Britain’s best and brightest startups hit Silicon Valley next week for funding
If you’ve never heard of Dragon’s Den, it’s a popular British TV reality series, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to get funding from business experts — the “Dragons”. One of those Dragons, Doug Richard, a UK-based Californian and founder of investment research firm Library House got a name for himself as a particularly fastidious investor on the show. And now he’s selected 20 of the UK’s most promising web application start-ups to go and try… Continue Reading
Parent company of music service The Filter raises $5M
The company that runs The Filter, a music recommendation service, has raised $5 million from investors including musician Peter Gabriel.
The Filter provides you a software download, which searches your library of music and then generates playlists of other music it believes you will like based on what other people with similar tastes have liked. It also takes into account music you’re listening to at the moment, to suggest music that fits your mood.
It’s similar to… Continue Reading