Watch out, Uber.

Juno, a months-old, New York-based ride-sharing service, is reportedly in talks with investors to raise $30M in new funding to fuel its plans to take on Uber, according to TechCrunch yesterday. Co-founder and CEO Talmon Marco, who sold his last company Viber for $900M to Japanese internet giant Rakuten, says Juno will be an ethical, socially responsible ride-sharing service but did not reveal a public launch date.

“As Silicon Valley chills, Europe’s tech gets hotter”

At least if you ask Mattias Ljungman, co-founder and partner at Atomico. Europe’s tech scene won’t be impacted by the U.S. tech downturn, because it has now laid its own foundations (talent, local VCs, accelerators, etc). Case in point: 2015 was a record year for venture funding in Europe – up 12 percent from the year before – and in the first two months of 2016, Series A rounds are up 38% year-over-year.

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Zeel

$10M / Series A

Zeel is an on-demand massage provider available in 20 cities. The New York-based company closed $10M of $12M and will use the funding to expand into more areas.

Categories:

New York · Health Care · Mobile

Founders:

Samer Hamadeh

Investors:

Emil Capital Partners (Lead), Partech Ventures, Slow Ventures, + 2 more

Checkr

$40M / Series B

Checkr automates the process of background checks through online access or API. Launched in 2014, the company processes over 300,000 checks per month for leading on-demand companies like Uber, Instacart, and GrubHub.

Categories:

San Francisco · Software · Legal · Developer APIs

Founders:

Daniel Yanisse, Jonathan Perichon

Investors:

Y Combinator (Lead), Signatures Capital, David Spector, + 3 more

OneRent

$4.0M / Series A

OneRent manages the entire lifecycle between renters and owners. The San Jose-based company serves the Bay Area and Seattle, but plans to expand into LA, San Diego, Portland, DC, and Boston.

Categories:

San Jose · Property Management · Real Estate

Founders:

Chuck Hattemer, Rico Mok, Greg Toschi, Evan Huang, Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi

Investors:

Renren Inc. (Lead)

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Bromium $40M / Series D
LifeBEAM $16M / Series A Squarepeg Capital
EndoStim $11M / Series F
Voxox $5.5M / Venture
RevUp Software $5.0M / Seed
ciValue $2.4M / Seed
Hive Technology $1.4M / Seed Tribeca Venture Partners
SKOOTAR $420K / Seed
eCheng unknown / Series B Cathay Innovation Fund
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Bitstrips

Acquired by Snapchat for $100M

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