Pay day loan firm Wonga suffers data breach affecting up to 270,000

 Payday loan firm Wonga has suffered a data breach affecting up to 245,000 customers in the…

Europe funds another data accelerator to get startups tackling societal problems

 A new European Commission funded startup accelerator, Data Pitch, is being launched today with the aim…

Peter Fenton is leaving Twitter’s board of directors

 Benchmark partner Peter Fenton, who had been on Twitter’s board since 2009, will not seek re-election…

Identity management software provider Okta seeks to raise $187M with IPO pricing

 Okta is setting an increasingly ambitious target for its IPO, now officially pricing it at $17…

Elevate Credit pulls off lending IPO

 After postponing its IPO last year, Elevate Credit, the venture-backed lending company, went public on the…

DrChrono raises $12 million in Series A to take on older EHR platforms like athenahealth

 A couple of early stage venture capital outfits have infused medical practice management platform drchrono with…

ffVC and NYU are mixing researchers with investors in the name of machine intelligence

 The timing was perfect. Just as startups were settling into NYU and ffVC’s new brains-meet-money accelerator,…

Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3 billion with big raise from DST

 Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood has added to its coffers, raising another big round of funding.…