Bloglovin’ Embraces Influencer Marketing With Sverve Acquisition
Bloglovin’ is announcing the acquisition of marketing startup Sverve, a move that should the expand monetization options for writers using the Bloglovin’ platform. The New York-headquartered company offers an aggregator where consumers can find and follow fashion and lifestyle bloggers, and where those bloggers can reach and stay connected with a new audience. CEO Giordano… Read MoreSprout Social Raises $42M For Its Marketing Tools
Sprout Social is announcing a big Series C round of funding — the company says it has raised $42 million from Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division and New Enterprise Associates. Brands using the company’s tools for monitoring and publishing to social media include Hyatt, Marvel, Microsoft, Uber, Zendesk and Zipcar. It says it’s currently working with more than… Read MoreSingapore-based Cloud Communication Startup Wavecell Scores $1.6M Series A
Wavecell, a Singaporean startup that creates APIs for communication tools, has raised a $1.6 million Series A. The round was led by Qualgro Asean Fund with participation from Wavemaker Pacific, and will be used to grow Wavecell’s market presence in Southeast Asia. Read MoreLondon-Based Curve De-Cloaks With All Your Bank Cards In One, And Broader Fintech Convergence Play
Curve, the stealthy London-based startup backed by notable fintech investors, finally de-cloaks today with the soft launch of its iOS app and accompanying MasterCard-powered Curve card. Similar to Coin in the U.S., the headline feature is the ability to combine an unlimited number of bank cards into one physical payment card. After loading all of your debit and credit cards into the app… Read MoreCasual Trading App Bux Pulls In Another $6.9M In Funding
More VC being thrown at casual trading app Bux. The app, which turns stocks and derivatives trading (via CFDs) into a game-like and social experience, thus potentially broadening the market to include a greater number of people who have never traded before, has pulled in a further $6.9 million in funding. Read MoreAmazon Acquires Emvantage To Build Its Online Payment Platform In India
Amazon will acquire startup Emvantage for an undisclosed amount to develop its Indian e-commerce site’s payment platform. In a press announcement, Amazon said the Noida-based company’s employees will start working for Amazon’s payment team after the transaction is completed. Read MoreYello Mobile Raises $30M More At A $4B Valuation From Japan’s SBI Holdings
Yello Mobile — the Seoul, Korea-based mobile apps business that has grown by raising nearly $150 million and acquiring over 80 other app startups — has picked another $30 million in funding. This latest cash injection comes from SBI Holdings, a digital financial services group based out of Japan that announced a strategic partnership with Yello at the end of last year. When… Read More500 Startups Batch 15 Diversity Stats: 33% Female, 15% Black, 10% Latino
A new 500 Startups batch means new diversity stats. In the startup accelerator’s 15th batch, 44% of the founders are international, 33% are female, 15% are black and 10% are Latino, 500 Startups Founding Partner Dave McClure announced today at demo day. 500 Startups has generally been pretty good around investing in female founders. To date, more than 400 startups in the 500… Read MoreThese Are The Startups Pitching At The Boston And Atlanta Meetups Next Week
The Boston and Atlanta Meetups are but a week away, and we have finally confirmed the companies pitching in the Pitch-Offs. These startups will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product to a panel of expert VC judges, and after each presentation they will be subject to a quick Q&A. At the end of all the pitches, the judges will determine the winners. First place gets a table in… Read More
ODately Is A Concierge Service Taking Aim At Cash Rich, Time Poor Online Daters
Who has time to swipe Tinder these days? Or wade through the seven circles of weird messaging hell on OKCupid? Too many people, evidently, which is why the whole online dating thang can feel more like being forever stuck in digital dating limbo. But never fear! A bootstrapping London-based startup is preparing to fix this problem — for a fee. Read MoreReedsy Launches Book Editor To Seamlessly Turn Your Draft Into A Book
Reedsy has been unbundling traditional publishing houses one step at a time. At heart, Reedsy remains a marketplace to find an editor, copy editor, cover illustrator and more. And now, Reedsy also provides a book editor to seamlessly interact with your editors and produce a final book. Read MoreFast-Growing Photo App Everalbum, A Chart-Topper On iOS, Comes To Android
There are apps that promise to help you free up space on your smartphone by backing up then deleting your photos. There are apps that help you organize your photos into albums, and share them with friends. And there are apps that aim to simply move photos off your phone into the cloud for safe-keeping. A growing startup called Everalbum, however, wants to do it all. The company, which now… Read MoreGiphy Closes $55 Million Series C At A $300 Million Post-Money Valuation
Giphy, the Google of GIFs, has closed a $55 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $300 million post-money. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from General Catalyst Partners, RRE, Betaworks, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, CAA and other existing Giphy investors. Giphy launched out of betaworks back in 2013 with one goal: to let the world search, discover… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
The Fourth Stakeholder In Tech
The tech industry has a responsibility to do something about how Silicon Valley and San Francisco are evolving, and the displacement we’ve created. Each and every company has an impact on the people who live here — whether that’s on their health, homes, well-being or environment. All businesses have a responsibility to their stakeholders — investors, customers and… Read More Ex-Mozilla Team Unveils “Sense,” An Intelligent, Secure Hub For The Smart Home
With the emerging ecosystem of connected devices – often dubbed the “Internet of Things” – consumers are rightly worried about the security and privacy implications associated with always-on hardware in their homes that listen, watch, observe and then store data in the cloud. Today, a company called Silk Labs, co-founded by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal, is launching… Read MoreInfinit’s File Storage Platform Lets You Unify Cloud Storage, Servers And Local Computers
File transfer startup Infinit has a new product that could potentially change the way DevOps engineers think about storage. With Infinit’s new file storage platform, you can unify all sorts of storage bucket into a virtual drive that you can access on all your computers and servers. It’s a seamless decentralized file system. Read MoreNaritiv, The Ad Network For Snapchat, Raises $3 Million Series A
Naritiv, the platform that connects brands and advertisers with influencers on Snapchat, has today announced the close of a $3 million Series A led by Third Wave Digital. Investors in the round include Disney, Luminari Capital, Deluxe Entertainment, Wavemaker Partners, and Matthew Anderson (CMO of Roku). Naritiv launched out of the Disney Accelerator, powered by TechStars, in 2014. Naritiv… Read MoreWatch 500 Startups’ Demo Days Right Here
TechCrunch is excited to stream 500 Startups’ demo day live from the Computer History Museum. The demos start at 1:00 PM Pacific and are expected to last four hours. You can watch it live right here. A group of investors and journalists will hear pitches from 46 companies today — 34 of them come from the current accelerator batch and 12 are Series A portfolio companies. A detailed… Read MoreLytics Launches Content Affinity Engine To Enable One-To-One Marketing
Lytics, the two-and-a-half-year-old Portland, OR personalization technology startup announces today the public launch of their new Content Affinity Engine. This Content Affinity Engine, can reveal to brands and companies which specific content on their site or app is performing best with single, individual customers. Read MoreZillow Adds Video Walkthroughs To Its For-Sale Listings
Online real estate listings have undoubtedly changed how people search for houses. Never before, after all, did buyers have this much information available. But while most real estate agents are now savvy enough to ensure that they have beautiful images for their listings, most of these glamour shots don’t reveal all that much about a home’s layout (and occasionally do their best… Read More
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