May 31, 2017
Read Mary Meeker’s essential 2017 Internet Trends report
This is the best way to get up to speed on everything going on in tech. Kleiner Perkins venture partner Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report is essentially…
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May 30, 2017
How to price your IPO
If pops are hard to vet, and IPO pricing remains an art-science hybrid, what measuring stick can we use to decide when an IPO did well, versus gains…
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Epic! raises $8 million to keep kids reading in a digital age
The makers of Epic!, one of many apps jockeying to become a “Netflix for books,” have raised $8 million in a round led by Reach Capital, the education-specialized…
Read articleMay 23, 2017
Merlon Intelligence raises $7.65 million in seed financing to combat money laundering
Flightcaster, Prismatic and now Merlon Intelligence. Bradford Cross, founder of the venture capital firm Data Collective is a known figure in the ranks of VCs who have caught the entrepreneurship bug,…
Read articleMay 22, 2017
Apple Pay now supports higher value transactions at most UK contactless tills
If the UK’s £30 contactless payment limit was holding back greater adoption of Apple’s biometric contactless payment tech, Apple Pay, the company should expect to see uplift in…
Read articleMay 16, 2017
Cadre and Point are betting that the best way to win in real estate is to disrupt the market
On the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt, the founders of two of the hottest startups in real estate, Cadre and Point articulated the inefficiencies of today’s real estate markets and expressed optimism in…
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Apple is shoring up Siri for its next generation of intelligent devices
Siri is a critical component of Apple’s vision for the future, so integral that it was willing to spend $200 million to acquire Lattice Data over the weekend. The startup was working to…
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CreditHero wants to help fix credit scores for those afraid to even look
With apps and services for investing and checking credit scores, it might seem like financial services are finally getting more mainstream. But people still need to have decent…
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NuCypher is using proxy re-encryption to lift more enterprise big data into the cloud
After spending time at a London fintech accelerator last year, enterprise database startup ZeroDB scrapped its first business plan and mapped out a new one. By January this…
Read articleMay 12, 2017
Our favorite startups from 500 Startups’ 20th class
41 startups graced the stage at 500 Startups’ 20th demo day at the Parc55 hotel in downtown San Francisco. The event came complete with mascots, a summer of love…
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