Back in October 2013, I had dinner with a dozen people in a good-looking Parisian loft. Part of them were working for TheFamily, part of them were entrepreneurs. It was a nice, small dinner talking about startups and the French tech ecosystem. Read More
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Bezar, the design ecommerce platform led by Fab cofounder Bradford Shellhammer, has today announced that it will be acquired by Australian ecommerce site AHALife. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. AHALife has been around since 2011, offering users hard-to-find, luxury design products. They ship to 200 countries and have more than 3,000 handpicked designers and artisans selling their… Read More
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Spotcap, the Rocket Internet-founded fintech startup that operates an online lending platform for small businesses, has beefed up its coffers with €31.5 million in new funding. Read More
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Magic Leap, the much-hyped augmented reality company, doesn’t officially have a product yet, but that isn’t stopping the company from focusing on the potential of the Chinese movie market. The Florida-based company is adding Alibaba founder and executive president Jack Ma to its board of directors as part of an upcoming Series C funding round that values the company at $5 billion. Read More
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Collaborative Fund is bringing on a pretty big partner for a new seed stage fund focused on improving children’s lives — and it’s not someone you’d expect to get into the venture capital game. Craig Shapiro’s venture is launching a new $10 million fund that’s tied with Sesame Workshop, creator of Sesame Street and other children’s programming. The fund… Read More
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Lexumo, a Cambridge, Massachusetts cloud service that continuously checks open source code to be sure it has the latest security updates, announced a solid $4.89 million seed round today. The round was led by Accomplice, .406 Ventures and Draper. What has Lexumo created to warrant that kind of financial attention? It indexed all of the open source code in the world and created a cloud… Read More
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Europe seems to be creating peer-to-peer car rental marketplaces at a rate of knots. There’s heavily-funded Drivy in France, Snappcar in the Netherlands, GoMore in Denmark, and Rentacarlo in the U.K., to name a few.
The latest is Norway’s Nabobil, which opened its doors four months ago and today is disclosing that it’s raised a $600,000 seed round. Backing comes from an… Read More
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Europe seems to be creating peer-to-peer car rental marketplaces at a rate of knots. There’s heavily-funded Drivy in France, Snappcar in the Netherlands, GoMore in Denmark, and Rentacarlo in the U.K., to name a few.
The latest is Norway’s Nabobil, which opened its doors four months ago and today is disclosing that it’s raised a $600,000 seed round. Backing comes from an… Read More
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Kaizen, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-based user interface marketplace and testing platform, plans to increase its presence in the United States after raising an $8 million Series B. Read More
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I can barely keep up with the amount of new venture capital sloshing around Europe, as new funds are closed. And, if my sources are correct, we aren’t done yet. The latest to close a new fund is Stockholm and Palo Alto-based Creandum. ‘Creandum IV’ is a €180 million early-stage fund, and will be primarily targeting seed and Series A investments, but also follow-on rounds,… Read More
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