"La Caixa”, a través del fondo especializado en ciencias de la vida, Caixa Innvierte BioMed II, y CRB Inverbío, a través de su fondo CRB Bio II, han liderado una ronda de inversión de tres millones de euros en la empresa de tecnologías médicas vestibles (wearable) Nuubo. Acompañan esta inversión los socios existentes, entre los que se encuentra Fides Capital, principal inversor hasta la fecha, y nuevos socios minoritarios.
“Do you want us to charge your phone?” George Holmes asks. Normally, that would be an odd question. But Holmes is the vice president of sales and marketing for Energous, a company that is developing technology called WattUp that will allow you to charge smartphones, tablets, and other small gadgets from across a room without wires.
Ce n’est certes pas la première fois qu’un litige autour d’une sous-location se termine devant les tribunaux, mais c’est la première fois que le nom du site sur lequel a été mis en sous-location le logement, Airbnb, une des plus importantes plate-formes de ce type, est clairement cité.
It’s often claimed that Israeli startups are only in pursuit of a quick exit. However, a recent wave of multi-million dollar IPOs by Israeli startups puts a dent in that stereotype.
A hot ticket in the Israeli IPO rumor mill is Mobileye, which, according to the Wall Street Journal, is trying to raise $1 billion on NASDAQ at a company value of up to $5 billion.
The UK home cleaning market continues to lather up. Hot on the heels of Hassle.com’s $6 million fund-raise from Accel Partners, local rival Housekeep is announcing it’s closed a $1 million investment led by Pentland Group (majority owner of JD Sports and numerous other major brands), with participation from a number of angel investors including Brett Akker and Justin Peters, the founders of Streetcar (acquired by Zipcar) and Kabbee, respectively.
Back in 1994, about 40 percent of Los Angeles County residents had earthquake insurance at the time of the Northridge Earthquake, a 6.7-scale quake that leveled neighborhoods. Now, only 16 percent of those residents have quake insurance.
We know that thanks to Risk Management Solutions, which has built a big data platform for catastrophe risk modeling. Bobby Soni, chief platform and services officer at RMS, spoke about the challenge of building that platform at VentureBeat’s DataBeat 2014 conference today.
Tracking packages is a huge hassle for online vendors, especially for international shipments made with local post services. Once an item goes abroad, tracking often stops, and sellers and customers are left in suspense until the item (hopefully) reappears and is safely delivered.
Boxed, an e-commerce company that offers Costco-like discounts on macro-sized quantities of bulk items, is expanding.
The company announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in a Series A round of funding, led by Greycroft Partners.
Boxed doesn’t have quite the selection that Costco has, with just 800 products available to purchase. What it does offer is the convenience of shopping at home instead of wandering through the desolate caverns of a poorly lit tilt-up concrete warehouse. It also offers free shipping on all of its products, including dog food, peanut butter, coffee, and bulk packs of Clif Bars.
Coursera receives lots of attention in the business of helping millions of people take free courses online. Now, Udemy has a shot at becoming just as big of a name.
The startup announced $32 million in new funding today.
Udemy offers some free courses, while it charges for others. It claims more than 3 million students, up 50 percent from January; while Coursera had hit 5 million as of October 2013. Competitor Udacity had more 1.6 million students by that time; and edX, a non-profit organization, claimed more than 1.3 million.
