Nov 20, 2014 | News, North America
We’ll need to produce 70% more food by 2050 to sustain a world population expected to grow to 10 billion. Yet agriculture startups struggle to get the funding, manufacturing, and test facilities needed to build tech that could boost food production. To fix that...
Nov 17, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch When consumers are home shopping these days, they tend to be drawn to consumer-friendly portals like Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and others, which offer simple, user-friendly tools to take on what’s otherwise a complex and confusing process. But these services...
Nov 14, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch SysCloud, a service that offers a comprehensive suite of services aimed to keep companies’ Google Apps accounts safe and backed up, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million Series A round led by new investor Inventus Capital Partners and previous...
Nov 11, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch iPad-based point-of-sale platform maker Revel Systems has raised $100 million in a Series C round of funding, multiplying the startup’s existing funding raise by almost a factor of ten. The new funding comes from NYC private equity firm Welsh, Carson,...
Nov 4, 2014 | News, North America
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Nov 4 (Reuters) – If Shubham Banerjee cannot lay claim to being the world’s youngest venture capital-backed entrepreneur, he comes very close. Banerjee was 12 years old when he closed an early-stage funding round with Intel...
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...
