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Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses August 23, 2018

Armory, a startup that has built a CI/CD platform on top the open source Spinnaker project, announced a $10 million Series A today led by Crosslink Capital. Other investors included Bain Capital Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, Y Combinator and Robin

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SFOX Raises $22.7M in Series A funding Round August 16, 2018

SFOX, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based cryptocurrency prime dealer for high-volume traders and institutional investors, raised $22.7m in Series A

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Grubhub acquires payments and loyalty company LevelUp for $390M July 25, 2018

Grubhub announced this morning that it’s agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million

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DialPad Dials Up $50M Series D Lead By Iconiq Capital July 17, 2018

Dialpad announced a $50 million Series D investment today, giving the company plenty of capital to keep expanding its business communications

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Sorry, Power-Lunchers. This Restaurant Is a Co-Working Space Now. July 13, 2018

Everything, it seems, is a shared office these days, including upscale dining rooms before they open for the evening. A start-up called Spacious is driving the

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YC grad Zenprospect rebrands as Apollo, lands $7M Series A June 26, 2018

ZenProspect, a startup that emerged from the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class to help companies use data and intelligence to increase sales, announced today that it was rebranding as Apollo. It also announced a $7 million Series A

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LevelUp Named #1 Place to Work by Boston Business Journal June 22, 2018

LevelUp, the growth engine for restaurants, today announced it has been named to the Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work list, ranking #1 in the Medium Size Company category among 80 total honorees for the second year in a row. Winners and rankings were determined by employee surveys and scoring of responses in partnership with Quantum Workplace. The publication will feature the

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Domo, an analytics start-up created by Omniture co-founder Josh James, has filed to go public June 4, 2018

The prospectus provides an unprecedented look inside the somewhat secretive technology company: Although it incorporated in 2010, Domo didn't publicly announcd its platform until 2015. Since then, a public offering has loomed — Bloomberg reported in 2016 that Domo was working on preparations, and Recode reported in April that an IPO was

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Alpha raises $10 million to automate product validation with AI May 31, 2018

Alpha, which this week announced a $10 million funding round led by Crosslink Capital Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, Spider Capital, and Cendana Capital, is an insights platform that helps app developers, media companies, retailers, and others chart product roadmaps quickly and

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DialPad gets an AI injection with TalkIQ acquisition May 16, 2018

Sometimes two companies get along so well together and fit each other so perfectly, they almost have to come together. That’s what happened when Dialpad, a business communications platform whose products include UberConference, started working with TalkIQ. They liked them so much, they bought the

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Spacious Closes $9M Series A to add 100 Locations + Retail Flagships May 12, 2018

Today, we’re excited to introduce the next phase of our vision, backed by a $9.1 million investment to bring it to life (Series A led by August Capital + Baseline, Redpoint, Lerer Hippeau, Box

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Snapchat launches Spectacles V2, camera glasses you’ll actually wear May 10, 2018

Photos, not just video. No yellow ring alerting people to the camera. Underwater-capable. Classier colors with lighter lenses. Prescription options. Faster syncing. And a much slimmer frame and charging case. Snapchat fixed the biggest pain points of its Spectacles camera sunglasses with V2, whichlaunch

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Domo, the Utah startup that came out of nowhere with a $2 billion valuation, could go public this year April 9, 2018

The company held its "organizational meeting" last week, which is a first step as a company files the IPO paperwork, Recode's Theodore Schleifer reported. A Domo spokesperson declined

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Paperspace goes serverless to simplify AI deployment in the cloud March 22, 2018

Building a GPU-fueled infrastructure service is not a simple matter for a startup to undertake, but that’s precisely what Paperspace has set out to do. Today, it took it to the next level when it announced Gradient, a service platform that eliminates the need to deploy servers for AI and machine learning

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How This Startup Is Helping The Fortune 100 Innovate At The Speed Of Startups January 9, 2018

Meet Thor Ernstsson, the CEO and Founder of Alpha, a platform for global organizations to run product experiments. Previously, Thor co-founded and was the CTO of Audax Health, a patient engagement company that was later rebranded as Rally Health after a 10-figure acquisition by

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RolePoint Integrates Google Cloud Job Discovery December 19, 2017

RolePoint announced the integration of its employee referral platform with Google Cloud Job Discovery. This new feature powers smarter job searches and transforms the way searchers find relevant opportunities. RolePoint’s integration is unique because it powers its clients’ internal portals. This improves employee referral and internal mobility

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Spacious launches 5 co-working locations December 3, 2017

New York-based Spacious is now offering co-working space in five locations across San

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As ‘Unicorns’ Emerge, Utah Makes a Case for Tech Entrepreneurs October 12, 2017

When Josh James traveled to the Bay Area in 2000, seeking funding for a web analytics company he had founded, he spoke at length with a venture capitalist about his plans for growth. The conversation was going well, Mr. James recently recalled, until the investor asked where he was based. “As soon as I told him I was from Utah, he literally, without saying a word, turned around and walked

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Lively raises $4.2M as it adds investment capabilities for health savings accounts September 26, 2017

Lively co-founder Shobin Uralil likes to describe the health savings account as the “401(k) for healthcare” — but that it’s woefully underused as an investment vehicle like a

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TalkIQ raises $14 million Series A to give enterprises AI insights into voice communication September 19, 2017

There’s no shortage of startups building their brands around AI for enterprise. And within the enterprise, few spaces are as competitive as AI-powered voice analytics. TalkIQ is the latest company in the space to carry home a large round of financing with promise. With $14 million in Series A funding, the TalkIQ team is hoping its proprietary tech stack and engineering-heavy team will give it a

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Michael Jordan funds mercenary dev hub Gigster’s $20M enterprise pivot August 29, 2017

Gigster is shifting from letting anyone outsource full-stack app development to building next-gen tech projects for big companies. If an enterprise needs machine learning and vision, data visualization, blockchain, React or Swift work done and doesn’t want to hire full-time employees, Gigster assembles a squad of freelancers and guarantees the work at a fixed

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Phil Raises $10M in Series A Funding August 16, 2017

Phil Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based end-to-end prescription management and delivery service connecting patients with local pharmacies, raised $10M in

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During Every Minute on the Internet … (Infographic) July 26, 2017

Data Never Sleeps 5.0 is the fifth annual version of Domo’s infographic on what happens on the internet in a single

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ECRM Acquires RangeMe June 23, 2017

Solon, OH and San Francisco, CA — RangeMe, an online platform that connects retailers with suppliers with new products has recently been acquired by Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing (ECRM), a company that assists buyers and suppliers by providing services such as category development and planning as well as product

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Warriors star Steph Curry founded a tech start-up with his old college teammate to shake up marketing June 2, 2017

WARRIORS – THE NBA’S GOLDEN CHILD OF SILICON VALLEY Warriors – The NBA’s golden child of Silicon Valley 9 Hours Ago | 02:04 At first glance, Slyce looks quite familiar in Silicon Valley. It's a small software start-up with $2 million of funding and a 29-year-old founder aiming to redefine modern

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Spacious, a work sharing start-up, could be coming to a restaurant near you April 18, 2017

A few New York City restaurants that are idle during the daytime are getting a boost to their traffic, thanks to a service that turns otherwise empty dining rooms into makeshift work

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L’Oreal Selects Domo to Optimize Digital Performance Across 32 Brands in More than 70 Countries March 28, 2017

Today Domo announced that L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics company and world's third largest advertiser, has chosen Domo to optimize the performance of its thousands of digital properties and campaigns across web, social networks and online

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Snap valued above $30B as shares pop more than 40% in public trading debut March 2, 2017

Snap shares began trading more than 40% higher than its original IPO price this morning — opening at $24 per share — as the company made its debut as a publicly-traded company on the

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When Married to Work Is No Joke February 15, 2017

For spouses-turned-co-founders in the same startup, lines between work and home can

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Chase’s $10 million bet on LevelUp opens paths for Chase Pay January 6, 2017

The New York-based financial giant invested $10 million in Boston-based LevelUp, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, which suggests Chase is much more interested in LevelUp's technology than the partnership the two companies originally

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Here’s why e-commerce app Wish raised $1 billion in two years December 7, 2016

Wish, the affordable mobile-friendly shopping app that’s second only to Amazon in online mobile retail, is raking in venture capital. The company raised $500 million in their last round in November, which was on top of the first $500 million Wish raised two years

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$2 billion startup Domo is crashing a competitor’s conference November 8, 2016

Today, for instance, Domo is crashing competitor Tableau's conference in Austin, Texas — offering attendees free donuts and tickets to a party space that Domo rented across the street, and which will play host to performances from rappers Flo Rida and Snoop Dogg during

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Wish is reportedly raising $500 million November 4, 2016

Wish, a San Francisco-based company whose e-commerce mobile app that’s taken off in the U.S. and Europe by making it easy to buy everything from slippers to jackets to cosmetic brushes for rock-bottom prices, is raising $500 million in new funding at a valuation higher than its previous valuation of $3.5 billion but lower than $5 billion, reports

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Change Agents 2016: Brian Wong, Kiip November 2, 2016

Why he matters: Showing entrepreneurial hopefuls the cheat code to

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Two Tap Launches First Full Automated Service for International Shopping October 20, 2016

Two Tap announced record growth data and launched Two Tap Crossborder, the first fully automated service that allows consumers outside of the U.S. to order products from American retailers just as easy as buying locally in their own country. U.S. retailers can now expand global sales to shoppers anywhere in the world without making any changes to their existing infrastructure. Retailers that sign

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RANGEME NAMED WINNER OF SHOP.ORG STARTUP OF THE YEAR COMPETITION September 29, 2016

DALLAS – Shop.org today announced from the keynote stage of Retail’s Digital Summit the group’s Digital Commerce Startup of the Year competition winner. After being named a finalist in July, RangeMe was chosen by a group of retail industry leaders as the winner of the annual competition. RangeMe is an online marketplace that streamlines new product discovery between suppliers and

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Bottlenose Founder Wants to Automate the Work of Data Scientists September 13, 2016

Automating the work of data scientists will dramatically lower the cost of artificial intelligence and make it easier for business people without advanced tech skills to make use of the latest in business intelligence, says entrepreneur and investor Nova Spivack. His latest startup, Bottlenose, released a new platform on Tuesday that Mr. Spivack says is a step in that direction. “We saw a

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Two Tap Launches First Fully Automated Service for Any International Shopping Site or App to Sell Products from U.S. Retailers August 26, 2016

Today, Two Tap announced record growth data and launched Two Tap Crossborder, the first fully automated service that allows consumers outside of the U.S. to order products from American retailers just as easy as buying locally in their own country. U.S. retailers can now expand global sales to shoppers anywhere in the world without making any changes to their existing infrastructure. Retailers

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Drop Everything Right Now and Attend These 5 Special Marketing Conferences August 18, 2016

Finding the time to be out of the office can be near impossible for busy executives and entrepreneurs. The brutal truth is that we all deal with this quandary. We know that our business won't succeed unless we get out of the office, to networkand learn from experts. The marketing world is changing faster than ever before. Racing to stay ahead of the trends can be arduous, and difficult

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Domo Named the Number One Business Intelligence Solution by Gartner’s GetApp August 1, 2016

SILICON SLOPES, Utah – August 1, 2016 – Domo today announced it has been named the number one business intelligence solution by GetApp, a Gartner company, in GetApp’s quarterly report. GetApp’s independent ranking of category vendors serves as a guide for business decision makers who are trying to get a look at the leading cloud-based category software. The GetApp ranking takes into

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For Steph Curry, other athletes, it’s game time on the court and in the boardroom July 18, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO -- For a growing number of sports stars, the game isn't over once they sink that last-second three-pointer or hit that walk-off home run. As the tech industry booms, more cash-flush professional athletes are turning their attention to Silicon Valley. The Warriors' Stephen Curry and former New York Yankees player Derek Jeter have founded their own startups, while Carmelo Anthony of

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Booze Brands Rush to Snapchat While Contending With Age Risks July 11, 2016

Here is the surest sign yet that Snapchat is growing up: Alcohol brands are starting to advertise on the mobile app in significant numbers after overcoming fears of marketing on the teen-friendly platform. Anheuser-Busch InBev broke the seal in May 2015 when it ran ads in Snapchat's "Stories" section that were tied to a Bud Light-branded event. And the pace of alcohol advertising has

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Here’s What One Hot YC Startup Learned Raising A $1.4M Seed Round June 28, 2016

Truebill, a graduate of the most recent Y Combinator class, recently raised $1.4 million in seed capital, bringing its total funding to $1.75 million. The company helps consumers discover what services they pay for on a recurring basis, both wanted and not. It also helps its users rid themselves of the chaff. You could call the company a response to the growth of the subscription economy. I

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Gigster Fund Announcement May 27, 2016

Work is changing. The freelance economy is growing as the share of work being done by freelance contractors increases. This is good news for companies who now have more choice and access to resources. This is great news for workers who now have more options as demand for freelancing grows. The freelance model allows for freedom and near-real-time flexibility. Freelancers have more control over

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Tappp Taps Into $4.2M Funding Round May 9, 2016

Tappp, a startup that enables partners to offer streaming services via subscription and pre-paid payment options, this week announced it has raised $4.2 million in a round led by Accomplice, along with participation from Transmedia and individual investors such as Mike Baker, Gina Garrubbo, and Keith

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RangeMe raises $4m to support US expansion May 6, 2016

RangeMe, an online marketplace that connects retailers with products and suppliers and streamlines the product discovery process, has raised $4m in a funding round led by Simon Equity Partners, Freestyle Capital and Transmedia Capital. RangeMe - which has teamed up with FoodNavigator-USA's publisher William Reed Business Media to help facilitate new product discovery at The

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Airbnb Hire of ChangeTip Staff Sparks New Interest in Bitcoin and Blockchain for IoT April 20, 2016

Airbnb has “acqui-hired” the majority of the team behind ChangeCoin, the blockchain company that developed the social Bitcoin tipping service ChangeTip, Quartz reported last week, citing “four people with knowledge of the deal” as sources. “Acqui-hired” refers to hiring the key staff of a company in block, as opposed to purchasing the company and its intellectual

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South Asian Dating App Dil Mil Arranges $2.7 Million April 1, 2016

Dil Mil Inc. Chief Executive KJ Dhaliwal saw Tinder wasn’t working for his friends and family. He realized apps like Tinder, Hinge and Coffee Meets Bagel weren’t inclusive of the needs of the South Asian community, where dating can be taboo and arranged marriages still occur. Mr. Dhaliwal said 90% of South Asians marry within their own community and those users needed their own

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Loverly raises $2 million for its bridal concierge service March 24, 2016

Loverly, a New York-based bridal search engine, just raised $2 million in Series B funding. The new round of investment brings the company’s total raise to $6.97 million. The investment round was led by Hunt Technology Ventures, LP with participation from Montage Ventures, GrowthX, Transmedia Capital, 645 Ventures, Great Oaks Capital and Female Founders

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Noah Brier & James Gross Interview with Deirdre Bolton on Fox Business “Risk & Reward” March 21, 2016

Percolate CEO and co-founder Noah Brier and President and co-founder James Gross join Deirdre Bolton on Fox Business' "Risk & Reward" to talk about the future of advertising, the evolution of marketing technology, and Percolate's emergence as The System of Record for

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NewCo raises new funding led by True Ventures March 10, 2016

NewCo, a San Francisco-based company that produces city-like festivals that acquaint attendees with local businesses, has raised roughly $4.3 million in fresh funding, shows anew SEC filing that states the outfit has raised just north of $6 million to date. Cofounder and CEO John Battelle tells us larger number includes an earlier convertible note that’s been turned into equity.

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The hot e-commerce app Wish has “hundreds of millions of users” March 1, 2016

Last week, toward the end of a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, GGV Capital managing director Hans Tung took the stage to interview one of his portfolio CEOs, Peter Szulczewski of Wish. With an increasingly boisterous crowd as their background, Tung managed to ferret out lots of fascinating information from the highly personable Szulczewski, who looked very much the part of

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Women on Top: 10 Founders and CEOs Give Their Best Career Tips February 9, 2016

Whether you're starting a new job or gearing up to launch your own business, chances are you're all ears for some good advice. And who better to dish out must-know tips than women who have been crushing the game for years? So, get fired up to take over the world (or at the very least—your company) with these pearls of working-girl

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Kiip powers Taco Bell’s mobile loyalty program Explore January 29, 2016

In the digital age, loyalty programs are getting an overhaul. Today’s example is an alliance between mobile rewards company Kiip and fast-food chain Taco Bell, which has created a loyalty program dubbed Taco Bell

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Spotify And Genius Team To Stream The Backstory On Music Tracks January 13, 2016

Spotify, the popular music streaming app with 75 million users, wants to ramp up its profile as a platform for more than just music listening. And to that end, it has linked up with Genius, the startup that annotates music lyrics and other online content, to provide backstory and commentary that pop up as you stream tracks on Spotify. The partnership will kick off with a free hip hop

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Meet Wish, the $3 Billion App That Could Be the Next Walmart December 28, 2015

As the words poured out of Peter Szulczewski’s mouth, I thought he must be pulling my leg. “We think we’re going to be the second or third trillion-dollar-a-year marketplace,” Szulczewski, the CEO of shopping app Wish, told me. His company operates a family of e-commerce apps that sells a giant assortment of products at bargain-basement prices. “We think Alibaba will be first and

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Apps gigster development outsourcing Software Eats Software Development As Andreessen Invests $10M In App Outsourcer Gigster December 7, 2015

Send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back that app. No coding. No hiring. No wrangling freelancers. Just a fundamental shift in how software gets built. That’s why Andreessen Horowitz has led a new $10 million Series A for Gigster just 18 weeks after its launch. The lauded venture firm was impressed with Gigster’s artificial intelligence engine. It converts a client’s product

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Bottlenose Named One of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America” December 4, 2015

Bottlenose, the Enterprise Intelligence™ platform, was recently recognized as one of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America” by Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur360™ Performance Index, a premier study delivering the most comprehensive analysis of private companies in America. The Entrepreneur study noted Bottlenose as a company that exemplifies growth, not just in top and

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Amazon and Alibaba have approached Wish, but the CEO seems to want more November 29, 2015

Maybe you haven't heard of Wish, the five-year-old e-commerce startup. But all the major e-commerce players have. Sources close to the company say that Amazon and Alibaba have talked about buying it in the past year. And the price they're talking about is jaw-dropping. The most interesting rumor is that Amazon recently offered $10 billion in cash for Wish — and

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SpotX, clypd partner on programmatic, OTT-linear ad platform November 3, 2015

SpotX and clypd are developing a joint solution for media owners to manage the sale of all forms of television assets and video inventory. The two also announced a strategic partnership with TiVo Research, enabling SpotX to match digital video audiences against TiVo Research's 2.5 million households. The pairing of SpotX's digital video platform and clypd's linear TV platform will

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WHY MOBILE (PAY) ORDERING ACTUALLY MATTERS October 26, 2015

The concept of ordering food online and picking it up at the restaurant isn’t a new phenomenon. Restaurants have exercised this concept for years. But ordering and paying online via mobile and picking up in-restaurant, is the next big thing. And it’s only just begun. It’s one space every major player in the mobile payments industry is vying to gain more market share of. To gain some

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: ContextLogic Marries Wish Lists To Vendors October 20, 2015

According to a recent US Census Bureau report, the country’s retail e-commerce sales, adjusted for seasonal variation, grew 4.2% over the year to $83.9 billion during the second quarter this year. Total retail sales during the same period grew 1.6% to $1,171.5 billion. Billion Dollar Unicorn player ContextLogic appears to be reaping the full benefits of this growing

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Another Zenefit rival pops up, with $2.1 million in funding and broker support September 9, 2015

EaseCentral, a San Francisco-based startup that helps insurance brokers provide HR and insurance services online, has lined up $2.1 million in seed funding to broaden its reach. EaseCentral already works with 1,000 insurance brokers nationwide, who cumulatively serve 10,000 employers with 300,000 staffers — about 30 per company — according to the startup, which is taking a broker-friendly

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Wrap Raises $12.7M Series B September 3, 2015

Spontaneous mobile experiences should be as effortless as possible, and the process of navigating the app store to download a company’s native app can often miss a user’s attention span. So goes the thinking with Wrap, which focuses on helping companies create highly interactive bite-sized mobile web experiences for its users to engage with. The company announced Thursday that it

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Is SnapChat One Step Closer to Becoming a Major Content Discovery Platform? August 28, 2015

In an ongoing effort to bring more media brands onto its Discover platform—and boost advertising revenue—Snapchat has struck deals with Mashable, IGN, andTastemade. But this time, the app will not be removing partners to make room for the new additions, unlike when it introduced BuzzFeed last

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How Eric Greenberg became a once (and future) Internet billionaire? August 10, 2015

Eric Greenberg, a former billionaire, is the loudest rich guy in any room. With a salesman's pushing patter, he speaks and speaks and speaks, raising his emphasis, until his voice hits a crescendo — and then, backing away from his own force, he quiets a little before starting again. You can't get in a word edgewise, and most of the time his patter is so tight and so compelling that you don't

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Genius, Washington Post Team Up To Cover GOP Debate August 7, 2015

When the Washington Post covers the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, it will give readers a voice by letting them annotate the debate transcript as it unfolds. In the first partnership of its kind, the Post will be using the annotation service Genius to mark up the transcript in real time—adding color commentary and context, and allowing readers to do the

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Gigster Does The Dev Dirty Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App August 7, 2015

Got a startup idea? That and some cash is all you need to get a fully functional app built for you by Gigster. Launching today, Gigster is a full-service development shop, rather than a marketplace where you have to manage the talent you find. Just go to Gigster’s site, instant message with a sales engineer, tell them what you want built, and in 10 minutes you get a guaranteed quote for what

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Domo named 2015 Tech Pioneer August 5, 2015

Domo, provider of the world’s first business management platform, was chosen as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers,” a selection of the world’s most innovative

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StatSocial and Bottlenose Partner to Integrate Real-Time Social Audience Data July 15, 2015

StatSocial, the premier provider of social audience data, today announced an integration partnership with Bottlenose, the Stream Intelligence™ platform. Through this partnership, Bottlenose now offers real-time insights across more than 35,000 demographic and lifestyle segments. This partnership marks a transition in the way analysts can leverage social media platforms, with rich context now

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Domo Wins a Gold Stevie Award for 2nd Consecutive Year July 10, 2015

SILICON SLOPES, UT -- Domo, provider of the world's first business management platform, today announced it was presented with a Gold Stevie® Award at the 13th Annual American Business Awards, the nation's premier business awards

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Genius launches an API to fuel mission to annotate the Web June 6, 2015

Genius is getting that much closer to its mission of annotating the Web. Today the company is releasing an API that lets app developers access its huge database of annotations and

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Percolate Can Take Marketing Software From Salesforce June 1, 2015

Calling me from London, Noah Brier is exhausted. “I like to play a game of, how long can I keep going,” he tells me. But the New Yorker has to make the trip a lot. His startup, Percolate, has 15 people in London now, and some of his biggest clients are across the pond, too, like Unilever, the $130 billion consumer

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Wish is Officially a Unicorn May 18, 2015

Earlier this week, startups including human resources software provider Zenefits and financial technology company Affirm raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, increasing scrutiny on the state of private capital markets and the multi-billion dollar valuations that are being placed on

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Percolate Raises $40m May 18, 2015

Marketing platform Percolate is announcing today a $40 million score so it can continue its life’s mission of serving as “the System of Record” for

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Clypd Snags Funding May 9, 2015

Clypd, a Boston-area startup that wants to make TV advertising more like its digital cousin by incorporating programmatic ad selling, has raised a $19.4 million Series B round, the company announced

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Domo Is A Unicorn May 9, 2015

Domo Inc. has decided its business management platform is ready for prime time and raised $200 million from investors at a $2 billion valuation to bankroll its next act: scaling sales. The five-year-old company counts more than 1,000 customers and hit an annual revenue run rate of $50 million in December 2014, but sales

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NewCo in NYC April 27, 2015

This May 13-14, NewCo is coming back to New York City – and our lineup is as strong as ever. This will mark our third annual NewCo Festival in New York, and we’re busy dotting the i’s, crossing the t’s, and getting ready to launch the schedule (it should go live Monday, March

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MasterCard & Kiip April 27, 2015

MasterCard is partnering with mobile advertising network Kiip to delight consumers with more of the credit card company’s Priceless Surprises via a standalone mobile application, affirming that marketers are leveraging mobile as the go-to channel for surprise moments and personalized

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TrialPay Acquired By Visa April 27, 2015

We are very excited to announce that Visa has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TrialPay. We will be joining forces with the world’s leading payment company, extending our vision from 2006 to make transactions more profitable for merchants and consumers alike. As the worlds of commerce and payments continue to merge, combining Visa’s incredible payments footprint with TrialPay’s

Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses
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SFOX Raises $22.7M in Series A funding Round
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Grubhub acquires payments and loyalty company LevelUp for $390M
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DialPad Dials Up $50M Series D Lead By Iconiq Capital
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Sorry, Power-Lunchers. This Restaurant Is a Co-Working Space Now.
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YC grad Zenprospect rebrands as Apollo, lands $7M Series A
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LevelUp Named #1 Place to Work by Boston Business Journal
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Domo, an analytics start-up created by Omniture co-founder Josh James, has filed to go public
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Alpha raises $10 million to automate product validation with AI
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DialPad gets an AI injection with TalkIQ acquisition
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Spacious Closes $9M Series A to add 100 Locations + Retail Flagships
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Snapchat launches Spectacles V2, camera glasses you’ll actually wear
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Domo, the Utah startup that came out of nowhere with a $2 billion valuation, could go public this year
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Paperspace goes serverless to simplify AI deployment in the cloud
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How This Startup Is Helping The Fortune 100 Innovate At The Speed Of Startups
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RolePoint Integrates Google Cloud Job Discovery
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Spacious launches 5 co-working locations
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As ‘Unicorns’ Emerge, Utah Makes a Case for Tech Entrepreneurs
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Lively raises $4.2M as it adds investment capabilities for health savings accounts
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TalkIQ raises $14 million Series A to give enterprises AI insights into voice communication
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Michael Jordan funds mercenary dev hub Gigster’s $20M enterprise pivot
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Phil Raises $10M in Series A Funding
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During Every Minute on the Internet … (Infographic)
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ECRM Acquires RangeMe
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Warriors star Steph Curry founded a tech start-up with his old college teammate to shake up marketing
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Spacious, a work sharing start-up, could be coming to a restaurant near you
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L’Oreal Selects Domo to Optimize Digital Performance Across 32 Brands in More than 70 Countries
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Snap valued above $30B as shares pop more than 40% in public trading debut
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When Married to Work Is No Joke
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Chase’s $10 million bet on LevelUp opens paths for Chase Pay
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Here’s why e-commerce app Wish raised $1 billion in two years
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$2 billion startup Domo is crashing a competitor’s conference
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Wish is reportedly raising $500 million
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Change Agents 2016: Brian Wong, Kiip
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Two Tap Launches First Full Automated Service for International Shopping
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RANGEME NAMED WINNER OF SHOP.ORG STARTUP OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
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Bottlenose Founder Wants to Automate the Work of Data Scientists
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Gigster Fund Announcement
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RangeMe raises $4m to support US expansion
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Airbnb Hire of ChangeTip Staff Sparks New Interest in Bitcoin and Blockchain for IoT
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South Asian Dating App Dil Mil Arranges $2.7 Million
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Loverly raises $2 million for its bridal concierge service
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Noah Brier & James Gross Interview with Deirdre Bolton on Fox Business “Risk & Reward”
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NewCo raises new funding led by True Ventures
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The hot e-commerce app Wish has “hundreds of millions of users”
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Women on Top: 10 Founders and CEOs Give Their Best Career Tips
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Kiip powers Taco Bell’s mobile loyalty program Explore
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Spotify And Genius Team To Stream The Backstory On Music Tracks
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Meet Wish, the $3 Billion App That Could Be the Next Walmart
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Apps gigster development outsourcing Software Eats Software Development As Andreessen Invests $10M In App Outsourcer Gigster
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Bottlenose Named One of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America”
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Amazon and Alibaba have approached Wish, but the CEO seems to want more
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SpotX, clypd partner on programmatic, OTT-linear ad platform
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WHY MOBILE (PAY) ORDERING ACTUALLY MATTERS
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Billion Dollar Unicorns: ContextLogic Marries Wish Lists To Vendors
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Another Zenefit rival pops up, with $2.1 million in funding and broker support
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Wrap Raises $12.7M Series B
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Is SnapChat One Step Closer to Becoming a Major Content Discovery Platform?
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How Eric Greenberg became a once (and future) Internet billionaire?
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Genius, Washington Post Team Up To Cover GOP Debate
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Gigster Does The Dev Dirty Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
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Domo named 2015 Tech Pioneer
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StatSocial and Bottlenose Partner to Integrate Real-Time Social Audience Data
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Domo Wins a Gold Stevie Award for 2nd Consecutive Year
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Genius launches an API to fuel mission to annotate the Web
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Percolate Can Take Marketing Software From Salesforce
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Wish is Officially a Unicorn
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Percolate Raises $40m
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Clypd Snags Funding
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Domo Is A Unicorn
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NewCo in NYC
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MasterCard & Kiip
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TrialPay Acquired By Visa
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