Israel is witnessing an increasing number of new venture capital (VC) firms coming up. The country registered an inflow of $665 million VC funding during the first two months of the year. Unfazed with the recent market crash, the funds inflows continue for Israel startups.
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Greylock Partner Exposes $1B Fund Raised
Greylock Partners has raised $1 billion fund for its newest startup, San Franciso. For 50 years now in investing in the web, Greylock Partners has funded the frontrunners in the IT and consumer internet categories such as LinkedIn, Dropbox, Facebook and Airbnb.
Aetna Opens Up to Fund Apple Watches
Aetna is working on writing apps that can be used on iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches that will encourage its customers to take their medications, seek support groups for their diagnoses, or pay their premiums via Apple Wallet.
Portugal Shifts to Bank Resolution Fund; Revises Loan Terms
The banks in Potugal had a lot of issues to solve after failing to sell Novo Banco. This has made a lot adjustments that needs to be done by the banks.
Dick Cook Studios Secured $500 Million Production Funding from Chinese Movie Company Film Carnival
American movie studios are getting closer to Chinese firms as sources of funding. Dick Cook Studios has just secured $500 million in production deal with China’s Film Carnival. The studio is working on the first film under the deal.
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Led by technology sector, venture capital (VC) investments in Canada reached 10 year high in 2015. Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) said 536 deals in funding for entrepreneurs raised $2.25 billion in 2015.
Silicon Valley-based private co-investment platform F50 has the launched beta version of co-investment Syndication Platform. F50 facilitates both the online and offline transactions for investors and startups. It doesn't charge a transaction fee to founders.
A startup offering online eye tests received a $6 million funding in a Series A round to help expand the coverage of its service as well as acquiring more advanced technologies. The company claims that their services are clinically proven and accurate, in addition to being more convenient and affordable.
The development of the Friday the 13th game was assured as the game hits its funding goal in Kickstarter.
San Francisco-based YouNoodle obtained $1.1 million in its latest funding round. The financing came from VegasTechFund, Lars-Henrik Friis Molin and the Amicus Group, TechCrunch reported.
Japan-based Transcosmos Inc led the $10 million funding round for Singapore-based online beauty products platform Luxola Pte Ltd, a statement about the investment said.
AppZero, a Boston-based startup that provides migration and cloud on-boarding services, has received $3 million from angel investors to move enterprises still on Windows Server 2003 to newer systems, VentureBeat reported.
ClubLocal, a platform which allows customers to instantly book home repairs online now owned by Delaware-based Serviz Inc, completed a $10.7 million funding round from Groupon Inc and others.
Outfittery has secured new funding amounting to €13 million in a round led by Germany's Highland Capital Partners Europe to it can grow in European markets, TechCrunch reported.
