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Wag Fetches Massive, $300M Funding Round

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Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking startup Wag has raised an enormous, $300M funding round, the company announced Tuesday morning. Wag said the funding comes from SoftBank Vision Fund. As part of the funding, the company said it has named Hilary SChneider as its new CEO. and Knight Ridder. READ MORE>>.

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mSIGNIA Looks To Secure Mobile Devices

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mSIGNIA , a developer of mobile security tools, has quietly been funded by the Tech Coast Angels and Gold Hill Capital, it was revealed by the TCA last week. mSIGNIA, which is based in Irvine, apparently islooking to help manage the identity of online users, and is targeting online service providers with mobile applications.

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Rubicon Project Snags OpenX Exec As Product Management VP

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Director of Product Management for Video, OTT, and Mobile at OpenX. He also had been at Google, Trend Micro, Symantec, among other companies, including co-founding Silvan Networks, a Sequoia-funded Internet startup from the late 90s. Nguyen was most recently GM/Sr. READ MORE>>.

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How Sekur.me Wants To Use Cell Phones To Fix Abandoned Shopping Carts

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What we do, is we provide the capability for users to pay for those purchases using their mobile phone. Why use a mobile phone for payment, rather than something like Amazon or Paypal? The uninstall was an interesting story--I was working on Norton Desktop at Symantec, and I was in charge of the installation process.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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New Year to Bring New Data Security Threats, Cyber Investor Warns

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Bob Ackerman is one of the venture capitalists whose funding has long fed the growth of the burgeoning cybersecurity industry. So, you might imagine that his outlook on data protection for 2019 would be more optimistic than in past years, because businesses now take advantage of a broad choice of security services to protect themselves.

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CrowdStrike Hauls In $200M, Reports Valuation Over $3 Billion

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The Web-based system monitors the laptops, smartphones, and other mobile devices connected to its clients’ networks. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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