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TruckTrack Aims To Capture A Trucking Sector Still Running On Old Tech
Over the years, fleet management software used by trucking companies has languished in the old technology world. Old school companies like Truckingoffice in the U.S., or Mandata, Stirling and Roadrunner in the UK have been managing fleets, personnel, jobs and invoices for many years. Plus, lots of paper. But the profit margins are shrinking in the haulage industry, the fuel prices are rising, and… Read More -
Planday Raises $3.75M To Take Employee Shift Planning Software To U.K. And U.S.
Planday is another startup that wants to help companies wean themselves off the use of pen and paper and those damn Excel spreadsheets. It offers a cloud-based "shift planning" solution for various types of businesses that employ a flexible workforce, such as restaurants, hotels, stores, call centers and gyms. Read More -
After Exiting Phones, Nokia Launches $100M Fund To Drive Connected Cars
Nokia has launched a new $100 million investment fund focused on connected cars, as the 150-year-old company seeks to pull off its latest reinvention trick. The fund will be managed by Nokia's venture arm, Nokia Growth Partners. Read More -
Y Combinator Squares Up To 500 Startups, Takes Its One-Day Event International
Y Combinator, the mother of tech accelerators, says it is not planning to run its three-month YC program anywhere but Mountain View, but it is definitely starting to look further afield. Today YC announced that it would start running its Startup School, its one-day networking event, in cities outside of the Valley, starting first with New York and London. Read More -
Drivy Raises $8.3 Million For Its Community-Based Car Rental Service
French startup Drivy raised a Series A round of $8.3 million (€6 million) from Index Ventures and Alven Capital. These two investors already put $2.8 million (€2 million) in seed funding. As a reminder, Drivy allows anyone to rent out their car. On the other side, you can go to Drivy’s app or website to rent a car, usually for less than what it would cost you in a brick and mortar car… Read More -
Beatswitch Wants To Help Festival Organisers Get Organised
Beatswitch has closed a €250,000 seed round from Strike4 to further develop its cloud-based platform that lets artists, booking agencies and festival organizers collaborate more efficiently, and to eventually launch across Europe. Read More -
App Tester uTest/Applause Acquires German’s Testhub To Grow Its Presence In Europe
The crowdsourced app testing startup formerly know as uTest, which is rebranding to Applause and earlier this year took in a $43 million Series E funding injection led by Goldman Sachs, has just spent some of that warchest on acquiring German rival Testhub to strengthen its hand in Europe -- in a multimillion dollar deal. Read More -
Lost In Translation — Don’t Mistake British Reserve For Lack Of Ambition
Editor’s note: Robin Klein is a Venture Partner at Index Ventures in London. This post has been ‘brewing’ in my mind for a number of years now. It’s only taken a shape worthy of publication thanks to Julian Rowe, principal at Horsley Bridge (that Blue Chip investor in the world’s great tech VCs). During a recent meeting, Julian and I were talking about the cultural… Read More -
Google Buys Rangespan To Add Big Data Inventory Management To Google Shopping
Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically its retail portal Google Shopping. It has acquired Rangespan, a London-based provider of back office services for online retailers, using data science to help them expand their product selection based on real-time sales dynamics. The company is based out of London, making this the third acquisition for Google out… Read More
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