Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share.
Search platform Slyce raises $8.7M
Slyce announced today that it's raised $8.7 million in a funding round led by Salman Partners and Beacon Securities, with PI Financial also participating. The visual search platform allows shoppers to take photos with their smartphones of 2D or 3D items in order to search retailers' inventories. The newly-acquired funds will go toward further integration with Fortune 100 retailers like JCPenney and Toys "R" Us.
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$475M fund will help commercialize Oxford university's spinout tech firms
The University of Oxford has produced some of Britain’s greatest minds, and to help in its quest to stay at the forefront of technological innovation, a £300 million ($475 million) fund has been set up to develop and commercialize the institution’s scientific research.
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