Having a great idea for an app or game is one thing, but scaling it to become a successful business is quite another. A new fintech startup called Sanlo aims to help. The company, which is today announcing an oversubscribed $3.5 million seed round, offers small to medium-sized game …
Read More »15 venture capital funds to know if you’re working on a machine intelligence startup
Major tech trends tend to draw lots of “dumb money” from investors, and machine intelligence is no exception. Some will lose money on insignificant acqui-hires while others may survive long enough to see their investments die at the hands of open source. But for a smaller list of VCs, machine …
Read More »Thrive Capital hires Obama’s Director of Product Josh Miller to focus on tech for the underprivileged
Connections between the Obama administration and Silicon Valley abound, but particularly for Josh Kushner. The latest? Kushner’s venture firm Thrive Capital just hired Josh Miller, a member of the White House Office of Digital Strategy under President Barack Obama. Miller, just 24 when he left Facebook to serve as the White …
Read More »Tel Aviv – World’s Vegan Food Capital
As the world’s vegetarian food capital, Tel Aviv restaurants and food stands provide numerous options for the veggie lovers, But not only in Tel Aviv: Israel is …
Read More »Yooka-Laylee launches April 11, ‘Capital Cashino’ trailer
Yooka-Laylee will launch in both physical and digital formats for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on April 11, 2017 for £34.99 / $39.99 / €39.99, developer Playtonic Games announced. Pre-orders across all platforms include access to the “Toybox Demo.” Playtonic Games also announced that development on the Wii U …
Read More »A Super Angel’s View On Venture Capital In 2015
Editor’s Note: Fabrice Grinda is an Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, and co-founder of OLX, one of the largest free classifieds sites in the world. This piece is excerpted from a larger report due to be posted on Grinda’s site, Musings of an Entrepreneur. As the first quarter of 2015 draws to …
Read More »Square brings payment and capital offerings to TouchBistro and Vend customers
Square is turning point-of-sale companies that at one time could’ve been considered enemies into allies, with two new partnerships with Vend and TouchBistro. Square will now offer Vend and TouchBistro‘s restaurant, retail and other business owner clients full access to Square’s platform, including its hardware, payments infrastructure and financial service …
Read More »Venture Capital Is Terrible At Online Shopping
Another day, another series of Silicon Valley e-commerce explosions: Gilt Groupe just sold for a fraction of its valuation (and its capital raised) and One Kings Lane is reportedly the next to die. Previously it was Fab.com being sold for nothing after severely underperforming — ah, Fab, the first billion-dollar retail “unicorn” born with …
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