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Index raised over $2 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures and Blackbird Ventures.The company offers tools for product managers to track ideas and build roadmaps. The Australia-based startup’s beta app is now open to all customers on its waitlist.Australia-based startup Index, which makes a planning tool for…

By Elisa Anzolin MILAN (Reuters) – Sales of personal luxury goods are set to fall 2% this year, making it one of the weakest on record, with price hikes and economic uncertainty shrinking the industry’s customer base, according to consultancy Bain & Company. In its closely-watched report on the 363-billion-euro…

By Milana Vinn (Reuters) – Buyout firms Silver Lake and Bain Capital are among the potential suitors that are likely to compete to acquire a minority stake in Altera, the programmable chips business that Intel (NASDAQ:) acquired for nearly $17 billion in 2015, according to people familiar with the matter.…