May 23, 2014 | East Asia, News, Southeast Asia
TechCrunch May 23, 2014 YOYO Holdings, a rewards platform that targets prepaid mobile phone users in developing economies, has secured $1.3 million in funding from Japanese venture capital firms GREE Ventures, CyberAgent Ventures, and Incubate Fund. Based in...
May 22, 2014 | News, North America
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22 (Reuters) A cloud software boom has nudged startups into unlikely realms such as dairy farms, yoga studios and back-of-the-building loading docks, leading venture capitalists to hope for stratospheric returns. Venture capitalists poured more than...
May 22, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
French startup TVTY raised $4.5 million from Partech Ventures, 360 Capital Partners and business angels. This is yet another sign that French companies’ efforts to advertise technology have been doing very well. TVTY provides an API for advertising companies to bridge...
May 22, 2014 | News, Western Europe
TechCrunch May 22, 2014 ‘Tinderfaces’ are in app vogue right now. By which I mean Tinder-esque ‘swipe to filter’ interfaces. ‘X app is the Tinder of Y’ has become the standard descriptive shorthand for this trend (named, of course, for dating app Tinder which...
May 22, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch May 22, 2014 French startup accelerator TheFamily is raising up to $2 million from angel investors and Index Ventures. It’s an open round — so far investors have committed $1 million. Given the overall interest around the funding, the company should quickly...
May 21, 2014 | India, News, South & Central Asia
(Reuters) – With Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) ramping up its presence in India, two local online retailers are preparing for tougher competition with separate deals worth a combined $400 million set to be finalised this week. Flipkart, India’s largest online...
