Early this year the Sustainable Oceans Alliance announced it would be starting its own accelerator with a focus on conservation. The nonprofit has just announced the Ocean Solutions Accelerator’s first wave of startups: a particularly varied and international lineup that’s easy to root for. You may also remember that the SOA was one of the…
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Doughbies should have been a bakery, not a venture-backed startup. Founded in the frothy days of 2013 and funded with $670,000 by investors, including 500 Startups, Doughbies built a same-day cookie delivery service. But it was never destined to be capable of delivering the returns required by the VC model that depends on massive successes…
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COLUMBIA, MD, Innovative boxed water company has received a $6.7 million investment .
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Catering marketplace company ezCater is already putting its big $100 million funding round to good use. The company is acquiring GoCater, a European marketplace that operates in the same field. This is ezCater’s first international expansion move. If you’re in charge of ordering catered lunch at your office, you probably have heard about ezCater .…
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Seeking to support local businesses, Mountain View officials hit Facebook with a ban on a classic Silicon Valley techie perk: free meals. That’s according to a new report on a little-discussed provision of Facebook’s 2014 agreement with the city of Mountain View over offices it will occupy in the Village complex at San Antonio Center.…
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