According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Apple has acquired Emotient, an artificial intelligence startup. The company confirmed the move to the WSJ. The San Diego-based company was founded in 2012 and has raised $8M from investors like Intel Capital and Seth Neiman, and had been tinkering around with products like Google Glass and other wearables. Most recently the company was… Read More
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It was only last July that HomeToGo, a European ‘metasearch’ engine for holiday rentals, raised €6 million in Series A funding. And now competitor Holidu has gotten in on the fundraising action. The Munich-based company has closed a €5 million Series A round led by EQT ventures. Also participating is Venture Stars, and Senovo, who join existing angel investors led by… Read More
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PushDoctor, the U.K. ‘on-demand’ service that enables you to have a video consultation with a doctor, has raised $8.2 million in funding — money it plans to use to develop the data side of its offering to improve the way it integrates with other healthcare providers and to significantly bolster marketing. Read More
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Tracxn, a company that tracks and analyzes data about startups, has added entrepreneur Ratan Tata as an angel investor. Though the amount of new funding was undisclosed, Tata’s contribution is noteworthy because he is one of India’s most renowned businessmen. The former chairman of conglomerate Tata Group, Tata began investing in tech startups last year. His portfolio now… Read More
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Cloudability, a cloud service that helps companies manage and optimize their cloud spending, announced today that it was buying DataHero, a cloud service that helps non-technical users generate data visualization. It’s the fourth small startup Cloudability has bought since last March as the company uses its wallet to add engineering talent and build its customer base. It did not… Read More
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Xfers, a startup that wants to simplify bank transfers, announced today that it has raised a $2.5 million seed round. Based in Singapore, Xfers plans to use the funding to expand into Indonesia during the first quarter of this year before tackling other markets in Southeast Asia. The Y Combinator alum will also continue building its technology platform, which can be integrated with many… Read More
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Oracle continues to ramp up its business in the area of marketing tech. Today the enterprise software giant announced that it has acquired AddThis, which makes sharing features (ie, those buttons on web pages that let you share stories or follow accounts on Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and audience tracking technology for online publishers and marketers. AddThis says it currently… Read More
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We’re only in the first week of January, but already Southeast Asia has seen its first merger of significance. Female-focused e-commerce players Moxy, which is present in Thailand and Indonesia, and Bilna, an Indonesian startup from ex-Groupon Indonesia founders, have joined forces. Read More
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Cuvva, a burgeoning startup based in Scotland, is solving a problem that I didn’t know existed: the need to insure a car for as little as an hour. Read More
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Snapcart, an Indonesia-based startup that runs a service offering consumers rewards in exchange for scans of their shopping receipts, has closed $1.675 million in funding just four months after launch. Read More
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