Category: Startups

  • VentureFriends closes €20M fund to invest in Greek software startups

    VentureFriends closes €20M fund to invest in Greek software startups

    [ad_1] A very small bit a lot more VC money sloshing all over Europe. This time it’s the turn of Greece-based VC fund VentureFriends, which is asserting the final closing of a €20 million fund to devote in Greek software program and “high tech” startups at the seed phase. The two Partners of the fund…

  • Slack beefs up its search to find the right person to ask a question

    Slack beefs up its search to find the right person to ask a question

    [ad_1] As a business gets greater and greater, locating out the solution to some dilemma you have in your head — like the definition of some sort of acronym or the appropriate approach to hire an individual — is likely to be harder and harder to obtain. For Slack, which specified that it’s a continual…

  • Abundant Robotics rakes in $10 million for apple harvesting robots

    Abundant Robotics rakes in $10 million for apple harvesting robots

    [ad_1] GV (previously Google Ventures) is major a $10 million investment decision in Abundant Robotics, a company building apple-choosing robots that could finally be adapted to harvest other fruits. Signing up for GV in the spherical have been BayWa AG and Tellus Associates, together with the company’s earlier backers Yamaha Motor Enterprise, KPCB Edge and…

  • Blackstorm Labs taps Facebook’s AI bots to build a helper next to an Instant Game

    Blackstorm Labs taps Facebook’s AI bots to build a helper next to an Instant Game

    [ad_1] If you are a large fan of some far more mid-main or hardcore video games on your smartphone, you might periodically get a reminder to pop in the game to do some thing. But that involves booting up the game — and it may possibly also require digging by a labyrinth of menus to…

  • Coinbase adds support for Litecoin

    Coinbase adds support for Litecoin

    [ad_1] Coinbase has just rolled out total help for Litecoin, its 3rd cryptocurrency. Buyers will be in a position to acquire, provide, deliver and retailer Litecoin from Coinbase’s web-site or mobile apps, applying straightforward payment methods like a credit history/debit card or PayPal. While Coinbase was launched as a system to transact only with Bitcoin,…

  • Houzz adds a basic AR mode to its iOS apps to help you shop for furniture

    Houzz adds a basic AR mode to its iOS apps to help you shop for furniture

    [ad_1] Shopping for home furniture on the net is often hard, specifically supplied that you can’t actually know how a couch or lamp will actually seem in your room until you get it home. Houzz, which has extra more and more procuring functions to its app about the past couple of several years, wants to make this less…

  • The maker of Dots says it’s getting more ambitious with its fourth game, Wilds

    The maker of Dots says it’s getting more ambitious with its fourth game, Wilds

    [ad_1] Dots. Two Dots. Dots & Co. It would seem like Dots (which is the name of both of those the startup and its initial match) is next a sample with just about every launch — a sample it’s breaking with its fourth match, Wilds. Wilds is not scheduled to start until finally late 2017,…

  • Applications are now open for the TC Meetup + Pitch-off in Tel Aviv

    Applications are now open for the TC Meetup + Pitch-off in Tel Aviv

    [ad_1] Tel Aviv, get prepared! TC is coming to Israel at the stop of June for our next TC Meetup + Pitch-off, and if final year is any indication, it is likely to be off the chain. Israel is one of the world’s speediest-growing and spectacular startup ecosystems, and we simply just simply cannot resist…

  • Mayo maker Hampton Creek is shedding execs

    Mayo maker Hampton Creek is shedding execs

    [ad_1] Food items and beverage startups backed by tech traders are obtaining a rough go of it this season, with Juicero all but melting down and businesses like Memphis Meats, Urban Cure and Soylent recalling merchandise, in accordance to expected disclosures on the federal web page Foodsafety.gov. Now, Hampton Creek Food items, a packaged merchandise business backed…

  • Quantifying startup funding inequality for fun and profit

    Quantifying startup funding inequality for fun and profit

    [ad_1] Jason Rowley is a enterprise capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor: Cash flow inequality and disparity in resource distribution have drawn a great deal of attention not too long ago in the United States. Today, we’ll examine a variation on the theme, exploring the distribution of a unique…

  • Homey’s PowerUp is the MacBook charger Apple should have made

    Homey’s PowerUp is the MacBook charger Apple should have made

    [ad_1] Trust Apple to be brave enough to strip absent all the previous-fashioned USB ports. And have confidence in the rest of us to realize that ninety percent of our peripherals nevertheless operate on the previous typical. Apple’s retort is to market you a just one-way ticket to dongle hell. Then Homey arrives together with its…

  • Treeo’s new social polling game lets you vote with emojis

    Treeo’s new social polling game lets you vote with emojis

    [ad_1] A new social polling recreation called Treeo has introduced its fashionable-working day (and cleaned up version) of the popular get together recreation, f*ck, marry, get rid of. But this time, as an alternative of voting on your plans for superstar crushes, you’re voting on other subject areas classified into sections like House, Vogue, Films, Food, Audio,…

  • Orbital Insight closes $50M Series C led by Sequoia

    Orbital Insight closes $50M Series C led by Sequoia

    [ad_1] This early morning Orbital Perception, a geospatial analytics startup, announced that it had accomplished raising a $50 million Sequence C spherical of financing from Sequoia. The new funds provides the company’s complete fundraising to $seventy eight.7 million. Orbital Perception generates analytics for enterprises utilizing satellite imagery and other details. A product of deep learning and more easily…

  • Nodez is a smart home solution that brings all of its equipment on the bus

    Nodez is a smart home solution that brings all of its equipment on the bus

    [ad_1] Nodez is a company that guarantees to flip your entire household into a wise household with a solitary, all-encompassing deal. Their $196 merchandise features a very little of every thing such as a smoke/CO2 detector, switches, and even a flood sensor. In all you get nine wise objects for the cost of 1 Nest…

  • WeWork brings on Laurent Paris as new CTO

    WeWork brings on Laurent Paris as new CTO

    [ad_1] WeWork is saying its to start with-at any time CTO in the kind of Laurent Paris. Paris joins WeWork from Spotify, wherever he held the VP of Engineering placement for five yrs. Right before that, Paris expended almost ten yrs at Yahoo wherever he labored on several engineering teams. Paris will be focusing on…