Things are heating up for Costanoa Ventures; closes two oversubscribed funds – TechCrunch

Costanoa Ventures is seeing some of its best returns yet as it closed on two new funds, Costanoa Fund IV, a $225 million early-stage fund, and Opportunity Fund II, a…

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Bitly makes first acquisition with QR code leader Egoditor – TechCrunch

Link management company Bitly announced Wednesday its acquisition of Germany-based QR code company Egoditor GmbH whose flagship product is the QR Code Generator. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed,…

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Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch grabs $175 million in token sale – TechCrunch

1inch, a popular aggregator of decentralized protocols, has raised $175 million in what it calls a Series B funding round. It isn’t a traditional venture round as the company isn’t…

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Attack surface management startup CyCognito raises $100M Series C on $800M valuation – TechCrunch

As companies look for ways to prevent cyber attacks, one strategy is to be proactive and find vulnerabilities that could lead to a breach in an approach called “attack surface…

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Goalsetter raises $15 million to go B2B with children’s financial literacy app – TechCrunch

Goalsetter, a financial education platform for kiddos, has announced the close of a $15 million Series A financing round. The funding was led by Seae Ventures, with participation from Fiserv,…

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Butter raises $7M to end ‘accidental’ customer churn due to payment failure – TechCrunch

Vijay Menon, a statistician by trade, began his career at Microsoft.  It was there that he realized there was an astounding number of subscriptions that failed to renew or even…

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