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Today’s Deals – UK-based AI startup Gluru is building a smarter task manager
Gluru, a UK-based startup that’s building an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered task manager, has raised a $2 million seed round. Backers include Sussex Place Ventures, SaatchInvest, Gecad, and Playfair Capital. It brings total funding for Gluru to $3.5 million. Read More
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Today’s Deals – Sauce Labs sops up $70 million round
Sauce Labs, a cloud-based software testing service, announced a $70 million round today. The investment is more than double the $31 million the company had raised across four previous rounds and brings the total investment to $101 million. Centerview Capital Technology, IVP, and Adams Street Partners all participated. Under the terms of the deal, Buno Pati, partner at Centerview and… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Musement, a “digital travel companion” and ticketing platform, raises $10M Series B
Musement, a “digital travel companion” that lets travellers discover and book things to do, has closed $10 million in Series B funding. The round was led by family fund Micheli Associati, with participation from previous backers P101, and 360 Capital Partners.
Founded and launched in 2013, Musement aims to consolidate the tours and activities market by providing a single online… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Marvel acquires prototyping tool POP
Back in May, Woomoo, the startup behind app prototyping tool POP, was acqui-hired by Priceline, leaving POP’s future a little uncertain. Today that uncertainty comes to an end with news that the U.K.’s Marvel, a rival web and app design platform, has acquired the company’s tech and user-base and will soon migrate POP’s 500,000 users over to its own wares. Terms of the… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Echo app aims to take the hassle out of ordering repeat prescriptions
A UK startup is angling to build a business out of simplifying the repeat prescription ordering process for NHS GP surgeries via an app, called Echo, that lets patients use their smartphones to make a request for more of their usual medication from their doctor. Read More
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Today’s Deals – DroneBase raises from Union Square to pay any pilot for aerial footage
That drone in your closet could earn you some money thanks to DroneBase, a startup that delivers aerial data and footage to business clients. DroneBase’s new Pilot Program lets drone owners find gigs nearby where they can fly 10-minute missions, upload the assets, and get paid if a DroneBase clients wants to buy the info. By connecting idle pilots with needy businesses, DroneBase can… Read More
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Today’s Deals – xAd raises $42.5M more, buys WeatherBug to boost location-specific marketing
xAd, the ad network that serves you ads in apps and mobile web pages based on your location, is today announcing another hefty round of funding, as well as its first acquisition in the world of consumer apps to grow its audience and data set. The company has raised $42.5 million, and it’s buying WeatherBug, the popular weather app that competes with the likes of the Weather Channel… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Zugata raises $7 million to make annual performance reviews obsolete
Even before they began to graduate from college, millennials drove changes at work, from management and recruiting practices to the design of office interiors. But companies are still adapting and figuring out what matters most to this large demographic and employee base. Now, a tech startup called Zugata has raised $7 million in Series A venture funding to replace the crusty old… Read More
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Today’s Deals – Nutmeg, the UK digital wealth manager, picks up further £30M funding
Nutmeg, the U.K. digital wealth manager (and an early entrant into the space), has picked up £30 million in further funding, bringing the total raised to just shy of £60 million over the last 5 years. Leading the round are Hong Kong-based independent financial advisory firm Convoy, which is investing £24 million. Nutmeg’s existing backers — including Schroders, Balderton… Read More
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