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Almost exactly 4 months to the day after BigID announced a $50 million Series C, the company was back today with another $50 million round. The Series C extension came entirely from Tiger Global Management. The company has raised a total of $144 million.
What warrants $100 million in interest from investors in just four months is BigID’s mission t
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Write comment (98 Comments)Keep Labs won an Innovation Award Honoree award for CES 2020 but is banned from saying the word “cannabis” on the CES show floor. The CTA, the trade group behind CES, told Keep Labs it could only exhibit if the company’s signage, marketing materials and the product is free from cannabis product and paraphernalia.
To be named as an honoree is a
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Write comment (100 Comments)![This startup just raised $7 million, led by Google, to authenticate people based on their typing style](https://www.theindiansubcontinent.com/filter/tins/246047_tins_GettyImages-1175885065.jpg)
TypingDNA, a four-year-old, 18-person startup that was founded in Bucharest, Romania and more recently moved its headquarters to Brooklyn, New York, has closed on $7 million in Series A funding for something interesting: AI-driven technology that it says can recognize people based on the way they type, both on their laptops and mobile devices.
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Over the past year, startup banks have proven that they have a shot at disrupting retail banking. These challengers have amassed a war chest of funding, announced some ambitious international expansion plans and attracted millions of customers.
And yet, building a bank has proven to be even harder than building a startup in general. Retail banks
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Write comment (92 Comments)Welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week I wrote about the startups we lost in 2019. Before that, I noted the defining moments of VC in 2019.
Unfortunately, this will be my last newsletter, as I am
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Write comment (91 Comments)![Alphabet-backed primary care startup One Medical files to go public](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GettyImages-1020686838.jpg?w=599)
One Medical, a San Francisco-based primary care startup with tech-infused, concierge services filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission today.
Internal medicine doctor Tom Lee founded the startup, now valued at well-over $1 billion dollars, in 2007. Lee exited his company in 2017, leaving it in the hands of former UnitedHealth
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