If you, like me, are nearing the end of your Luke Cage binge and feeling the imminent absence of new Marvel Netflix content, take heart: Danny Rand will be making his streaming service debut on March 17, 2017 with the premiere of Iron Fist. Iron Fist sets the stage for Marvel’s The Defenders miniseries on Netflix, bringing in the last hero on the team alongside Daredevil, Jessica Jones… Read More
The world of sunglasses may be long in the cool stakes but has up to now been somewhat short on innovation. Now, the winds of technology are shifting those sands. You may have heard already about Snap (née Snapchat) turning the not-so-humble pair of 80s-style retro shades into a device for recording and posting videos on Snapchat. Now, at the other end of the spectrum, a startup out… Read More
While at LinkedIn, Steve Goodman and his co-founders spent a lot of their time trying to help companies dig up the best possible candidates from those that exist around the Web — but might not have applied.
But after candidates have applied, their resumes are sitting in a database somewhere on a company’s servers. And they continue to sit there, likely untouched or only lightly… Read More
Oh you thought location-based food deal services were done and dusted! Eatigo, a discount restaurant booking service that bills itself as the anti-Groupon, would have you believe otherwise. The startup has closed new funding to the tune of over $10 million from travel giant TripAdvisor to expand its service across Southeast Asia. Read More
Travel planner and booking platform GoEuro has taken in another big cash injection, announcing a $70 million funding round led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Valley VC fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Read More
500 Startups’ organization in Southeast Asia — 500 Durians — is back with a new $50 million fund to press on with early-stage startup dealmaking in the emerging region, which counts over 600 million consumers. Read More
Source{d} provides an interesting use-case for AI. The Spain-headquartered startup, which today is announcing $6 million in Series A funding, is using deep learning to help startups and larger companies recruit developers. Specifically, its AI tech is analysing the code of millions of developers via their open source contributions in order to match them to appropriate job openings. Read More
TED announced Africa as the location for its 2017 TEDGlobal event. The international conference, titled “Builders. Truth-tellers. Catalysts”, will be held in Arusha, Tanzania with four days of speakers, workshops, and entertainment from August 27-30. TED producers will look to “challenge the prevailing wisdom, even for how people within Africa see the continent,” said… Read More
The press material for PartyUp looks like the inevitable underground rave scene from a 90s hacker movie. Beyond that, I’m not really sure what the real world case use is for an app that’s able to connect more than 50 Bluetooth speakers together, in order to output the same sound all at once. Honestly, we’re starting to get into Improv Everywhere prank territory here.
And… Read More
“FINE WINE RETAILER TANNICO QUAFFS €3.8M IN SERIES A FUNDING,” screams the press release, conjuring up an image of a startup spending all of its newly acquired cash on one giant booze up. Sadly (or luckily for the company’s new backers), this story isn’t that! Read More
Attention startup hopefuls: It’s time to stop procrastinating and apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London. Startups from across the U.S. and around the world now have until 12pm PT on October 13th to get their application in front of the selection team. Apply now! We get it, you’re super busy. Maybe you’ve been working extra hard to push out new features to… Read More
Last month, we told you Xiaomi’s Android TV box would go on sale in the U.S. in November, and true to our source it has. The Chinese company is best known for its affordable smartphones, but now it has launched a set-top box priced at $79 that looks like great value. Read More
Grana, a two-year-old online fashion retailer based in Hong Kong, has announced that it has raised $10 million in fresh funding led by Alibaba’s entrepreneurship fund. Read More
Stripe, the company that lets app publishers, online merchants and other digital businesses include payments features via a few lines of code, is expanding in Asia. After launching in Singapore two weeks ago, the startup is now officially opening for business in Japan. And alongside the Japan launch, Stripe is announcing a new investor. Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company, the largest credit… Read More
At the White House’s South by South Lawn today, Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights leader and one of the organizers of the March on Washington, kicked off the “How We Make Change” panel with some words of advice. “The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me to find a way to get in the way,” Lewis said. “To get in… Read More
Facebook is launching a peer-to-peer Marketplace, we check out crowdfunding project Skylinyl, Facebook launches Messenger Lite, Baidu introduces TalkType keyboard and Amazon bans incentivized reviews. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Katie Fanelli — a former chief of staff of Rothenberg Ventures — has brought a proposed class-action lawsuit against the beleaguered San Francisco-based investing outfit, saying it routinely failed to pay contract workers their final paycheck across its four-year history, and that it failed to compensate Fanelli and other hourly workers for overtime.
The suit aims… Read More
At an SXSL panel on Monday, President Obama, actor, environmentalist and philanthropist Leonardo DiCaprio and scientist Katharine Hayhoe discussed climate change and what we can possibly due to curb it. Hayhoe, who is the director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, and CEO of ATMOS Research & Consulting, helps organizations like airports and public water utilities… Read More
Humans have lived for approximately 8,000 generations, but only in the past four has life expectancy taken dramatic leaps upward thanks mostly to societies addressing some of the most basic life issues. In 1907, the average human life expectancy was 46 years; in 1957, it rose to 66; in 2007, it reached 76. But I predict we won’t stop there. Read More
Last month, we reported that Rover was closing a $40 million round. Looks like the deal has closed — the pet-sitting startup announced today that it has raised, yep, $40 million in a Series E funding.
The round was led by Foundry Group and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Madrona Venture Group — all existing investors. Rover has now raised more than $90 million in total… Read More
