are adorned with billionaire Warren Buffett’s face. From aspiring investors to everyday people, Buffett’s popularity...
As Hartford mulls tax break, Connecticut venture funding jumps
Author: Alexander Soule / Source: The Hour After two straight sputtering starts to the calendar year, venture financing by Connecticut startups jumped in the first quarter of 2017 even as Hartford legislators weighed whether to prime the sector further by...
Fund crunch vexes biotech start-ups
Author: Express News Service / Source: The New Indian Express There are as many as 1,022 start-ups in the bio-technology sector with one-third of it being run by women entrepreneurs. BENGALURU:Biotechnology start-ups in the country face great difficulty in...
BostInno Departed: Boston Startups That Were Acquired or Shut Down in March
Author: Dylan Martin / Source: BostInno A selection of dresses on Date My Wardrobe's app. This is our second monthly installment of BostInno Departed, our way of tracking Boston-area startups that are no longer independent or no longer exist. For March,...
Grokstyle is putting computer vision to work on home decor with $2M in funding
Author: Devin Coldewey / Source: TechCrunch One of the things I’ve always wanted from technology is the ability to point my phone at something or take a screenshot, and have it say, here’s what that thing is and here’s where you can buy it. Well, my lavish...