Nov 4, 2014 | News, North America
Customer loyalty program startup Thanx launched today with both a Visa and MasterCard partnership and $4.7 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. An earlier seed round from SoftTech VC of $1.3 million brings the total funding raised to $6 million. Thanx...
Nov 4, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch What’s a 3D scanner for? More than just providing source material for 3D printers, reckons Fuel3D, an Oxford University spin-out that last year Kickstarted a consumer-grade, high-resolution handheld 3D scanner. Today it’s announcing a $6.4 million expansion...
Oct 28, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Last week online car sales and valuation service CarPrice.ru received $2 million in seed investment. The principal investors were Almaz Capital, Fastlane Ventures, e.ventures along with several other Russian and foreign funds. The company was founded very recently, in...
Oct 22, 2014 | News, Southeast Asia
Tokopedia, an online marketplace in Indonesia, has raised an impressive $100 million round led by SoftBank Internet and Media (SIMI), with participation from Sequoia Capital and returning investor SB Pan Asia Fund. The valuation was undisclosed. The investment is the...
Oct 21, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Google today announced that it has acquired Firebase, a backend service that helps developers build realtime apps for iOS, Android and the web that can store and sync data instantly. Firebase currently has almost 110,000 registered developers on its...
Oct 21, 2014 | News, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Aiming to build a bridge between East and West — specifically, Singapore and London — the Singaporean state-funded VC Infocomm Investments is extending its $200 million fund to European tech startups, including investing in the London-based fintech accelerator run by...
