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Seedcamp

Type: Company

Name: Seedcamp

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

The gadget that lets you play with your pet (and send them barking mad) from anywhere in the world

Petcube has a webcam and a movable laser pointer insideUsing a special app users can control the pointer and see their pet's reaction from anywhere with an internet connectionUsers can log on and play with their own pet - or a friend'sBy Mark Prigg For ... [Published Mail Online UK - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Laser, Seedcamp, Kickstarter, Robotics, Kiev

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Yandex NV

Russian search giant Yandex starts a summer boot camp for (very) early-stage startups

Russian Internet search and services company Yandex is today announcing a new startup accelerator initiative dubbed the Tolstoy Summer Camp , named after the great novelist (coincidentally, Yandex’s Moscow offices are located on 16, Leo Tolstoy Stree ... [Published The Next Web - May 16 2013]

Entities: Yandex NV, Startup, Leo Tolstoy, Seedcamp

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Exchange Solutions (TransferWise) raises $6 million Series A round of funding

Exchange Solutions, Ltd. (TransferWise), a UK-based online provider of currency exchange and foreign payments services, has raised $6 million in a Series A round of funding led by Valar Ventures LP.SV Angel, LLC, Seedcamp, IA Ventures, Index Ventures, ... [Published Individual.com - May 14 2013]

Entities: TransferWise, Exchange Solutions Inc, A ROUND

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

PayPal

Peter Thiel leads $6M funding round for TransferWise

Peer-to-peer online currency exchange, which seeks to use the Internet to make it easier to transfer funds among currencies, has transferred more than $195 million since its founding in 2011.TransferWise, a London-based peer-to-peer currency exchange, ... [Published CNET News - May 14 2013]

Entities: TransferWise, Peter Thiel, Valar Ventures, PayPal, Seedcamp

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Launch 48 - Cape Town

held at the Bandwidth Barn, a Launch48 Weekend event for entrepreneurs to get together and build a completely new online or app based business in just 48 hours. #startabusinessLaunch48 brings it's 48 hour entrepreneurship event to Cape Town.On the 17 ... [Published Biz Community - May 13 2013]

Entities: Cape Town, Startup, Bandwidth, Oxygen

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

OPINION: ONE NATION? HOW ABOUT TECH NATION?

Combining grassroots innovation with the ambitious plans of multinationals can make the UK a leading player on the global digital stageThere has been a lot of political chatter about one nation Britain, and modern interpretations of 19th century ideas. ... [Published Director - May 03 2013]

Entities: United Kingdom, London, Silicon

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Crash Pad Becomes Crash Course for Global Startups

There's a United Nations feel to Silicon Valley's Plug and Play Tech Center. Amid people speaking French and Russian, a group from Hong Kong recently toured the startup accelerator, where more than a dozen foreign flags hung prominently in the lobby.The ... [Published Bloomberg - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Startup, Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 2 reports

FounderFuel, Seedcamp, and Startmate hosting a combined international demo day in San Francisco next week

The largest accelerator in Canada, the biggest seed investor in Europe, and one of the top seed funds in Australia are joining forced to put on one major demo day for 15 of their top startups next Wednesday in San Francisco.“I think it’s a first … I’m ... [Published Venturebeat - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Seedcamp, Startup, San Francisco (United States)

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 3 reports

SPEECH - Celebrating the best start-up talent

Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda'Europioneers' European Tech Entrepreneur of the Year Awards ceremony /AmsterdamTo add your comment to this speech, see the social version of the speech hereToday Europe is in ... [Published European Commission - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Entrepreneur, Invention, Venture Capital, Leaders Club

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Google Tech City Campus start-up project attracts 10,000 members

Google has revealed that its Campus London project in Tech City now boasts 10,000 members, as it celebrates its first year anniversary.The seven-storey tech start-up hub first opened its doors in April 2012, offering start-ups located in east London flexible ... [Published V3.co.uk - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Google Inc, London, Seedcamp, Matt Brittin

First reported Mar 21 2013 - Updated Mar 22 2013 - 4 reports

Neelie Kroes gathers Leaders Club to help foster more European start-ups

Vice-president of the European Commission and commissioner in charge of the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes is leading a group of nine successful entrepreneurs that will meet regularly to discuss how best to encourage more European start-ups.Kroes’ assembled ... [Published Silicon Republic - Mar 21 2013]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, Leaders Club, Entrepreneur, Zaryn Denzel, Reshma Sohoni

First reported Mar 12 2013 - Updated Mar 12 2013 - 2 reports

Box Links Up With Seedcamp To Become Europe's Latest Early-Stage Investor

Box has set its sights on Europe both to pick up new business, and as a place to hunt for the next important technology that might give it an edge over other players in the cloud-based enterprise space. Today, the company announced a new partnership ... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Mar 12 2013]

Entities: Seedcamp, Startup, Twilio Inc

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...where friends could log on and play with Rocky during the day, which proved hugely popular - so he decided to form a company to make the product. "I've gathered a team to create a nice looking robot that would fit any interior and be incredibly easy to use" he said

The gadget that lets you play with your pet (and send them barking mad) from anywhere in the world [Published Mail Online UK - 1 hour ago]

"So I used an Arduino platform to build a device with a camera and a laser to check on Rocky from time to time and entertain it with a moving red dot. Suddenly, all of my fellow pet owners wanted such a gadget, and that's how the idea for a business appeared. We are doing this because we want to help people to keep in touch with their pets from anywhere."

Zap your pet's blues away with Petcube laser pointer [Published CNET News - May 20 2013]

...Here, pinstriped men and women trudge to work at dawn through the half-light of a British spring, past steel and glass towers full of empty desks. "Main Drivers'Financial services, the dominant industry in London since the 1980s, has been in decline, slipping from more than 10 percent of British GDP in 2008 to 9.4 percent in 2011."

UK hipsters flock to Silicon Roundabout startups [Published Delaware Online - May 20 2013]

He told an interviewer recently that he had needed three jobs to pay his way through Dartmouth College, the Ivy League university. "And, you know, if you're the 17-year-old kid and you're working in the cafeteria and you're washing dishes and all the other kids are out there kind of having fun… it sticks with you."

Follow the money: AngelList has blown open early-stage investments [Published Wired.co.uk - May 17 2013]

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Russian search giant Yandex starts a summer boo... [Published The Next Web - May 16 2013] Russian Internet search and services company Yandex is today announcing a new startup accelerator initiative dubbed the Tolstoy Summer Camp , named after the great novelist (coincidentally, Yandex’s Moscow offices are located on 16, Leo Tolstoy Stree ...
Russian search giant Yandex starts a summer boo... [Published The Next Web - May 16 2013] Russian Internet search and services company Yandex is today announcing a new startup accelerator initiative dubbed the Tolstoy Summer Camp , named after the great novelist (coincidentally, Yandex’s Moscow offices are located on 16, Leo Tolstoy Street). ...
P2P Currency Exchange TransferWise Raises $6M L... [Published TechCrunch - May 14 2013] Here’s some encouraging news for the European startup scene, and London in particular. TransferWise , the online currency exchange that uses the crowd to undercut traditional money transfer services, has announced that it’s closed a $6 million series ...
Peter Thiel leads $6M round for fintech upstart... [Published GigaOM - May 14 2013] PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is, to put it mildly, a prolific investor. These days it feels like his main focus is on cleantech, but he also still has an eye for the financial technology (fintech) sector, as evidenced by the investment his Valar Ventures ...
Currency exchange TransferWise nabs $6M in firs... [Published The Next Web - May 14 2013] TransferWise, a London-based startup that wants to make transferring money between currencies effortless and inexpensive, has closed a $6 million series A round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. Additional participants include SV Angel, PayPal co-founder Max ...