Technoloty News : AboutLife, Focused On Personal Finance, Debuts With $3 Million In Funding From Kleiner .
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Technoloty News : AboutLife, Focused On Personal Finance, Debuts With $3 Million In Funding From Kleiner .

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There’s no shortage of services trying to drive traditional financial planners into extinction. Think Wealthfront, Personal Capital, Betterment and Intuit-owned Mint.com, among them. Today, another company personal finance tools company is publicly joining the fray: aboutLife, a three-year-old, San Francisco-based, eight-person startup that quietly raised $3 million in Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield &…

Technoloty News : Walker & Company Brands Raises $24M Series B, Inks Bevel Deal With Target .
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Technoloty News : Walker & Company Brands Raises $24M Series B, Inks Bevel Deal With Target .

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Building a lifestyle brand is nothing like building, say, an app. Higher degree of difficulty for sure. That’s not stopping Tristan Walker, though. Today, his company Walker & Company Brands has announced a $24 million Series B round of funding. That brings its total funding to $33.3 million. The company is known for its health…

Technoloty News : Kreditech Nabs $92M To Build Financial Services For The ‘Underbanked’ .
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Technoloty News : Kreditech Nabs $92M To Build Financial Services For The ‘Underbanked’ .

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Another startup out of Europe focused on finance has raised a hefty round of funding. Kreditech, a German company building a suite of credit and banking products for consumers who have little or no credit history, has raised €82.5 million ($92 million) to continue adding more products and geographies to its platform. Confirming what we reported…

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Technoloty News : Ledge Is A Mobile Peer-To-Peer Lending Platform Powered By Venmo .

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Launching today with $900K in seed funding, Ledge is an app that lets users easily borrow money from their peers. Everyone knows it’s hard to lend money to family or friends. The process is awkward, and most people never actually get paid back. Ledge is trying to fix this issue by bringing automation and transparency to peer-to-peer lending. Here’s…

Technoloty News : CoverHound Raises $33.3M, Expands To Insurance Comparisons For Businesses .
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Technoloty News : CoverHound Raises $33.3M, Expands To Insurance Comparisons For Businesses .

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CoverHound, a site that lets people search for, compare and buy auto and property insurance both through its own site and Google’s insurance search, is today announcing that it has raised a further $33.3 million in funding as it adds one more large and strategic investor to its list of backers. Insurance giant ACE Group is…

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Technoloty News : A Few Thoughts On The BlackBerry-Good Technology Deal .

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So much for that IPO, I suppose. Good Technology, a long-time IPO candidate with reams of public financial data, was snapped up by BlackBerry this morning for $425 million. You might think that the number isn’t too bad. It is: The company raised $291 million from investors. So its sale is nearly certainly a down-exit,…

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Technoloty News : A Few Thoughts On Tech Stocks .

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Shares in technology companies have recently come under intense pressure, similar to other equities, markets, commodities and more. How far tech shops have declined, however, is worth digging into. After all, if the value of public tech companies has declined sharply, it could impact the value of private startups like Uber or Dropbox. I picked a…