Back in January, we told you about a young, Austin, Tex.-based startup that fights online disinformation for corporate customers. Turns out we weren’t alone in finding it interesting. The now four-year-old, 40-person outfit, New Knowledge, just sealed up $11 million in new funding led by the cross-border venture firm GGV Capital, with participation from Lux […]
View More New Knowledge just raised $11 million more to flag and fight social media disinformation meant to bring down companiesCategory: ggv capital
Sino-US investment firms are targeting over $4 billion for new funds launched this year
As limited partners increasingly demand greater exposure to emerging market opportunities, venture capital firms with a focus on Asia are bulking up their funds and chasing deals in an increasingly competitive race to own stakes in the next generation of local startups with global aspirations. Over the last year, firms, including DCM Ventures, GGV Capital, Matrix […]
View More Sino-US investment firms are targeting over $4 billion for new funds launched this yearAt Disrupt, Hans Tung and Yi Wang will talk about the startup road winding from China to the US
Few investors have as deep a knowledge of the U.S. and Chinese markets as Hans Tung. For over a decade the prodigious investor (now with GGV Capital) has been racking up the miles on flights between San Francisco, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Beijing and New York in search of startups that can span the Pacific divide […]
View More At Disrupt, Hans Tung and Yi Wang will talk about the startup road winding from China to the USExclusive: HR startup Namely, once a high flier, gets a new CEO and $60 million in new funding to soar again
Namely, a 400-person, six-and-a-half-year-old company, has mostly had the kind of trajectory that other startups envy. Mostly. The startup’s mobile-first platform — which sells payroll, talent management, and other HR services to mid-size businesses across the U.S. via subscription software — has for years been seen as among New York’s most promising businesses. Investors like […]
View More Exclusive: HR startup Namely, once a high flier, gets a new CEO and $60 million in new funding to soar againGrubMarket gobbles up $32M led by GGV for its healthy grocery ordering and delivery service
As consumers become more discerning about the food they eat, a wave of startups has emerged that is catering to that demand with convenient alternatives to the more ubiquitous options that are available today. One of these, GrubMarket — which sources organic and healthy food directly from producers and then delivers it to other businesses […]
View More GrubMarket gobbles up $32M led by GGV for its healthy grocery ordering and delivery serviceTrustToken opens its dollar-backed cryptocurrency to accredited investors
Pitching a dollar-pegged token that offers cryptocurrency speculators a way to move their investments across volatile exchanges, TrustToken (the first public investment from a16z crypto) is now looking for public investments from accredited investors on CoinList. The company’s first token is TrueUSD, a stablecoin that is redeemable one-to-one for U.S. dollars. In its first four […]
View More TrustToken opens its dollar-backed cryptocurrency to accredited investorsA young startup with a timely offer: fighting propaganda campaigns on social media
The prevalence of so-called fake news is far worse than we imagined even a few months ago. Just last week, Twitter admitted there were more than 50,000 Russian bots trying to confuse American voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election. It isn’t just elections that should concern us, though. So argues Jonathon Morgan, the cofounder and CEO of New Knowledge, a… Read More
Unravel Data raises $15M Series B for its big data performance monitoring platform
Big data systems tend to be large, complex and often hard to troubleshoot. In the world of databases, web and mobile stacks, application performance management services like AppDynamics and New Relic help ops teams keep tabs on their system. In t…
View More Unravel Data raises $15M Series B for its big data performance monitoring platform