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Cowboy, the startup that’s building a new, smarter electronic bicycle, quietly launched in its home country of Belgium this past week, whilst simultaneously disclosing it has raised $3 million in seed funding.
Notably, the round is led by Index Ventures. The London and San Francisco-based VC appears to be particularly bullish on electric-powered
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Read more: Belgium’s Cowboy raises $3M led by Index to launch a smarter e-bike
Write comment (97 Comments)DoorDash is about to make a huge move into grocery delivery, but instead of going all out as a delivery service on its own, it’s instead going to be working behind the scenes to power delivery networks for larger companies — with Walmart as its first big partner.
While Instacart looks to control the end-to-end customer experience for grocery
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Hooch, the subscription startup that allows members to claim one free drink per day from hundreds of different bars and restaurants, is adding a new membership level called Hooch Black.
Signing up for Hooch Black will cost you significantly more than the regular subscription — instead of $9.99 per month, it’s $295 per year. And you don’t just get i
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Read more: Drink-a-day startup Hooch adds a perk-filled premium membership plan
Write comment (95 Comments)Munich-based Lilium, the super-ambitious company developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet and accompanying “air taxi” service, continues to hire top talent to make its vision a reality. The latest new recruitment is car design veteran Frank Stephenson, who has previously worked for Ferrari, Maserati and Mini, to name but a
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Read more: From Ferraris to flying taxis: Q A with Liliumnew head of Product Design
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The first thing to understand about media-sharing app Rapchat is that co-founder Seth Miller is not a rapper and his other co-founder, Pat Gibson, is. Together they created Rapchat, a service for making and sharing raps, and the conjunction of rapper and nerd seems to be really taking off.
Since we last looked at the app in 2016 (you can see Tito’s
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Read more: Rapchat raises $1.6 million to help you make and share your def jams
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Capital Float, the fintech startup that says it is India’s largest online lender, announced today that it has raised $22 million in new funding from Amazon. At the end of last year, reports surfaced that Amazon was considering an investment in Capital Float as an extension of its $45 million Series C, which was announced last August. The
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Read more: Indian lending platform Capital Float raises $22M Series C extension from Amazon
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