Revolut launches a premium subscription and starts raising a new round
Author: Romain Dillet / Source: TechCrunch Fintech startup Revolut has been a free service and that’s not going to change. But the company is adding a premium tier with more features for £6.99/€8.50/$8.50 per month in 42 European countries. If you sign up to...
Drivemode raises $6.5M from Panasonic and others for smartphone car tech
Author: Darrell Etherington / Source: TechCrunch If you’re an Android device owner and also a driver, you may already be familiar with Drivemode: Available on Google Play, it’s one of the most popular apps for use in cars, with more than one million...
Clarity Money raises another $11 million to help users improve their financial health
Author: Ryan Lawler / Source: TechCrunch Founded by serial entrepreneur Adam Dell, Clarity Money makes a personal finance app that aims to help users lower their monthly bills and improve their financial health along the way. Just three months after launch,...
Online Styling Service Stitch Fix Reportedly Eyeing IPO
Author: Polina Marinova / Source: Fortune This story has been updated with a statement from Stitch Fix. Online styling company Stitch Fix is considering an initial public offering, Bloomberg reports. The startup’s executives have reportedly met with bankers...
Exclusive: Retail tech startup Mobisy Technologies raises bridge round
Author: Vijayakumar Pitchiah / Source: VCCircle The Founding Team of Mobisy Bangalore-based Mobisy Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which operates supply chain automation platform Bizom and mobile marketplace app Distiman, has raised $382,000 (Rs 2.5 crore) in a...
Soundcloud confirms new $70M credit line after failing to close $100M round
Author: Ingrid Lunden / Source: TechCrunch Soundcloud — the popular, but unprofitable platform that lets creators post and share music and other audio files — may have been unsuccessful (so far) in closing a new $100 million round of funding, but it’s not...
Ripcord gets $9.5 million Series A for its corporate file digitization service
Author: Brian Heater / Source: TechCrunch The way Ripcord CEO Alex Fielding discusses chief competitor Iron Mountain, the record keeping company sounds like it runs the warehouse from the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The startup comes out of...
Why Launching Your Startup In A Crowded Market Might Actually Be A Great Idea
Author: Aliya Salakhova / Source: Fast Company No one likes waiting in line at a restaurant, watching other people get seated as the smells of freshly cooked food waft past. But while waiting your turn sucks, especially when you’re hungry, a crowded space is...
6 Tips for Navigating Online Lending Options
Source: Entrepreneur The following excerpt is from Entrepreneur's book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes Small-business owners can have a particularly difficult time getting capital from a bank if they’ve been in business fewer...
Viro wants to make mobile VR development a snap, and raises $2.5M to do it
Author: Devin Coldewey / Source: TechCrunch VR is all over the place, but sometimes it’s not where you most expect it. Plenty of apps out there might could do with a wee bit of VR to help show off an apartment or a bit of 3D content, but those experiences...
Stop Looking at Your IT Department as a Cost Center
Author: Kevin TYamazaki / Source: Entrepreneur In modern business, departments not directly related to operations have had to fight to demonstrate their value. Marketing departments have been the go-to scapegoat, but information technology (IT) departments...
4 Things the New Leader of an Organization Should Do Right Away
Author: Tom Gimbel / Source: Entrepreneur Changing leadership is an adjustment process. It’s a period of excitement, growing pains and hope. While earning the trust and loyalty of an entire organization is a challenge, there are five things an incoming...
How Targeted Marketing Can Improve Your Brand’s Efficiency
Author: Jim Joseph / Source: Entrepreneur When trying to connect customers to your brand, you simply can’t make everyone happy. It’s bad marketing to even try. By its very nature, marketing is all about targeting the right customer for your product, and then...
7 Mobile Trends Every Small Business Should Follow This Year
Author: Kimberly de Silva / Source: Entrepreneur More consumers are experiencing the internet through their phones as opposed to their desktop computers, according to SmartInsights. Mobile has become not only a profitable addition to the marketing toolbox,...
4 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Stores Can Outsell Online Retailers
Author: George Georgallides / Source: Entrepreneur For years, brick-and-mortar retailers have watched as the term “brick-and-mortar” has come to conjure images of an antiquated building, crumbling beneath the overwhelming, far-reaching digital empire of...
Use Video Education Campaigns to Grow Your Business
Author: Jill Schiefelbein / Source: Entrepreneur The following excerpt is from Jill Schiefelbein’s book Dynamic Communication. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound Communicating via video is one of the smartest things you can do to...
A Cambridge Tech Giant Is Getting Ready to Throw Money at Startups
Author: Dylan Martin / Source: BostInno twitter Pegasystems, a publicly traded software company based in Cambridge, is launching a new venture arm to invest in startups. The provider of customer relationship management software announced on Wednesday that...
CL Educate IPO oversubscribed 1.90 times last day
Source: Moneycontrol.com CL Educate's initial public offering sailed through on the last day of the offer today and was oversubscribed 1.90 times. The IPO received bids for 63,26,176 shares against the total issue size of 33,32,000, as per NSE data till 1900 hours....