Sydney, Australia-based online travel booking service Rezdy pocketed $1 million in a recent funding round from both new and existing investors to establish a new office in San Francisco, US.
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Berkeley-based biotech startup Exogen turns to crowdfunding
Berkeley, US-based biotech startup Exogen Biotechnology turned to crowdfunding to raise money for its DNA damage measuring technology amid shortage of venture capitalists investing in biotech firms.
New German digital currency XNF is backed by gold and silver
Germany-based new digital currency NoFiatCoin (XNF) is backed by gold and silver bullion to give digital currency the added security of the value of precious metals, in case the everything goes down.
US-based angel investor Gary Vaynerchuk launches $25M seed fund
US-based angel investor and Wine Library TV founder Gary Vaynernuck partnered with RSE Ventures cofounder Matt Higgins to launch a $25 million seed fund called Vayner RSE which they might be used to start a new brand of wine.
Citia gets additional $600K from angel investors
Citia, a publishing platform that helps marketers and content creators take advantage of the shift to a card-based structure, has bagged an added $600,000 from David S. Rose and Geoff Judge, TechCrunch reported.
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NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, together with Los Angeles Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, have become the new owners of women’s basketball team LA Sparks.
Coralville, US-based education startup Higher Learning Technologies bagged $1 million from investors in its first funding round to dozens more to its existing mobile education apps this year.
Private equity giant KKR will be withdrawing two funds targeted for individual investors, a move that is seen as a blow to its efforts to grow its product offerings beyond institutional investors, Reuters reported.
Teen apparel retailer Aeropostale, which had posted losses for four straight quarters, is reportedly mulling over a capital increase from private equity investors. Should the teen apparel retailer decide to raise capital, Aeropostale may do it via a private investment in public equity (PIPE) deal.
New York Times columnist and former executive editor Bill Keller will be leaving the American media firm to become the editor-in-chief of nonprofit news startup The Marshall Project on March 1.
SportPursuit, a flash sales site based in the UK, nabbed £5M from its Series B financing round led by London-based venture capital firm DFJ Esprit and participated in by Silicon Valley Bank and angel investors, TechCrunch reported.
Oregon, US-based startup bRight Switch launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $115,500 for a prototype of a wall-fixed smart tablet that will replace the ordinary home light switch.
Political and financial upheaval in some of the world's largest emerging economies is driving a new wave of rich migrants to London's supercharged property market as a place to park their wealth, data from a leading real estate agency showed on Friday.
Noida, India-based optimization software startup IntelloCut secured $200,000 (INR1.3 crore) in funding from a group of investors led by Blume Ventures and Google India's Ranjan Anandan.
