Twitter-backed Indian social network ShareChat raises $40 million
ShareChat, an Indian social network that focuses entirely on serving users in non-English languages, said on Thursday it has raised $40 million from a clutch of investors after the Indian…
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AdQuick raises $6 million to build its programmatic capabilities in OOH
AdQuick this week announced the close of a $6million series-A funding round, bringing total funding to $9.4M. AdQuick is an Out of Home (OOH) advertising software company founded in 2016…
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Snackpass snags $21M to let you earn friends free takeout
“We were in the back washing blenders so they could keep taking Snackpass orders,” recalls co-founder and CEO Kevin Tan. The team from order-ahead food startup Snackpass was willing to…
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Instagram founders join $30M raise for Loom work video messenger
Why are we all trapped in enterprise chat apps if we talk 6X faster than we type, and our brain processes visual info 60,000X faster than text? Thanks to Instagram,…
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Give InKind’s smarter giving platform brings in surprise $1.5 million in pre-seed funding
Helping out a friend in need online can be surprisingly difficult. While giving cash is easy enough, that’s often not what people need most — so Give InKind aims to…
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Social network for motherhood Peanut raises $5M, expands to include women trying to conceive
Peanut, an app that began its life as a match-maker for finding new mom friends but has since evolved into a social network of more than a million women, announced…
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GoFundMe launches free platform for nonprofits and charities, rolls out button to donate anywhere
GoFundMe has made its name primarily as a platform for individuals to create fundraisers for personal causes — a service that has seen hundreds of campaigns go viral through social…
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With $15M round and 100K tablets sold, reMarkable CEO wants to make tech ‘more human’
The reMarkable tablet is a strange device in this era of ultra-smart gadgets: A black and white screen meant for reading, writing, and sketching — and nothing more. Yet the…
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