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Revere launches with $2M in funding to sell workout drinks made from plants


 Dietary supplements aren’t regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, which means the industry is rife with dubious claims. Revere, a new startup that sells monthly subscriptions of its workout and energy drink powders, wants to cut through the buzz with straightforward mixes of plant-based ingredients, such as pea protein and sweet potato powder. The company announced today that it… Read More

The OrCam MyEye helps visually impaired people read and identify things


 Meet the OrCam MyEye, a tiny wearable device that can give you secret powers if you have vision problems. It’s a tiny device that you clip to your glasses. It has a camera, a speaker and a cable that hooks up to a bigger device that is roughly the size of a smartphone. After that, you can use the OrCam MyEye to read stuff for you. We visited OrCam’s office in Jerusalem to try out… Read More

ZeroFox secures $40m Series C to help manage social media risk


 ZeroFox, a startup that helps companies manage social media risk including scams, malicious links and account hijacking, announced a $40 million Series C investment today.
The round was led by Redline Capital Management and Silver Lake Waterman (which is Silver Lake’s late stage growth capital fund). Existing investors NEA, Highland Capital Partners and Core Capital also participated. Read More

Twitter is the most powerful company in tech


I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg wakes up every morning, checks the news, and dies a little inside. At the end of June, his company crossed 2 billion users. Since its IPO in 2012, Facebook stock has risen by nearly 5x and the company continues to see incredible growth in the world’s emerging market. Facebook is the […]

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News Capsule: The 5 stories that rocked the Asian tech community today


In today’s edition of News Capsule, an Indonesian fintech startup raised Series A and a cricket legend has invested in his first startup Cashlez raises US$2 million Series A led by Mandiri Capital Indonesia   Indonesian fintech startup Cashlez announced today that it has raised a US$2 million Series A funding led by Mandiri Capital […]

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Can overfunding kill a startup?


Entrepreneurial tracks are littered with carcasses of dead startups that were very well-funded, some to the tune of hundreds of millions In the startup world, funding is often equated to success. Funded ventures get a lot of love — often undeserved — from the press and the ecosystem. Take Snapdeal for instance. This e-commerce company was […]

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