Yobie Bejamin, the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Citigroup, raised $1 million on via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter for hardware startup Avegant's new kind of headset called Glyph.
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Irish media firm Communicorp snaps up eight stations from Global Radio for £35M
Dublin, Ireland-based media holding firm Communicorp snapped up eight stations from London, UK-based media and publishing holding group Global Radio in a deal valued at £35 million as the latter was forced by the Competition Commission to do so.
US-based startup Snippit pockets $500K in seed round to launch an app that adds music clip to photos
San Francisco, California-based startup Snippit pocketed $500,000 in an internal family seed round to launch an app that lets users add a music clip to photos.
Eight startups present to investors on StartX's demo day
Eight startups that graduated from the Fall 2013 class of StartX, the non-profit accelerator for entrepreneurs in the Stanford community, held a demo day in Silicon Valley, TechCrunch reported.
CircleCI secures $6M in Series A funding from venture capital firm DFJ
CircleCI was able to raise $6 million for its Series A funding round from DFJ, a venture capital firm, according to VentureBeat which cited a company blog post.
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Planemakers are looking forward to inking billions of dollars in deals at an aerospace gathering in Singapore next week despite worries about the turmoil in emerging markets, Reuters reported.
Datamolino, a Slovak startup processes invoices and receipts without the need for manual data entry, has received €500,000 for its seed financing round from Slovak Innovations and Technologies Fund, TechCrunch reported.
Bloomthat, a flower delivery startup based in San Francisco, pulled in seed funding from investors that included SV Angel and Ashton Kutcher amounting to $2 million, TechCrunch reported.
New York, US-based startup Docurated nabbed $3.75 million in its first major funding round led by Rogers Venture Partners to help companies index and search for their files on local servers and cloud storage services.
Allovue, an education technology firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, received $800,000 for its seed funding round from Maryland Technology Development Corporation, Baltimore Angels and Shulman Ventures.
San Francisco, US-based online real-time restaurant reservation platform OpenTable acquired Palo Alto, California-based personalized recommendations app maker Ness Computing in a deal valued at $17.3 million.
Y Combinator, SV Angel, Max Levchin and other investors provided seed funds amounting to $2 million to San Francisco, California-based "pre-commerce" platform Celery to help grow the team and develop its storefront features.
Teqcycle Solutions, a Munich-based firm that provides mobile devices trade-in and reuse solutions, has bagged an undisclosed investment from T-Venture Holding, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.
A fintech incubator has just been rolled out by pan-European accelerator Startupbootcamp in London. The FinTech bootcamp is backed by big names that include Lloyds, Rabobank and MasterCard, TechCrunch reported.
