Industry and entrepreneur happenings
This article originally appeared on PYMNTS.com, August 15, 2016.
Time is money for every business, but perhaps no more so than for microbusinesses. With only a handful of employees, the time wasted on manual business processes, like invoicing, means lost business (and, of course, lost money).
But there’s a section of the microenterprise community that may […]
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This article originally appeared on New American Economy, August 12, 2016.
Russian-born immigrant, recent Stanford Graduate School of Business graduate, and entrepreneur Misha Esipov, 28, is “on a mission to improve immigrant lending around the world” and “build a cross-border credit bureau to connect U.S. lenders to international data.” His company, Nova Credit Inc., is developing an […]
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This discussion originally appeared on Share Radio Evening Show, July 22, 2016. Play the video below to hear the audio file.
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By Laura Sydell. This podcast originally appeared on NPR, July 5, 2016.
London-based tech companies face the uncertainty of the upcoming exit from the European Union. Many worry about less investment and less access to the talent they need to grow. Some may just leave.
**Listen to podcast featuring XSeed Partner Robert Siegel below** […]
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By Deborah Gage. This article originally appeared on The Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2016.
XSeed Capital has added a partner, Damon Cronkey, as the firm seeks to step up its early-stage investments.
Mr. Cronkey was most recently a senior vice president of corporate development at SurveyMonkey Inc., and served as director of corporate development at […]
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Twitter Is Expected To Invest $100 Million Into SoundCloud, With Speculation Abounding As To Why
By Ben Rosen. This article originally appeared on The Christian Science Monitor, June 15, 2016.
Twitter made noise Tuesday with a $70-million investment in the music service Soundcloud, perhaps one of social media’s latest experiments to redefine how their […]
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By Dave Mariani. This blog originally appeared on AtScale, May 16, 2016.
I am excited to unveil the details of our Series B round. And I’m particularly proud of the tremendous progress we’ve made as a company since we burst onto the scene from stealth mode a little more than a year ago.
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By Dennis Mitzner. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch, May 3, 2016.
As payment solutions proliferate and calls for standardization mount, Israel-based payment platform startup Zooz said it has closed a $24 million led by Target Global Ventures, to expand globally and bolster its products and services.
Zooz’s series C round […]
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By Jordan Novet. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, March 29, 2016.
Publicly traded enterprise hardware company Brocade is announcing today that it has acquired StackStorm, a startup that built software for automating data center operations. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
StackStorm launched out of stealth mode in May 2014 and announced the […]
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Enterprises such as American Express, Aetna, Comcast, and Quotient join the BI on Hadoop leader’s fast-expanding customer list
This press release originally appeared on AtScale, February 29, 2016.
San Mateo, California, February 29, 2016 — AtScale, the first company to provide business users with speed, security and simplicity for BI on […]
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