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Social Finance Startup SoFi Raises $77M
SoFi (which stands for Social Finance) has raised $77.2 million in series B funding led by Baseline Ventures and joined by DCM and Renren, China’s...
StartX Wins $800K Grant From Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced an $800,000 grant to StartX. StartX, formerly SSE Labs, was initially launched in 2010 by Stanford students to accelerate...
Mobile News App Pulse Gets Web Avatar
Pulse, a popular mobile news app, is getting a Web avatar. Pulse worked in conjunction with the developers at Pixel Lab and the Windows Internet Explorer team at...
Lex Machina Closes $2M Round
Lex Machina has closed a $2 million funding round led by X/Seed Capital. Besides X/Seed Capital, other participants in this round include Costanoa Venture Capital (recently...
Researchers Make Electrically Conductive Jell-O. Well, Kinda.
Stanford chemical engineering Associate Professor Zhenan Bao, materials science and engineering Associate Professor Yi Cui and members of their labs, have designed an electrically...