Japan’s Fashion Rental Service AirCloset Snags $8M
AirCloset is an outstanding startup in the Japanese fashion rental industry. Launched back in Feb...
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The Industrial IoT : 56 Startups Transforming Factory Floors, Oil F...
So far, the IIoT wave transforming asset-heavy industries has been led by the old guard of tech g...
Blinkist Raises $4M to Help You Read Nonfiction Books in 15 Minutes
linkist, a Germany-based startup that gives you the gist of well-known nonfiction books in 15 min...
(M&A) Apple Buys Artificial-Intelligence Startup Emotient
Apple's acquisition of Emotient hints at devices that understand how you're feeling.If it wasn't...
Venture Investing Declined Sharply at the End of 2015
RIP Good Times? Venture Capital Funding, Unicorn Births, And Mega-Deals Plummet in Q4’15. 2015 w...
China’s Stock Market Isn’t The Problem
China’s stock market is a scary place right now. But it isn’t the real problem. Sure, shares ar...
(PDF) Dealogic - Global M&A Review Full Year 2015
Last year, companies spent just over $5 trillion buying or merging with other enterprises. That’...
What’s The Half Life Of A Unicorn ?
“Cybercorns” are companies that have surpassed the magical $1 billion valuation. Several of the...
M&A 2015 : New Highs, and a New Tone
Deal activity surged again this year—especially big deals and those in the United States.M&A...
Google X Alum Flux Factory Raises $29M Series B
One of Google X’s former moonshots is raising cash as it looks to disrupt the architecture desig...
Goldman Sachs - Top Market Themes For 2016
Our expectation for 2016 is ongoing cyclical recovery with unspectacular headline GDP growth rate...
The Rise And Fall Of Venture-Backed News Readers In One Chart
Visualizing the venture capital funding boom to news reader apps, and the subsequent rash of acqu...
GOLDMAN SACHS : Don't Have Kids
Having kids is hard and getting harder around the world, according to a new report from analysts...
(PDF) Here's The New Fed Dot Plot
The Federal Reserve finally raised their target for the Fed Funds rate, ending a seven year long...
(Video) 3D-Imagining Sensor Developer Vayyar Raises $22 Million
Vayyar, 3D-imagining sensor developer that says to make “it possible to see through objects,” t...
The Fed Just Raised Rates for The First Time Since 2006
An almost biblical seven-year stretch of near zero interest rates effectively ended Wednesday whe...
2015 Tech IPO Score Sheet
A lot of big tech companies are staying private for longer than ever before, leading to a rise in...
Vinted Raises $27M More to Grow Its Secondhand Clothing Marketplace...
Vinted, a marketplace for people to buy, swap, or donate unwanted clothing, has raised another $2...
Inside the Minds of Corporate Venture Capitalists
A new survey reveals how the most active corporate VCs differ in their motivations, sources of ca...
(IPO) This Profitable Startup with No Outside Investors will be Wor...
The IPO market may be cooling down for a lot of tech companies, but that doesn't seem to be the c...
Investors Booze It Up : 100+ Deals To Vineyards, Brewers, And Disti...
Among all US alcoholic beverage producers funded since 2013, 56% were breweries, as the craft bee...
How Major Insurers Are Teaming Up With Internet Of Things Companies
A roundup of partnerships between big insurers like State Farm, Liberty Mutual, and AXA with IoT...
(PDF) Mckinsey - A Better Way to Understand Internal Rate of Return
Investments can have the same internal rate of return for different reasons. A breakdown of this...
(Infographic) The Most Active VCs In The IoT and Their Investments
CBInsights ranked the top VCs and corporate VC investors in the Internet of Things (IoT) and visu...
2015 is Shaping Up to Be The Worst Year for IPOs Since the Great Re...
According to data from Renaissance Capital, compiled here by Statista, companies have raised less...
Breaking Down Billion-Dollar AR/VR Investment In The Last 12 Months
Augmented and virtual reality are the new hotness, as VCs and corporates get in on the act. While...
Global Banking Giants Place Record Number Of Bets On Fin Tech Startups
One-third of all fin tech deals since 2009 by Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Goldma...
Airbnb Raises Over $100 Million as It Touts Strong Growth
Airbnb Inc. has raised more than $100 million in a new round of funding that has closed, accordin...
(Video) Oak Labs Smart Fitting Room Takes Shopping To New Levels
The idea of smart mirrors isn’t new, and the idea that they could be applied to fitting rooms is...
Kleiner Perkins is Backing Its First Bitcoin Fintech Startup, Align...
One of Silicon Valley’s premiere venture capital firms is making a bet that bitcoin will make it...
(Video) Yallo Raises $2.5M and Launches Its Slick Call-Recording App
Forget instant messaging, photo messaging, ephemeral messaging, or any other kind of “messaging...
(M&A) Marriott Buying Rival Hotel, Starwood For $12.2B
Marriott International will buy Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwidefor $12.2 billion to creat...
