Long written off by many, Detroit is becoming an interesting city to watch from an urban revitalization perspective. At the core of these developments is the emergence of a startup ecosystem where (for the most part) one did not previously exist. While still early, the progress made in this area over the last several years … Continue reading “Hope in Detroit: An Outsider on Motown’s Entrepreneurial Renaissance”
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Librato Garners $774,752 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=386e8c30-7f86-43a1-8eda-0752a5894d2f&Preview=1 Date 12/18/2012 Company Name Librato Mailing Address 605 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Librato is a leader in data center resource management software that enables companies to reduce operating and capital expenses by dramatically increasing utilization rates. The company’s core technology delivers fine-grained monitoring and control of resource … Continue reading “Librato Garners $774,752 New Financing”
Pivotal Systems Receives $4,600,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6aae3556-237d-4311-a4e2-0fac15c34cbf&Preview=1 Date 12/18/2012 Company Name Pivotal Systems Mailing Address 4683 Chabot Drive Pleasanton, CA 94588 Company Description Pivotal Systems is a Silicon Valley company that provides products that improve the manufacturability of semiconductor devices by providing Process Matching solutions that remove chamber micro-variations. Website http://www.pivotalsys.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,600,000 … Continue reading “Pivotal Systems Receives $4,600,000 New Round”
Nor1 Obtains $9,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b7c517a0-afd8-425d-9e22-28bd811a7f54&Preview=1 Date 12/18/2012 Company Name Nor1 Mailing Address 440 N. Wolfe Road Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Nor1, Inc. is headquartered in Silicon Valley with European offices in Amsterdam. It serves a variety of industries by assisting them with creating additional revenue and profit by utilizing Nor1’s patented concepts. Website http://www.nor1.com Transaction … Continue reading “Nor1 Obtains $9,000,000 Series B Funding”
Allakos Receives $32,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=28514a7b-3e38-484f-a66f-3863db024821&Preview=1 Date 12/18/2012 Company Name Allakos Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Allakos Inc. is a privately held, product-focused biotechnology company developing first-in-class antibody-based therapeutics to treat diseases in which dysregulation of the T-helper type 2 (Th2) immune response plays a key role in pathology, including allergic disease, inflammation … Continue reading “Allakos Receives $32,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
Ark Lands $5,036,029 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b04997f0-3007-4e70-b73f-6b76687ba9db&Preview=1 Date 12/18/2012 Company Name Ark Mailing Address 1235 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Ark.com is a search engine for people. With Ark, you can search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and even your friends. With over a billion social network profiles indexed, and using a … Continue reading “Ark Lands $5,036,029 New Financing Round”
Tylr Mobile Garners $500,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cdc55667-692c-4414-b634-a624fd6cb01a&Preview=1 Date 12/18/2012 Company Name Tylr Mobile Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Tylr builds role-specific mobile work apps that bring together all your critical business data, from different sources, and filters it with your personal context: who you are, where you are, and what’s important to you, to … Continue reading “Tylr Mobile Garners $500,000 Seed Round”
Exablox Obtains $22,000,000 Series C Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1c5d6c8b-af0c-4297-8332-ff3ddb17cca6&Preview=1 Date 12/18/2012 Company Name Exablox Mailing Address 365 N. San Antonio Rd. Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Exablox is a data storage company that is replacing the traditional storage stack with an integrated experience across local and web storage. Website http://www.oneblox.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $22,000,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Exablox Obtains $22,000,000 Series C Round”
Grockit Receives $20,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=44e1dee5-c649-4606-b872-19e3c21833f0&Preview=1 Date 12/18/2012 Company Name Grockit Mailing Address 500 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Grockit’s mission is to abolish Education and replace it with Learning. To this end, we aim to utilize the awesome power of the internet to help the world learn. Our first step is leveraging the … Continue reading “Grockit Receives $20,000,000 New Funding Round”
SuperInvestor U.S. 2013
Aimed at LPs and billed as “North America’s premier private equity, venture capital, and LP/GP relations conference,” SuperInvestor U.S. consists of three overlapping events: a Fundraising Summit on February 11, 2013, an Emerging Markets Summit also on February 11, and a Main Conference February 12-13, 2013. Information and registration here.
Guitar Hero Creator Wants to Put Mobile Games on the Big Screen
Next year, when you’re gathering your friends or family around the big-screen TV for some video game action, it may not be a PlayStation 4, an Xbox 720, or a Wii U powering the experience. It might the Android phone in your pocket. That’s the vision behind Green Throttle Games, the Santa Clara, CA-based startup … Continue reading “Guitar Hero Creator Wants to Put Mobile Games on the Big Screen”
Water Mission to Israel (Day 1): The Past and Present of the Israeli Water Story
I did say it was going to be a packed schedule, so here I am sitting down at 1am in Tel Aviv sharing the highlights of Day 1 of the Massachusetts-Israel Water Mission. The first 24 hours have been filled with a whirlwind of history, sights, and sounds, spending time with fellow delegates and lots … Continue reading “Water Mission to Israel (Day 1): The Past and Present of the Israeli Water Story”
The 5 Myths of Big Data Analytics
Everyone wants a glimpse into the future; the insights and information found there would be inherently lucrative for the individual (or business) that possessed them. And, while soothsayers haven’t yet proven themselves to be a reliable business asset, today’s predictive analytics software has. “Predictive analytics,” in whole, is data analysis that provides enterprises with predictions … Continue reading “The 5 Myths of Big Data Analytics”
2012: The Year When Genomic Medicine Started Paying Off
Remember a couple of years ago when people commemorated the 10-year anniversary of the first draft human genome sequencing? The storyline then, in 2010, was that we all went off to genome camp and only came home with a lousy T-shirt. Society, we were told, invested huge scientific resources in deciphering the code of life, … Continue reading “2012: The Year When Genomic Medicine Started Paying Off”
Duetto Research Secures $10,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=484076fe-5204-4a5e-a0d7-bc6013deb8e6&Preview=1 Date 12/17/2012 Company Name Duetto Research Mailing Address 649 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Duetto Research is a ‘big data’ company founded by Patrick Bosworth, Craig Weissman and Marco Benvenuti. Duetto aggregates demand data and produces SaaS applications to help travel companies optimize demand. Website http://www.duettoresearch.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Duetto Research Secures $10,000,000 New Financing Round”
Startup Exits: Deal-Making In The Cloud
Details from the registration page: Welcome to the sixth Startup Exits event on January 17. Our goal: deliver the best “exit hacks,” deal tips, and pitfall-avoidance techniques from the greatest minds in the business. Our recipe for fun: Recruit an all-star panel from the most active acquirers in Silicon Valley Get Keynote and VC speakers … Continue reading “Startup Exits: Deal-Making In The Cloud”
Water Mission to Israel: Heading Over
It always plays out this way—a kernel of an idea starts the ball rolling, followed by months of increasingly refined planning, a flurry of activity in the endgame, and then it’s GO time. I recall this operating rhythm well from my military days, and it’s been the same over the past dozen-plus years working with … Continue reading “Water Mission to Israel: Heading Over”
Panorama9 Secures $900,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1b14e88d-e1fd-4ce9-942a-46ab1402bc52&Preview=1 Date 12/15/2012 Company Name Panorama9 Mailing Address 795 Folsom Street 1st Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Panorama9 was founded in 2010 by the Danish software start-up team behind the anti-spam success, SoftScan. In less than six years, SoftScan realized 12,000-plus clients from 15 users at enterprises like IKEA and … Continue reading “Panorama9 Secures $900,000 Seed Funding”
Jibe Mobile Receives $8,300,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bf0a29c6-97b3-40c1-a523-7b0495676100&Preview=1 Date 12/15/2012 Company Name Jibe Mobile Mailing Address 990 N Rengstorff Ave Mountain View, CA 94043 Company Description The Jibe Mobile Platform is the first to bring the open, social, peer to peer nature of the web to mobile networks, empowering operators and third party developers to easily and quickly launch … Continue reading “Jibe Mobile Receives $8,300,000 New Financing Round”
Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum
In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA, Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. The class was designed to teach educators (and the entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. In addition the class offers … Continue reading “Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum”
Give Your Online Life a Lift with IFTTT
How many times have you come across a new technology or service and said to yourself, “That’s ridiculous, only a real geek would use that!”, only to find yourself happily benefiting from the same innovation a year or two later? Well, can you say “the Web” or “text messaging” or “Facebook photo albums” or “RSS … Continue reading “Give Your Online Life a Lift with IFTTT”
Build It In The Back Yard: Why We Need American Manufacturing
[Editor’s Note: This post was co-authored by Brian Patrick Quinn, Patrick Connelly, Patricia Hurter, John Condon, Peter Mueller & Joshua Boger of Vertex Pharmaceuticals.] American companies, in recent years, have developed a massive appetite for foreign labor. The shirt you’re wearing, the cell phone you’re using, and even the medicine you’re taking might have been … Continue reading “Build It In The Back Yard: Why We Need American Manufacturing”
HydroPoint Data Systems Garners $750,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c2580967-7fc2-4a8c-862f-0b60addb484f&Preview=1 Date 12/14/2012 Company Name HydroPoint Data Systems Mailing Address 1720 Corporate Circle Petaluma, CA 94954 Company Description HydroPoint provides WeatherTRAK smart irrigation solutions directly and through the Toro and Irritrol brands to more than 10,000 customers including the Fortune 1000, private individuals, municipalities and water districts. Twenty-two independent studies prove that … Continue reading “HydroPoint Data Systems Garners $750,000 New Round”
Canopy Labs Secures $1,500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9b6fd7db-c540-420f-873a-2021b0b0f01a&Preview=1 Date 12/14/2012 Company Name Canopy Labs Mailing Address One Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Canopy Labs, a Y-Combinator company which develops data analytics software for helping companies organize and prioritize their sales leads. Website http://www.canopylabs.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds … Continue reading “Canopy Labs Secures $1,500,000 New Financing Round”
Vdopia Obtains $3,391,862 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=41d0adb0-a41e-4b6e-823c-283b5862a0c8&Preview=1 Date 12/14/2012 Company Name Vdopia Mailing Address 42840 Christy Street Fremont, CA 94536 Company Description Vdopia is the largest Video Ad Network and Video Ad Platform that targets Indians across the world. It provides advertisers opportunity to advertise on the most premium online video content available on the internet. The company’s … Continue reading “Vdopia Obtains $3,391,862 Series B Funding Round”
EasilyDo Receives $4,300,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f9609f32-7a54-45c7-a509-29343e7b3f79&Preview=1 Date 12/14/2012 Company Name EasilyDo Mailing Address 480 San Antonio Road Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Easilydo is a beautiful and simple-to-use free app that gets things done. This powerful assistant gets the tasks and things you care about, and lets you take action on the spot with the tap … Continue reading “EasilyDo Receives $4,300,000 Series A Funding Round”
Stion Garners $24,999,994 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0d7da8f3-357e-45af-b7a7-538129caf49a&Preview=1 Date 12/14/2012 Company Name Stion Mailing Address 6321 San Ignacio Avenue San Jose, CA 95119 Company Description Stion Corporation (formerly NStructures) is a solar photovoltaics company developing high-efficiency thin-film modules. The Company is aiming to minimize the total installed system costs of solar electricity. Website http://www.stion.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Stion Garners $24,999,994 New Funding”
Transcriptic Obtains $1,200,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=efebcfbb-297c-435f-82fa-8cb7cac187c7&Preview=1 Date 12/14/2012 Company Name Transcriptic Mailing Address 3507 Edison Way Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Transcriptic is a new kind of scientific outsourcing provider. By expressing life science methods as data, infrastructure virtualization will become possible. “Science-as-a-Service” will power the next generation of discovery, driven by huge efficiencies of both … Continue reading “Transcriptic Obtains $1,200,000 Seed Funding Round”
Karmasphere Receives $3,499,999 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b41c948d-e49f-4521-be6c-e14a7e694d67&Preview=1 Date 12/14/2012 Company Name Karmasphere Mailing Address 19200 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 Company Description Karmasphere is a business analytics software company bringing Apache Hadoop power to the desktop. Karmasphere enables companies to unlock the competitive advantages within their large datasets by providing an easy-to-use class of client-side software. Karmasphere’s … Continue reading “Karmasphere Receives $3,499,999 New Financing Round”
Samsung Electronics Acquires NVELO for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=11972c74-48cd-484a-9223-4a0dbb555b7c&Preview=1 Date 12/14/2012 Company Name NVELO Mailing Address 5201 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description NVELO, Inc. is a pioneer in innovative storage software, bringing new intelligence into storage subsystems to break the I/O bottleneck in today’s computing systems. Formed as a spin-off company during the acquisition of Denali … Continue reading “Samsung Electronics Acquires NVELO for Undisclosed Sum”
Airbnb Acquires Localmind for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c7629646-22eb-497b-ad59-dcda07f9fc1e&Preview=1 Date 12/14/2012 Company Name Localmind Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94101 Company Description Localmind actually differs slightly from fellow Q&A apps like Opinionaided or Locql, because Localmind’s real-time, location-based platform sits on top of existing check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Localmind actually allows you to ask questions of users … Continue reading “Airbnb Acquires Localmind for Undisclosed Sum”
Initiative Opens Plug and Play Startup Camp, and $25K, to SD Startups
Silicon Valley’s Plug and Play Tech Center has opened its Startup Camp program to San Diego-based seed-stage companies under a new initiative organized by StartupCircle and Alex Roudi, a San Diego real estate investor. San Diego companies that qualify for the Startup Camp program also would be eligible for $25,000 in startup funding, according to … Continue reading “Initiative Opens Plug and Play Startup Camp, and $25K, to SD Startups”
Plug and Play Tech Center: Where Startups Come to Make Connections
If you’re looking for the place in Silicon Valley with the most startups per square foot, it’s probably the huge two-story office building at 440 N. Wolfe Road in Sunnyvale, headquarters of Plug and Play Tech Center. While Plug and Play runs smaller startup communities in Redwood City and Palo Alto, the bulk of its … Continue reading “Plug and Play Tech Center: Where Startups Come to Make Connections”
WSO2 Receives $9,999,999 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c8bc077a-f8ff-423a-b6d1-4b5740325b49&Preview=1 Date 12/13/2012 Company Name WSO2 Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94130 Company Description WSO2 was founded in August 2005 by leaders in Web services standards and Open Source software. We are an innovative Open Source technology company devoted to building Web services middleware, offering leading products, support and other services. … Continue reading “WSO2 Receives $9,999,999 New Round”
Koozoo Secures $2,500,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=859b6a70-d83b-4e12-a5f6-859b88c23430&Preview=1 Date 12/13/2012 Company Name Koozoo Mailing Address 880 Harrison Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Koozoo is a new online platform that allows people to see and share live views of places they care about. Koozoo’s goal is to make live views of the world’s public spaces easily accessible to … Continue reading “Koozoo Secures $2,500,000 Seed Funding Round”
Bread Labs Lands $4,321,307 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=451a772a-5ec3-4038-a6f6-87b25c221c13&Preview=1 Date 12/13/2012 Company Name Bread Labs Mailing Address 41 Grant Avenue San Francisco, CA 94108 Company Description Bread is the simplest monetization platform for social media, desktop and mobile publishers. Our proprietary technology serves premium, rich media ads on links shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other social media platforms. Bread … Continue reading “Bread Labs Lands $4,321,307 New Funding”
CloudVelocity Lands $5,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d6794a45-8706-4742-b861-9f7a30b85d43&Preview=1 Date 12/13/2012 Company Name CloudVelocity Mailing Address 4701 Patrick Henry Dr Bldg. 18 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description CloudVelocity automates the time-consuming and risk-laden critical processes required to deploy existing applications from traditional data centers into and between public clouds. Website http://www.cloudvelocity.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “CloudVelocity Lands $5,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
Stipple Secures $3,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=12ea54e5-c5a1-4ddd-9c96-bd69379f14a5&Preview=1 Date 12/13/2012 Company Name Stipple Mailing Address 360 Ritch St. San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description The company has created technology that lets people label, share and monetize pictures on the web. Website http://www.stipple.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. … Continue reading “Stipple Secures $3,000,000 New Financing”
The Medicines Company Acquires Incline Therapeutics for $185,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d2a83106-0505-4aab-9f2b-23b8685c5c31&Preview=1 Date 12/13/2012 Company Name Incline Therapeutics Mailing Address 900 Saginaw Dr. Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description Incline Therapeutics is a hospital-focused specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of IONSYS (fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system). Incline is financed by leading life science venture capital firms and led by a management team … Continue reading “The Medicines Company Acquires Incline Therapeutics for $185,000,000”
When VCs Run Out of Energy: The New Era of Cleantech Investing
The hasty promotion of cleantech to the high expectations of high-tech and biotech led to well-documented investment disasters. Capital intensity, time to exit—as we all know by now, energy simply isn’t IT (with all due respect to the plucky, if likely short-lived, promotion of “clean Web”). The apparent decline of the word cleantech may be … Continue reading “When VCs Run Out of Energy: The New Era of Cleantech Investing”
Google Gets A Second Brain, Changing Everything About Search
In the 1983 sci-fi/comedy flick The Man with Two Brains, Steve Martin played Michael Hfuhruhurr, a neurosurgeon who marries one of his patients but then falls in love with the disembodied brain of another woman, Anne. Michael and Anne share an entirely telepathic relationship, until Michael’s gold-digging wife is murdered, giving him the opportunity to … Continue reading “Google Gets A Second Brain, Changing Everything About Search”
Ensenda Secures $2,975,555 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4c925ed4-bff7-49ce-b73a-03f1aabfaa48&Preview=1 Date 12/12/2012 Company Name Ensenda Mailing Address 580 California Street 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Ensenda is dedicated to leading the industry in customer satisfaction for carrier management and last mile logistics. Ensenda manages a network of the top local delivery firms in North America, linked through our … Continue reading “Ensenda Secures $2,975,555 New Funding”
Judicata Secures $2,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c6a5b086-40a4-402b-a7c6-1690a3856f41&Preview=1 Date 12/12/2012 Company Name Judicata Mailing Address 330 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Judicata is mapping the legal genome—i.e. using highly specialized case law parsing and algorithmically assisted human review to turn unstructured court opinions into structured data. We can leverage that data to build legal research and … Continue reading “Judicata Secures $2,000,000 New Financing Round”
Watchup Obtains $500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=46f55e86-402c-4b20-9da2-1f8c508b1611&Preview=1 Date 12/12/2012 Company Name Watchup Mailing Address 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Watchup is the fastest way to watch the news that matters most. Pick videos from the best news channels to create your own video playlist. Grab your morning coffee, press play, and learn what’s … Continue reading “Watchup Obtains $500,000 New Financing Round”
ZenPayroll Lands $6,100,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c1fccf3b-3367-4d7f-ba66-838807570f3e&Preview=1 Date 12/12/2012 Company Name ZenPayroll Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description ZenPayroll is modern, delightful payroll. Our comprehensive payroll service enables businesses to get set up and run payroll in minutes, from any web enabled device. All government payroll taxes and reporting are taken care of automatically and … Continue reading “ZenPayroll Lands $6,100,000 Seed Financing”
Kabam Garners New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bfa61c51-0742-47e3-8da0-ab51a57164e5&Preview=1 Date 12/12/2012 Company Name Kabam Mailing Address 101 Redwood Shores Parkway Redwood City, CA 94065 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 Undisclosed … Continue reading “Kabam Garners New Funding Round”
NatureBox Receives $2,000,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1657f418-9930-4296-a12a-b707bd77f0b6&Preview=1 Date 12/12/2012 Company Name NatureBox Mailing Address 1056 Commercial St San Carlos, CA 94070 Company Description NatureBox helps you eat healthier without needing to change your eating habits. We focus on snacks because that’s the easiest habit to change. Do you know that the average American eats almost 25% of their … Continue reading “NatureBox Receives $2,000,000 Seed Funding”
Indiegogo Bucks Trend Toward Niche Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding, the social media phenomenon that has helped thousands of innovators raise money through many small contributions, is growing fast. And it’s splintering into hundreds of new platforms serving niche clients such as book authors, app developers, and green entrepreneurs. But crowdfunding pioneer Indiegogo of San Francisco says it’s sticking to its founders’ original 2008 … Continue reading “Indiegogo Bucks Trend Toward Niche Crowdfunding”
What’s Hot in Digital Health? The Venture Capital Perspective
The U.S. healthcare market is ripe for technical disruption. Costs are spiraling out of control while quality of service and customer satisfaction continue to go down. The system is opaque, complex and fragmented. Regulation is required but imposes heavy costs. As in other industries before it, the healthcare sector can benefit from technology-enabled efficiency gains … Continue reading “What’s Hot in Digital Health? The Venture Capital Perspective”
Propel Fuels Lands $11,000,000 Series D Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=17737eee-0ed3-47d9-bee6-70c6dc1a08a1&Preview=1 Date 12/11/2012 Company Name Propel Fuels Mailing Address 2317 Broadway Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description Fueling change means empowering drivers with a way to make clean, American-made fuel a part of our daily lives. The American consumer has waited too long for a better fueling option, one that positively affects … Continue reading “Propel Fuels Lands $11,000,000 Series D Round”