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Daily funding roundup – December 16, 2015

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Digital Guardian raises $66M for data protection

Whatever a certain unimaginably uninformed Republican presidential candidate happens to think about digital encryption, there's one thing most of us Read More

Vator Splash LA 2015 Winner – Kangarootime

Vator Splash LA Class 2015 cohort Kangarootime, took home the gold. Here's the video of Scott Wayman, Kangarootime Founder and CEO, giving the winning presentation.Kangarootime helps Read More

Springboard raises $1.7M seed for mentor-led edtech

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Slack teams with top VCs for $80M developers fund

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Video: What Unicorns looked like at Series A/ Post-Seed

At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Alex Konrad, Staff Writer at Forbes moderated the panel "What Unicorns looked like at Series Read More

Amazon drivers are left out of Seattle driver’s rights bill

Monday was a big day for Uber and Lyft drivers, as the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to allow them to unionize. Yay, Read More

Facebook, Google, Twitter take stronger stand on hate speech

(Updated with comment from Facebook) Hate speech is a tricky area for a lot of people. Of course most of Read More

Backblaze announces open beta for affordable cloud storage

Backblaze, a company we've spoken about before here on Vator, has announced that their cloud storage solution, B2, is now Read More

Android Pay now supports Lyft, Instacart, other apps

Google announced today that Android Pay, its digital wallet platform for in-app and tap-to-pay purchases, can now be used to Read More

Facebook quietly launches new site for professional services

(Updated with comment from Facebook) You hear the same thing every presidential election: that small businesses drive the economy. That Read More

Daily funding roundup – December 15, 2015

Malaysia-based iPrice, which aggregates a multitude of ecommerce sites in Southeast Asia into a single shopping destination, today announced it raised Read More

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