Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f7d94bb3-3feb-4286-9fba-9c0f6ef5aaac Date 9/30/2014 Company Name Parcel Mailing Address 48 Grattan St. Brooklyn, NY 11237 USA Company Description We’ve done it all. We’ve balked at missed delivery slips, wasted hours of a perfectly good Saturday on line at the post office, and bruised our arms hauling heavy boxes across Manhattan. We’ve pled with … Continue reading “Parcel Secures $1,000,000 Seed Round”
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Qubit Receives $26,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=127e491b-abfd-4f19-937e-b9a89aea57b6 Date 9/30/2014 Company Name Qubit Mailing Address 12 W 21st Street New York, NY 10010 USA Company Description Qubit provides a product suite that both collects and processes large data sets to identify and execute the biggest levers for improving online profitability through machine learning, statistical analysis and high performance computing. … Continue reading “Qubit Receives $26,000,000 Series B Financing”
MoviePass Lands $2,200,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6fb1d85f-f4bb-41c2-817d-dccb45fca9c9 Date 9/30/2014 Company Name MoviePass Mailing Address 175 Varick Street New York, NY 10012 USA Company Description MoviePass is a subscription service that allows customers the freedom to see movies in theaters at a fixed monthly price. Website http://www.moviepass.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,200,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “MoviePass Lands $2,200,000 New Funding Round”
Food52 Secures $6,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c9e05bac-5008-45f2-a016-f483b02f7140 Date 9/30/2014 Company Name Food52 Mailing Address 116 Willow Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA Company Description We love spending time in the kitchen, and we believe that memorable cooking doesn’t have to be complicated or precious. Website http://www.food52.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $6,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “Food52 Secures $6,000,000 New Financing”
Ex-Elan Trio Grabs Their Former Employer’s Kinase Inhibitor Program
Elan lives on. No, former CEO Kelly Martin isn’t swooping back in his infamous corporate jet. Elan was a high-profile Irish-American biotech that created the multiple sclerosis treatment natalizumab (Tysabri), developed the promising but unsuccessful Alzheimer’s treatment bapineuzumab, and built a billion-dollar drug-delivery business. But a long boil of shareholder discontent over management practices (the … Continue reading “Ex-Elan Trio Grabs Their Former Employer’s Kinase Inhibitor Program”
East Coast Biotech Roundup: GliaCure, Civitas, T2, & More
Biotechs have been parading into the public markets at a record-setting pace over the past few years, particularly in Boston. But one local startup decided against independence at the last minute this week, choosing M&A, and a definitive payout for its shareholders, instead. We’ve got that story and plenty more in a packed week on … Continue reading “East Coast Biotech Roundup: GliaCure, Civitas, T2, & More”
StackAdapt Secures $900,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b0cd3c54-43b7-4697-bda3-263f55a8638b Date 9/29/2014 Company Name StackAdapt Mailing Address 379 West Broadway 2nd Floor New York, NY 10012 USA Company Description Our vision is to ameliorate online advertising. We build the most innovative technologies that power the web with scalable native advertising. With access to thousands of publishers and over a billion monthly … Continue reading “StackAdapt Secures $900,000 Seed Round”
The Credit Junction Receives $2,000,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b1e48917-c2eb-4ebe-92d1-273ec8938223 Date 9/29/2014 Company Name The Credit Junction Mailing Address 82 Nassau Street New York, NY 10038 USA Company Description Marketplace Lending allows a direct connection between potential borrower and private capital sources, facilitating the flow of credit to consumers and small businesses. By using technology, The Credit Junction can streamline the … Continue reading “The Credit Junction Receives $2,000,000 Seed Financing”
Privcap Obtains $1,300,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=352716f9-5e09-4e3d-894e-dd3b31ada15f Date 9/29/2014 Company Name Privcap Mailing Address 86 Chambers St. 7th Floor New York, NY 10007 USA Company Description Privcap is a producer of, and destination for, high-quality content for participants in the global private capital markets. Through videos, podcasts, articles and supporting content, Privcap delivers valuable context for private capital … Continue reading “Privcap Obtains $1,300,000 New Funding Round”
Datorama Receives $15,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e6fdd3ea-8d61-4dae-af04-8e48607ec0c4 Date 9/29/2014 Company Name Datorama Mailing Address 30 Irving Place 11th Floor New York, NY 10003 USA Company Description Datorama’s cross-channel marketing analytics platform enables marketers and agencies to finally understand which marketing efforts are working and which aren’t. Website http://www.datorama.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $15,000,000 Transaction Round Series … Continue reading “Datorama Receives $15,000,000 Series B Funding”
TriggerMail Receives $6,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ec2cbf5a-fed7-4337-92e0-d2918e30d113 Date 9/29/2014 Company Name TriggerMail Mailing Address 110 William Street New York, NY 10038 USA Company Description TriggerMail integrates with one line of Javascript on your site. We detect most Ecommerce user behavior out of the box without any custom code. We provide email recipes like Cart Abandonment and Winback right … Continue reading “TriggerMail Receives $6,000,000 New Funding”
Innovation Hub: Techies Fix Government
No one had heard of Mike Krieger when he responded to a call to organize San Francisco’s crime data. He was in his early 20s, working on his coding, and he created an app to help visitors and city-dwellers alike know when they had entered a high-crime area. A few years later, Krieger and a … Continue reading “Innovation Hub: Techies Fix Government”
A Quick Stroll Through the Microsoft Technology Center at Times Square
Eager for the world to see its digs in Times Square, Microsoft recently invited me over for a visit to its New York technology center. Equal parts showroom, demo ground, and cloud services hub, this is one of several locations the company maintains around the world to let enterprise clientele check out its technology. Keith … Continue reading “A Quick Stroll Through the Microsoft Technology Center at Times Square”
Architizer Secures $1,508,711 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d017d868-d2a2-4a7b-b7ba-a5517c5a171f Date 9/26/2014 Company Name Architizer Mailing Address 281 Fifth Avenue 3rd Floor New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description We launched Architizer in 2009 to make architecture and interiors accessible to everyone. Now it is the largest platform for architecture and design online hosting projects uploaded by the designers themselves. Website … Continue reading “Architizer Secures $1,508,711 New Funding Round”
Goldman Sachs, BofA Back Context Relevant, Use Its Analytics Tools
Context Relevant CEO Stephen Purpura is spending so much time with financial services customers in New York City that he got a condo there. The attention is paying off: Purpura’s Seattle-based company is raising $13.5 million from some of the biggest names on Wall Street—Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, New York Life, Bloomberg … Continue reading “Goldman Sachs, BofA Back Context Relevant, Use Its Analytics Tools”
The Risks and Opportunities in a Startup: Age 0-2 Years
It’s a great time to start a tech company. The economy is recovering. The business opportunities are immense. And thanks to the boom in seed investments and crowd-funding it’s easier than ever to raise money for the business. Meanwhile, cloud computing has leveled the playing field by minimizing upfront costs, while social media has made … Continue reading “The Risks and Opportunities in a Startup: Age 0-2 Years”
CardFlight Secures $750,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b477adc0-5ea0-4da0-9ca6-a7c6b280f938 Date 9/25/2014 Company Name CardFlight Mailing Address 142 E 71St St. New York, NY 10021 USA Company Description CardFlight started when we were trying to build a mobile app that would use a magnetic stripe reader to read credit card data, and we quickly realized the existing options stank. Website http://www.getcardflight.com … Continue reading “CardFlight Secures $750,000 New Financing Round”
Dmitry Grishin Talks Ugly Robots and Mistakes Hardware Startups Make
Robots may be tiptoeing closer to the mainstream, but they have some ways to go before they are in every household. Dmitry Grishin, a prominent tech investor, sees big potential in startups building robots for the consumer market—if they come up with appealing designs and clear other hurdles. “Nobody will buy ugly robots,” he says. … Continue reading “Dmitry Grishin Talks Ugly Robots and Mistakes Hardware Startups Make”
Alkermes Spinoff Civitas, Poised for IPO, Sells to Acorda for $525M
Civitas Therapeutics was all set to become the latest in the long line of biotechs in 2014 to go public. Then, apparently, it got an offer from Ardsley, NY-based Acorda Therapeutics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ACOR]]) that it couldn’t refuse. Acorda today agreed to pay $525 million in cash to acquire Civitas, the Chelsea, MA-based company developing an … Continue reading “Alkermes Spinoff Civitas, Poised for IPO, Sells to Acorda for $525M”
The Story Behind GrabCAD’s Acquisition: MakerBot, Motives, & More
The price was reportedly $100 million in cash, but the reasons are always personal. I’m talking about startup acquisitions—in this case, 3D printing giant Stratasys swooping in and buying Cambridge, MA-based GrabCAD, a maker of design software and convener of mechanical engineers. The deal closed Tuesday. Back in January, I put GrabCAD on my short … Continue reading “The Story Behind GrabCAD’s Acquisition: MakerBot, Motives, & More”
Adobe Buys Aviary To Speed Push Into Mobile
Adobe, maker of the widely used Photoshop digital photo-editing software, has acquired New York-based Aviary, a private company that offers its own photo editing apps for mobile devices. The new unit will advance Adobe’s moves toward the use of mobile devices as creative workstations, on par with the desktop computers now used by most design … Continue reading “Adobe Buys Aviary To Speed Push Into Mobile”
Performance Horizon Group Receives $10,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b4235844-7047-42f0-b09d-439f870111c2 Date 9/24/2014 Company Name Performance Horizon Group Mailing Address 261 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description Providing powerful insight into online performance marketing is at the heart of Performance Horizon Group (PHG). The founding team at PHG have over 50 years’ experience within the online performance marketing space, … Continue reading “Performance Horizon Group Receives $10,000,000 Series B Round”
Andela Lands Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d38a6678-86e9-40ee-b02c-6599224ab554 Date 9/24/2014 Company Name Andela Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10017 USA Company Description Andela is a global talent accelerator that produces world-class developers and connects them with top employers. Andela finds the brightest young people in Africa and gives them the training and mentorship needed to thrive as full-time, … Continue reading “Andela Lands Seed Round”
Aimee Mullins, L’Oréal Talk Progress for Women in Innovation
If you ask Aimee Mullins how to drive innovation, she responds with an athlete’s point of view. Exploring new ideas should be part of a routine, like training for a sport, not just done in a crisis, the athlete and model told me in an interview at L’Oréal USA’s NEXT Generation Awards in New York. … Continue reading “Aimee Mullins, L’Oréal Talk Progress for Women in Innovation”
“100K” Marathon: A Decades-Long Health Study Makes Its Business Case
For the past several months, 108 people, most of them in the Seattle area, have been under constant biomedical surveillance. And they like it. They’ve agreed to submit to a battery of medical tests that began this year but could stretch for 25 years or more in a landmark study organized by Seattle’s Institute for … Continue reading ““100K” Marathon: A Decades-Long Health Study Makes Its Business Case”
Authorea Lands $610,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=65ff2bb0-adb0-45c6-bb0a-6ce0798f6274 Date 9/23/2014 Company Name Authorea Mailing Address 154 Grand St. New York, NY 10013 USA Company Description Authorea is a tool for writing and managing scholarly documents. It has been referred to as a hybrid between Google Docs and Github, for research. Authorea makes it easy to write technical documents in … Continue reading “Authorea Lands $610,000 Seed Financing”
BillGuard Receives $1,065,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=99f4cb3a-1731-4b77-b94c-b986d1a1656d Date 9/23/2014 Company Name BillGuard Mailing Address 54 W 40th Street 8th Floor New York, NY 10018 USA Company Description BillGuard is a free service powered by the collective knowledge of its users and millions of people posting billing complaints online. The family of data scientists, mathematicians, security experts and industry … Continue reading “BillGuard Receives $1,065,000 New Financing”
BillGuard Lands $1,701,250 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=39b1eeb5-d8b8-4a90-8cc6-d8ad85fea647 Date 9/23/2014 Company Name BillGuard Mailing Address 54 W 40th Street 8th Floor New York, NY 10018 USA Company Description BillGuard is a free service powered by the collective knowledge of its users and millions of people posting billing complaints online. The family of data scientists, mathematicians, security experts and industry … Continue reading “BillGuard Lands $1,701,250 New Funding”
AppNexus Receives $25,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8c4e5c79-1fda-4697-b3b4-08f6261ed330 Date 9/22/2014 Company Name AppNexus Mailing Address 28 West 23rd Street 4th Floor New York, NY 10010 USA Company Description The AppNexus cloud was engineered to provide all the building blocks of a robust, cost-efficient, and instantly scalable enterprise infrastructure. Innovative yet dependable, the AppNexus infrastructure brings you cloud computing without … Continue reading “AppNexus Receives $25,000,000 New Funding”
Campus Job Garners $965,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bb4d0c12-51d8-42d9-ba6f-482ecf50193b Date 9/20/2014 Company Name Campus Job Mailing Address 41 Union Square West New York, NY 30144 USA Company Description Campus Job connects students with part-time jobs during school — from Campus Rep roles to bartending gigs to freelancing opportunities. Businesses can post a job for free, and students can browse through … Continue reading “Campus Job Garners $965,000 Seed Funding Round”
wot.io Secures New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=afb30460-b554-4cf5-b724-051ce9555327 Date 9/19/2014 Company Name wot.io Mailing Address 30 W 24th Street 6th Floor New York, NY 10010 USA Company Description wot.io is a data service exchange for connected device platforms. The company solves the data integration challenge for organizations operating in the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine industry by … Continue reading “wot.io Secures New Financing Round”
Zipari Receives New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9d89d6bc-87c9-46bb-91b9-2462929d413d Date 9/19/2014 Company Name Zipari Mailing Address Undisclosed Brooklyn, NY 11203 USA Company Description Zipari is committed to making it easy to understand, buy and use health insurance. Our health insurance platform is 100% cloud-based and HIPAA compliant, making it not only cost effective and agile, but also very secure. Zipari’s … Continue reading “Zipari Receives New Funding Round”
Jack Erwin Lands $9,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=83409e55-0abc-4fb3-8a6d-77829d7bdc88 Date 9/19/2014 Company Name Jack Erwin Mailing Address 226 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10012 USA Company Description Well Crafted, Honestly Priced Men’s Dress Shoes. While driven to keep our retail pricing down, we are unwaveringly committed to quality materials and to the labor intensive, age-old craft of fine shoemaking. Website … Continue reading “Jack Erwin Lands $9,000,000 New Round”
ExecOnline Receives $4,949,996 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=03287b23-2f9d-429e-884a-7ef4e644073e Date 9/19/2014 Company Name ExecOnline Mailing Address 261 Madison Avenue 9th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description ExecOnline partners with elite business schools to enable executives at the world’s largest companies to master and apply critical insights and practical solutions. Website http://www.execonline.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,949,996 … Continue reading “ExecOnline Receives $4,949,996 New Round”
Code Climate Garners $2,000,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=43fed49c-538b-4da7-8766-b8c7c62eca13 Date 9/19/2014 Company Name Code Climate Mailing Address 77 Second Ave. New York, NY 10003 USA Company Description Code Climate consolidates the results from a suite of static analysis tools into a single, real-time report, giving your team the information it needs to identify hotspots, evaluate new approaches, and improve code … Continue reading “Code Climate Garners $2,000,000 Seed Funding”
1000Museums Receives $500,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c6647168-6ea8-44b3-977a-ce62e64a898a Date 9/19/2014 Company Name 1000Museums Mailing Address 2085 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10035 USA Company Description 1KM is the destination to discover museums, exhibitions and artists. At our core we share the mission of cultural heritage institutions around the globe – to make art and culture accessible to the public. … Continue reading “1000Museums Receives $500,000 New Round”
How To Respond When the Media Calls
Startups and emerging companies raising money almost always have to confront this question: How to respond when the media calls? Media coverage can be great for a startup—especially one that is trying to get traction on the use of its product. However, when companies are raising money, they have to understand the “rules of the … Continue reading “How To Respond When the Media Calls”
Sold For Parts, Accelerator Grad Allozyne Reaches End of the Line
With barely a whisper, Seattle biotech Allozyne has been broken up for parts, with most of its assets sold off earlier this summer to a previous licensing partner, Xconomy has learned. The buyer was MedImmune, the biotech division of the multinational drug company AstraZeneca (NYSE: [[ticker:AZN]]), and the deal effectively ends the nine-year run of … Continue reading “Sold For Parts, Accelerator Grad Allozyne Reaches End of the Line”
New Ideas for Media and Edtech Surface at Matter’s NYC Demo Day
Creating change in the media world sometimes means connecting with other sectors. From the start, the Matter accelerator in San Francisco has been about nurturing media startups. Some of the companies in the program’s third class, though, are putting their ideas to work in the education market. Matter held a demo day in New York … Continue reading “New Ideas for Media and Edtech Surface at Matter’s NYC Demo Day”
A Prescription for the Achilles Heel of Healthcare IT
What keeps doctors from sleeping at night? Electronic Health Records (EHRs). More specifically, the “homework” these essential-but-sometimes-inefficient systems generate is enough to cause nightmares. In a recent study that observed physician behavior, primary care providers spent 40 percent of their patient visit time focused on their computer screens, clicking and scrolling through the patient’s EHR. … Continue reading “A Prescription for the Achilles Heel of Healthcare IT”
Placemeter Obtains $6,000,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=230a5813-1c50-48c9-bd8d-319a0f41ea4f Date 9/18/2014 Company Name Placemeter Mailing Address 349 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016 USA Company Description At the crossroads of Big Data and Internet of Things, Placemeter is a platform that senses and unlocks massive amounts of data about activity in physical places. We are smart, inexpensive sensors and proprietary … Continue reading “Placemeter Obtains $6,000,000 Series A Funding Round”
HowGood Receives $2,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a54409c7-82a6-485f-94a4-5c32c5fed432 Date 9/18/2014 Company Name HowGood Mailing Address 93 Commercial Street Brooklyn, NY 11222 USA Company Description It’s something we grew up with. Food provenance was a major talking point around our family dinner table – over time we naturally developed a good understanding of which brands were better than others. Website … Continue reading “HowGood Receives $2,000,000 New Funding Round”
JW Player Lands $20,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=eb73d14f-ced2-4e6a-8c11-750ef22ca829 Date 9/18/2014 Company Name JW Player Mailing Address 8 West 38th Street 6th Floor New York, NY 10018 USA Company Description We’re the New York-based startup that pioneered video on the web. Now, we’re busy innovating for the future. Our flagship product, JW Player, is live on more than 2 million … Continue reading “JW Player Lands $20,000,000 New Financing”
Augmate Garners $2,800,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e7cd655d-a915-4dbe-9233-c64d68a28d95 Date 9/18/2014 Company Name Augmate Mailing Address 335 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10017 USA Company Description Augmate is the first wearable platform that accelerates the development of cloud-based digital eyewear applications. Our development environment allows us to build applications that integrate with enterprise backend services and a variety of API … Continue reading “Augmate Garners $2,800,000 Seed Financing Round”
Newsela Secures $4,100,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0d4f7a02-2412-4e97-b4ca-e4b054024b8b Date 9/18/2014 Company Name Newsela Mailing Address 46 Ingram Street Forest Hills, NY 11375 USA Company Description Newsela is an education technology startup dedicated to transforming the way learners access the world through words. The founding team members combine powerful technological know-how with real-world experience earned in the classroom, the newsroom, … Continue reading “Newsela Secures $4,100,000 Series A Financing Round”
Splice Lands $4,500,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b6ccd18d-4bc2-4a13-9a84-f9e34ea1e6fb Date 9/18/2014 Company Name Splice Mailing Address 36 E. 20th Street 4th Floor New York, NY 10468 USA Company Description Splice enhances the creative process for musicians and producers, so they can focus on what matters: making music. Website http://www.splice.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,500,000 Transaction Round Series A … Continue reading “Splice Lands $4,500,000 Series A Round”
Heidi Messer, Alan Patricof, Others on What It Takes to Grow in NYC
At a gathering of players from the New York innovation scene, there was blunt talk and optimism about the city’s future in technology. This week, AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins hosted the annual OnMedia NYC summit at the NASDAQ Marketsite in Times Square. The event brought out the honchos of Collective[i], Greycroft Partners, First Round Capital, … Continue reading “Heidi Messer, Alan Patricof, Others on What It Takes to Grow in NYC”
Newsela Lands $27,600,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7c4bd062-93e0-4688-aaf5-2557b7c7953b Date 9/17/2014 Company Name Newsela Mailing Address 46 Ingram Street Forest Hills, NY 11375 USA Company Description Newsela is an education technology startup dedicated to transforming the way learners access the world through words. The founding team members combine powerful technological know-how with real-world experience earned in the classroom, the newsroom, … Continue reading “Newsela Lands $27,600,000 Series A Financing Round”
ClassPass Obtains $12,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cffc0d86-a70a-4ab4-9ede-29ae2c799f65 Date 9/17/2014 Company Name ClassPass Mailing Address 121 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 USA Company Description ClassPass is a membership program for fitness classes across multiple gyms and studios, making working out more accessible. Since launching in early 2013, ClassPass has facilitated over 60,000 reservations at 1,000+ different classes … Continue reading “ClassPass Obtains $12,000,000 Series A Round”
PoachIt Receives $1,800,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2edfca8b-6849-43af-b058-77000d1c7fc0 Date 9/17/2014 Company Name PoachIt Mailing Address Undisclosed New York, NY 10001 USA Company Description We’ve been called a lot of things: price mavericks, deal ninjas, and the only coupon you’ll ever need. Delighting our users makes us proud, because PoachIt was built simply to make your life a little easier … Continue reading “PoachIt Receives $1,800,000 New Funding”