Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=843d29dc-0a0c-45a9-9360-bf431cbc40f5 Date 5/20/2014 Company Name Stride Health Mailing Address 455 Mission Bay Blvd South San Francisco, CA 94158 USA Company Description Based in San Francisco, Stride is a team of real people. And we used to be just as confused about healthcare as you are. Our team of entrepreneurs has decades of … Continue reading “Stride Health Obtains $100,000 Seed Round”
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Studio Dental Lands $100,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1087ce79-0f2c-443e-aa77-cd6652418ff9 Date 5/20/2014 Company Name Studio Dental Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Studio Dental is taking aim at working people who don’t feel they have time to go to the dentist — an activity which takes an average of four hours out of the workday, according to … Continue reading “Studio Dental Lands $100,000 Seed Financing Round”
HealthEquityLabs Secures $100,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dba6da52-3e92-4d33-a035-dbc6eac7d44f Date 5/20/2014 Company Name HealthEquityLabs Mailing Address 650 Castro Street Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Company Description We believe that the best way to improve the world’s health is to celebrate The Healthy, rather than cajole and harass the unhealthy. Website http://www.healthequitylabs.com Transaction Type Accelerator Transaction Amount $100,000 Transaction Round Seed … Continue reading “HealthEquityLabs Secures $100,000 Seed Funding”
After Time For Family, Reflection, VC Samuels Emerges At Venrock
After a two-year hiatus to care for her son, longtime Bay Area biotech investor Camille Samuels has returned to the venture spotlight. Samuels is joining Venrock, a diversified venture capital firm founded in 1969, with what she calls a broader remit than she’s had in the past. She’ll still scout for biopharma and consumer health … Continue reading “After Time For Family, Reflection, VC Samuels Emerges At Venrock”
Clever Breaking Sign-on Barriers to Make Edtech Easier for Teachers
One of the chief imports of Northern California is former Harvard undergraduates and MBAs who flock to the Silicon Valley to change the world. The arrival of Facebook’s founders set the storyline for other alumni teams, including the three Harvard friends who reunited to form Clever, a fast-growing San Francisco educational technology startup with a … Continue reading “Clever Breaking Sign-on Barriers to Make Edtech Easier for Teachers”
Coherus Biosciences Lands $55,000,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=84aeb0ab-8aeb-4255-9057-d9be7c413240 Date 5/19/2014 Company Name Coherus Biosciences Mailing Address 201 Redwood Shores Parkway Redwood City, CA 94065 USA Company Description Coherus Biosciences, Inc. is focused on delivering high quality biosimilar therapeutics that will expand the access of important medicines to patients worldwide. Website http://www.coherus.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $55,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Coherus Biosciences Lands $55,000,000 Series C Funding Round”
Timeful Obtains $7,000,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=da72a601-b63c-485f-aa2f-2c3305e9d2b3 Date 5/17/2014 Company Name Timeful Mailing Address Undisclosed Mountain View, CA 94105 USA Company Description There’s no feeling like achieving the important goals in your life: completing a big project at work, spending more time with your family, or starting the workout routine you’ve been putting off for months. Website http://www.timeful.com … Continue reading “Timeful Obtains $7,000,000 Series A Funding”
Check Out Our Napa Summit Agenda—Get Your Invite for June 2-3 Event
It’s one of the most special events Xconomy holds—an invitation-only confab in the Napa Valley for roughly 80-90 special guests and speakers. And the Napa Summit 2014, set for June 2-3, is shaping up to be our best ever. We have a power-packed array of speakers, from pioneers in their fields to some of the … Continue reading “Check Out Our Napa Summit Agenda—Get Your Invite for June 2-3 Event”
Welcome to the Seven-Year Technology Pause
What’s even harder to endure than the collapse of an economic or technology bubble? The long lull that follows. The current bubble hasn’t popped quite yet—and it might not, at least not in the sudden and messy way that the dot-com bubble did, in March 2000. What’s just as possible is that that we’ll see … Continue reading “Welcome to the Seven-Year Technology Pause”
Innovation Hub: David Pogue Does Some Trendspotting
David Pogue is a tastemaker. His reviews in The New York Times—and now on Yahoo—are widely followed. He has 1.5 million Twitter followers. And he’s always on the lookout for new trends. So, what is he intrigued by right now? And what does he think is overhyped? I put it to Pogue. [The following interview … Continue reading “Innovation Hub: David Pogue Does Some Trendspotting”
West Coast Biotech Roundup: Lumena/Shire, Isis, Janssen Labs & More
A new wave of buyout fervor included the acquisition of San Diego’s Lumena Pharmaceuticals, Janssen Labs unveiled plans for a new incubator in South San Francisco, and Statos Genomics raised capital in Seattle. Here is the past week’s roundup of news up and down the left coast. —San Diego’s Lumena Pharmaceuticals, founded in 2011 to … Continue reading “West Coast Biotech Roundup: Lumena/Shire, Isis, Janssen Labs & More”
The Xconomy SF Six: A Bunch of Series C Rounds for the Cloud and More
Here are the top six things we’re paying attention to in the San Francisco tech scene this week: —Los Altos-based Netskope, a cloud analytics company, announced a $35 million Series C round led by Accel Partners, bringing total funding to $56.4 million. Eric Wolford of Accel will join the company’s board. —OpenDNS also announced a … Continue reading “The Xconomy SF Six: A Bunch of Series C Rounds for the Cloud and More”
PowWow Receives $1,100,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=690662c0-7fe4-443f-b6ca-18a0d26012b3 Date 5/16/2014 Company Name PowWow Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Founded in 2012 by Andrew Cohen and Jonathan Kaplan, PowWow is a Virtual Application Delivery and Collaboration platform that frees enterprise users from being tethered to their desktops– giving them the ability to work the way … Continue reading “PowWow Receives $1,100,000 Seed Financing”
Pinterest Receives $200,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=193a795c-3cd2-43af-bcf4-198f7b98ddea Date 5/16/2014 Company Name Pinterest Mailing Address 635 High St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA Company Description Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Website http://www.pinterest.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Pinterest Receives $200,000,000 New Financing”
First Opinion Obtains $1,400,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2d1809ba-a0fc-4018-b174-2a50c92f16d5 Date 5/16/2014 Company Name First Opinion Mailing Address 604 Mission Street 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description All First Opinion users are matched with one doctor who is also a mom. She then personally answers every single message. Website http://www.firstopinionapp.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,400,000 Transaction … Continue reading “First Opinion Obtains $1,400,000 New Funding Round”
Fanhattan Lands $8,300,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d7eb4538-2c0f-4ecc-9ccd-3589d9996d5b Date 5/16/2014 Company Name Fanhattan Mailing Address 489 S El Camino Real San Mateo, CA 94402 USA Company Description The simplest remote ever imagined. Zero buttons. All touch. It’s unlike anything you’ve seen before, by design. Simply swipe, tap and explore as if touching the TV screen from your couch. Website … Continue reading “Fanhattan Lands $8,300,000 New Financing”
1Life Healthcare Receives $40,499,970 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c269a8d8-af0c-4550-8f78-3b45f9060eac Date 5/16/2014 Company Name 1Life Healthcare Mailing Address P.O. Box 26170 San Francisco, CA 94126 USA Company Description 1Life Healthcare is a network of boutique medical practices that are transforming primary care. We understand the needs of busy people and deliver an experience to match, offering service that is high-quality, convenient, … Continue reading “1Life Healthcare Receives $40,499,970 New Financing”
OLSET Secures $1,100,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=77e4cfb2-3420-4266-83d8-a2c65138207e Date 5/16/2014 Company Name OLSET Mailing Address 570 Beale St. San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description OLSET is a proactive virtual travel agent that saves travelers time & automatically finds them the best hotels based on their preferences. We partner with virtual assistant apps like Any.Do, EasilyDo, Tempo etc and … Continue reading “OLSET Secures $1,100,000 Seed Round”
Posiq Garners $3,200,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a7c195e2-0ae7-48fc-9948-c3c911f17da1 Date 5/16/2014 Company Name Posiq Mailing Address 169 W. Santa Clara St. San Jose, CA 95113 USA Company Description Posiq is the ultimate combination of seriously experienced software and restaurant people, in one amazing, vibrant (and sometimes chaotic) office in downtown San Jose, California. We’re not just restaurant people trying their … Continue reading “Posiq Garners $3,200,000 Series A Funding”
Hortonworks Acquires XA Secure for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f679372c-9c6c-4fa3-81ca-f21a3d99da2a Date 5/16/2014 Company Name XA Secure Mailing Address 7100 Stevenson Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 USA Company Description XaSecure was founded with focus on making the technologies for future, secure now. Our founders come with a rich security experience, having created market leading identity management and fraud detection solutions as part of … Continue reading “Hortonworks Acquires XA Secure for Undisclosed Sum”
Geppetto Avatars Melds Emotion of Disney, Smarts of KITT
[Corrected 5/15/14, 3:41 pm. See below.] The fact that Norrie Daroga considers Walt Disney the forefather of his company’s interactive virtual characters is telling, and not just because Geppetto Avatars was partly named after the woodcarver who created Pinocchio, the puppet who dreamed of being a real boy, in Disney’s classic 1940 animated film, “Pinocchio.” … Continue reading “Geppetto Avatars Melds Emotion of Disney, Smarts of KITT”
At the Threshold of a New Digital Health Landscape
After decades of development, digital health has arrived at a gateway that is reminiscent of the days when the brick-sized cell phone was ready to advance to the first flip phone, with a world of innovation beyond. Industry leaders will be offering their thoughts on what that world could look like in presentations today and … Continue reading “At the Threshold of a New Digital Health Landscape”
The Davis Dilemma: New Energy for Innovation, But Where to Grow?
Every economic development official in the country knows the story. In 1951, Frederick Terman, then the dean of engineering at Stanford University, decided to set aside 200 acres of Stanford-owned fruit orchards in Palo Alto for the new Stanford Industrial Park. The park was soon home to Varian Associates, Shockley Transistor, and Hewlett-Packard, as well … Continue reading “The Davis Dilemma: New Energy for Innovation, But Where to Grow?”
Over Pizza and Chinese? Sprig Delivers Sustainable Meals on Demand
[Corrected 5/15/09, 11:50 am. See below.] When Sprig co-founders Gagan Biyani and Neeraj Berry went looking for a head chef for their newly founded healthy meal delivery startup, they received hundreds of resumes. Then they held between 60 and 80 meetings with potential candidates. They found a lot of great cooks, but no one who … Continue reading “Over Pizza and Chinese? Sprig Delivers Sustainable Meals on Demand”
Pantheon Lands $21,500,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cc153475-1ca2-4240-9b8b-2ceea32cb1cf Date 5/15/2014 Company Name Pantheon Mailing Address 301 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Pantheon lets you effortlessly develop and run Drupal sites that are fast, stable and secure. Website http://www.getpantheon.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $21,500,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes Building on its growth … Continue reading “Pantheon Lands $21,500,000 Series B Financing”
OpenDNS Obtains $35,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7af0d026-1837-4dd6-a84e-369d4a618264 Date 5/15/2014 Company Name OpenDNS Mailing Address 145 Bluxome St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS. Website http://www.opendns.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $35,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “OpenDNS Obtains $35,000,000 New Funding”
Ooma Receives $175,082 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2f981d00-9bc7-4792-831c-386f8b52be75 Date 5/15/2014 Company Name Ooma Mailing Address 1880 Embarcadero Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Company Description Ooma is a breakthrough technology start-up, based in Palo Alto, CA which is committed to transforming the landscape of consumer telephony. Website http://www.ooma.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $175,082 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Ooma Receives $175,082 New Financing Round”
Netskope Lands $35,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=85e8d9c9-557b-4824-87b9-42c1e9c220dc Date 5/15/2014 Company Name Netskope Mailing Address 4984 El Camino Real Los Altos, CA 94022 USA Company Description Netskope is the cloud app analytics and policy company. Only Netskope eliminates the catch-22 between being agile and being secure and compliant by providing complete visibility and enforcing sophisticated policies in cloud apps. … Continue reading “Netskope Lands $35,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
Soldsie Lands $4,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ff59d77e-b957-4a5b-9769-4f71caddc4a4 Date 5/15/2014 Company Name Soldsie Mailing Address 2507 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Company Description Sign up for the free trial, upload a product photo, your fans comment “Sold”, and Soldsie completes the sale. By harnessing the social reach of Facebook comments and being as mobile friendly as Facebook, … Continue reading “Soldsie Lands $4,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
Sorbent Therapeutics Receives $6,500,000 Series D Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c9baf2f7-9a9c-46a5-a650-50614dacdce7 Date 5/15/2014 Company Name Sorbent Therapeutics Mailing Address 710 Lakeway Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA Company Description Sorbent Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of adaptable non-absorbed polymeric drugs to satisfy unmet clinical needs in large markets such as End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), … Continue reading “Sorbent Therapeutics Receives $6,500,000 Series D Funding”
OpenGov Obtains $15,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=77209563-61a2-47c3-a8eb-678ef3cef9df Date 5/15/2014 Company Name OpenGov Mailing Address 1023 N Shoreline Blvd Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description OpenGov offers cloud-based software that visualizes municipal financial data, allowing governments to access, analyze, and share that data with the public. Website http://www.opengov.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $15,000,000 Transaction Round Series … Continue reading “OpenGov Obtains $15,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
Darby Smart Lands $6,300,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=17e87a92-9895-4931-b7da-7f23ab1d5a41 Date 5/15/2014 Company Name Darby Smart Mailing Address 1000 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Darby Smart is a do-it-yourself crafting startup working with top Pinterest designers of DIY accessories, fashion and home items to Kit, market and sell their projects to consumers, complete with all materials and … Continue reading “Darby Smart Lands $6,300,000 Series A Financing Round”
Sunrun Obtains $150,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=321aa8c4-7d56-4f95-bb84-1a0f92445bea Date 5/15/2014 Company Name Sunrun Mailing Address 595 Market Street 29th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Sunrun is the nation’s first residential solar electricity provider. Pioneering solar as a service, Sunrun offers the only low-cost, zero-hassle way for homeowners to go solar and is also the only company … Continue reading “Sunrun Obtains $150,000,000 New Financing Round”
New Janssen Labs Incubator Could Bring Up to 50 Companies to South SF
Tiny biotech startups will have a new place to germinate in the San Francisco Bay Area. Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Labs division is opening a new 30,000 square foot incubator in the biotech-rich suburb of South San Francisco. The flexible space, complete with common rooms, wet labs, and offices, could hold as many … Continue reading “New Janssen Labs Incubator Could Bring Up to 50 Companies to South SF”
Xconomy Surveys Innovation in the Sacramento-Davis Corridor
As Xconomist Bob Metcalfe has said, “Invention is a flower. Innovation is a weed.” What better place for the weed of innovation to grow than in the fertile region around the California capital of Sacramento, and, especially, nearby University of California at Davis, one of the premier agricultural research institutions in the world? In fact, … Continue reading “Xconomy Surveys Innovation in the Sacramento-Davis Corridor”
Can Sacramento End Its Innovation Drought?
It’s raining, at last, in the Sacramento region. It’s just past noon on the last day of March. As I’d glided east on Interstate 80 that morning, the sky had been darkly pregnant, a wash of Payne’s Gray. Yet not a drop of rain had streaked my windshield. Now, as I’m leaving City Hall in … Continue reading “Can Sacramento End Its Innovation Drought?”
Sift Science Garners $18,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=569e5137-45e4-46de-82ac-10a86d331a3f Date 5/14/2014 Company Name Sift Science Mailing Address 625 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description Sift Science monitors your site’s traffic in real time and alerts you instantly to fraudulent activity. Website http://www.siftscience.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $18,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes We’ll use … Continue reading “Sift Science Garners $18,000,000 Series B Financing”
Addepar Secures $50,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b897d112-410e-4d5a-a702-4d689ac5df41 Date 5/14/2014 Company Name Addepar Mailing Address 1215 Terra Bella Ave. Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description Addepar was created by an extraordinary team of engineers working for years in close collaboration with some of Silicon Valley’s most successful entrepreneurs and investors, along with leading wealth advisors and institutions from … Continue reading “Addepar Secures $50,000,000 New Financing Round”
Attensity Lands $90,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=22332f88-2fa7-440d-8240-dccbc5ce3049 Date 5/14/2014 Company Name Attensity Mailing Address 2479 East Bayshore Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Company Description Attensity is the innovator in Text Analytics solutions for commercial enterprises and government organizations. Attensity’s solutions join, for the first time, structured and unstructured data to speed response to important events that, until … Continue reading “Attensity Lands $90,000,000 New Round”
Life360 Secures $25,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b791dcc6-2c9b-4783-acbf-e8ac387981c9 Date 5/14/2014 Company Name Life360 Mailing Address 539 Bryant St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Company Description Life360 uses advanced technology to bring the best safety and security services under one roof so you can keep your family safe with just a single website. Sign up for an account and get … Continue reading “Life360 Secures $25,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
Zendesk Garners $100,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=50bf60e8-7557-4ae7-a59b-1b63c8fc9f72 Date 5/14/2014 Company Name Zendesk Mailing Address 989 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Zendesk (NYSE: ZEN) is inspiring the help desk 2.0 movement through a focus on enlightened customer support. By leveraging the benefits of Web-based communications and social media, Zendesk extends good help desk karma to … Continue reading “Zendesk Garners $100,000,000 New Round”
Qbotix Obtains $12,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5eb0689e-19d2-42c8-99fd-7091522ea35f Date 5/14/2014 Company Name Qbotix Mailing Address 1080 O’Brien Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Company Description Robots have proven themselves in extreme and diverse environments from the surface of Mars to battlefields and ocean depths. We are a robotics company that is bringing the innovations of last several decades to … Continue reading “Qbotix Obtains $12,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
Acxiom Acquires LiveRamp for $310,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3e1d6738-dc30-44d7-831f-1eadaf536fcf Date 5/14/2014 Company Name LiveRamp Mailing Address 667 Mission St. 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 USA Company Description LiveRamp believes in the power of connected data. We unify customer data across disparate applications, enabling a new generation of marketing tools. Our goal is to empower brands to seamlessly leverage their … Continue reading “Acxiom Acquires LiveRamp for $310,000,000”
HAXLR8R Demo Day 2014: Robotics and ‘Niche’ Products
In the mere two years since Sean O’Sullivan and Cyril Ebersweiler founded the Shenzhen, China-based HAXLR8R hardware accelerator, a lot has changed. Technology prices continue to fall, more and more entrepreneurs are willing to jump into hardware, and instead of streamlining to a single connected device, it seems as though consumers are willing to tote … Continue reading “HAXLR8R Demo Day 2014: Robotics and ‘Niche’ Products”
Entrepreneurship Inside Corporations
There is a real trend developing right now of large corporations becoming crucibles of innovation and entrepreneurship in a systematic way. In this post, I will discuss four specific sub-categories of this trend that we’re seeing, and for all practical purposes, participating in. Intrapreneurship Incubation Corporations have come to realize that there are numerous great … Continue reading “Entrepreneurship Inside Corporations”
Catalog Your Memories: Moju Labs Debuts Its First App
Heads up, social media fiends. Menlo Park’s Moju Labs is launching its first product today, a photo sharing app that the company is marketing as “Instagram on steroids.” Co-founders Mok Oh and Justin Legakis believe that photos and videos are “artifacts of legacy devices”—photos can only show one stagnant moment in time, and videos are … Continue reading “Catalog Your Memories: Moju Labs Debuts Its First App”
LearnSprout Secures $4,200,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1e8556f8-22d5-4d29-9a1a-0321e42c5b13 Date 5/13/2014 Company Name LearnSprout Mailing Address 630 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Company Description Having witnessed the revolution that data transparency has brought to the consumer software industry, we are driven to do the same for education. At LearnSprout our mission is to make education data universally accessible … Continue reading “LearnSprout Secures $4,200,000 New Funding Round”
Folloze Receives New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=efdd7677-1f5b-4a96-9582-0abc670b2f8b Date 5/13/2014 Company Name Folloze Mailing Address 950 Van-Auken Circle Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA Company Description folloze is on a mission to democratize content contribution and distribution in the enterprise. Website http://www.folloze.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A … Continue reading “Folloze Receives New Round”
Anaplan Lands $100,000,000 Series D Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c1531c5b-8ca0-4e17-8ee2-5f9e7b1dcdcc Date 5/13/2014 Company Name Anaplan Mailing Address 240 Stockton St. 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 USA Company Description Anaplan is a revolutionary cloud platform designed for business users to rapidly build and maintain strategic, operational and business planning & performance management applications in days not months. Website http://www.anaplan.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Anaplan Lands $100,000,000 Series D Round”
Instart Logic Garners $26,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=02ea655b-6932-4d1e-8ba1-aa260905294f Date 5/13/2014 Company Name Instart Logic Mailing Address 2307 Leghorn St. Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Company Description We have built a solution that allows publishers to provide a great web experience to their users even over congested mobile and WiFi networks. We empower publishers to bring to life a new … Continue reading “Instart Logic Garners $26,000,000 Series C Funding”