Canvas Ventures – Fusion Nepal

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Startups Weekly: Uber’s headline-grabbing week and sextech at SXSW

sudshr47 March 16, 2019 Startups

In this week’s newsletter: The college admissions scandal engulfs TPG, Accel raises $2.5B for three funds and investing app Stash brings in $65M.

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137 Ventures raises $210M to give liquidity to startup employees

sudshr47 March 12, 2019

This is the Palantir, Airbnb and Flexport backer’s fourth growth-stage venture capital fund.

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Canvas Ventures hires former Social Capital GP Mike Ghaffary

sudshr47 March 11, 2019

Mike Ghaffary left Social Capital in August, shortly before the firm announced it would no longer raise outside capital.

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Appen acquires Figure Eight for up to $300M, bringing two data annotation companies together

sudshr47 March 10, 2019 Startups

Appen just announced that it’s acquiring Figure Eight in an all-cash deal that sees Appen paying $175 million upfront, with an additional payment of up to $125 million based on Figure Eight’s performance this year. Both companies focus on using crowdsourced labor pools to annotate data, which in turn is used to train artificial intelligence and […]

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20 startups take center stage at Berkeley SkyDeck’s demo day

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

A robot that can clean your house, a blockchain-powered social network and 18 other startups presented to investors at SkyDeck’s 8th demo day.

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Interiors marketplace eporta raises $8M, led by Canvas Ventures

sudshr47 April 10, 2018

In this day and age of higher expectation in offices, sourcing your furniture from Ikea no longer cuts the proverbial mustard. But the furniture industry is notoriously old fashioned, forcing buyers to leaf through hundreds of paper catalogues, most of which are outdated by the time you get around to ordering. The global design and […]