Sam Isaly, the founder and managing partner of OrbiMed Advisors in New York, will bring a breadth of investing experience and range of perspectives to Xconomy’s first New York event—Life Sciences 2031, a panel discussion on October 13. OrbiMed operates healthcare hedge funds, private equity funds, and mutual funds, including the Eaton Vance Worldwide Health … Continue reading “New York Life Sciences 2031: OrbiMed’s Sam Isaly on Genomics, Health Reform, and Biotech’s Future”
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Xconomist of the Week: Ben Elowitz Goes Deep with TV Gossip, Maps the Future of Media
What does “Jersey Shore” star Snooki have to do with the future of online media? Plenty, it turns out. That’s one of the surprising things I learned recently chatting with Ben Elowitz, the CEO of Seattle-based Wetpaint, a well-financed startup that’s about a year into its newest mission: Trying to reinvent how content is created … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: Ben Elowitz Goes Deep with TV Gossip, Maps the Future of Media”
Getting Ready for an IPO Window: Venture Capital in the Northeast
An overriding story of the past several years has undoubtedly been the global economic volatility. Conditions in the stock markets have been unpredictable and therefore many venture capital firms have felt the need to reserve more capital for existing investments, postpone new investments and, in some cases, postpone raising new funds. While a number of … Continue reading “Getting Ready for an IPO Window: Venture Capital in the Northeast”
ZocDoc Receives $25,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b68cd66e-0bac-4e56-93cf-87c0b5d7402d&Preview=1 Date 9/22/2011 Company Name ZocDoc Mailing Address 568 Broadway New York, NY 10012 Company Description At ZocDoc our mission is to make healthcare simple. We begin at the beginning: ZocDoc brings the speed and convenience of the web to finding and booking a doctor or dentist. Website http://www.zocdoc.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “ZocDoc Receives $25,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
Business Insider Receives $7,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9ce682ab-1aeb-4dab-b70a-97d0771d0b27&Preview=1 Date 9/22/2011 Company Name Business Insider Mailing Address 119 5th Ave. New York, NY 10003 Company Description Business Insider is a new business site with deep financial, entertainment, green tech and digital industry verticals. The flagship vertical, Silicon Alley Insider, launched on July 19, 2007, led by DoubleClick founders Dwight Merriman … Continue reading “Business Insider Receives $7,000,000 New Funding”
ContextWeb Acquires Datran Media for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d8d3398a-42c5-4a98-bd2d-ed82af30f8ef&Preview=1 Date 9/22/2011 Company Name Datran Media Mailing Address 345 Hudson Street 5th Floor New York, NY 10014 Company Description Datran Media is a leading digital marketing technology company that helps advertisers, agencies and publishers identify, engage and retain ideal audiences across all digital media channels, including social, mobile, the web and … Continue reading “ContextWeb Acquires Datran Media for Undisclosed Sum”
Piictu Obtains $750,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d3aeaac2-d552-45dc-b1a1-d1d0f3b006ef&Preview=1 Date 9/22/2011 Company Name Piictu Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10002 Company Description Piictu is a powerful, fun and simple way to talk and play with your friends from your mobile phone using pictures. You simply snap a piic, post it to Piictu and your social networks, and watch it … Continue reading “Piictu Obtains $750,000 Seed Financing Round”
Calorie Count, owned by The New York Times, Taps Technology from Startup iSpeech
When New York-based website Calorie Count wanted a way to set its app apart from the competition, co-founder and vice president Igor Lebovic literally talked up its latest feature. Calorie Count’s iPhone app uses speech-recognition technology supplied by iSpeech, a startup in Newark, NJ, to help dieters keep track of what they eat. While demonstrating … Continue reading “Calorie Count, owned by The New York Times, Taps Technology from Startup iSpeech”
TechStars Raises $24M More, Offers Each Startup $100K; Founder David Cohen Talks “Quality Over Quantity”
The early-stage tech accelerator business just got even more competitive. Boulder, CO-based TechStars, which runs seed-stage mentorship programs for startups in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, and New York, announced today it has raised a new $24 million fund from a long list of investors that includes Foundry Group, IA Ventures, Avalon Ventures, DFJ Mercury, SoftBank Capital, … Continue reading “TechStars Raises $24M More, Offers Each Startup $100K; Founder David Cohen Talks “Quality Over Quantity””
Investor Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown
Ultra Light Startups presents an evening of pitches and coaching for entrepreneurs. Panelists include John Ason of Kewpie Associates, Paul Sciabica and Brian Cohen from New York Angels, and Jonathan Stillman, founder & president of Half Moon Ventures and managing director at Assembla. Register here.
San Diego’s Independa Raises $1.6M for Technology to Help Elderly Stay Independent
[Corrected 9/21/11, 1:05 pm. See below.] Independa, the San Diego startup developing Web-based services for the elderly, says it has closed on $1.6 million in early stage financing, and investor interest has been strong enough to extend the round to $2.2 million. [Corrected to show $200,000 loan is in addition to $1.6M investment] Independa CEO … Continue reading “San Diego’s Independa Raises $1.6M for Technology to Help Elderly Stay Independent”
YoYo.com, Brainchild of Amazon-Owned Quidsi, Debuts Its Version of Toyland
A new online retailer of toys, YoYo.com, goes live today, out to grab its share of the coming holiday gift buying season. YoYo is the latest addition to Jersey City-based Quidsi’s gallery of online specialty shops, which also includes Wag.com, Diapers.com, Soap.com, and BeautyBar.com. Quidsi is part of the Seattle giant Amazon.com. “There was a huge opportunity … Continue reading “YoYo.com, Brainchild of Amazon-Owned Quidsi, Debuts Its Version of Toyland”
Plunging Valuations and Surplus of Groupon Clones Sets Off Frenzy of M&A Activity
Buyouts and mergers of Web companies that offer online “daily deals” have accelerated sharply over the past five months, driven by a rapid decline in valuations and a surplus of Groupon clones, according to a report issued today by CB Insights, a New York data services firm. CB Insights counted 22 global mergers and acquisitions … Continue reading “Plunging Valuations and Surplus of Groupon Clones Sets Off Frenzy of M&A Activity”
ActivePath Garners $10,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=479d90f9-03a2-466a-9159-97c3b67b3295&Preview=1 Date 9/20/2011 Company Name ActivePath Mailing Address 11 Penn Plaza 5th Floor New York, NY 10001 Company Description ActivePath’s breakthrough email banking technology redefines the way financial institutions communicate with their customers. ActivePath allows banks and card services companies to overcome the limitations of today’s email systems, allowing them to capitalize … Continue reading “ActivePath Garners $10,000,000 New Funding”
Sailthru Obtains $8,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ea7af416-71a1-4a75-a637-97e611267a7c&Preview=1 Date 9/20/2011 Company Name Sailthru Mailing Address 670 Broadway New York, NY 10012 Company Description Triggermail Our flagship service monitors delivery of transactional email into the user Inbox. If it gets sent we’ll tell you when it was delivered and what happened when it was opened. Website http://www.sailthru.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Sailthru Obtains $8,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
Honestly Now Lands Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c65dd776-3f83-4b32-a732-740de26137d3&Preview=1 Date 9/20/2011 Company Name Honestly Now Mailing Address PO Box 94 Pound Ridge, NY 10576 Company Description Honestly Now helps you make great decisions, by safely asking your trusted friends for honest feedback. Website http://www.honestlynow.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Honestly Now Lands Seed Funding Round”
Wizard World Jumps Off Printed Page and Into Digital Age
There has never been a better time to be a self-professed geek. Gareb Shamus, CEO and founder of New York’s Wizard World, is out to feed fans of comic books and superhero movies more of the news and content they crave. What began some 20 years ago with Wizard magazine, a publication devoted to the … Continue reading “Wizard World Jumps Off Printed Page and Into Digital Age”
Stirring the Pot Once in a While Doesn’t Hurt, and It Could Help Biotech Break its Malaise
Listen to enough biotech industry leaders talk in public, and you’ll hear a lot of carefully scripted comments. Everyone can list off their corporate milestones on a PowerPoint slide, and utter some politically correct platitudes about novel technology, helping patients, having a “good working relationship” with the FDA, constructive partnership talks. Blah, blah, blah. Rarely … Continue reading “Stirring the Pot Once in a While Doesn’t Hurt, and It Could Help Biotech Break its Malaise”
CrowdTwist Secures $6,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8bb4c1db-73ce-4e58-b23f-25bf0bf37b84&Preview=1 Date 9/19/2011 Company Name CrowdTwist Mailing Address 1178 Broadway Fourth Floor New York, NY 10001 Company Description We provide a new Fan Club model, allowing fans to earn points for the stuff they do online anyway, on your site and others. Then they can redeem those points for exclusive VIP experiences, … Continue reading “CrowdTwist Secures $6,000,000 Series A Financing”
Immersive Labs Obtains $810,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4f636570-5e9c-4894-b8e2-87642dfe40ee&Preview=1 Date 9/19/2011 Company Name Immersive Labs Mailing Address 841 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10003 Company Description Immersive Labs provides adaptive advertising technology designed to optimize content based on actual viewership on digital signs for retailers and out-of-home advertisers. The technology is a combination of anonymous facial detection, sophisticated machine … Continue reading “Immersive Labs Obtains $810,000 Seed Financing Round”
A Day in the Life of the San Francisco Tech Community
My job is pretty cool. I get to spend time picking the brains of some of the planet’s smartest and most successful entrepreneurs—and invariably, I’m asking them to talk about the one thing they care about most passionately, their startup and/or its technology. Even if I weren’t doing something I care about passionately myself—helping to … Continue reading “A Day in the Life of the San Francisco Tech Community”
From Children’s Clothing to Live Events: NYC SeedStart Demo Day 2011
Today the newest class of graduates of NYC SeedStart participated in a demo day at the Time Warner Conference Center in New York. SeedStart—a summer incubator sponsored by New York University and a number of supporters, including AOL, News Corp., and Polaris Venture Partners—is in its second year. The seven companies that completed this year’s … Continue reading “From Children’s Clothing to Live Events: NYC SeedStart Demo Day 2011”
Entrepreneur Walk of Fame Opens in Kendall Square: Gates, Jobs, Kapor, Hewlett, Packard, Swanson, and Edison are Inaugural Inductees
It was a little over a year ago that Xconomy broke the news that a movement was underway to bring an Entrepreneur Walk of Fame to Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA, modeled after its Hollywood namesake. The idea makes a lot of sense: If we celebrate movie stars and athletes, why not the top innovators … Continue reading “Entrepreneur Walk of Fame Opens in Kendall Square: Gates, Jobs, Kapor, Hewlett, Packard, Swanson, and Edison are Inaugural Inductees”
Unigo.com Receives $1,600,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b42aec15-2180-42ee-ad86-5cc737161448&Preview=1 Date 9/16/2011 Company Name Unigo.com Mailing Address 386 Park Ave. S 15th Floor New York, NY 10016 Company Description Powered by a network of the nation’s top college counselors and a vibrant community of enrolled college students, Unigo is the Web’s largest resource of information to find, get in and pay … Continue reading “Unigo.com Receives $1,600,000 Series A Financing Round”
Merck Joins the Big Pharma VC Party, Setting Up $250M Biotech Investment Fund
[Updated with Merck comment 1:25 pm ET, 9/16] Just about all the major pharmaceutical companies have their own venture capital funds to invest in biotech startups, and now one of the real biggies, Whitehouse Station, NJ-based Merck, has joined the club. Merck (NYSE: [[ticker:MRK]]) has established the new Merck Research Venture Fund (MRVF) with $250 … Continue reading “Merck Joins the Big Pharma VC Party, Setting Up $250M Biotech Investment Fund”
Silicon Valley’s Pay-It-Forward Culture
Foreign visitors to Silicon Valley continually mention how willing we are to help, network and connect strangers. We take it so for granted we never even to bother to talk about it. It’s the “Pay-It-Forward” culture. The Chips are Down in 1962 Walker’s Wagon Wheel Bar/Restaurant in Mountain View became the lunch hangout for employees … Continue reading “Silicon Valley’s Pay-It-Forward Culture”
J&J Honors Genentech Scientist, Holds Meeting on Future of Anti-Angiogenesis Drugs
It’s not every day that you see one Big Pharma company handing an award to another, but that’s just what happened yesterday at the New York Academy of Sciences. New Brunswick, NJ-based Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: [[ticker:JNJ]]) gave its Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research to Napoleone Ferrara, the Genentech scientist whose discoveries contributed to … Continue reading “J&J Honors Genentech Scientist, Holds Meeting on Future of Anti-Angiogenesis Drugs”
Gojee Gets $1.2M in Seed Round, Adds Ustream’s Brad Hunstable as Advisor
New York startup Gojee says it raised $1.2 million in a seed round led by Kapor Capital. Gojee CEO Michael LaValle said via e-mail that Brad Hunstable, co-founder and president of Ustream, will serve as an advisor. Gojee curates recipes for its members based on ingredients ostensibly from their own kitchens. The recipes come from food … Continue reading “Gojee Gets $1.2M in Seed Round, Adds Ustream’s Brad Hunstable as Advisor”
Xconomist of the Week: Reed Sturtevant of Lotus, Idealab, and Microsoft Fame Talks Tech Trends to Watch
You know the type. He’s at every tech startup event, every investor event, and every incubator and early-stage mentorship session (at least every good one). He’s talked to every entrepreneur in the area and has had a hand in the development of many of their companies. He has been a fixture of the local software … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: Reed Sturtevant of Lotus, Idealab, and Microsoft Fame Talks Tech Trends to Watch”
Ion Torrent’s Fast and Cheap DNA Sequencer Catches On, Even as Biologists Tighten Belts
Ask Jonathan Rothberg a few questions about his new venture in DNA sequencing, and, ever the showman, he find references to a pivotal event in world history while delivering what amounts to a “no comment.” The questions were basic enough: How many employees do you have in San Francisco and Guilford, CT? How much has … Continue reading “Ion Torrent’s Fast and Cheap DNA Sequencer Catches On, Even as Biologists Tighten Belts”
IPOs Look Dicey, But Private Equity May Pick Up Some Of The Slack
For a while, I was optimistic that 2011 would be a good year for venture capital-backed IPOs, and it wasn’t just wishful thinking. There were 72 VC-backed IPOs last year—six times as many as in 2009. The year ended with a bang and 2011 got off to a good start. In the first half of … Continue reading “IPOs Look Dicey, But Private Equity May Pick Up Some Of The Slack”
LiveIntent Obtains $8,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0bf9f3a1-33c9-4f6b-a892-3d6339efbff0&Preview=1 Date 9/15/2011 Company Name LiveIntent Mailing Address 291 Broadway Ninth Floor New York, NY 10007 Company Description LiveIntent is an Email Advertising and Trading Desk company with the first technology for email and display designed to support brand and direct response advertisers and agencies. Website http://www.liveintent.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “LiveIntent Obtains $8,000,000 Series B Funding”
New Angel Alliance Aims to Keep Startups Out of Venture Capital’s Clutches Longer
[Updated 5:15 pm PT with fresh quotes from Richard Sudek, see below] Regional angel investing groups in Southern California, Northern California, and New York say they’re banding together in an effort to lengthen the financial runway for early-stage startups before their founders are forced to turn to venture capital firms. Tech Coast Angels, based in … Continue reading “New Angel Alliance Aims to Keep Startups Out of Venture Capital’s Clutches Longer”
Fab.com’s Daily Deals Brings Designer Wares Picked by Fast Company to the Masses
When Fast Company sought a way to showcase 76 products made in the United States, the magazine turned to New York’s Fab.com, a flash sales site for design. Fab created online pop-up shops unveiled today on its existing website to sell items featured in Fast Company‘s U.S. Design app, also debuting today, for the iPad. … Continue reading “Fab.com’s Daily Deals Brings Designer Wares Picked by Fast Company to the Masses”
Ford, Bug Labs Team Up To Develop Open-Source Car Connectivity Tools
Cars have come a long way since the Model T. Technology now allows your car to play music off your iPhone, to tell you how to parallel park, and to alert you when you’re about to bump into a shopping cart as you’re backing out. If Ford and New York City-based Bug Labs have anything … Continue reading “Ford, Bug Labs Team Up To Develop Open-Source Car Connectivity Tools”
10 Surprises of a First-Time Entrepreneur
As a young entrepreneur, I cannot overstate the importance of serendipity. I don’t know whether I’ll ultimately be successful or not, but the success I’ve had so far has been 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration, and 50 percent surprises. And if you’re saying that this adds up to 150 percent—you’re catching on to my … Continue reading “10 Surprises of a First-Time Entrepreneur”
Opera Solutions Obtains $84,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f6e79a5d-3fdc-4d76-8bac-2081345b7b13&Preview=1 Date 9/14/2011 Company Name Opera Solutions Mailing Address 180 Maiden Lane 17th Floor New York, NY 10038 Company Description Opera Solutions was founded in 2004 with 10 people and a notion that the world’s flow of information — just then starting to intensify — was going to be the oil of … Continue reading “Opera Solutions Obtains $84,000,000 New Financing Round”
Gojee Obtains $1,200,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3e877fa9-9f21-4391-8530-ac5ead1f783a&Preview=1 Date 9/14/2011 Company Name Gojee Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10001 Company Description What makes Gojee unique is the visually stunning photography that accompanies each recipe. You actually want to eat the food that you could make via the recipe. Currently the site has under 50,000 recipes, but is focused … Continue reading “Gojee Obtains $1,200,000 Seed Financing”
Omni-ID Secures $8,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3ed72e52-6193-47f8-86fa-fdb9e94b10fd&Preview=1 Date 9/14/2011 Company Name Omni-ID Mailing Address 1200 Ridgeway Avenue Rochester, NY 14615 Company Description At Omni-ID, innovation is everything. It’s what separates us from the world of conventional RFID thinking. It’s what enables our products to meet the real-world challenges of asset tracking, supply chain management, and other important applications … Continue reading “Omni-ID Secures $8,000,000 New Financing Round”
Angelsoft to Become Gust, Rebrands Platform for Finding Financing
New York-based Angelsoft—a platform for entrepreneurs to connect with 600 angel investor groups around the world—is revamping at midnight tonight with the new name Gust, according to its CEO David Rose. And one new customer with ambitious goals will tap its services. According to Rose, Startup America Partnership—an organization launched in January and chaired by … Continue reading “Angelsoft to Become Gust, Rebrands Platform for Finding Financing”
Valeritas Raises $150M for Insulin Device
[Updated 9/13/11 2:30 p.m. See below.] Valeritas, a Bridgewater, NJ-based medical device company, announced yesterday that it has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round. The money will support the company’s lead product, a disposable device designed for patients with Type 2 diabetes who require insulin. The product, called V-Go Disposable Insulin Delivery Device … Continue reading “Valeritas Raises $150M for Insulin Device”
SMASH Summit NYC
This one-day conference, produced by 500 Startups, will explore strategies, tactics, and tools to for acquiring customers customers on platforms such as search, social, rich media, video, mobile, and e-mail. Speakers include Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Steve Cheney of GroupMe, and Chris Maliwat of Gilt Groupe. Register here.
Odyl Launches Facebook Platform for Authors and Publishers
Just one month after New York-based Buddy Media raised a remarkable $54 million to support its Facebook-management platform for consumer brands, another Big Apple company has started up with a Facebook marketing solution—this one for the book industry. Odyl, founded by veterans of HotJobs, rolled out a software platform today that’s designed to help publishers … Continue reading “Odyl Launches Facebook Platform for Authors and Publishers”
Mobile Platform Wars: What’s Next?
This has been the month of the handset. First, Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility, then HP’s effective exit from the handset business, and finally the sad news about Steve Jobs. These recent events kick off what I believe will be an accelerated pace of developments and re-shaping of the mobile device/platform ecosystem. Within the next … Continue reading “Mobile Platform Wars: What’s Next?”
Tremor Video Lands $37,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ba52cf7f-41d2-4c56-9824-96d633f0045d&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2011 Company Name Tremor Video Mailing Address 122 West 26th Street 8th Floor New York, NY 10001 Company Description Tremor Network provides advertisers with in-banner and in-stream video advertising opportunities on hundreds of top-tier publisher sites with millions of unique visitors per month. Website http://www.tremorvideo.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Tremor Video Lands $37,000,000 New Funding”
WorldOne Research Garners $25,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=87dd78de-783a-4f0e-ac02-f81a2d6ea896&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2011 Company Name WorldOne Research Mailing Address 200 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10003 Company Description WorldOne’s reputation as an industry specialist in healthcare research is evident through our long and distinguished list of clients, which include many of the world’s leading healthcare agencies and brands. We understand that … Continue reading “WorldOne Research Garners $25,000,000 New Funding”
Turntable.fm Lands $7,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=197efa21-39ce-4975-9008-cac00db91c60&Preview=1 Date 9/13/2011 Company Name Turntable.fm Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10463 Company Description The new iPhone app should maintain Turntable’s momentum. The app brings over all the features and limitations of the online service and makes it available on an iPhone. Website http://www.turntable.fm Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $7,000,000 … Continue reading “Turntable.fm Lands $7,000,000 Series A Financing”
Don’t Ask for Introductions to Investors
Raising money is hard, and there’s no way to screw it up faster than going around asking, “Hey, could you introduce me to some investors?” It’s sort of like when, on the second day of school, a goofy freshman asked me if I could introduce him to any girls. Reason 1: Not every investor is … Continue reading “Don’t Ask for Introductions to Investors”
10gen Raises $20M, Plans New Overseas Offices
New York’s 10gen said in a press release Monday it raised $20 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Prior investors participating in the round include Union Square Ventures and Flybridge Capital. 10gen developed and maintains MongoDB, an open source database used by such companies as Viacom, Foursquare, and Disney. So far 10gen … Continue reading “10gen Raises $20M, Plans New Overseas Offices”
Jeffrey Carr of NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship Talks About Need for Mentors in NY Startup Scene
Let’s be honest; the rush to grab funding in the New York startup community has brought out committed entrepreneurs as well as the ne’er-do-wells looking to make a quick buck. Not everyone is born with the savvy to create a killer idea, but Jeffrey Carr works to help those who—with the right mentors—can produce solid … Continue reading “Jeffrey Carr of NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship Talks About Need for Mentors in NY Startup Scene”