YieldStreet — which raised $62 million in February to further open up alternative investments in areas like shipping, real…
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PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month
There’s been a huge boom in the last decade of applications and services that rely on…
Online university degree provider 2U acquires Trilogy for $750M to expand into tech bootcamps and training
As more universities turn to offering online degrees to expand their student bodies by way of…
Viber users can now get local numbers in the US, UK and Canada for inbound voice and SMS
Viber, the messaging app owned by Rakuten that a year ago said it had 1 billion…
Kabbage raises a record $700 million in debt for its SMB loans platform
Loan platform Kabbage — which offers quick assessment and approvals for small business loans using machine…
Pinterest sets IPO range at $15-17, valuing it up to $9.2B vs previous valuation of over $12B
After dropping its IPO filing two weeks ago, today Pinterest, the social media platform where people can…
Boomplay, a Spotify-style music and video streaming service for African music and Africa, raises $20M
While Spotify dukes it out with Apple and other big tech names to target high-end users…
GrubMarket raises $25M more for food delivery from indy suppliers at a $255M valuation
Farmers markets have become a staple presence in many US cities, where there is a steady…
Onfido, which verifies IDs using AI, nabs $50M from SoftBank, Salesforce, Microsoft and more
Security breaches, where malicious hackers obtain snippets of information that then get used to impersonate individuals…
eBay to shut down the eBay Commerce Network, its third-party ad network, on May 1
As eBay continues to restructure its business, it’s shuttering one of the efforts it had made…