Y Combinator, SV Angel, Max Levchin and other investors provided seed funds amounting to $2 million to San Francisco, California-based "pre-commerce" platform Celery to help grow the team and develop its storefront features.
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Y Combinator-backed Bloomthat gets $2M in seed round
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's Docurated nabs $3.75M in funding to help companies index files
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.
Apple forays to sapphire crystal display manufacturing with purchases of furnaces, tools- report
Apple seems to be gearing up to go into sapphire crystal display manufacturing as documents reveal that the company is buying furnaces and chambers as well as tools for the purpose, TechCrunch reported citing a report from 9to5Mac and information from its own source.
US-based firm PressFriendly builds virtual PR agency for startups
American software company PressFriendly built a platform that works like a virtual PR team for startups and orient them on what they should do before sending a sales pitch to potential customers.
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Teqcycle Solutions, a Munich-based firm that provides mobile devices trade-in and reuse solutions, has bagged an undisclosed investment from T-Venture Holding, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.
A fintech incubator has just been rolled out by pan-European accelerator Startupbootcamp in London. The FinTech bootcamp is backed by big names that include Lloyds, Rabobank and MasterCard, TechCrunch reported.
Birdback, a London-based fintech startup, has obtained $2.4 million in its funding round led by Passion Capital and joined in by Paul Nikkel, Luke Johnson, Playfair Capital and #1seed, TechCrunch reported.
Yandex, a Russian internet group, announced on its website that it will be opening an office in Berlin. The new office is a sign that the Russian firm is ramping up its foreign ambitions, Reuters reported.
Indian fashion portal confirms $50M capital injection from Premji Invest and rejects Flipkart merger
Bangalore, India-based fashion portal Myntra confirmed that it raised $50 million in a new funding round led by Premji Invest, and decided not to pursue a merger with Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart.
Mutual funds managed by the biggest names in Wall Street like BlackRock, Brevan Howard and T. Rowe Price, are showing poor performance with the decline in the emerging markets, an analysis from Reuters said.
Sussex, Wisconsin-based commercial printing firm Quad/Graphics Inc bought Boston-based family-owned printing business UniGraphic Inc for an undisclosed amount as part of its expansion strategy via acquisitions.
London, UK-based engineering and support services firm Babcock International Group added Oman-based oil and gas training organization National Training Institute (NTI) for an undisclosed sum to extend the latter's training services to the UK.
Japan-based Sumitomo Corp agreed to acquire Australia-based Emerald Agribusiness Group Pty. The purchase allowed the Japanese trading firm to control the storage facilities and export terminal of Emerald, Bloomberg reported.
