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By Jordan Crook Casper, the company looking to reinvent the way mattresses are made and sold, has closed a $13.1 million Series A round led by New Enterprise Associates, bringing its total funding to $15 million. Not unlike other up-and-coming ecommerce startups, Casper looks to cut out the commission-based middle man and sell well-made mattresses…

By Sarah Perez In what may be a new record (?), recently launched anonymous emailing service Leak has already crashed and burned. Or, at least, the service has been temporarily suspended while its creators figure out how to port it over infrastructure better designed for the purpose at hand. In case you missed it: Leak…

By Ron Miller Guesswork, a new machine learning tool built on top of the Google Prediction API, launched a new service today with a twist. Instead of trying to be all things to all businesses, it’s focusing on customer information. CEO and company co-founder Mani Doraisamy says Guesswork uses a template-driven approach so customers can…

By Catherine Shu Depression doesn’t just ravage a person’s mental well-being. According to the Center for Disease Control, depression is also one of the leading causes of workplace absenteeism. It is estimated to cause 200 million lost workdays each year at a cost of $17 billion to $44 billion for employers. Now a health technology…

By Josh Constine MagForce injects iron oxide nanoparticles into a patient and then vibrates them with a magnetic field to generate heat that kills cancer cells. It sounds like science fiction but it’s real. That’s why Peter Thiel’s late-stage investment firm Mithril just led a $15 million investment into MagForce’s new American subsidary that values…