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Is Whole Foods a healthy option for Amazon?

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Over the past few years we’ve seen Amazon testing new ways of getting groceries in consumers fridges, with Amazon Fresh, Amazon Fresh Pickup, drone delivery, and Amazon Go. As I look back with this acquisition, I can’t help [...]

Blue Apron’s up IPO is not a surprise, as unicorns fare well in 2017

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Blue Apron’s IPO moved closer to reality this week as the firm set a price range for its shares. The company is set to go public at a higher IPO price than its last private round, undercutting worry [...]

Aspect Ventures is raising its second fund

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Aspect Ventures, the San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2014 by longtime VCs Jennifer Fonstad and Theresia Gouw, has begun raising its second fund, and the outfit is looking to raise up to $175 million, shows an [...]

AimBrain, a startup that uses biometric authentication to fight fintech fraud, raises £4M Series A

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

AimBrain, a London startup that offers “biometric identity” as a service to help fintech companies and other financial institutions fight fraud, has raised £4 million in Series A funding. Read More on Tech Crunch

Spotify ‘Sponsored Songs’ lets labels pay for plays

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A mysterious “Sponsored Content” opt-out setting recently appeared in Spotify, and now the streaming giant has confirmed to TechCrunch what it’s about. Spotify is now testing a new “Sponsored Song” ad unit that a company spokesperson tells us [...]

Announcing the Judges for the Seattle Meetup + Pitch Off

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

TechCrunch is headed to Seattle this Thursday for the annual Meetup + Pitch Off. And we are ready to announce our esteemed judges. The pitch-off will consist of 10 startup companies presenting for 60 seconds on stage in [...]

Exposed GOP database demonstrates the risks of data-hungry political campaigns

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Since November, the Trump campaign’s possibly brilliant, maybe-just-lucky data strategy launched a thousand thinkpieces. Now, we’ve got a more intimate look at that data than we were ever meant to have. As discovered by Chris Vickery, a cyber [...]

Ensuring foreign-born founders can grow their startups in the U.S.

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Knowing of the significant contributions foreign-born founders have made to the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the broader U.S. economy, NVCA has long championed the creation of a Startup Visa for talented immigrant entrepreneurs to remain in the U.S. if [...]

Time Warner will spend $100M on Snapchat original shows and ads

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Time Warner and Snap Inc. have announced a new deal that will bring increased ad spending and the development of new made-for-Snapchat shows. People familiar with the deal tell TechCrunch that the deal is valued at about $100M [...]