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India’s Reliance Jio inks deal with Microsoft to expand Office 365, Azure to more businesses; unveils broadband, blockchain, and IoT platforms

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India’s Reliance Jio, which has disrupted the local telecom and features phone businesses in less than three years of existence, is now ready to aggressively foray into many more businesses with the help of global giants including Microsoft. In a series of announcements, the subsidiary of India’s largest industrial house Reliance Industries today said it […] Continue reading India’s Reliance Jio inks deal with Microsoft to expand Office 365, Azure to more businesses; unveils broadband, blockchain, and IoT platforms→

Anvyl, looking to help D2C brands manage their supply chain, raises $9.3M

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Growing D2C brands face an interesting challenge. While they’ve eliminated much of the hassle of a physical storefront, they must still deal with all the complications involved in managing inventory and manufacturing and shipping a physical product to suppliers. Anvyl, with a fresh $9.3 million in Series A funding, is looking to jump in and […] Continue reading Anvyl, looking to help D2C brands manage their supply chain, raises $9.3M→

A 23-year-old B2B company has shown how keen India is for tech IPOs

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Away from the limelight of the press and the frenzy of fundraising, a tech startup in India has achieved a feat that few of its peers have managed: going public. IndiaMART, the country’s largest online platform for selling products directly to businesses, raised nearly $70 million in a rare tech IPO for India this week. […] Continue reading A 23-year-old B2B company has shown how keen India is for tech IPOs→

Kabbage secures $200M to fuel its AI-based loans platform for small businesses

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Kabbage, the AI-based small business loans platform backed by Softbank and others, is adding more firepower to its lending machine: the Atlanta-based startup has secured an additional $200 million in the form of a revolving credit facility from an unnamed subsidiary of a large life insurance company, managed and administered by 20 Gates Management, and […] Continue reading Kabbage secures $200M to fuel its AI-based loans platform for small businesses→

Tundra, the zero-fee wholesale marketplace, picks up $12 million

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Tundra, a new zero-commission wholesale marketplace, has today announced the close of $12 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Redpoint’s Annie Kadavy, with participation from investors such as Initialized Capital, Peterson Ventures, FJ Labs, Switch Ventures, and Background Capital. Tundra was founded by married couple Arnold and Katie Engel, who previously […] Continue reading Tundra, the zero-fee wholesale marketplace, picks up $12 million→

Comscore raises $20M with an option to bump it to $50M, in a bid to rebuild its digital measurement business

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Comscore’s name is usually in the news because of its widely-cited research and stats around media traffic and other analysis charting digital consumer behavior. More recently, it’s been coming up for another reason: ongoing corporate upheaval and its tumbling stock price. Today comes the latest development in that story: the company announced that it has […] Continue reading Comscore raises $20M with an option to bump it to $50M, in a bid to rebuild its digital measurement business→

Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Growth Pilots

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Growth Pilots is one of the more exclusive performance marketing agencies in San Francisco, but they know how to help high-growth startups excel at paid marketing. CEO and founder Soso Sazesh credits his personal experiences as an entrepreneur along with his team’s deep understanding of high-growth company needs and challenges as to what sets Growth …

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Over 100 Goodwill stores are bringing their inventory to OfferUp

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Goodwill and mobile marketplace app OfferUp have announced a new partnership focused on bringing Goodwill’s secondhand inventory to the millions of OfferUp shoppers, for both local pickup and delivery. The deal sees more than 100 Goodwill stores listing their inventory in OfferUp in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties, South …

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Amazon Restaurants in US is shutting down

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Following November’s closure of Amazon’s restaurant delivery business in London, the company is now shutting down operations in the U.S. The service, which was launched back in fall 2015, was designed to give Prime members another perk — a way to order meals, not just products and groceries — through the e-commerce giant. But the …

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