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WndrCo, the consumer tech investment and holding company founded by longtime Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, has invested $30 million in The Infatuation, a restaurant discovery platform.

The Infatuation made waves earlier this year when itpurchased Zagat from Google,which had paid $151 million for the 40-year-old company in

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This yearrush of IPOs from Chinese tech companies has dominated headlines, but whatmore interesting is how quickly they got there.

Traditionally, &going public& represented the gratifying culmination of sleepless nights and missed birthdays that went into building a company. The peak of a lengthy climb, where founders

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Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and &talent first& investor, held its tenth London Demo Day this afternoon. This time around the even had a decidedly more international bent as it combined pitches from the London andrecently launched Berlin programs.

Once again, the pitches took place in front of a nearly overcapacity crowd

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Cargo, the startup that helps ridesharing drivers earn money by bringing the convenience store into their vehicles, has raised $22 million in a Series A round led byFounders Fund.

Additional investment came from Coatue Management, Aquiline Technology Growth and a number of high-profile entertainment, gaming and technology executives

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A new messaging app is looking to give folks a way to communicate in situations with poor or no cellular connectivity.

Berkanan, founded by Zsombor Szabó, is a group messaging app that uses Bluetooth to send and receive messages. This means that Berkanan works in a plane, at a festival, camping, or anywhere else where cellular coverage is

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What happens when you bring together an entrepreneur, a product designer and an investment banker who all really love collector vehicles You get Rally Rd., an app for buying and selling equity shares in classic cars.

Launched in 2016, the companySEC-compliant platform lets users purchase shares in Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghinis and

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