Kennesaw, Georgia-based LendingPoint has secured $500 million in fresh lending capacity to fuel its consumer lending ambitions. Founded by CEO Tom Burnside, CSO Juan Tavares, COO Franck Fatras, and CPO Victor J. Pacheco, LendingPoint is a balance sheet lender that lends up to $26,500 to consumers based
SketchDaily.io is a free art education tool for improving sketching and drawing skills. Learners can track their progress, keep their creativity going and explore others' creations. All content created using SketchDaily.io is free to use by anyone for any purpose, without the need for attribution
Optanix today announced it has appointed Mike Crest as chief executive officer. Optanix is a leader in IT service predictability and stability solutions and is based in New York. Prior to joining Optanix, Crest served as CEO at Arcserve, a leading provider of data protection
FreeWire Technologies today announced that Stanley Ventures, a division of Stanley Black & Decker, is the lead investor for FreeWire Technologies' ongoing Series A financing round. The company plans to close its Series A round by the end of October, with participation from a syndicate
Seabury Capital LLC today announced the appointment of David M. Turnbull as a senior advisor. Turnbull joined the Pacific Basin Board as an independent non-executive director in 2006 and was appointed chairman and executive director in 2008. He previously spent 30 years with the Swire
C2Sense today announced it has raised $3.2 million in seed funding led by The Engine. Dream Incubator, Propel(x) Investors, Boston Millennia Partners, Castor Ventures, Newlin Investment Company and TLP also participated. C2Sense, which was founded in 2014 by experts in sensing technologies from MIT, has
PaceMate™, the cardiac remote monitoring software company that aims to translate digital tools into proven better patient outcomes, today announced the appointment of Dr. Kevin Campbell, MD, FACC, as its new CEO. Prior to PaceMate, Campbell worked as CEO at K-Roc Healthcare Consulting and as
Computer vision startup Matroid announced it has raised $10 million in Series A financing. New Enterprise Associates and Intel Capital participated in the round. Founded by Stanford University faculty, Matroid launched its first computer vision product on March 25th. The product allows users to create
Nightly is an iPhone messaging product for users’ dating, social, and evening lives. The app, so far only available in NYC, allows users to chat with people located in the same bar or at the same event, based on location proximity technology. Nightly shows where
Microsoft HoloLens by Example is a book that educates developers about how to create mixed reality apps for Hololens, Microsoft’s virtual reality headset. The book aims to introduce and demystify the HoloLens platform and introduces new ways people can interact with computers. Readers can learn