STARTUPS
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Alibaba Offers Bitcoin Rewards Through Lolli Shopping App for ‘Singles Day’
Lolli, an affiliate retail startup that gives online shoppers bitcoin instead of regular cash-back perks, just announced its first Asian partnership with...
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17OLX Group invests up to $400M in used car marketplace Frontier Car Group at $700M valuation
Frontier Car Group, the Berlin-based startup building used-car marketplaces targeting high-growth, emerging markets, has picked up another significant round of funding from...
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19Voi raises another $85M for its European e-scooter service
Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised an $85...
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Startups Weekly: Airbnb’s growing pains
Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before...
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21Inside StockX’s authentication center
Joshua Luber runs a sneaker empire valued at more than $1 billion, but he thinks they’re just now scratching the surface. The...
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Alpaca nabs $6M for stocks API so anyone can build a Robinhood
Stock trading app Robinhood is valued at $7.6 billion, but it only operates in the U.S. Freshly funded fintech startup Alpaca does...
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22Prices increase tonight: Buy Disrupt Berlin 2019 early bird passes now
We get it. You’re deep in the weeds starting your startup, building your business, expanding your empire. Startuppers are frequently overworked, prone...
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34Sinclair leads $10.3M investment in rideshare advertising startup Octopus
Octopus Interactive, a startup bringing an interactive TV and ad experience into Uber and Lyft rides, has raised a $10.3 million funding...
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28Reonomy, a massive database of commercial property intel, raises $60M
The property industry — covering people and businesses that invest in, build, purchase or rent and maintain property — is hugely fragmented...
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23Just 48 hours left to buy early bird passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019
Opportunity’s still knocking, but it’s on a very short leash. We’re T-minus 48 hours remaining on early bird prices to Disrupt Berlin...
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31Airbnb to verify all of its listings
Following the death of five people at a Halloween party hosted at a California Airbnb rental, and a scathing Vice report outlining...
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36Stealth fintech startup Digits raises $10.5 million Series A from Benchmark and others
Stealth fintech startup Digits, from the same team that built Crashlytics to scale then sold to Twitter for over $100 million, has...
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2372 hours left for early bird passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019
Did you know that the cuckoo clock originated in Germany? It’s a fact. And while the origins of early-bird pricing remain shrouded...
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29Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform
Amperity announced today that it’s acquiring another company in the customer data business, Custora. Amperity co-founder and CEO Kabir Shahani told me...
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Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable, cloud-native monitoring tool
Chronoshere, a startup from two ex-Uber engineers, who helped create the open source M3 monitoring project to handle Uber-level scale, officially launched...
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26Gradeup raises $7M to expand its online exam preparation platform to smaller Indian cities and towns
Gradeup, an edtech startup in India that operates an exam preparation platform for undergraduate and postgraduate level courses, has raised $7 million...
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24Workday to acquire online procurement platform Scout RFP for $540M
Workday announced this afternoon that it has entered into an agreement to acquire online procurement platform Scout RFP for $540 million. The...
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24Kadena Mainnet Goes Live, New $20 Token Sale Starts Tomorrow
The Kadena network, which is led by JPMorgan blockchain veterans, has gone live on Monday, with the firm announcing a new $20...
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19Sumo Logic acquires JASK to fill security operations gap
Sumo Logic, a mature security event management startup with a valuation over $1 billion, announced today that it has acquired JASK, a...