[ad_1] Photo credit: think4photop / 123RF Stock Photo. Grab is taking on US$700 million in debt to expand its car rental program, the Singapore-headquartered firm announced today. Uber’s competitor in Southeast Asia, already claiming to be the leading on-demand transportation platform in the region, now targets to...
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[ad_1] I've been there for the early ICO (initial coin offering) days for cryptocurrencies. I've seen companies raise hundreds of millions of dollars within hours, and I've seen valuations for startups that don't even have a working product climb to billions. And now that these clay...
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[ad_1] Photo credit: Brian Turner. Otonomos founder and CEO Han Verstraete has penned a new blog post on the continuing saga of his blockchain company. In the post, Verstraete says he is commencing legal action against the three board members – Dymon Asia Ventures principal Christiaan Kaptein...
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[ad_1] Jason Baptiste wants you to run. He said he’s seen the personal benefits of running since 2009, when he became unhappy with his weight and committed to run a “daily 5k,” something he’s held to ever since. “Not only has running helped me be healthier, it’s...
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[ad_1] Sanjiv Kalevar Contributor Sanjiv Kalevar is a vice president at Battery Ventures in Boston. I work as a venture capitalist in a glass-walled office and wear dress shirts to work. But it wasn’t so long ago that I wore an orange neon vest instead. That was when...
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[ad_1] Stitch Fix has filed to go public, finally revealing the financial guts of the startup which will be a test of modern e-commerce businesses that are looking to hit the market — and the numbers look pretty great! Let’s start off really quick with profits:...
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[ad_1] Intel Capital, the investment arm of the processor giant, is today announcing its latest tranche of investments, a total of nearly $60 million going in to 15 startups that are working on solving different problems in the bigger area of big data (with a...
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[ad_1] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEMOxMuS9pM?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent&w=640&h=390] Bubbleproof is a new mockumentary series following the misadventures of Reputation.com founder Michael Fertik and venture capitalist David Cowan as they launch a new fund. But I’m getting ahead of myself. In this first episode, Fertik (who co-wrote the series with Cowan and director...
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[ad_1] When you open a Google doc or a spreadsheet, you get a blank spreadsheet and some documentation as to what you can do with it — and that’s pretty much where we’ve been for quite some time. But two MIT graduates, coming in from Microsoft...
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[ad_1] PayKey’s team Banks face an increasingly crowded battlefield in the fight for millennial customers. Not only do they have to compete with services like Venmo, but many messaging apps are adding their own peer-to-peer payment services. Tel Aviv-based startup PayKey thinks it has the solution...
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