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German Startups Get Some Needed Attention

German startups scored a win yesterday with Deutsche Telekom’s announcement that it will be launching Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, a $620 million fund focusing on Germany’s tech scene, in January 2015. T-Venture, DT’s initial venture capital...

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VCs Open Their Wallets For Man’s Best Friend

Just when it appeared that investors were losing interest in pet startups, DogVacay announced a record-setting $25 million Series B1 round to bring pet tech to the forefront of the startup...

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Venture Investors Get Moving With Fitness Tech

Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. Fitness tech startups are off to the races in the second half of 2014, as venture investors seek...

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VCs Look To The Future As IoT Investments Soar

Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. From personal mobility device Whill to wireless power transmitter uBeam, Internet of Things startups are amassing millions in venture...

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Intel Capital announced a new list of investments yesterday, inching closer to the top of the Investor Leaderboard as the most active corporate VC of all time. With the third highest...

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Investors have allocated over $2 billion in venture dollars this year to consumer transportation companies, from giants like Uber and Lyft to more narrowly-focused startups like Shuddle, the so-called “Uber for Kids,” and FlightCar,...

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Personal finance tech is blowing up this week, as wealth management and investment services startups Personal Capital and Wealthfront both recorded large Series D rounds to total $114 million in venture funding since Monday. Venture...

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India’s tech scene saw a huge influx of cash on Monday as Japanese investment firm SoftBank announced it would pour over $800 million into deals for e-commerce platform Snapdeal and on-demand taxi...

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Venture Investors Splurge On Real Estate Technology

Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. Investments in real estate tech are on the upswing in the wake of some billion dollar exits this year....

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Sequoia Goes Even More Global In A Year Of Firsts

Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. Sequoia Capital has long been dominant in the U.S. venture scene (and more recently in Asia), topping the charts for most investments...

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Venture investors are raising the stakes, choosing to ignore warnings that the good times won’t last forever and betting bigger than ever in a slew of massive early-stage venture rounds this week. Mystery...

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TechCrunch Disrupt Europe came to a close in London on Tuesday as big data storage startup Crate stole the show and went home with the Disrupt Cup. Crate will join...

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Venture Investors Get Fashion Fever As Early Stage Deals Soar

Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. There’s a brand new dance in venture capital, as investors have gone fashion-mad. After watching JustFab and...

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CrunchBase Daily Featured Fundings

Osmo, an iPad-powered gaming device startup out of Palo Alto, has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel Partners with participation from Upfront Ventures and K9...

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NBA star Glen Davis and Titan’s linebacker Derrick Morgan made their venture capital debut on Monday, pouring $2 million in seed funding into robotic bartender Monsieur. Davis and Morgan are the...

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While angel investors were vying for the title of world’s top venture investor of 2014, a Round Table of twelve venture firms ascended the throne in the Silicon Valley venture capital ecosystem. From experienced veterans Sequoia...

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Venture Investors Say Logistics Companies Are In For The Long Haul

Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. In a world where consumers are increasingly expecting frictionless, tech-enabled services, snail mail is just not cutting it. Just...

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Plummeting currency prices did not stop VCs from buying into bitcoin this week, opening their wallets daily to dish out a total of $54 million in early-stage rounds for five cryptocurrency companies....

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Naspers is making major moves to corner the South African retail market. Yesterday the multinational media group poured $40 million into Nigerian e-commerce platform Konga, with help from Stockholm-based Investment...

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It looks like Yahoo! will be dishing out a chunk of its Alibaba cash for a stake in the pricey messaging game. Yahoo! just spent a rumored $40 million to...

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