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Formlabs goes unicorn with latest funding round

With its latest funding round, Formlabs has achieved unicorn status. The Massachusetts-based 3D printing startup just raised another $15 million. The latest round brings its total funding up to$100 million, and puts the company in the relatively rare air of hardware startups with valuations in excess of $1 billion. This latest funding, which follows […]<br>Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/fundings-exits/~3/xdPfYyWtLEE/<br><hr><h1>Golden Gate Ventures hits first close on new$100M fund for Southeast AsiaOne of the fascinating things about watching an emerging startup ecosystem is that it isn’t just companies that are scaling, the very VC firms that feed them are growing themselves, too. That’s perhaps best embodied by Golden Gate Ventures, a Singapore-based firm founded by three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in 2011 which is about to close a […]
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What every startup founder should know about exits

The dream of a startup founder can often be summarized by the following well-intentioned, and mostly delusional, quote: “We’ll raise a few rounds and in a few years we’ll IPO on Nasdaq.”
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Skyline AI raises $18M Series A for its machine learning-based real estate investment tech</h1>A mere four months after coming out of stealth mode with$3 million in seed funding, real estate investment startup Skyline AI announced that it has raised an $18 million Series A. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, a returning investor, and TLV Partners, with participation from JLL Spark, a division of real estate […]<br>Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/fundings-exits/~3/B_Heg4G7w3A/<br><hr><h1>Blockchain media project Civil turns to Asia with fund to kickstart 100 new media ventures</h1>Civil, the blockchain-based journalism organization, is casting its eye to Asia after it set up a$1 million fund that’s aimed at seeding 100 new media projects across the continent over the next three years. The organization has teamed up with Splice, a Singapore-based media startup which will manage the fund, according to an announcement. There’s […]
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A pickaxe for the AI gold rush, Labelbox sells training data software

Every artificial intelligence startup or corporate R&D lab has to reinvent the wheel when it comes to how humans annotate training data to teach algorithms what to look for. Whether it’s doctors assessing the size of cancer from a scan or drivers circling street signs in self-driving car footage, all this labeling has to happen […]
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Bus-sharing app Shuttl gets $11M Series B from investors including Amazon India</h1>Shuttl, a service that lets Indian city dwellers find seats on multiple bus routes through one app, announced today that it has raised a$11 million Series B led by Amazon India, Amazon Alexa Fund and Dentsu Ventures. Returning investors Sequoia Capital, Times Internet and Lightspeed Ventures also participated. The Gurgaon-based startup’s last round of […]
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Grover raises €37M Series A to offer latest tech products as a subscription

Grover, the Berlin-based startup that offers “pay-as-you-go” subscriptions to the latest consumer tech as an alternative to owning products outright, has raised €37 million in funding. The Series A round is led by Circularity Capital LLP — a VC that specialises in the so-called “circular economy” — with participation from fintech investor Coparion, Samsung NEXT, […]
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Experian leads $28M investment in Southeast Asia fintech startup C88</h1>Experian is making its first major bet on Southeast Asia and its&nbsp;population of over 650 million consumers after the financial credit giant backed Singapore-based&nbsp;C88 Financial Technologies, which operates financial marketplaces that help lenders reach new audiences. C88 today announced a$28 million Series C investment round that’s led by Experian with participation from a host […]
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Home run exits happen stealthily for biotech

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom Shoe startups aren’t dragging their feet Startup exit tallies commonly underestimate biotech returns. Unlike most tech deals, the biggest profits in bio often come long after an IPO or acquisition. Take Juno Therapeutics, a publicly traded cancer immunology company […]
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