Industry and entrepreneur happenings
This article originally appeared on Lanxess on May 08, 2019.
LANXESS glass fiber production at its Kallo site near Antwerp, Belgium.
Photo: LANXESS AG
Cologne […] – LANXESS is set to
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By Megan Rose Dickey. This article originally appeared in Tech Crunch on May 07, 2019.
Square has acquired conversational artificial intelligence startup Eloquent Labs to help its merchants improve customer service.
Eloquent Labs, which raised a $1.5 million seed round back in early 2017, offers to small […]
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By Chase Milsap. This article originally appeared in We Are The Mighty on April 02, 2019.
It’s raining on a Tuesday morning — pretty standard for a Marine physical fitness test — and I know that rain or shine; pull-ups, sit-ups, and a three-mile run are going to happen. I stand, shivering in the pre-dawn drizzle, […]
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By Adeyemi Ajao. This article originally appeared in Forbes on April 10, 2019.
It’s 2022 and Stephanie and Brian are buying a new SUV to accommodate the growing size of their family – their third child is due in a few months. They already selected the make and model and are simply finalizing color, drive train, […]
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By Simon Ogus. This article originally appeared in Forbes on March 12, 2019.
There are many skills and traits utilized for evaluating athletes, but they have never been reliable indicators. That is why unrecruited players like JJ Watt can become All-Pro’s in the NFL and why, just yesterday, Trent Brown, four years […]
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By Anthony Ha. This article originally appeared in TechCrunch on February 25, 2019.
Narrative, a startup that makes it easier to buy and sell data, is announcing that it’s raised $3 million in additional seed funding.
The round was led by Glasswing Ventures , XSeed, Tuhaye […]
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By Spence Green. This article originally appeared on Lilt on October 4, 2018.
Today I’m pleased to announce that we raised $9.5M in new funding led by Sequoia Capital. Bill Coughran, partner at Sequoia, will join our board. Our existing investors‒Redpoint Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, and XSeed Capital‒all participated in […]
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By Jake Bright. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch on August 10, 2018.
Emerging markets credit startup Mines.io has closed a $13 million Series A round led by The Rise Fund, the global impact fund formed by private equity giant TPG, and 10 others, including Velocity Capital.
Mines provides […]
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By Ingrid Lundun. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch on July 22, 2018.
A week after PayPal led a $50 million round in the cross-border payment specialist PPRO, one of its big competitors in the developing world has announced an acquisition of its own in the same space. PayU — the payments […]
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By Matt Marshall. This article originally appeared on Venture Beat in its Big Data section on June 26, 2018.
AtScale, which is building an abstraction software layer that allows companies to seamlessly work on data projects in the cloud or on-premises, today announced at least six new multi-million-dollar customers, […]
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