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Fiverr goes beyond $5 with $60M Series D round

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Airbnb Community Compact aims to win back your love

Airbnb wants to turn over a new leaf.In a new post on its Public Policy Blog, the company has released Read More

The Candy Crush movie arrives, courtesy of Steven Colbert

Last week two things happened in quick succession that, frankly, made me pretty worried. First, Activision bought Candy Crush studio Read More

Daily funding roundup – November 11, 2015

Last week an article in New York Magazine outlined a growing problem in businesses: the fight over meeting space. There are now Read More

Video: Vator’s Ezra Roizen on the Vator Investment Club

At Vator Splash LA 2015, Ezra Roizen, Managing Director of Vator Investment Club, talked about "Backing our startups and how we Read More

EventBoard raises $6.5M, debuts new dashboard

Last week an article in New York Magazine outlined a growing problem in businesses: the fight over meeting space. There Read More

The balloon deflates as investor devalues Snapchat by 25%

Is the age of the unicorn coming to an end? It certainly seems like it, especially since late stage investors Read More

Daily funding roundup – November 10, 2015

Trucking remains the most widely used way of shipping goods, with heavy duty semi-trucks being responsible for shipping 70% of Read More

Free sales assistant Spiro raises $1.5M seed round

Spiro, a personal sales assistant for iOS, announced today at the Sales Stack Conference in San Francisco that it has Read More

500 Startups sets up $15M fund to invest in Nordic countries

I recently booked myself a trip to Iceland in January (I'm pretty excited since I haven't left the country since Read More

Video: Sky Media’s Hilary Perchard on strategic investors

At Vator Splash LA 2015, Hilary Perchard, Vice President of Business Development at Sky Media talked about why strategic investors are Read More

Transfix raises $12M to automate freight shipping

I recently drove up from Los Angeles back to the Bay Area (with a stop in the middle at Hearst Read More

Twitter’s board is about to see a big shakeup

It has been fascinating to watch all the ways that Jack Dorsey has been attempting to turn Twitter around since Read More

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