Seed funding Two Tap, an in-app e-commerce platform, has raised $2.7 million in seed funding. Digital Garage, Green Visor Capital, Initialized Capital, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel and Transmedia Capital all took part…
Doctor on Demand raises $21m – Investment Round Up
Series A Doctor on Demand, a virtual doctor service, has raised $21 million in a Series A round led by Venrock. Shasta Ventures and angel investor Sir Richard Branson also participated. The…
Vectra Networks secures $25m – Investment Round Up
Series A Palo Alto, Calif.-based big data analytics company Metanautix has raised $7 million from Sequoia Capital and angel investor Shiva Shivakumar, an early Google employee and current CEO of UrbanEngines. CEO…
IPO+M&A Watch: Mobileye, Synchrony, Apple
IPO This week’s activity in the public markets was headlined by the stock market debut of Synchrony Financial, GE’s consumer finance arm divested as a separate, public entity. Synchrony finances private label…
Twitter stock soars as World Cup boosts user figures
Twitter’s stock soared after the company posted better than expected earnings and user growth in its quarterly report. Shares in the social media company jumped as much as 35% in after-hours trading…
Facebook’s Q2 earnings send stock to all time high
Facebook stock reached an all time high on Wednesday, topping $75 a share after the company’s Q2 earnings report beat analyst expectations. The social media giant reported $2.9 billion in revenue, surpassing…
Sensoria raises $5m Series A – Investment Round Up
Seed Open-source machine learning startup PredictionIO has raised $2.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Quest Venture Partners. Azure Capital Partners, CrunchFund, the StartX Fund and Kima Ventures all…
Secret secures $25m Series B – Investment Round Up
Series B Anonymous sharing app Secret has raised $25 million in Series B funding. Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Gary Tan and Alexis Ohanian, SV Angel, Fuel Capital and Ceyuan Ventures all participated…
Startups face age-old battle to enforce change in established industries
In 19th century England, during the Industrial Revolution, a group of textile artisans labelled Luddites protested against new technology in their industry by smashing the new machines to pieces. This led to…
5 Takeaways from the Google I/O Developer Conference
Google’s I/O Developer Conference, held this week in San Francisco, featured a number of new product launches, including Android TV, Android Wear, Android Auto and a new smartphone and tablet operating system.…