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Visa takes a strategic stake in Klarna, the finance startup out of Sweden

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Klarna, the $2 billion+ startup out of Sweden that works with some 70,000 e-commerce sites to enable payments and provide flexible financing to make purchases, is adding one more key investor to help take its next steps into [...]

Sumo Logic lands $75 million Series F, on path to IPO

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Sumo Logic, the cloud-based log analysis platform, announced a $75 million round today, as the seven year old company could be entering the home stretch before an IPO. While CEO Ramin Sayar was not ready or willing to [...]

ChargePoint takes over GE charging stations

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

ChargePoint announced that it will become the exclusive operator of all of GE‘s electric charging stations, which means nearly 10,000 places to plug in will be transferred to the new company’s management. That total adds 1,800 commercial charging [...]

Rumors of the demise of augmented reality developers have been greatly exaggerated

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

With the announcement of Apple’s ARKit, I’ve been bombarded with questions about what ARKit means for Augmented Reality (AR) developers, specifically ones building hard mobile AR technologies. We, along with our friends at Modsy, were even called out [...]

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro announces $100M startup fund

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Security firm Trend Micro is the latest corporate to jump into the startup investment world after it unveiled a $100 million corporate fund today. It is predominantly looking at opportunities in the internet-of-things (IoT) space, but the exact [...]

Google fined €2.42BN for EU antitrust violations over shopping searches

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The European Commission has fined Google a record-breaking €2.42 billion for antitrust violations pertaining to its Google’s Shopping search comparison service — in what is widely considered the most significant antitrust ruling in Europe since the 2004 Microsoft [...]

Monese, the mobile current account banking app, expands to Europe

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

You wait all day for a multi-currency account and three come along at once. Give or take a month or so, that’s appears to be the case with news that Monese, the London fintech that offers a mobile [...]

Capnamic closes €115M fund for ‘digital transformation’ of Germany, counts Cisco and Axa as LPs

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Capnamic Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Berlin and Cologne, is announcing the final closing of a new €115 million tech fund. The VC says it will invest in tech companies predominantly in the German-speaking region [...]

Your.MD raises $10M to grow AI-driven health information service and marketplace

June 27th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Your.MD, an AI-driven health information service delivered via a bot, has raised $10 million in new funding. Read More on Tech Crunch