Ybrain Raises $3.5M To Fund Trials Of Its Wearable For Alzheimer’s Patients
TechCrunch Ybrain, a Korean startup that makes wearables for Alzheimer’s patients, announced today that it has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding led by Stonebridge Capital, bringing its total raised so far to $4.2 million. Co-founder Seungyeon Kim told...
Taiwan-Based Streaming Music Service KKBOX Raises $104M To Expand Overseas
TechCrunch KKBOX, a Taiwan-based company that has provided streaming music services in Asia since before Spotify was founded, announced (link in Chinese) that it has raised $104 million from Singapore GIC (formerly known as the Government of Singapore Investment...
Automattic Acquires BruteProtect To Help Keep WordPress Users Safe
TechCrunch WordPress now powers so many websites, it’s no surprise that it’s a favorite target for hackers. To keep its users safe, Automattic – the company behind both WordPress.com and the open-source WordPress project — today announced that it has acquired...
Google Acquires Zync To Bring Visual Effects Rendering To Its Cloud Platform
Google today announced that it has acquired Zync Render, a service that makes it easier for movie studios to render their visual effects in the cloud. The technology was used to render effects in movies like Star Trek: Into Darkness and Looper, for example. Google...
Berlin-Based Social Media Marketing Startup Brandnew Gets $1.9M In Seed Funding
Brandnew, a Berlin-based startup that helps brands create native ad campaigns for Instagram and Pinterest, announced that it has raised a total of $1.9 million in seed funding. This includes a $1.1 million grant from the city of Berlin, as well as $845,000 from...
Turkish Payment Platform Iyzico Raises Further $1.4M
Turkey’s Iyzico, which provides a platform to let e-commerce sites and other apps easily accept online payments (and can be thought of as the ‘Stripe of Turkey’), has raised a $1.4 million series B round. The funding was led by Turkish VC 212 Invest, along with...
Tastebuds Acquires Music-Based Dating App Moosify
Tastebuds.fm, the app that matches people based on their musical tastes, has found a match of its own. The London-based startup is acquiring U.S. competitor moosify, a mobile-first “social dating” app that also connects people around music. Terms of the deal remain...
Warburg Pincus to invest $200 million in Kalyan Jewellers
Economic Times NEW DELHI: Warburg Pincus is set to invest $200 million in Kalyan Jewellers for a minority stake in Kalyan Jewellers as the appetite for retail gold jewellery franchisee among private equity investors remains undiminished despite regulatory controls and...
Mobile Verification Service Zumigo Closes $6 Million Series B Round Led By Intel Capital
TechCrunch Mobile device and location verification service Zumigo closed a Series B funding round led by Intel Capital on Friday, reporting it raised $6 million. Zumigo wants to take the password out of the authentication process. Using the location of your phone,...
PonoMusic Raises More Than $6M In Equity Crowdfunding In One Week
TechCrunch Neil Young’s startup PonoMusic became the fourth-most funded project on Kickstarter back in April, when it raised $6.2 million on a goal of $800,000. The project now has raked in an additional $6 million in equity funding from a Crowdfunder campaign. Pono...
Restaurant Discovery Service Zomato Eats Its Way Into Central And Eastern Europe
Zomato, the restaurant search and discovery service that’s raised a whopping $55 million in VC, is making good on its promise to continue expanding to more countries beyond its origins in India. The 2008-founded company — which counts Yelp, IAC-owned Urbanspoon,...
GoDaddy Acquires MailChimp Competitor Mad Mimi
TechCrunch GoDaddy has closed on the acquisition of MailChimp competitor Mad Mimi, the companies are announcing this morning. The move is meant to further expand the web hosting provider’s product suite aimed at small businesses, while filling a hole in GoDaddy’s...