Apr 15, 2015 | Deals, North America
This Company is developing a shovel ready Algae-to-Fuel operation that will have four streams of income: 1. The fuel from algae. 2. A tilapia fish farm. 3. A shrimp farm. 4. Algae to be sold as fertilizer and as a pharmaceutical base. The Company is seeking about $12m...
Apr 13, 2015 | Deals, North America
The Company is a biotechnology business that is located in Southern California. The Company’s senior management and principal partners are Minh Nguyen and Chinh Vu. Together, these senior executives have more than 50 years of collective experience in the...
Mar 16, 2015 | Deals, North America
Canadian based company is looking for investment from potential stakeholders or other financing options to provide funding capital for a unique small hotel opportunity in an area of Mexico that is both safe and prepared to grow significantly. The funds generated from...
Mar 13, 2015 | News, North America
Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads. TheFind had raised $26 million from Lightspeed and Redpoint since getting off the ground around 2005, but will now be shut down. Some, but not all,...
Mar 12, 2015 | News, North America
Amazon is taking another step into the Internet of Things. TechCrunch has learned, and confirmed, that the e-commerce and cloud services giant has acquired 2lemetry, a startup based out of Denver that has developed an enterprise-focused platform to track and manage...
Mar 4, 2015 | News, North America
Uber is on course to make its first public acquisition with San Jose-based mapping tech startup deCarta in its headlights. DeCarta provides a range of location and map services, including in-map search, location APIs, turn-by-turn navigation and more. A deal to buy...