Crunchbase Daily: Tokopedia, ThoughtSpot, Ripcord, China Unicom, 0x project, ZingBox - August 18, 2017

?utm_source=cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20170818&send_email={EMAIL} August 18, 2017 [Share on Twitter ]( [Share on Facebook ]( /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2d125e584f47484e59107e48480d5945480d6e5f58434e454f4c5e480d694c4441540d4559595d1702024f4459034154021c46467762596b Alums of these schools raise the most VC You don’t need a fancy degree to launch a funded startup, but it sure seems to help. A Crunchbase News study of university affiliations for funded startup founders finds that a handful of schools graduate a disproportionate share of those who raise big dollars. You can see how the top schools rank [here](. Kalanick hits back in Uber suit [Uber]( founder Travis Kalanick [fired back]( at venture investor Benchmark Capital following the firm’s fraud lawsuit against the former CEO. In a legal filing, Kalanick argued that Benchmark’s suit was initiated “as part of its public and personal attack” on him and that the dispute ought to be resolved in arbitration. 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The Jakarta-based company has 5M merchants on its platform. Categories: Jakarta IDN · Shopping · Marketplace · E-Commerce · Internet Founders: [William Tanuwijaya]( [Leontinus Alpha Edison]( Investors: [Alibaba]( (Lead) [ThoughtSpot]( [$60M]( / [Series C]( ThoughtSpot is a search-driven analytics platform that uses relational search technology. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company’s customers include Amway, Bed Bath & Beyond, Chevron, Capital One, De Beers, and Nutanix. Categories: Palo Alto · Big Data · Business Intelligence · Enterprise Software · Analytics Founders: [Ajeet Singh]( [Shashank Gupta]( [Vijay Ganesan]( [Sanjay Agrawal]( [Abhishek Rai]( [Priyendra Deshwal]( [Amit Prakash]( Investors: [Lightspeed Venture Partners]( (Lead), [Capital One Growth Ventures]( [Ripcord]( [$25M]( / [Series B]( Ripcord uses robots to digitize paper records for large corporations and organizations. 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