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Everyone lovesa tale of a bootstrapped startup founderjourney to an eight-figure exit.

The team at Toronto-based Cluep have a good one.

The founders of theadtech startup raised less than $500,000 from angel investors before selling their company to Impact Group for $40 million ($53 millionCAD) this week.

Founded in 2012,

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Alchemist is the Valleypremiere enterprise accelerator and every season they feature a group of promising startups. They are also trying something new this year: they&re putting a reserve button next to each company, allowing angels to express their interest in investing immediately. Ita clever addition to the demo day

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Bird just announced 10 million scooter rides since launching about one year ago. If this story sounds familiar to you, itprobably because Bird competitor Lime earlier today announced it surpassed 11.5 million rides across its shared bikes and scooters.

Bird, which launched last September in Santa Monica, Calif., currently operates in 100

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MariaDB, the company behind the eponymousMySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clusterix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus on scalability. MariaDB will integrate Clusterixtechnology into its own database, which will allow it to offer its users a more scalable

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Hear about the keys to local investing at Startup Battlefield Africa with Omobola Johnson and Lexi Novitske

Omobola Johnson (Image: Flickr/World Economic Forum under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is returning to Africa in December, this time in Lagos, Nigeria. We will have a day-long program full of our flagship Battlefield competition highlighting the best startups that Africa has to offer.

Not only that, we&ll have panel

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Bike and scooter company Lime recently hit 11.5 million rides,a couple of months after it surpassed six million rides. This milestone comes just 14 months after Lime deployed its first bikes.

Today, Lime is in more than 100 markets throughout the U.S. and Europe. Last December, Lime brought its bikes to a number of European cities and in

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