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Fintech VC Backing Dipped 13 Percent in 2016, Mirroring Rest of Tech

Xconomy

The final numbers on 2016 fintech funding deals are in from New York-based research firm and investment database CB Insights, and venture capitalists seem to be cooling on the industry. billion in venture capital across 836 investments last year. That is down 13 percent from a peak in 2015, when global fintech investment soared to $14.6

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Freight trucking startup Shipwell gets a $10 million boost

TechCrunch LA

. “ Shipwell’s full-service, digitized brokerage platform can streamline the way many of our Anchor LPs and portfolio companies approach large-scale freight shipping,” the firm’s principal — and newest Shipwell board member — Vik Chawla wrote in a blog post announcing its most recent deal.

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Latest Data Show Venture Capital Industry on Pins and Needles

Xconomy

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 Have investors drifted, becoming less dogmatic about hitting interim milestones with as little capital as possible? history (admittedly, at 2.1

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Edtech Venture Funding Down in 2016, But Still Tops $1B

Xconomy

billion (across 138 deals) in 2016. While we’re looking at venture deal numbers from the past year , let’s consider the education technology industry, which isn’t broken out by sector in the general reports I’ve seen. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S.

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Endpoint Security Company CrowdStrike Files Publicly for IPO

Xconomy

CrowdStrike , the cybersecurity company that identified the two Russian government-linked hacker groups that invaded the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s network during the 2016 presidential campaign, filed publicly for an initial public offering on Tuesday.

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SF’s Full Harvest Bags $8.5M to Help Sell “Ugly and Surplus” Produce

Xconomy

The funding was led by Spark Capital and includes investors such as Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, Rent the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss, and John Scherr, head of strategic partnerships at CircleUp. Full Harvest, an online market for imperfect produce that previously would have been thrown out, announced it has raised $8.5

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Graphcore Scores $200M to Scale Up A.I. Chip Production

Xconomy

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. One of the leading contenders in the A.I.