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This founder launched a $14,000 smartphone immediately after laying off...
People in Israel's tight-knit startup community are talking about the reported death, and the odd life, of the once high-flying startup Mobli.Mobli raised $86 million in venture funds in six years,...
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A Google-backed startup that creates personalised children's books has raised...
Lost My Name, the personalised children's book startup backed by Google Ventures, has raised an additional €4 million (£3 million).The London startup — founded in 2012 by Asi Sharabi and Tal Oron —...
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Marc Andreessen has 2 words of advice for struggling startups
Marc Andreessen has two words of advice for startups: Raise prices.In a recent interview, "The 4-Hour Workweek" author and tech investor Tim Ferriss asked Andreessen what words he would put on a...
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Glassdoor had a good reason to raise another $40 million instead of an IPO,...
Glassdoor on Friday announced that it had raised another $40 million, led by mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price Associates.Glassdoor founder and CEO Robert Hohman tells us the fundraising is part of his...
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Former Nest CEO Tony Fadell says he's 'secretively' invested in more than 100...
Tony Fadell may no longer be the CEO of Nest, the company he founded that was folded into Google's Alphabet holding company, but he won't be idle.In addition to staying on the board at Alphabet, Fadell...
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This 24-year-old skipped the chance to be the first in his family to go to...
James Proud grew up in a particularly rough part of South London. At age 12, when he started earning spending money by designing websites, his mom thought he had become a drug dealer.(He reminded his...
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British HR startup hibob raised a $7.5 million seed round from investors...
A new UK HR technology startup is coming out of stealth mode and announcing that it has raised a $7.5 million (£5.1 million) seed round from investors including TransferWise cofounder Taavet Hinrikus,...
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HSBC’s new Nudge app was inspired by Post-It notes from a bank chief's wife
HSBC is developing a major new app called "Nudge" that aims to help people save money by keeping track of their everyday spending.The high-profile development was actually born out of a simple exercise...
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DocPlanner has raised $20 million for its platform that helps patients get a...
DocPlanner, a startup that helps healthcare professionals manage their diaries, has raised $20 million (£14 million) and merged with rival firm Doctoralia.com.The Polish company, which claims to...
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This popular lip synching app is aggressively coming after Snapchat — and it...
Dubsmash quickly became an overnight success when it debuted in late 2014.The app let users create videos of themselves lip syncing to popular songs or movie lines. But unlike Instagram or Vine, these...
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Nokia VC: European startups will struggle to invade the US unless they...
European tech startups will struggle to gain traction in the US unless they send their CEO to the country, according to an investor at Nokia.Bo Ilsoe, general partner at venture capital firm Nokia...
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Not all software M&A is created equal
What’s notable about recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in software companies (including SaaS) isn’t the number of deals (7), their worth ($8.6B disclosed value), or even the timing...
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Here are the hot areas in tech where a top VC firm wants to focus its new...
"Software eating the world" is the basic philosophy behind all of Andreessen Horowitz's investments. But the Silicon Valley VC has a few specific areas of tech that are lighting up its radar right...
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Move Loot, the startup that wanted to dethrone Craigslist as the go-to place...
Move Loot, the startup that wanted to take on Craigslist with a better service for selling furniture, is winding down operations and is in acquisition talks with a "symbiotic" company.The company...
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Tennis star Andy Murray has backed these 3 UK tech startups
Tennis star Andy Murray has invested in three more UK startups via crowdfunding platform Seedrs.Seedrs announced on Monday that the Olympic gold medal winner has put an undisclosed amount of money into...
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With the tech world obsessed about Apple and LinkedIn, 2 startups are quietly...
While the tech world is fawning over Apple's WWDC conference— or still recovering from the shock of Microsoft buying LinkedIn — startups are slipping out bad news during the busy news cycle.On Monday,...
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Scottish tech 'unicorn' FanDuel is finally going to launch its fantasy sports...
FanDuel, a one-day fantasy sports startup founded in Edinburgh, is planning to launch its platform in the UK this summer.The company — valued at over a billion dollars, thereby making it a "unicorn"—...
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The chance of Shazam's music identification service working out was just 4%
The chance of music identification service Shazam working out was just 4%, Shazam cofounder Dhiraj Mukherjee said on Wednesday.Speaking at the Startup Grind Europe conference in London, Mukherjee said...
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Deliveroo nearly started out as a company called 'Boozefood' that delivered...
Food delivery service Deliveroo nearly started out as a company called "Boozefood," according to Deliveroo cofounder and CEO Will Shu.Speaking on stage at the Startup Grind conference in London, Shu...
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A London venture capital firm held an unusual IPO and made over £100 million
Venture capital firm Draper Esprit raised over £100 million in a rare VC stock market listing on Wednesday.The London-based company, which has invested in healthy snack food startup Graze and fashion...
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