Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley may be Silicon Valley’s best-known tech bubble doomsayer, but he took a positive view of the early stage investments in an onstage interview at the Wall Street Journal Live conference, Tuesday.
“Earliest stage is probably the most insulated from this,” he told the audience of his belief we are in an impending bubble pop.
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Enterprise health insurance services platform Collective Health has raised a healthy $81 million in Series C funding to help the startup continue to grow its team as well as cover the U.S. market. Ali Diab co-founded Collective Health with his friend Rajaie Batniji, a physician and political economist at Stanford University after Diab had a terrible experience going the rounds with his… Read More
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Stealthy San Francisco-based digital healthcare startup Amino has been quietly amassing a database of U.S. consumer healthcare data since late 2013 to underpin the product it’s launching today: a search platform powered by heathcare transaction data from 188 million Americans — garnered from U.S. health insurance data — to make it easier for consumers to locate a doctor or… Read More
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Yet more consolidation afoot in the world of digital music, and a new chapter for eMusic, one of the very first sites that let you download music in the form of MP3 files. The company has been acquired by TriPlay, a startup based out of Israel and NYC that operates various online media services, including MyMusicCloud. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The companies say that it was… Read More
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There is no shortage of sites that help you book your travel, whether it be Expedia or Orbitz or Priceline. But the inspiration for that travel often comes from content created by travel experts in the media business. Curacity, a new startup formed by EveryDay Health cofounder Michael Keriakos, aims to change that with a fresh $1.4 million seed round, led by Greycroft. SBNY, Pinnacle… Read More
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Google’s services are not available in China, but that isn’t stopping it from making a significant investment in the company. The U.S. search giant is backing Mobvoi, a three-year-old company specializing in mobile voice technology, to the tune of more than $60 million. Read More
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Attune Technologies, a startup that makes cloud-based software for hospitals and labs, will tackle markets outside of India after scoring a $10 million Series B round from Qualcomm Ventures and returning investor Norwest Venture Partners. Read More
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Time Inc., the New York-based publishing company with over 90 magazines in its stable, has announced the acquisition of a lifestyle, pop culture and beauty website called Hello Giggles. Though the terms of the deal weren’t publicly disclosed, the WSJ reports that one source puts the deal in the $20 million range. Hello Giggles was launched in May 2011 and was founded by none other… Read More
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StreetHub, the U.K. startup that’s helping independent shops and boutiques be discovered and sell online, has raised a further $2.6 million in funding. It’a also launching a new brand and consumer-facing offering: Trouva is an e-commerce site that promises to curate and make available items to buy from its 350-strong network of independent shops and boutiques. Read More
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HeadBox is a newly-launched marketplace in the U.K. for ‘creative, inspiring and off-site spaces’. It enables corporate, SME, and private bookers to find and book spaces for things like launch events and parties, off-site meetings, workshops or basically any kind of occasion that requires a setting that moves slightly beyond the everyday. Read More
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