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Mobile banking app Current, which began as a teen debit card controlled by parents, expanded to offer personal checking accounts earlier this year. Now the company says it has grown to host more than 500,000 accounts on its service and has closed on $20 million in Series B funding to further its growth.
The round included new investors Wellington
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Read more: Mobile banking app Current raises $20M Series B, tops half a million users
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Randori, a Boston-based startup from a former Carbon Black executive and a former red team consultant, announced its first product today. Called Randori Recon, this service is designed to act with a hacker’s mindset to surface all of your company’s external weaknesses.
Brian Hazzard, co-founder and CEO, says he had worked with his co-founder David
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It’s no secret that the art of customer service in the modern era is something that banks desperately need help with.
One of the reasons challenger banks have been able to find acceptance, new customers and — well — the ability to challenge existing banking companies, is the mistreatment customers receive from their existing money holders.
That’s w
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HelloOffice, a new real estate brokerage business out of San Francisco, has nabbed $6.5 million in new financing and is absconding down to Los Angeles to open its first regional office.
The company provides software to expedite the often painful (especially in San Francisco) task of finding office space (not the Mike Judge movie, which is available
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Write comment (94 Comments)Influencer marketing and the related area of sponcon have become a cornerstone of how the internet’s wheels spin: personalities attract traffic and buzz, and help shift not just sentiment but often products for brands, giving boosts both to online engagement and commerce. Now, a London startup called Verve, which plays on the influencer theme in
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Read more: Verve, an events platform based around influencers, raises $60M and rebrands as Pollen
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Grafana Labs, the commercial company built to support the open-source Grafana project, announced a healthy $24 million Series A investment today. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with participation from Lead Edge Capital.
Company CEO and co-founder Raj Dutt says the startup started life as a way to offer a commercial layer on top of the
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Read more: Grafana Labs nabs $24M Series A for open source-based data analytics stack
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