Houzz raises a huge $400M round at a $4B valuation: If you ask investors in Silicon Valley about Houzz — an app where you browse ridiculously nice homes and check out interesting interior design shares.ly/37R #Apps #Mobile #Startups #TC #Houzz

VC Justin Caldbeck raised funding in email to accuser ahead of scandal breaking: TechCrunch has reviewed an email allegedly sent by VC Justin Caldbeck, of Binary Capital, to shares.ly/DwH #Startups #TC #VentureCapital #JustinCaldbeck #BinaryCapital

TechCrunch Tel Aviv Pitch-Off: Here are your startups and judges!: On June 28 in Tel Aviv, we’re hosting the TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off in Tel Aviv — and it’s gonna be a blast! We have a great shares.ly/gMb #Europe #Events #Startups #TC

Starling Bank passports to Europe, first stop Ireland: London-based Starling Bank is continuing to gather momentum. After a staggered launch of its current account kicked off in March, the digital-only bank is shares.ly/tEY #Europe #Startups #TC

Wefox acquires digital insurance carrier One: Wefox, the insurance platform that enables customers, insurance brokers and insurance providers to transact and manage insurance shares.ly/8Hu #Europe #FundingsAndExits #Startups #TC #OneInsurance

Reverso now lets you translate words using your voice: Dictionary app Reverso is getting a major update with a focus on voice features. In particular, you can now say a phrase to translate shares.ly/nV9 #Apps #Europe #Startups #TC #ReversoContext

Company builder Entrepreneur First hires ex-Yahoo and Googler as new London head: In a recent conversation I had with a London VC, the topic of Entrepreneur First came up, as we compared notes shares.ly/Ui9 #Europe #Startups #TC #EntrepreneurFirst

Tesco launches one-hour grocery deliveries in London, powered by Quiqup: The grocery delivery wars look set to get cooking… UK supermarket chain Tesco has announced the launch today of a shares.ly/BbG #Apps #eCommerce #Europe #Food #Startups

OMG Digital, the “BuzzFeed of Africa,” raises a seed round of $1.1M: OMG Digital, the Ghana-based media startup dubbed the “BuzzFeed of Africa,” announced today that it has raised $1.1 shares.ly/T1D #FundingsAndExits #Media #Startups #TC

Anki’s Cozmo gets a free update aimed at helping kids learn to code: You can’t throw a rock without hitting a coding toy these days. In just the last couple of weeks both Apple and Sony shares.ly/KTP #Hardware #Robotics #Startups #Anki #Cozmo

Plaid puts out a “request for startups” in nine underserved fintech sectors:  Plaid wants to make it easier for financial services companies to serve consumers and businesses, but it sees shares.ly/HuL #Apps #Finance #Startups #TC #Plaid

Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store: To paraphrase science fiction writer William Gibson, the farm of the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Read shares.ly/R5A #Europe #FundingsAndExits #Startups #TC #Infarm

Let’s meet in Warsaw:  Just in time for Disrupt SF I’d like to invite you all to a micro meet-up in Warsaw on July 4. We’ll be holding it at Campus Warsaw, 33C Ząbkowska, 03-736 shares.ly/tYw #Europe #Startups #TC #DisruptSf #meetup

Medical bill advocacy startup Better pledges all of its revenue towards relieving medical debt:  Put aside whatever shred of healthcare decency the Senate happens to be ripping out at the moment shares.ly/7bS #Apps #Finance #Health #Startups #TC

Stayawhile gets $1.5M to target the sweet spot between Airbnb and long-term rentals: New York-based startup Stayawhile announced today that it’s scored $1.5 million in seed funding shares.ly/Wsu #FundingsAndExits #RealEstate #Startups #stayawhile

Instacart CMO Cheryl Law is no longer at the company: Instacart CMO Cheryl Law is no longer at the company, Techcrunch has learned. Instacart confirmed the departure. We were tipped off shares.ly/WHf #Mobile #Startups #TC #Instacart #WholeFoods

Diffblue, a University of Oxford spin-out, raises $22M Series A to bring AI to software development: The U.K.’s Oxford University continues to be a hotbed of AI talent, fuelling not just shares.ly/Gri #Europe #FundingsAndExits #Startups #TC

Monese, the mobile current account banking app, expands to Europe: You wait all day for a multi-currency account and three come along at once. Give or take a month or so, that’s appears to be the case shares.ly/lf8 #Europe #Startups #TC #monese

undefined raises $10M to grow AI-driven health information service and marketplace: undefined, an AI-driven health information service delivered via a bot, has raised $10 million in shares.ly/EWl #Europe #FundingsAndExits #Startups #TC

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro announces $100M startup fund:  Security firm Trend Micro is the latest corporate to jump into the startup investment world after it unveiled a shares.ly/H9w #Asia #FundingsAndExits #Security #Startups #technology