Real-time video streaming service PhenixP2P raises $3.5M
Author: Frederic Lardinois / Source: TechCrunch PhenixP2P, one of the five finalists in our 2016 Disrupt London Battlefield competition, today announced that it has raised a $3.5 million Series A round led by KB Partners. With this, the company has now...
Pluto AI raises $2.1 million to bring intelligence to water treatment
Author: John Mannes / Source: TechCrunch Former 500 Startups accelerator company Pluto AI is announcing $2.1 million in fundraising today from Fall Line Capital, Refactor Capital, Unshackled Ventures, Comet Labs and additional angels. Pluto is taking...
Vimcar, a Berlin startup that offers hardware and an app to manage company fleets, raises $5.5M
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch Vimcar, a startup out of Berlin, is developing a clever tech solution to help small to medium-sized companies manage their car fleets. It consists of an internet-connected aftermarket “OBDII” adapter that plugs into...
Competing With Heavily Funded Startups Without VC Funding
Author: Sramana Mitra / Source: The Huffington Post There are always competitors who have been longer in the game and who are better funded. But it doesn’t mean they will be the winners in the marathon. A startup is a marathon, not a sprint. Gobs of VC money...
Amino raises $25 million to match patients with doctors best qualified to help them
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Find-a-doctor app Amino has raised $25 million in a Series C round of venture funding, according to CEO and co-founder David Vivero. Highland Capital led the investment joined by Accel, Aspect Ventures, CRV,...
New Clerky tools help startups hire and raise funds without running into legal problems
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Clerky may not be a household name like TurboTax today, but the company’s business formation software has been called a “secret weapon” by startup founders in Silicon Valley for years. Many Y Combinator co-founders...
RedDoorz raises $1m in venture debt to grow in the crowded budget hotel space
Author: Michael Tegos / Source: Tech in Asia It was around 2014 when Amit Saberwal thought to himself: “If I don’t become an entrepreneur now, I never will.” It wasn’t an easy decision either. He was working for Indian travel booking website MakeMyTrip,...
Facebook Now Allows You to Create Fundraisers
Author: Lesya Liu / Source: Entrepreneur Tune in April 7 and find out how to provide stellar customer care with social media in our free webinar. Register Now » In an attempt to become a one-stop-shop for literally everything you do online, Facebook waged a...
Why Chat OS is the next logical step for team communications
Author: Bhavin Turakhia / Source: VentureBeat Above: A Microsoft logo is seen at a pop-up site for the new Windows 10 operating system at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York July 29, 2015. Technology has evolved at a lightning pace during the past two...
Sorry Windows, Android Is the World’s Most Popular OS
Author: Angela Moscaritolo / Source: Entrepreneur According to new data from web traffic analytics firm StatCounter, Google's Android is the most popular operating system worldwide, beating out Microsoft's Windows for the first time. Android is now the top...
Raising Capital? The Latest (and Greatest) Ways to Fund Your Startup
Author: Sina Chehrazi / Source: Entrepreneur 2017 is poised to be a promising year for venture capital activity. Startup companies -- and the venture capital funds that invest in them -- enjoyed a blistering 2015 in which investors deployed $60 billion in...
Technology has eaten the world
Author: Darius Lahoutifard / Source: VentureBeat A few years ago, Marc Andreessen first declared that “software is eating the world.” We have been mostly inclined to intuitively believe the trend he was referring to, but we were missing undisputable proof....
EFF’s Privacy Badger passes 1 million users
Author: Emil Protalinski / Source: VentureBeat The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced that its free browser extension Privacy Badger has passed 1 million users. This figure accounts for the three platforms the tool is available for: Google...
TV streaming app Molotov now has 1 million users
Author: Romain Dillet / Source: TechCrunch French startup Molotov is trying to define the future of TV. It’s a promising start as there are now one million registered users on the platform — the service is only available in France. On average, users spend 80...
How to Train Your Brain for Peak Performance
Author: Lewis Howes / Source: Entrepreneur The top expert in bio-hacking is looking younger and healthier than ever. And he’s several years older than when I first met him. I’m thinking you’re already familiar with him either because: You’ve had some...
Unicorn India Ventures backs micro-lending startup SmartCoin
Author: Varun Arora / Source: VCCircle Bangalore-based SmartCoin Financials Pvt. Ltd, which operates micro-lending startup SmartCoin, has raised an undisclosed amount in a funding round led by early-stage venture fund Unicorn India Ventures. A clutch of...
Done Correctly, Your Internship Program Could Generate Serious Cash
Author: Heather R. Huhman / Source: Entrepreneur At the IMA Financial Group in Denver, public relations manager James Williams knows firsthand the value of a great intern. Last summer, Williams and his office got to enjoy treats an intern made as an...
‘Shortage of VC funding, not of black entrepreneurs’
Author: Hadlee Simons / Source: Ventureburn The US has no shortage of black entrepreneurs. The shortage rather is one of funding for black entrepreneurs, says Monique Woodard of 500 Startups. Woodard, speaking at Startup Grind Cape Town last week Friday as...