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Today’s Entrepreneur: Pavan Kumar

Today's Entrepreneur is Pavan Kumar, Co-founder and CTO at Cocoon Cam. Cocoon Cam is a patent pending non-invasive video monitor and Read More

Simppler raises $1.2M to organize employee referrals

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Didi Kuaidi funds Ola as Uber’s rivals start to team up

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M&A roundup – week ending 9/26/15

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Meet Ben Narasin, General Partner at Canvas Venture Fund

There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or Read More

Daily funding roundup – September 25, 2015

Thailand-based fashion marketplace company WearYouWant has received an undisclosed amount in a Series B round led by publicly listed Japanese e-commerce Read More

Which universities produce the most VC-backed startups?

Ever since the launch of Facebook, the image of the tech entrepreneur has shifted from Steve Jobs in his garage Read More

How does Spotify make money?

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Today’s Entrepreneur: Charles Gillig

Today's Entrepreneur is Charles Gillig, Co-founder and CEO at RemitRight. RemitRight is a comparison platform for international money transfers, the KAYAK Read More

August snaps 12-month streak of $1B in early-stage funding

Just when you thought $1 billion was the new standard of monthly investment into early-stage financing, the numbers tipped backwards.  Read More

Uber in Oakland, what does it mean? The tech scene weighs in

On Wednesday Uber, the highest valued company in the world, announced that it is coming to Oakland! The company is Read More

The new Ledge app lets you easily lend money to friends

Peer-to-peer lending platform, Ledge, launched today thanks in part to a recent funding round nearing $1 million. At its core, Read More

Daily funding roundup – September 24, 2015

Crowdway, a Milan, Italy-based smart platform that generates news and analysis about financial markets, raised €150,000 ($167,400) in seed funding. Backers included TIM Read More

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