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. Interactive data visualizations on the Unicorn Leaderboard This quarter has already seen 8 new unicorn companies. In 2015, CrunchBase recorded 77 new unicorns, an average of 19 per quarter. Check out the latest investors and companies on our interactive timeline visualization. | 