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Stephen George, CEO and founder of Surkus and co-founder of Groupon believes current downturn presents plenty of opportunities https://bit.ly/2Xb1zAl Businesses impacted by the current coronavirus crisis are being urged to continue building brand loyalty and exploit all digital tools at their disposal, according to Stephen George, CEO and founder of Surkus, an experiential marketing platform.Read more

Sisense nabs $100M at a $1B+ valuation for accessible big data business analytics

Original Source: http://bit.ly/2zAuq3l By: Zohreen Adamjee  POSTED: NOV 09 2017 08:20PM PST (FOX 11) – No reservation, no problem! There’s a new app out where you can get paid to party. On a Friday night they lined up for exclusive access to a top Hollywood dance class and competition through the app “Surkus.” No wait list…and instead of paying $55 forRead more

This article below substantiates a trend that we have felt over the past few months without being able to quantify it. We have indeed noticed a drop in great investment opportunities. Like in every story, there is a bad news and a good news. The bad news of course is that we haven’t made a newRead more

Author: Nick Frost Original Source: http://mattermark.com/the-14-techstars-nyc-fall-2015-demo-day-startups-sorted-by-the-growth-score/ Today, Techstars NYC hosts their Demo Day for their Fall 2015 batch in New York City. The companies will be pitching their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors, and decision makers at large tech companies, in hopes of closing their next round of funding. “The companies in the 2015 fall classRead more

Author: Chris O’Brien Original Source: http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/24/somewhere-way-way-under-the-rainbow-the-10-worst-unicorns-of-2015/ A venture capitalist may have pumped enough money into your company’s bank account to push it into the unicorn category, but that doesn’t guarantee success. Which is good news for people like me who are tasked with putting together a year-end list of the 10 worst unicorns of 2015. OnRead more

Author: Jordan Novet Original Source: http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/25/5-deep-learning-startups-to-follow-in-2016/ So much has happened this year in the world of deep learning, that trendy type of artificial intelligence that entails training artificial neural networks on large data sets and then getting them to make inferences about new data. There have been technical breakthroughs, acquisitions, funding deals, open source releases inRead more

Original Source: http://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-visual-summary-of-vc-activity-in-2015-datagraphic PitchBook January 11, 2016 As we continue the release of our popular year-end datagraphics, posted below is a look at global venture capital fundraising, dealmaking and exit trends from 2015. Venture fundraising remained healthy with $51 billion+ in commitments collected; median fund size was up 71% compared to last year and 89.3% of vehiclesRead more

Author: Iris Dorbian Original Source: https://www.pehub.com/2016/01/online-lender-loannow-pulls-in-50-mln/ Orange County, California-based online lender LoanNow has secured $50 million in financing. The investor was not named. PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwired – Jan 6, 2016) – LoanNow today disclosed its completion of a $50 million credit facility from an institutional investor that will be used to grow its expandingRead more

Author: Iris Dorbian Original Source: https://www.pehub.com/2016/01/657625/ Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Exosome Diagnostics Inc, a liquid biopsy platform developer, has raised $60 million in Series B funding. The investors included Forbion Capital Partners, NGN Capital, CD Ventures, Qiagen, Arcus Ventures, Tiger Management and Blue Ridge Capital. PRESS RELEASE Exosome Diagnostics, Inc., the developer of a revolutionary liquid biopsy platformRead more