Mister Spex, the European ‘online optician’ (that’s an eyewear online retailer, to you and me), has picked up a new $40 million round in funding led by U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs. The Berlin-based company’s existing backers also participated, including...
Wall Street Journal An investment arm of search giant Google is betting that India’s online real estate market is set to boom. Google Capital is providing fresh funding to CommonFloor, the Bangalore-based startup said in a statement Thursday. The amount of the...
NetDragon, one of China’s leading mobile and games development companies, has raised $52.5 million in Series A funding for its online education business from investors including IDG Capital, Vertex Venture, and Alpha Animation, an animation studio based in...
TechCrunch TookiTaki, a Singaporean data analytics startup, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Rebright Partners and Blume Ventures. The capital will be used to expand its service-as-a-software...
TechCrunch Remember VYou? The video Q&A platform saw more than a million answers posted and raised $3 million in funding before shutting its consumer site down in March 2013 due to lack of user engagement. Now a new startup called Frankly has launched with a...
TechCrunch Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps. Wit.ai’s platform will remain open...
