The great Elon Musk empire is uniting. Today his electric car and battery company Tesla announced its offer to acquire his solar panel installation company SolarCity. Together the companies could allow you to outfit your home with solar panels that power a giant battery for everything inside as well as your electric car. The deal still has to be approved by SolarCity and its board. If it… Read More
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Juniqe, the European marketplace for curated art, has closed €14 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is growth venture fund Highland Europe — which has been very active of late — alongside existing investors Vorwerk Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, and Redalpine. Read More
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Collaborative prototyping and design tool InVision has raised a $55M Series D round led by Iconiq Capital, the venture firm known for investing funds for Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, among others. Existing investors Accel Partners and FirstMark Capital also participated in the round. The cash infusion comes a little less than a year after a $45M Series C. While the startup… Read More
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It is finally confirmed: Tencent has announced that it has acquired a majority ownership of Supercell, the Swedish firm behind hit game Clash Of Clans, for around $8.6 billion. Read More
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Drones have numerous applications in security, inspection, and other major roles at industrial facilities, but in many cases manual control is still the standard. Tel Aviv-based Airobotics aims to automate the process as an alternative to costly and involved human pilots, and has raised $28.5 million to do so. Read More
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Trust greases the wheels of the sharing economy, paving the way for transactions to take place between total strangers. But figuring out who is trustworthy and who is not remains a sticky bottleneck for digital businesses wanting to scale faster. Meanwhile the consequences for customers when startups screw up these risk calculations can be very unpleasant indeed. Read More
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Highland Europe’s new €332 million fund promised to help fill the €10-30 million ‘growth gap’, and, true to its word, the VC firm’s latest invest sees it lead a €27 million ($30m) Series A round in London-based Condeco. The startup offers what is calls workspace utilisation and meeting room scheduling software to blue-chip clients. Read More
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A new startup from one of the founders of Rocket Internet’s beauty and wellness marketplace Vaniday is de-cloaking today. Convargo, launching in France, is the latest attempt to bring Uber-like convenience to the shipping industry, by connecting shippers with truckers. Read More
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ClearTax, which helps Indians file their tax returns online with minimum stress, is on a roll this year. The Bengaluru-based company, which graduated Y Combinator two years ago, announced a $12 million Series A round today, just one month after closing a $2 million seed round following an initial $1.3 million raise. Read More
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London-based startup Beamery, formerly known as Seed.Jobs, has raised $2 million in a seed round from Edenred Capital Partners and Grupa Pracuj, a human resources tech firm. Beamery makes software that helps recruiters or employers identify, get connected to and nurture relationships with prospective hires, long before they apply for a job. The company’s client roster includes employers… Read More
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