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AnalyticsMD Applies AI To Optimize The ER
AnalyticsMD, which is launching out of Y Combinator’s latest batch, is a startup tackling a difficult but very worthwhile problem: how to boost the operational efficiency of hospitals and improve patient care by helping staff make better choices about how resources are allocated. Its founders liken their product to an “air traffic controller for the hospital and healthcare… Read More
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Samsung Reports Lowest Annual Profit In Three Years Due To Lagging Smartphone Sales
Samsung Electronics reported its lowest annual profit since 2011 during its earnings call today as its smartphone sales continue to suffer from increasing competition. In 2014, the company’s profit was 25 trillion won, a 32 percent drop from a high of 36.8 trillion won in 2013. Read More
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Formation 8 And Palantir Founder Joe Lonsdale Named In Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Joe Lonsdale, the technology executive best known as the co-founder of Palantir and a partner of venture capital firm Formation 8, has been accused of gender violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and other charges in a civil lawsuit filed this week in San Francisco. Formation 8 is also named as a defendant in the suit. Reached today for comment, Lonsdale categorically denied all of… Read More
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Spoil Takes The Hunt Out Of Gift-Giving
Y Combinator-backed Spoil is looking to take the pain out of gift-giving with the launch of its personalized gift concierge service. Read More
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AutoBot Raises $6M To Drive Development Of Its Car Diagnostic Tools
AutoBot, a Beijing startup that makes diagnostic tools for cars (not the robots in disguise), has raised a $6 million Series A from Gobi Partners and ABC Capital. The company will use the funding for marketing, hiring and product research and development. AutoBot’s main product is the AutoBot Mini OBD (on-board diagnostic) device, which users can plug into their car’s OBD-II outlet… Read More
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Up Close With Coinbase Exchange
It’s been a few days since Coinbase launched its official Exchange, a dashboard for active bitcoin traders that lets you buy and sell based on real-time pricing. I thought I’d sit down and put it through its paces and see just how usable this tool was for the average BTC fan, as well as folks who might want to add BTC to their trading regimen. Read More
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Facebook Now Has Over 3B Video Views Per Day
If it’s starting to feel like every visit you make to Facebook these days is full of videos, you are not alone. Facebook today reported in a strong set of Q4 earnings that there are 3 billion videos viewed on its site each day. With the company also reporting daily active users of 890 million, this works out to more than 3 videos per day. Facebook more specifically later noted that… Read More
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More Than Half A Billion People Access Facebook Solely From Mobile
It seems that with every earnings report, we hit another milestone in Facebook’s shift to mobile. Here’s the latest one: 526 million of its monthly active users access Facebook solely from their mobile devices. That’s up from 456 million in the previous quarter, and it’s an increase of around 78 percent from the 296 million mobile-only users that Facebook saw during… Read More
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Facebook’s Powerful Ad Tools Grew Its Revenue 25X Faster Than User Count
Facebook’s been a quest to improve its ad measurement, and it’s definitely paying off. In Q4 2014, Facebook’s user count in the US & Canada only grew by a tiny 0.97% from 204 million to 206 million, but the average ad revenue it earns from each of those users grew 24% from $6.64 to $8.26. That’s insane. Jawdropping. If you’re an ad geek you’re… Read More
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Is This WebRTC’s Year?
WebRTC is an open-source standard (spearheaded by Google in 2012 through the World Wide Web Consortium) enabling browsers to make voice or video calls without needing any plug-ins. Using WebRTC, a user can establish a voice or video call by clicking on a button in a browser representing the other endpoint. Read More
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Tumblr Takes On Medium With Upgrades To Its Writing Interface And More
Starting today, Tumblr is rolling out a series of updates to its online blogging platform designed to make the service more attractive and useful for content creators, and specifically for those writing long-form content. The move comes at a time when publishing platform Medium, co-founded by former Twitter CEO Evan Williams, is growing in popularity thanks to its simple and clean user… Read More
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Facebook Beats Estimates In Q4 With $3.85B Revenue, User Growth Up To 3.2% QOQ To Hit 1.39B
Facebook beat the street’s estimates for the 10th straight quarter in Q4 2014. It now has 1.393 billion users, up 3.18% quarter over quarter, which was a little faster than Q3’s 2.2% but slower than Q2’s 3.125%. The company brought in $0.54 EPS on $3.85 billion in revenue. Mobile made up 69% of ad revenue compared to 66% last quarter, showing its business is now firmly… Read More
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ScottEVest Founder Puts In Bid For SkyMall
It’s back! Venerable SkyMall, that inflight catalog full of stepping stools for dogs and hearing gadgets, may have a second life thanks to the larger-than-life CEO of ScottEVest, Scott Jordan. Jordan, who we interviewed at CES this year, is putting in a bid for the company and hopes to turn it around by bringing it into the 21st century. Read More
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TechCrunch Is Bringing The Pitch-Off Back To Atlanta And Boston
Meetups are coming to Boston and Atlanta, and they’ll be here before you know it. Be a planner. Get out ahead of it and follow through on your New Year’s resolutions! Buy tickets here. We’re headed to Atlanta on February 24 and Boston on February 26 to hit our favorite cities with the world famous TechCrunch Pitch-Off. About 10 companies will have the chance to pitch… Read More
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ShuttleCloud Launches API To Import Address Books And Build “The Email Graph”
You’ve probably heard of the social graph and the interest graph. Now a startup called ShuttleCloud says it’s trying to help developers with “unlocking the email graph.” By email graph, ShuttleCloud means “the contacts and the relationships buried within your email,” according to Bob Greenlees, the company’s director of operations and business development. Read More
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Snapchat Lets You Add People Via QR Snaptags Thanks To Secret Scan.me Acquisition
Leaked emails from the Sony hack revealed Snapchat quietly acquired a QR code startup called Scan.me late last year, and now we know why. Yesterday alongside Discover, Snapchat launched a new feature called Snaptags that creates a unique QR code for every Snapchat user. When someone points their Snapchat camera at a Snaptag, the app adds the corresponding person as a friend. Read More
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Amazon WorkMail Takes On Microsoft And Google For Enterprise Email And Calendars
Amazon has a new product called WorkMail debuting today (via Forbes), which is an email and calendaring service that aims to provide those tools for corporate customers. The tech is based on Amazon Web Services, and aims to best the reigning champs (which include Microsoft, and to a lesser extent, Google) in terms of ease of use and security. Read More
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Nimble HR Picks Up A Quarter Million To Take On The Recruitment Space
Nimble HR, a company that provides subscription software to help firms recruit new talent, has raised a $250,000 round of capital that it would likely call pre-seed. The company told TechCrunch that it is likely going to raise a full seed round, or even a Series A traunch, this summer. It’s taking less capital on now in expectation of raising at a higher valuation — or, implicitly… Read More
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The Next Front Of Wearables
In 2014, Nike abandoned its FuelBand fitness tracker and Sergey Brin “left his Google Glass in his car.” In 2015, Apple will launch its iWatch and Sony will enter the eyewear space. More kinds of wearables were introduced in CES 2015, just to leave us wondering whether what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, physically. Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Latize
- Not available Venture
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Aasaanjobs.com
- $1.6M Seed
- HQ: Mumbai
- Categories: Consulting, Recruiting
- Investors: Not available
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Nurep Inc.
- $1.5M Seed
- HQ: Mountain View, CA
- Categories: Medical Devices, Physicians, Mobile, Mobile Health, Hospitals, Health Care ... See More
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Andy OS, inc.
- $3.0M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Cloud Computing, Software, Android
- Investors: Not available
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Wedding.com.my
- Not available Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Weddings, Marketplaces, Social Commerce, Content Discovery, Visual Search ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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bitFlyer
- $1.1M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Crowdfunding, Bitcoin, E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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ParkENT Cycles
- Not available Product Crowdfunding
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Physical Security, Bicycles, Internet of Things, Startups
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Qbix
- $150K Convertible Note
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Software, Internet, Social Media, Contact Management, Apps
- Investors: Not available
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Sabji On Wheels
- $20K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: E-Commerce, Groceries, Delivery
- Investors: Not available
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Klara
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Mobile Health, Health Care Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
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Cardekho
- $50M Series B
- HQ: Gurgaon
- Categories: Automotive, Cars, Online Shopping
- Investors: Not available
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Pulsate
- $1.2M Seed
- HQ: Dublin
- Categories: Internet Marketing, Software, Advertising
- Investors: Not available
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Foremost
- $400K Seed
- HQ: Dallas, TX
- Categories: E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Love Uncut
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Health and Wellness
- Investors: Not available
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Clique Chic
- Not available Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Retail, Design, Fashion, E-Commerce, Lifestyle, Social Commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Edamam
- $800K Convertible Note
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Search, Semantic Web, Health and Wellness, Nutrition
- Investors: Not available
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ProteoMediX
- 1.0M CHF Series B
- HQ: Schlieren
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Kosei
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Palo Alto, CA
- Categories: Mobile Commerce, Mobile Advertising
- Investors: Not available
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Aras
- $2.8M undisclosed
- HQ: Solothurn
- Categories: Open Source, Software, Document Management
- Investors: Not available
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Novian Health
- $1.0M Venture
- HQ: Chicago, IL
- Categories: Health and Wellness
- Investors: Not available
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Querium Corporation
- $800K Series A
- HQ: Austin, TX
- Categories: Education, EdTech
- Investors: Not available
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BioRestorative Therapies
- $4.3M Venture
- HQ: Jupiter, FL
- Categories: Hardware + Software
- Investors: Not available
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Transcend Medical
- $29M Series C
- HQ: Menlo Park, CA
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Retrotope
- $10M Venture
- HQ: Los Altos Hills, CA
- Categories: Health Care Information Technology, Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Ripple Labs
- $30M Series A
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Finance Technology, Financial Exchanges, Payments, Virtual Currency, ... See More
- Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, IDG Capital Partners
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Tradesy
- $30M Series C
- HQ: Santa Monica, CA
- Categories: Fashion, Marketplaces, E-Commerce
- Investors: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Rincon Venture Partners, Bee ... See More
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Earnest
- $17M Series A
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
- Categories: Finance, Credit, Consumer Lending
- Investors: First Round, Andreessen Horowitz, Atlas Venture, Maveron, Collaborative ... See More
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UserTesting
- $46M Series C
- HQ: Mountain View, CA
- Categories: Crowdsourcing, User Testing, User Experience Design, User Interface
- Investors: Accel Partners, OpenView Venture Partners
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ClickTale
- $35M Series C
- HQ: Ramat Gan
- Categories: Analytics, SaaS, Business Analytics, E-Commerce
- Investors: Amadeus Capital Partners, Viola Credit, KKR, Goldrock Capital
