Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8e73caa2-3c4c-4ed4-b686-c2c2122622ed Date 8/6/2014 Company Name StudySoup Mailing Address 525 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Company Description Our passion for saving students money and helping them succeed in their classes has led us to take it a step further and turn StudySoup into a complete peer to peer learning platform. And … Continue reading “StudySoup Obtains Seed Round”
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NakedRoom Secures Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a6fa24f1-204e-4bbe-be72-c418288bab74 Date 8/6/2014 Company Name NakedRoom Mailing Address 312 11th St. San Francisco, CA 94109 USA Company Description We are committed to reducing waste while increasing recycling and reuse of products. We believe in offering the best customer experience possible. We look to empower the members of the NakedRoom team with the … Continue reading “NakedRoom Secures Seed Funding”
Zoomforth Secures Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=36e3b4f9-bb4f-478a-b3d5-f082be4ae42a Date 8/6/2014 Company Name Zoomforth Mailing Address 2973 16th St. San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Company Description Zoomforth helps employer brand managers gather rich content from the people who can best tell your company story: your employees. Website http://www.zoomforth.com Transaction Type Accelerator Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “Zoomforth Secures Seed Funding”
Mind My Business Garners Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d35c876f-0022-41db-a2b4-ff7e109b344e Date 8/6/2014 Company Name Mind My Business Mailing Address 814 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Time is money and, in small business, every minute counts. Mind My Business sends a notification to you each time something happens outside or around your business that could affect your bottom … Continue reading “Mind My Business Garners Seed Financing”
How Google, Microsoft, and Amazon’s Boston-Area Offices Stack Up
The biggest names in technology have very few boundaries when it comes to competing with each other. Take the smartphone market, where Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft—four companies with very different core business models—have all made huge investments. At the core of that competition is a race to hire the engineers, designers, developers, and other … Continue reading “How Google, Microsoft, and Amazon’s Boston-Area Offices Stack Up”
Navdy Aims to Keep Phone Users’ Eyes on the Road
The idea behind Navdy, a heads-up device that sits on car dashboards and allows drivers to answer calls and get navigation help without ever touching their phones, came about the obvious way. “It really started with one too many ‘oh shit’ moments in the car,” says company CEO Doug Simpson. “Fumbling around with my phone … Continue reading “Navdy Aims to Keep Phone Users’ Eyes on the Road”
Funding Options Shrink for Early-Stage Cleantech Ventures
The term “cleantech” has gone through a rebranding. However it’s defined, though, investment in energy and natural resource-related startups continues. Just don’t expect venture capitalists to be writing all the checks. As a reporter, I chronicled the rush of venture capital in cleantech in the mid-to-late 2000s and the subsequent financial bust and politicization of … Continue reading “Funding Options Shrink for Early-Stage Cleantech Ventures”
BitGlass Raises $25M Round to Make Using Cloud Apps More Secure
We’re well into the era of cloud applications and “bring your own device,” and yet securing data on smartphones and tablets remains a major challenge for businesses, their IT teams, and their employees. While it’s a big headache for them, it’s also becoming clear just how big an opportunity it is if IT security companies … Continue reading “BitGlass Raises $25M Round to Make Using Cloud Apps More Secure”
Pantry Receives $1,300,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1324908b-aa13-47d9-9cf0-2810c4d2456a Date 8/5/2014 Company Name Pantry Mailing Address 1155 Indiana Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Pantry’s unique RFID-based technology tracks each item as it enters and leaves the kiosk providing efficient inventory control — no manual entry needed. Website http://www.pantrylabs.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,300,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Pantry Receives $1,300,000 New Funding Round”
Smaato Secures $25,000,000 Series E Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9f89270c-3698-4869-b3eb-78398fe868a9 Date 8/5/2014 Company Name Smaato Mailing Address 240 Stockton St 10th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description Smaato Inc. is an ad-enabler for mobile phones, pioneering with its mobile advertising platform SOMA (Smaato Open Mobile Advertising) for the delivery of targeted mobile advertising. Smaato is partnering with international brands, … Continue reading “Smaato Secures $25,000,000 Series E Funding Round”
Bitglass Lands $25,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b0df545b-79c4-411e-b122-f2b3e4682023 Date 8/5/2014 Company Name Bitglass Mailing Address 655 Campbell Technology Pkwy Campbell, CA 95008 USA Company Description In a world of cloud applications and mobile devices, IT must secure corporate data that resides on third-party servers and travels over third-party networks to employee-owned mobile devices. Existing security technologies are simply not … Continue reading “Bitglass Lands $25,000,000 Series B Financing”
ComScore Buys Software Startup MdotLabs, Keeps Madison Office
MdotLabs has been acquired by ComScore for an undisclosed price, just 14 months after the Madison, WI, startup was formed. MdotLabs created software, AdSecure, to help digital publishers and online advertisers verify Web traffic by sifting out bogus visits by click farms and other fraudsters. The company raised $1.25 million in November from Chicago Ventures, … Continue reading “ComScore Buys Software Startup MdotLabs, Keeps Madison Office”
As Book Prices Drop, Big Publishers Push Into Software and Edtech
Don’t look now, but textbook publishers are trying to become software companies. And tech startups are trying to outmaneuver these giants to win the future of educational content and tools. It’s one of the big trends in edtech and digital media. Indeed, digital publishing has “fundamentally changed every aspect of what we are doing with … Continue reading “As Book Prices Drop, Big Publishers Push Into Software and Edtech”
Startups Still Abandon Wisconsin, But Growing Cluster Keeping More Here
SurveyMonkey has come a long way since Ryan Finley started the company in his Madison, WI, apartment. The online polling service, which counts Facebook and Harvard among its customers, began in 1999 after Finley earned his computer science degree from the state’s flagship university. It survived the dot-com era’s collapse, reportedly bootstrapping its way to … Continue reading “Startups Still Abandon Wisconsin, But Growing Cluster Keeping More Here”
Edtech Companies Foresee Boost from New K-12 Standards
[Corrected 8/4/14, 10:24 am. See below.] As California teachers prepare for the start of classes this fall, many will face new uncertainties and demands. Starting in the 2014-2015 academic year, California school districts will begin implementing the Common Core, a new set of K-12 educational achievement standards that raise the bar for both students and … Continue reading “Edtech Companies Foresee Boost from New K-12 Standards”
Military Strategies Being Used in the War on Cancer
Nearly everyone has heard of the War on Cancer, which was launched during the Nixon administration with the passage of the National Cancer Act of 1971. The goal of this legislation was to eradicate (or at least significantly decrease) the number of U.S. cancer deaths. Progress in meeting this goal has been slow over the … Continue reading “Military Strategies Being Used in the War on Cancer”
In Search of New Markets, Qualcomm Moves Uplinq to Silicon Valley
About 800 people flocked to the downtown San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina back in 2001, when Qualcomm (NASDAQ: [[ticker:QCOM]]) staged its first BREW developers conference. The San Diego-based company created BREW, an acronym for Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, as a technology platform that would make it easier for independent programmers to create games, … Continue reading “In Search of New Markets, Qualcomm Moves Uplinq to Silicon Valley”
How Cotton Bureau Became the Internet’s Coolest T-Shirt Store
You may not have realized that it was possible to become addicted to buying T-shirts. But that probably means you just haven’t stumbled upon Cotton Bureau, a year-old website that has quickly become the world’s coolest T-shirt shop. The four-person crew behind Cotton Bureau has managed to pull this off by stitching together an impressive number … Continue reading “How Cotton Bureau Became the Internet’s Coolest T-Shirt Store”
Wise.io Secures $1,552,051 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ee006e03-a2a2-49d0-aaab-395f6f31a870 Date 8/4/2014 Company Name Wise.io Mailing Address 2150 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704 USA Company Description Wise.io, Inc. is building machine learning application for the customer experience market so all companies can benefit from the power of machine learning. Website http://www.wise.io Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,552,051 Transaction Round Series … Continue reading “Wise.io Secures $1,552,051 Series A Funding Round”
OpenTable Acquires Copilot Labs for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=33bba2fc-6751-4912-8d4d-05db70909566 Date 8/4/2014 Company Name Copilot Labs Mailing Address 50 Pacific Ave. San Francisco, CA 94111 USA Company Description We combine technology, restaurant, and marketing experience to help you manage and grow your business. Though we have diverse backgrounds, our unifying goal is to become your trusted marketing advisor. Our success is … Continue reading “OpenTable Acquires Copilot Labs for Undisclosed Sum”
Square Acquires Caviar for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=373f4a86-9e11-4a87-8281-54f104266875 Date 8/4/2014 Company Name Caviar Mailing Address 133 Kearny Street San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description Caviar is the easiest way for consumers and businesses to order food from favorite local eateries with the ability to live-track the order on a map. Browse a picture menu, place the order, and … Continue reading “Square Acquires Caviar for Undisclosed Sum”
Innovation Hub: Legendary Investor Roger McNamee on “Day of Reckoning”
There’s always plenty of coverage of the newest phones—are they a millimeter thinner? Is the camera slightly better? But when you back up and look at the broad sweep of how technology has changed our lives over the last generation, it’s profound. Celebrated Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee has been part of this transformation—having spent … Continue reading “Innovation Hub: Legendary Investor Roger McNamee on “Day of Reckoning””
Global Warming and the Power of Fear to Drive Innovation
[Corrected, see below] As graduation approached at my rural Michigan high school in 1985, our principal had a problem. The commencement ceremony usually featured two speeches: one from the valedictorian and one from the salutatorian. But in my graduating class eight people, including me, had a 4.0 grade point average. Who would give the valedictorian … Continue reading “Global Warming and the Power of Fear to Drive Innovation”
Kabam Garners $120,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d5330b15-3f1b-4443-b0ae-167578151cc4 Date 8/1/2014 Company Name Kabam Mailing Address 795 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description The Kabam platform enables fans to connect with other fans in entertainment and sports communities inside their favorite social networks: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Friendster. Website http://www.kabam.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $120,000,000 … Continue reading “Kabam Garners $120,000,000 New Financing”
Bandar Foods Obtains New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7f32e768-56c2-4904-9177-2552c1512094 Date 8/1/2014 Company Name Bandar Foods Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Bandar Monkey Sauce is the first mainstream Indian hot sauce! Bandar’s first two products are inspired by co-founder Lalit’s family recipes of mango pickle (achar) and mint cilantro chutney – ubiquitous condiments found throughout South … Continue reading “Bandar Foods Obtains New Financing”
EDI Lands $3,500,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=195c4b78-b242-4f2a-aaac-55f6df6c7a1a Date 8/1/2014 Company Name EDI Mailing Address 1702-L Meridian Ave. San Jose, CA 95125 USA Company Description EDI aims to position itself as a global leader in advanced, high-efficiency PHEV and CVT solutions, by providing vehicle developers, manufacturers, and suppliers with highly innovative products, services, and technologies, thereby enabling them to … Continue reading “EDI Lands $3,500,000 Series A Round”
Lazarus Effect Receives $5,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ddcd7cdd-beb4-49cc-a930-a7af59d4bf90 Date 8/1/2014 Company Name Lazarus Effect Mailing Address 560 Division Street Cambell, CA 95008 USA Company Description Lazarus Effect is focused on the development of novel interventional devices to facilitate removal of blood clots. Website http://www.lazarus-effect.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The proceeds will … Continue reading “Lazarus Effect Receives $5,000,000 New Financing Round”
Entefy Receives $1,155,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f1501d7e-cfe9-4461-ad82-bb5d9a20802e Date 8/1/2014 Company Name Entefy Mailing Address 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Company Description Entefy aims to be a single application that goes across multiple media platforms, such as e-mail, text, voice, video, social, search and storage into one entity. Website http://www.entefy.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Entefy Receives $1,155,000 New Funding Round”
Do Receives $400,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=47a680f6-88ba-471e-b5bb-f3984b5dbd4d Date 8/1/2014 Company Name Do Mailing Address 800 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94102 USA Company Description With Do, you can easily and delightfully see what you have going on. Meetings, participants, and the important info all at your fingertips. We’re a small team working on making Do the best we … Continue reading “Do Receives $400,000 Seed Funding Round”
With $2M Seed, Perlstein Lab Tests Unorthodox Rare-Disease Plan
DIYBio is a hot term these days, as more so-called citizen scientists gain access to biotechnology tools and “biohacker” lab spaces. But how about DIY drug discovery? Independent scientist Ethan Perlstein is trying to prove it’s possible. After a year bootstrapping an ambitious project to find treatments for diseases too rare to attract drug industry … Continue reading “With $2M Seed, Perlstein Lab Tests Unorthodox Rare-Disease Plan”
West Coast Biotech Roundup: Amgen Layoffs, Avalanche, Venter & More
Summer in Seattle is usually a joyous season, but with the big West Coast news this week, a gloom more typical of the city’s winter months settled over the biotech community. Amgen (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AMGN]]) said it would shut down its research facility in town and a manufacturing plant in the suburb of Bothell. The closures … Continue reading “West Coast Biotech Roundup: Amgen Layoffs, Avalanche, Venter & More”
Is Radio Silence Endangering Your Business?
Let’s see if this scenario sounds all-too-familiar. A divisional company director is facing a distressed situation. Her CEO suggests bringing in an outside consultant to help. They meet, and the director decides to hire the consultant and immediately confirms a follow-up meeting on both of their calendars. Except that this second meeting never takes place. … Continue reading “Is Radio Silence Endangering Your Business?”
Nok Nok Working With Tech Giants to Secure Smartphones, Networks
[Corrected 8/1/14, 12:20 p.m. See below.] There’s a certain irony that in a time when smartphones can tell who we are by scanning our fingerprints or taking a picture of our face, we still rely on usernames and passwords—a strategy developed in the age of the mainframe—to keep everything secure. But for people like Nok Nok … Continue reading “Nok Nok Working With Tech Giants to Secure Smartphones, Networks”
Avalanche Bio Rolls Onto Nasdaq After Upsized, $102M IPO
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals placed a bet on Avalanche Biotechnologies earlier this year with a wide-ranging partnership. Now, it appears public investors are jumping on the Menlo Park, CA-based company’s bandwagon too. Avalanche, which is developing gene therapies for severe eye diseases, has raised a whopping $102 million in its IPO by pricing 6 million shares at … Continue reading “Avalanche Bio Rolls Onto Nasdaq After Upsized, $102M IPO”
RockYou! Receives $10,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3defb356-68d2-41fd-87d8-0af6844db56f Date 7/31/2014 Company Name RockYou! Mailing Address 208 Utah Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description RockYou! creates and distributes the most popular self-expression widgets on the web. RockYou!’s viral accessories can be used to enhance the look and feel of any blog, personal website, and are used on social … Continue reading “RockYou! Receives $10,000,000 New Financing Round”
JuiceBox Garners $2,500,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6906fcf2-80b0-45df-a062-0d7bcdc97b30 Date 7/31/2014 Company Name JuiceBox Mailing Address 345 Ritch St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Lead your army to victory in this epic card battle RPG! Choose your squad as you battle and collect 100’s of heroes! Challenge 1000’s of real players in the Arena! Download for free today! … Continue reading “JuiceBox Garners $2,500,000 Seed Round”
PagerDuty Garners $27,200,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e279cf8d-1956-4aa2-9779-3696a87606bc Date 7/31/2014 Company Name PagerDuty Mailing Address 501 Second St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description PagerDuty collects alerts from your business’s existing monitoring tools (Nagios, Monit, Pingdom, etc) and calls or SMSes the engineer on duty if there’s a problem. If the assigned engineer doesn’t answer, PagerDuty will automatically … Continue reading “PagerDuty Garners $27,200,000 Series B Funding”
Canara Garners $4,250,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=25e8d570-0cf6-43d5-843e-6a909cb598b6 Date 7/31/2014 Company Name Canara Mailing Address 181 3rd Street San Rafael, CA 94901 USA Company Description Canara is the leader in UPS and Battery Monitoring Systems and Services that ensure mission critical power for data centers and commercial operations. Website http://www.canara.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,250,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Canara Garners $4,250,000 New Round”
Stellar Obtains $3,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b9bcba1e-93ef-45c7-be39-9a2d0a065345 Date 7/31/2014 Company Name Stellar Mailing Address 185 Clara Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description When individuals have access to financial services and the confidence that those services are working in their best interest, those individuals can independently improve their lives. Yet the current financial system is too costly … Continue reading “Stellar Obtains $3,000,000 New Funding”
Silver Peak Systems Lands $7,053,370 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=eda06e89-6d1e-4524-8684-a97467ab68c8 Date 7/31/2014 Company Name Silver Peak Systems Mailing Address 2860 De La Cruz Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95050 USA Company Description Silver Peak is a privately held company that develops enterprise-class network appliances for the re-centralization of branch office infrastructure. Website http://www.silver-peak.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $7,053,370 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Silver Peak Systems Lands $7,053,370 New Round”
Moogsoft Garners $11,300,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=476d9c2b-b2da-424e-bd09-a9e55f32ae73 Date 7/31/2014 Company Name Moogsoft Mailing Address 485 3rd Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Moogsoft was founded by Phil Tee and Mike Silvey, two passionate Service Assurance pioneers, to reduce the cost and effort involved in managing incidents and problems in modern service delivery infrastructures. Website http://www.moogsoft.com Transaction … Continue reading “Moogsoft Garners $11,300,000 Series B Round”
Geekatoo Receives $1,700,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d52d9bd1-2642-46b4-a60c-de0849ecd183 Date 7/31/2014 Company Name Geekatoo Mailing Address PO Box 5604 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 USA Company Description We offer local and onsite tech support at a great value. Customers receive competing bids on tech support needs from verified providers. Website http://www.geekatoo.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,700,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “Geekatoo Receives $1,700,000 New Round”
Green Charge Networks Lands $56,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=28fde28d-7460-4bd0-a279-f92d64a11917 Date 7/31/2014 Company Name Green Charge Networks Mailing Address 309 Laurelwood Rd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Company Description Green Charge Networks is the first to market with a ROI-driven energy storage product for commercial electric customers who regularly pay 50%+ of their monthly bills in peak demand charges. Website http://www.greenchargenet.com … Continue reading “Green Charge Networks Lands $56,000,000 New Financing”
CardCash.com Acquires Plastic Jungle for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6956ba9e-9c2f-4649-b7cc-26d20ddfa272 Date 7/31/2014 Company Name Plastic Jungle Mailing Address 204 East 2nd Avenue San Mateo, CA 94401 USA Company Description Plastic Jungle is the leading Web site for gift card exchanges — whether you want to buy gift cards at substantial savings, sell them for cash, or trade pre-owned gift cards with … Continue reading “CardCash.com Acquires Plastic Jungle for Undisclosed Sum”
Venter Hires Google Translate Leader at Human Longevity Startup
Human Longevity, the San Diego startup founded by human genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter, says it has recruited Franz Och, a 42-year-old expert in machine learning and language translation, to develop new ways to rapidly interpret raw genomic and proteomic data. Och has worked as a distinguished research scientist at Google for the past decade, … Continue reading “Venter Hires Google Translate Leader at Human Longevity Startup”
Green Charge Networks Bags $56M to Expand Smart Battery Market
Traditionally, batteries have had few uses in commercial buildings. But a handful of companies are reinventing batteries, making them connected devices that can cut utility bills without an upfront investment. Santa Clara, CA-based Green Charge Networks said Tuesday it has raised $56 million from K Road DG, a private equity firm focused on distributed energy, … Continue reading “Green Charge Networks Bags $56M to Expand Smart Battery Market”
Driving Corporate Innovation: Design Thinking vs. Customer Development
Startups are not smaller versions of large companies, but interestingly we also see that companies are not larger versions of startups. I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using “Lean Startup” methods. One of the conundrums is why does innovation take so long to happen in corporations? Previously Hank Chesbrough … Continue reading “Driving Corporate Innovation: Design Thinking vs. Customer Development”
Drone Startups, Like Airware, Seek Profit in Software and the Cloud
Airware is a drone company that won’t be selling any drones. And it’s not alone: as the emerging market for commercial drones takes shape, a number of startups plan to earn profits by developing software and services for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), rather than focusing just on the hardware. San Francisco-based Airware said last week … Continue reading “Drone Startups, Like Airware, Seek Profit in Software and the Cloud”
ZipZap Lands $1,100,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cc92bfa6-a119-43f3-b9fe-603b9c90cf22 Date 7/30/2014 Company Name ZipZap Mailing Address 182 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description ZipZap, Inc. is a global payment network, enabling consumers to buy, sell or use digital currencies with cash or other payment options. Founded in 2010, ZipZap is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations … Continue reading “ZipZap Lands $1,100,000 New Financing”
First Data Acquires Gyft for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=84345167-6517-49e5-97aa-01416a5d9dab Date 7/30/2014 Company Name Gyft Mailing Address 25 Taylor Street San Francisco, CA 94102 USA Company Description Gyft is a digital gift card platform that enables you to manage your gift cards. You can ditch the plastic and use your mobile device to store, send and redeem cards. Website http://www.gyft.com Transaction … Continue reading “First Data Acquires Gyft for Undisclosed Sum”