Renaud Laplanche had a terrible no good very bad 2016. But the founder and longtime CEO of Lending Club is back with a new lending startup called Upgrade, along with the support of investors who’ve provided the company with $60 million in funding. Read More
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A couple of early-stage venture capital outfits have infused medical practice management platform drchrono with $12 million in Series A financing to help the eight-year-old company compete with EHR incumbents in bigger health organizations like athenahealth and Allscripts. Read More
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Security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski revealed he was joining Apple earlier this month, and now it turns out his Mac security app, Little Flocker, has gone awol because it’s joining F-Secure. Read More
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London-based Triptease, a startup that offers a SaaS to help hotels increase direct sales and therefore keep more revenue, has closed $9 million Series B funding. The new round was led by BGF Ventures, with participation from existing investors Notion Capital and Episode 1 Ventures. Read More
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The timing was perfect. Just as startups were settling into NYU and ffVC’s new brains-meet-money accelerator, “AI Nexus Lab,” Uber acquired Geometric Intelligence. In a stroke of luck, the startup that would become Uber’s AI lab happened to have been raised by NYU Tandon’s Data Future Labs. Uber’s interest in Geometric helped solidify New… Read More
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Coras connects tickets to customers through a global distribution platform so they can purchase tickets through any Coras-connected site. It’s now closed a €1.9 million investment round led by Atlantic Bridge, with participation by The Edge (the guitarist with U2), Hambro Perks and Elkstone Capital. Read More
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It’s actually a pretty great URL: Bus.com. It’s also a much better brand identity than Sharethebus, which is the old name of the company that just raised a $5 million Series A round from Jackson Square Ventures and BMW’s i Ventures investment arm. Bus.com is the destination you’d expect to head to for what the company does, which is organize charter bus trips for… Read More
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Security technology services provider Armor is getting ready to do some shopping for new technology thanks to $89 million in fresh funding. The company, which was majority owned by the private equity firm The Stephens Group, now counts SST Telemedia, a large telecommunications investor, as a co-owner. The Dallas-based company counts 1,200 customers using its managed internet security services… Read More
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Forward Partners, the London-based VC firm originally founded by Forward Internet Group and headed up by Nic Brisbourne, has closed a new £60 million fund to continue investing in tech startups from idea to late Seed stage. Read More
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CheckRecipient is a London startup that uses machine learning to help prevent emails being sent to the wrong recipient. Read More
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