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The Facebook engineer who taught its data how to dance is solving a new...
Back in 2008, Facebook released Cassandra, a free new technology it had come up with for searching huge amounts of data (specifically, user inboxes).Cassandra would go on to take the world by storm,...
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This 27-year-old failed on Shark Tank — now she’s part of Silicon Valley’s...
Walking into ABC’s “Shark Tank” last September, Lumi CEO Jesse Genet asked for $250,000 for 5% of her company.Lumi was a 3-year old startup selling photo printing kits online. It would allow users to...
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IT'S OFFICIAL: Greylock led Meerkat's $14 million round
Live video streaming app Meerkat has scored an investment from Greylock Partners, the company confirmed.Business Insider and The Information had previously reported that Greylock was talking to the...
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Magic just showed its first product to investors on Monday — now it may be...
Magic — the service that lets you text a number and get "anything you want as long as it's not illegal" — is raising $12 million from Sequoia Capital at a $40 million valuation, just a few days after...
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Microsoft buys, shuts down a tiny startup
Microsoft has acquired and started the process of shutting down LiveLoop, a tiny San Francisco startup that makes it easy to share Microsoft Office documents, ZDNet reports. "Microsoft is excited to...
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39 of the coolest startups founded by women
Women may be underrepresented throughout the tech sector, but they're still building some incredible startups, apps, and products.The folks over at Product Hunt have created and curated a collection of...
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We checked out Victor — 'Uber for private jets' — where prices start at about...
Victor, an on-demand service for hiring private jets, just raised about £5.5 million ($8 million) in investment funding, expanded into the US, and launched a mobile app on Apple's iOS mobile...
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Why one VC firm is so critical to Seattle — and why that’s a little scary
Look across Seattle’s startup landscape, and you’ll see a commonality.Like the tree it takes its name from, Madrona Venture Group’s roots are everywhere.Partners teach entrepreneurial classes at the...
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These 16 startups are worth $22 billion: Here are the deals that made them so...
Last week, news broke that Slack was raising a new round of investment that would value the young company at a jaw-dropping $2.76 billion.That would make Slack the second most valuable enterprise...
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Fascinating message board posts from Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, and Pierre...
A version of this post originally appeared on carlcheo.com.I recently came across an early forum post in which Jan Koum was promoting his new iPhone messaging app, something called WhatsApp. That small...
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This app tells startup founders where they should live
A new app called Teleport is trying to tell startup people the best places across the world for them to set up shop.The problem solved by Teleport is simple, says co-founder and CEO Sten Tamkivi, who...
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Oscar is a New York-based health startup that's less than 2 years old, and it...
Oscar Health Insurance, a New York-based startup trying to bring modern tech thinking into the health insurance industry, is in talks to raise a round of funding that would value it at more than $1...
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They can't all be unicorns: Once-hyped cloud startup Nebula goes out of business
Nebula, a once-hot startup co-founded in 2011 by an ex-NASA CTO and funded to the tune of $38.5 million by some of Silicon Valley's foremost venture capitalists, has gone out of business.They can't all...
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Venture firm Lux just got $350 million more to invests in robots, the future,...
Venture capital firm Lux Capital, which invests in early-stage futuristic science and tech companies, has closed its fourth fund at $350 million, the company announced Thursday. Now it has $700 million...
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College kids seem to love Tapingo, a startup that just raised $22 million to...
If you want to order food, you probably already use Seamless, Grubhub, or maybe Postmates to get it for you.But if you're on a college campus, there's a startup that will let you order food from your...
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A new startup called Honor just raised $20 million to provide in-home care...
When Seth Sternberg's mom began to enter old age, Sternberg realized he didn't know what he was going to do to take care of her."I could never trust my mother to the current state of the industry,"...
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How trusting her gut got this Australian entrepreneur into business with...
Being invited to Richard Branson’s Nekker Island is a dream come true for any entrepreneur.But when Jo Burston’s, founder of Rare Birds, four-day trip to the inspiring entrepreneurial island came to an...
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The truth about life in 2015 at Stanford, where 21-year-olds are offered...
The sunny campus of Stanford University, with its many trees, sprawling quads, and kids with backpacks, looks like many American colleges. But because Stanford is in Palo Alto, California, in the...
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A startup that wants to kill Lululemon just raised $6.5 million at a $74...
Brother-sister duo Rishi and Tapasya Bali grew up at the base of the Himalayas in India, an area known as the birthplace of yoga.In 2010, both quit their Wall Street jobs — Rishi at Goldman Sachs and...
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OnLive, the first company to try streaming games over the internet, is...
Six years ago, OnLive came up with a radical idea: With a good enough Internet connection, you could stream video games from the data center into your home, the same way millions do with Netflix...
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