Eight startups that graduated from the Fall 2013 class of StartX, the non-profit accelerator for entrepreneurs in the Stanford community, held a demo day in Silicon Valley, TechCrunch reported.
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Balmer Lawrie buys Indian travel venture Vacations Exotica
Kolkata, India-based public sector enterprise Balmer Lawrie & Co Ltd bought Mumbai-based travel venture Vacations Exotica including its employees and customers from Vacations Exotica Destinations Pvt Ltd for an undisclosed sum.
UK's National Institute for Health Research supports East Midlands health initiative with £28M
A £28 million funding was given by the National Institute for Health Research or NIHR and its 50 partners to a health research initiative focused on the East Midlands.
Sweden's Truecaller grabs $18.8M in Series B financing
Stockholm, Sweden-based mobile phone community Truecaller grabbed $18.8 million in a Series B financing round led by Sequoia Capital to help identify unknown phone callers and block spam calls.
British fashion startup ASAP54 picks up $3M in venture round
London, UK-based startup ASAP54 picked up $3 million in a recent venture round to support the development and international expansion of its mobile fashion search and discovery app.
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CircleCI was able to raise $6 million for its Series A funding round from DFJ, a venture capital firm, according to VentureBeat which cited a company blog post.
San Francisco, California-based mobile video advertising startup Vungle snagged $17 million in a Series B funding round led by Thomvest Ventures to build monetization tools for developers of mobile apps.
PayNearMe, a company based in Sunnyvale, California that allows cash lovers to pay for their online transactions in cash, has raised $20 million for its fifth financing round, VentureBeat reported.
Yobie Bejamin, the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Citigroup, raised $1 million on via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter for hardware startup Avegant's new kind of headset called Glyph.
Planemakers are looking forward to inking billions of dollars in deals at an aerospace gathering in Singapore next week despite worries about the turmoil in emerging markets, Reuters reported.
Datamolino, a Slovak startup processes invoices and receipts without the need for manual data entry, has received €500,000 for its seed financing round from Slovak Innovations and Technologies Fund, TechCrunch reported.
Bloomthat, a flower delivery startup based in San Francisco, pulled in seed funding from investors that included SV Angel and Ashton Kutcher amounting to $2 million, TechCrunch reported.
New York, US-based startup Docurated nabbed $3.75 million in its first major funding round led by Rogers Venture Partners to help companies index and search for their files on local servers and cloud storage services.
Allovue, an education technology firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, received $800,000 for its seed funding round from Maryland Technology Development Corporation, Baltimore Angels and Shulman Ventures.
