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| 02.02.2023 | Kuusakoski invests 25 M€ to meet increasing demand in pure recycled metal products | Kuusakoski invests 25 M€ to meet increasing demand in pure recycled metal products
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Recycling pioneer Kuusakoski invests 25 M€ in a maj... |
| 14.11.2020 | 3 Ways To Plot Your Company’s Strategy In Covid Era And Beyond | In an era of uncertainty strategy can no longer be based on forecasts and past experiencegetty |
| 09.10.2017 | Startup thought leadership paves the path to M&A | Frame your market, establish the dominant narrative and be the North Star of your sector
Big ideas power startup acquisitions.
Acquisitions are expensive, risky and complex. In order for a potential strategic partner (we call them “PSPs”) t... |
| 19.06.2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: June 15, 2017 | What do our partners read each week? News about our portfolio companies, macro industry trends, our investment focus areas, and general personal and business strategies.
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| 11.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 11, 2016 | Veniam raised $22M; DigiSchool secured $15.8; Label Insight completed $10M Series B funding
First Stop Health, a provider of 24/7 telemedicine services, secured a $2.1 million seed round of funding led by existing investors, including angel... |
| 11.02.2016 | ThingLink Closes $1.3M Funding Round | Interactive media platform ThingLink closed $1.3M funding round.
Backers included Run Capital, Inventure Oy, and Steelhead Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its SaaS offering to virtual reality annotation.
ThingLink i... |
| 20.05.2014 | #Edtechchat Turns 'One' | Take out your party hats; bring on the cake! Just a year ago, #edtechchat began. So far, between 300 and 400 folks tune in for our weekly Monday 8pm EST chat with an average of 1,600 tweets during each chat hour. Last week the hashtag #edte... |
| 20.05.2014 | #Edtechchat Turns 'One' | Take out your party hats; bring on the cake! Just a year ago, #edtechchat began. So far, between 300 and 400 folks tune in for our weekly Monday 8pm EST chat with an average of 1,600 tweets during each chat hour. Last week the hashtag #edte... |
| 19.03.2014 | Watch for Susty Party on Shark Tank April 4 [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
A lot of funds do filings with the SEC, and we don’t usually cover them. Hyacinth Capital Fund is raising a fund, as noted via an SEC filing. While not all are, this fund may end up being tech relevant, though. We only ... |
| 28.08.2013 | Image Tagging Platform ThingLink Grabs Another $2 Million | ThingLink, a platform that enables tagging things inside an image with links to music, video, notes and more, has closed on $2 million in additional funding, the company is announcing today. The new round was led by Helsinki-based VC firm I... |
| 28.08.2013 | ThingLink Closes $2M Financing | ThingLink, a Helsinki-New York based startup that offers interactive image solutions to publishers and brands, closed a $2m financing round.
The round was led by Inventure Oy, with participation from Terrapin Bale, Thom Beers, Dean Kehler, ... |
| 30.11.2012 | ThingLink: This is how brands are driving 100% more Twitter engagement | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Imagine you could post a tweet your followers vie... |
| 30.11.2012 | ThingLink: This is how brands are driving 100% more Twitter engagement | Imagine you could post a tweet your followers view, engage with, watch video in, listen to audio in, and get detailed information about — all without leaving Twitter.
Now pinch yourself, because that’s exactly what ThingLink does via a part... |
| 16.05.2012 | ThingLink Acquires Pixboom | Helsinki, Finland-based Image engagement tool ThingLink has acquired Stockholm-based Pixboom, an interactive image tagging service for the Swedish fashion industry.
Founded in 2008 by entrepreneurs Jonas Sujkerbuik and Daniel Aspers, Pixboo... |
| 09.05.2012 | ThingLink Acqu-hires Pixboom To Double Down On Fashion | ThingLink, which has a platform for tagging things inside images, has acquired Pixboom, an interactive image tagging service for the Swedish fashion industry. The terms of the deal were undisclosed but we understand it was an ‘acquhire’ in ... |
| 22.03.2012 | TCTV: In the Studio, Stipple’s Rey Flemings Wants to Turn Pictures into Dollars | Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil
“In the Studio” this week welcomes an entrepreneur who, while working for a major Hollywood celebrity,... |
| 14.12.2011 | Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Card, Song Included | Aren’t Christmas eCards lame? It’s not just me, right? The annual holiday greeting efforts from those in my family who think they have figured out the digital world by renouncing handwritten letters are not just cheesy, they usually get los... |
| 14.12.2011 | Have yourself a merry little christmas card. Song included. | Aren’t Christmas eCards lame? It’s not just me, right? The annual holiday greeting efforts from those in my family who think they have figured out the digital world by renouncing handwritten letters are not just cheesy, they usually get los... |
| 09.11.2011 | Billboard’s FutureSound conference is coming up fast! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The following post is sponsored by Billboard.
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| 09.11.2011 | Billboard’s FutureSound conference is coming up fast! | The following post is sponsored by Billboard.
Billboard’s FutureSound conference, in association with Loeb & Loeb, LLP is coming up fast: November 17 & 18 in San Francisco. There will be no looking backward. No rehashing of clichés.... |
| 04.11.2011 | ThingLink Launches Service For Third Party Apps To Tag Anything With Rich Media | Back in June image tagging startup ThingLink launched launched Rich Media Tags for publishers, allowing anyone to interact with an image tag which might be embedded music, video, words, pictures and tags for people. But this is still a prod... |
| 04.11.2011 | ThingLink launches service for third party apps to tag anything with rich media | Back in June image tagging startup ThingLink launched Rich Media Tags for publishers, allowing anyone to interact with an image tag which might be embedded music, video, words, pictures and tags for people. But this is still a product aimed... |
| 13.10.2011 | ThingLink Launches Labs, First Project: Printable NFC-Enabled Images | ThingLink, a startup that lets you add rich media tags to online images, is today announcing the launch of an internal incubator called ThingLink Labs which will be a dedicated environment to create and productize innovations in the field o... |
| 15.09.2011 | ThingLink Adds Rich Media Tags To Online Images | TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant ThingLink is a Helsinki, Finland and U.S.-based startup that lets you add rich media tags to online images. These tags appear as small dots when you hover your cursor over the image, and can link... |
| 15.06.2011 | ThingLink takes the fight back to Stipple with rich media image tagging | Stipple, which thinks it’s a bit original in allowing people to tag images with Twitter names, has some new competition on the block. ThingLink which also lets you tag any image, is now launching Rich Media Tags, allowing anyone to interact... |
| 03.05.2011 | Stipple Opens The Kimono To Reveal A Product Tagging Platform With Massive Potential | When we first covered Stipple in September of last year, it seemed like a really cool idea: tag people in images no matter where they reside on the web — not just on Flickr or Facebook. It was quickly clear that investors like Kleiner Perki... |
| 14.04.2011 | ThingLink hits on social shopping model, adding tags to product images | ThingLink, which allows anyone to add clickable tags to any web image (useful for brands) and Savalanche, a Finnish social shopping startup, are today launching a new image-based social shopping model. In effect it will allow anyone to set ... |
| 08.03.2011 | ThingLink joins forces with SoundCloud to let users add sounds to images | ThingLink, which provides tools to let users embed links into images, has partnered with SoundCloud to add audio as an option.
The idea is that those who work primarily in audio – musicians, bands, sound designers etc. – can now include ima... |
| 05.10.2010 | Thinglink, the product tagging startup, raises $1m for its in-image ad network | Thinglink, the product tagging startup founded by design blogger Ulla-Maaria Engeström (wife of Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engestrom, who is also an adviser), has raised $1 million in seed funding from Nordic investors Inventure and Lifeline Ven... |
| 05.10.2010 | Thinglink has raised $1 million | The product tagging startup Thinglink has raised $1 million in seed funding from the Nordic investors “Inventure” and “Lifeline Ventures”. According to the founders (from Finland) the new funds will be used to develop an in-image advertisin... |
| 12.04.2010 | Social cataloging site Thinglink hires Nokia's Godfather of NFC | [Finland] The ‘Internet of Things’ startup Thinglink has pulled off quite a coup, recruiting Nokia’s Janne Jalkanen as its new CTO.
Jalkanen is an 8 year veteran of Nokia where he earned the unofficial title of the Godfather of NFC because ... |
| - | COVID-19 Edition: Homeschooling - What I Learned from Stanford University's Online High School | Photo by Jessica Lewis on Unsplash
This post was written by Investment Partner Holly Jacobus.
Like it or not, COVID has ushered in a whole new era of homeschooling. While, as someone who was homeschooled, I am a big fan of homeschooling, ... |
