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Ezra Announces $4M Seed Round 0
- Raises and Exits, Uncategorized
- November 19, 2018
NEW YORK, NY, Ezra, a cancer screening startup, has secured $4 million in seed funding.
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VOI Technology, the e-scooter startup from Sweden, raises $50M led by Balderton Capital 0
- Raises and Exits, Uncategorized
- November 19, 2018
VOI Technology, an e-scooter startup headquartered in Sweden but with pan-European ambitions, has raised $50 million in Series A funding, confirming our earlier scoop. As I previously reported, London-based venture capital firm Balderton Capital has led the round, alongside LocalGlobe, Raine Ventures, and previous VOI backer Vostok New Ventures. A number of angel investors also…
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Silicon Valley wages have dropped for all except highest-paying jobs: report 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- November 19, 2018
Nine out of every 10 Silicon Valley jobs pays less now than when Netflix first launched in 1997, despite one of the nation’s strongest economic booms and a historically low unemployment rate that outpaces the national average. While tech workers have thrived, employees in the middle of Silicon Valley’s income ladder have been hit hardest as their…
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Plastiq raises $27M at 2X+ value to let you pay for anything on credit 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- November 19, 2018
“I wasn’t asking to pay in Bitcoin!” Plastiq CEO and co-founder Eliot Buchanan recalls with a laugh. “I went to pay part of my tuition at Harvard and I was told that they didn’t (and never would) accept credit card. It was inconvenient and seemed odd. Credit cards had been around for 50 years.” That…
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