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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch LA

With the new capital, SpotOn has raised $628 million since its inception. Appetize will go to market as SpotOn and will work to grow its client base, which already includes an impressive list of companies and organizations including Live Nation, LSU, Dodger Stadium and Urban Air. .

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

The recent firing of Groupon’s CEO Andrew Mason is a cautionary tale of the increased scrutiny and heightened expectations that come from accessing increasingly larger amounts of investment capital. Is outside capital really required? Who should you approach, “friends and family”, passive investors or value added institutions?

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Congrats To The Presenting StartupDemo Companies!

Tech Zulu Event

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. Organizing a group of friends is hard! is the easy, fun and social way to get together with friends.

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Programs in NYC and LA prepare autistic students to excel in tech careers

StartUp Beat

Founded in 2009, and now partnered with the NYU Tandon School of Engineering , Tech Kids Unlimited (TKU) is a not-for-profit organization that provides digital workforce training to hundreds of New York students on the autism spectrum. photo courtesy of @TechKidsU. Coding Autism’s CEO Oliver Thornton.

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Founders Fund and Peter Thiel Inject $28M into Asana

Tech Zulu Event

Asana was launched early November last year as new way of working that keeps teams in sync, a shared task list where everyone can capture, organize, track, and communicate what they are working on in service of their common goal. Asana promise to save time away from the full email inbox filled with spam mails.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Venture Capital - What's the rush?

Frank Addante

▼ August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Hire Entrepreneurs! Be scrappy.

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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

Tech Zulu Event

The search ads is displayed before top organic results, giving them the power to divert huge traffic to their LAGbook pages, or external website. LAGbook is funded with money realised from our advertising services, our website development company, our venture capital firm ( LAGbook Capital ), and our lovely Dad.