Wheel, a platform connecting doctors and nurse practitioners to telemedicine companies, raises $13.9M Series A led by CRV
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Lyft S-1: 2018 revenue of $2.2B up 100% YoY, gross bookings of $8.1B from 1B+ rides, loss of $911M, up 32% YoY, 39% market share in the US, up from 22% in 2017
So Are Losses Walter Frick / HBR.org : The Strategy Question at the Center of Lyft's IPO Axios : Lyft files first for IPO in litmus test for the industry Harper Neidig / The Hill : Lyft files to go pu...
ACV Auctions, a Buffalo-based online platform for used car dealers to view, bid, and purchase cars wholesale, raises a $93M Series D led by Bain and Bessemer
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ACV Auctions, a Buffalo-based online platform for used car dealers to view, bid, and purchase cars wholesale, raises a $93M Series D led by Bain and Bessemer
ACV Auctions will use the funding to continue to expand to new markets across the country — Financial trends and news by Steven Loeb
Survey of US adults: 42% took a break from Facebook for several weeks or more, 26% deleted app from their phone, 54% adjusted privacy settings in past 12 months
or breaking up with — Facebook Rachel Kaser / The Next Web : It turns out lots of people actually did #DeleteFacebook Aaron Smith / Pew Research Center : Many Facebook users don't understand how the s...
Cloud file storage startup Qumulo raises $93M Series D led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners
The company has now raised over $230 million as it plans to expand further into Europe — Financial trends and news by Steven Loeb — There's a ton of data being created in everything we do now.
Uber adds option to tip US drivers, starting in 3 cities, and other ways to earn like being paid for waiting on riders to show, as part of “180 days of change”
Posted by Aaron Schildkrout … Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch : Uber adds tipping Louise Matsakis / Motherboard : Uber Will Now Share Its Teen Fee With Drivers Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Uber adds tippi...
Glu Mobile buys Plain Vanilla for $1.2M, forgives $7.5M in promissory notes; Plain Vanilla, developer of once popular trivia game QuizUp had raised over $40M
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Mark Zuckerberg talks about progress and challenges building his home assistant Jarvis, a project he's spent 100-150 hours on this year
My personal challenge for 2016 was to build … Steven Loeb / VatorNews : Zuckerberg realizes his dream of building an AI-assistant Ryan Matthew Pierson / ReadWrite : Mark Zuckerberg has the same IoT pr...
Payments provider Stripe raises $150M Series D at a $9B valuation led by General Catalyst and CapitalG, bringing total amount raised by Stripe to about $440M
Monday, November 28 Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Y Combinator alum's valuation soars to $9.2B with latest funding Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair : This Start-Up's Valuation Just D...