Dyn Buys Internet Monitoring Firm Renesys
CIO News Companies pay a great deal of money for better performance and Dyn is buying Renesys to create products to comprehensively analyze whether firms are getting what they pay for. Dyn is also acquiring Renesys to make sure they can both effectively defend and...
E-Book Platform Bookmate Secures $3M To Target Emerging World
TechCrunch May 24, 2014 Betaworks-style ‘startup studio’ Dream Industries – based in Moscow – has raised a $3 million Series A round from retail giant Ulmart (in Russia) to develop its subscription-based social reading service Bookmate. They plan to take the startup...
Cauris invests $4.2m in Cipharm
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, April 2014: FONDS CAURIS CROISSANCE II LIMITED, advised by Cauris Management, the West African fund manager agreed to invest in CIPHARM to fund a new production line for injectable pharmaceutical products. CIPHARM is a Cote d’Ivoire-based...
Axioma Capital Partners invests $4 million in medical startup Medal
The medical startup Medal has received $4 million from Axioma Capital Partners according to the press service of the Ingria business incubator. Medal is a resident of a incubator. Medal is developing medical devices based on patented technology for the treatment of...
EasyHotel seeks listing as Saga prices issue at bottom of range
Financial Times May 23, 2014 EasyHotel, the sister brand of the easyJet budget airline, has announced its intention to float on London’s junior market, despite rising questions over investor appetite for initial public offerings. A shift in sentiment towards London...
YOYO Holdings Snags $1.3M For Its Prepaid Mobile Consumer Survey Platform
TechCrunch May 23, 2014 YOYO Holdings, a rewards platform that targets prepaid mobile phone users in developing economies, has secured $1.3 million in funding from Japanese venture capital firms GREE Ventures, CyberAgent Ventures, and Incubate Fund. Based in...
TVTY Raises $4.5 Million To Sync TV And Online Ads
French startup TVTY raised $4.5 million from Partech Ventures, 360 Capital Partners and business angels. This is yet another sign that French companies’ efforts to advertise technology have been doing very well. TVTY provides an API for advertising companies to bridge...
Tinder-Style Clothes Shopping App, Mallzee, Swipes £500K To Grow
TechCrunch May 22, 2014 ‘Tinderfaces’ are in app vogue right now. By which I mean Tinder-esque ‘swipe to filter’ interfaces. ‘X app is the Tinder of Y’ has become the standard descriptive shorthand for this trend (named, of course, for dating app Tinder which...
How TheFamily Is Reshaping The French Tech Ecosystem
TechCrunch May 22, 2014 French startup accelerator TheFamily is raising up to $2 million from angel investors and Index Ventures. It’s an open round — so far investors have committed $1 million. Given the overall interest around the funding, the company should quickly...
Restaurant Waitlist Platform NoWait Raises $10 Million
TechCrunch May 20, 2014 Mobile wait listing service for restaurants NoWait has raised $10 million in Series B funding, the company is announcing this morning. The new round was led by Drive Capital, the $250 million Ohio-based fund focused on Midwestern companies, and...
Amazon Invests $20M In Shanghai-Based Food Delivery Site Yummy77
TechCrunch May 19, 2014 Amazon has poured $20 million in Yummy77, a food delivery site based in Shanghai. Yummy77 confirmed the funding in a post on Weibo and said it will use the capital to expand into new markets and help Amazon’s China site expand its selection of...
Dashlane Passes 2M Users, Collects $22M For Its Client-Based Password Manager
TechCrunch May 19, 2014 Dashlane came to life in 2011 as a somewhat stealthy startup out of Paris that promised a smart approach to the sometimes-frustrating art of consumers managing multiple passwords. Nearly three years on, with some key product iterations under...