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Note to self: Brace for more bubble talk as secret messaging app Yik Yak raises $62 million
Some things are all too easy to predict. Every day, the sun rises and you wake up. And every time some app most of the world has never heard about raises what seems like an insane amount of money, the hand-wringing begins and thousands of blog posts are spawned to discuss whether tech is in a bubble. So, get ready for a deluge of bubble talk. Because Yik Yak, the anonymous-messaging app that has spread like kudzu (hey, they’re based in Atlanta!) across college campuses, has raised $62 million, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
PocketMath raises $10M
PocketMath, a startup that offers a self-service mobile demand-side ad platform that can be used to serve ads using real-time bidding. PocketMath raised this round of funding Rakuten Ventures.
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