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At Recode’s Code Conference a few weeks ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick hinted at a new funding round that would be “record-breaking”. Raising $1.2 billion at an $18 billion valuation, Uber delivered on that promise with its latest funding round. As of December though, Uber was only pulling in around $20 million per week, of which it kept 20%. Their investors are counting on high growth,...
This month’s featured startup is New Matter, a company that just successfully crowdfunded their new affordable 3D printer on Indiegogo. See past startups of the month here. In just three days, they’ve raised over $440,000 with no sign of slowing down (their goal was $375,000). Why have they been successful? Their printer is beautiful, affordable, and supposedly much easier to use. Watch the video...
Today, I’m thrilled to share with you all my recent interview with the cofounder of Skype Jaan Tallinn. Today, he’s here to talk to us about his latest company though, Metamed, a high-tech medical startup that he cofounded, with backing by Peter Thiel, and his Venture Capital firm, Founder’s Fund. I met Jaan a few months ago at a conference, and after talking with him...
This article is part of our monthly “Startup of the Month” series. You can read more articles from that series here. The most talked about acquisition this year has been the nabbing of Whatsapp by Facebook, and because of that, a lot of other deals have been overshadowed. One of those overshadowed acquisitions, was BBVA’s acquisition of a banking startup called “Simple“, for over...
Young hackers Ash Bhat and Ankit Ranjan just hacked into Snapchat, and friended 4 million users. After getting their project up and running, they showed it to Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat. We talked to Ranjan, who gave us the whole story. According to Ranjan, Bhat came into the HackTech hackathon at Caltech thinking “I want to piss off a company”, and because of the...
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