Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=016159d0-574d-4d87-8994-1c380cecefed&Preview=1 Date 12/1/2011 Company Name Miso Mailing Address 580 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Miso is a social TV platform that makes watching TV more fun. The Miso team is located in San Francisco at 580 Howard Street in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. Website http://www.gomiso.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Miso Secures $4,000,000 New Funding”
Tag: Google Ventures
Objective Logistics Moves to Cambridge, Gets $1.5M from Atlas and Google Ventures for Restaurant Tech
Phil Beauregard is hungry. His scrappy startup, Objective Logistics, is hungry, too. Good thing they are in the restaurant business. Actually, the truth is they want to turn the restaurant business upside down. But in a good way (if you believe them). OK, I’ve avoided the G-word for as long as possible. Beauregard and company … Continue reading “Objective Logistics Moves to Cambridge, Gets $1.5M from Atlas and Google Ventures for Restaurant Tech”
Objective Logistics Garners $1,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cdbf65bb-2155-4af2-82d6-1b06f6675032&Preview=1 Date 11/30/2011 Company Name Objective Logistics Mailing Address 195 Binney St Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Objective Logistics is gamifying the workplace. We are a retail/restaurant-focused software company that provides an artificially-intelligent, web-accessible labor management platform (MUSE) scientifically proven to increase sales and save managers countless hours of precious time. Website … Continue reading “Objective Logistics Garners $1,500,000 New Financing”
Puppet Labs Receives $8,500,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1628eb0b-4cbe-4697-b66a-6aa0a1351837&Preview=1 Date 11/29/2011 Company Name Puppet Labs Mailing Address Undisclosed Portland, OR 97201 Company Description Puppet Labs provides next-gen IT automation, enabling IT organizations to manage infrastructure as code so they can provide higher service levels with less staff. Reductive Lab’s flagship offering, Puppet, significantly improves the automation and management of IT … Continue reading “Puppet Labs Receives $8,500,000 Series C Funding Round”
Harvest Automation, TeraDiode Lead List of Tech Financing Deals
A list of the most recent tech financings around Boston paints a pretty representative picture of what kinds of companies are getting built here (robotics, hardware, defense tech, custom goods via the Web). Consider: —Billerica, MA-based Harvest Automation, a maker of agricultural robots, has raised $7.8 million in new funding led by Entree Capital. We … Continue reading “Harvest Automation, TeraDiode Lead List of Tech Financing Deals”
Mobile Madness, Windows Phone, Clarisonic: Wrapping up Seattle Tech Headlines
This week’s wrapup of Xconomy Seattle tech headlines features two great entrepreneur/investors who will be featured at Mobile Madness Northwest, our action-packed half-day forum Dec. 6 at F5 Networks. We’re pairing up two people whose experiences span big-company products and proto-company startups: Wesley Chan of Google Ventures, and Charlie Kindel, formerly with Windows Phone (and a … Continue reading “Mobile Madness, Windows Phone, Clarisonic: Wrapping up Seattle Tech Headlines”
Google Ventures’ Wesley Chan: From Voice to VC, Speaking at Mobile Madness NW
As Wesley Chan puts it, he was working at Google when there were still doors for desks, dogs running wild, and tarps covering the computers to ward off leaks from the roof. These days, he’s working on scrappy startups again—but this time, it’s as a partner at Google Ventures, based at the company’s Seattle campus. … Continue reading “Google Ventures’ Wesley Chan: From Voice to VC, Speaking at Mobile Madness NW”
Milk Garners New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=aff5bdd7-7e96-4ea4-b933-976ea4cafbf1&Preview=1 Date 11/7/2011 Company Name Milk Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description The company develops mobile applications. Website http://www.milkinc.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Google Ventures
Tracelytics Receives $600,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b2d819e4-2c01-4e05-96ad-380d58769458&Preview=1 Date 11/3/2011 Company Name Tracelytics Mailing Address 171 Chestnut Street 2nd Floor Providence, RI 02903 Company Description Tracelytics is the SaaS-based application performance tool that understands scalable web architectures. Erase the boundaries between applications, layers, and machines; start tracing. Website http://www.tracelytics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $600,000 Transaction Round Seed … Continue reading “Tracelytics Receives $600,000 Seed Financing”
Humanoid Lands New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d86f8f9c-14b7-44f5-9b1a-c31fda4a7b80&Preview=1 Date 11/2/2011 Company Name Humanoid Mailing Address 1061 Market St San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Welcome to Humanoid, the world’s first brainpower API! Humanoid offers a drag-and-drop interface that allows engineers to create tasks and send instructions to humans. Website http://www.gethumanoid.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round … Continue reading “Humanoid Lands New Financing Round”
Subtext Obtains $3,000,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3b09bc7e-938f-434f-b3f6-682132233e5f&Preview=1 Date 10/25/2011 Company Name Subtext Mailing Address 100 Metropolitan Ave Studio 8 Williamsburg, NY 11211 Company Description Subtext powers the first reading community in the pages of ebooks. With Subtext, you can engage in conversations with friends, authors and experts and access all types of information and multimedia in the margins … Continue reading “Subtext Obtains $3,000,000 Seed Funding”
Third Rock Launches Sage, Glaxo Malaria Vaccine Relies on Agenus Technology, Vertex Seeks Approval of Cystic Fibrosis Drug, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News
This week New England’s life sciences community saw a couple of cool new companies emerge and a few potentially important new treatments reach key milestones. —Boston-based Third Rock Ventures launched its newest startup with $35 million to develop a new class of drugs for brain disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. Sage Therapeutics’ approach is … Continue reading “Third Rock Launches Sage, Glaxo Malaria Vaccine Relies on Agenus Technology, Vertex Seeks Approval of Cystic Fibrosis Drug, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News”
Oracle Scoops Up Endeca, Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures Back Foundation Medicine, Care.com Collects $25M, & More Boston-Area Deals News
New England’s tech and life sciences companies have been inking deals all over the place this past week. First up, the big surprise… —Cambridge, MA-based Endeca Technologies, an enterprise search and e-commerce company that was founded in 1999, agreed to be acquired by Silicon Valley database and business software giant Oracle. Terms of the deal … Continue reading “Oracle Scoops Up Endeca, Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures Back Foundation Medicine, Care.com Collects $25M, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
DNAnexus, With Google Ventures and TPG’s Cash, Seeks Edge in $100B Genome Computing Market
If there’s anybody in the world of genomic computing with dreams of world domination, like a Bill Gates or a Mark Zuckerberg, it might be Andreas Sundquist. Others may have similar ambitions, but the co-founder of Mountain View, CA-based DNAnexus is one of the few with the chutzpah to say that he thinks a cottage … Continue reading “DNAnexus, With Google Ventures and TPG’s Cash, Seeks Edge in $100B Genome Computing Market”
Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures Join Expanded $33.5M Round for Foundation Medicine
Foundation Medicine has added a couple more big names to its roster of investors and partners. The Cambridge, MA-based company, seeking to develop personalized cancer diagnostics based on new understanding of genomics, said today it has added Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures to a Series A financing that now totals $33.5 million. … Continue reading “Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures Join Expanded $33.5M Round for Foundation Medicine”
Foundation Medicine Lands Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=df95f2ec-45e1-4b3a-b03c-8e6fcb4c4c44&Preview=1 Date 10/18/2011 Company Name Foundation Medicine Mailing Address One Kendall Square Boston, MA 02139 Company Description The trick to beating cancer could be a single test that shows all known genetic traits in each person’s tumor, and that also matches those results to the best treatments. Website http://www.foundationmedicine.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Foundation Medicine Lands Series A Financing”
DNAnexus Secures $15,000,000 Series B Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ee0a6f12-f622-4486-8644-28d677f3000d&Preview=1 Date 10/12/2011 Company Name DNAnexus Mailing Address 420 Florence St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description DNAnexus is a start-up in biocomputation aiming to transform the future of genetics, alter the course of medicine, help cure cancer! The advent of next-generation DNA sequencing technologies will soon enable one of the holy … Continue reading “DNAnexus Secures $15,000,000 Series B Round”
Websense Partners With Facebook, Qualcomm Shuffles Top Execs, ViaSat Satellite Set for Launch Next Week, & More San Diego BizTech News
There’s been a lot of tech news in San Diego over the past week, from Web 2.0 startups like SocialIQ that are identifying and measuring social media influencers, to changes in the executive leadership at established companies like Qualcomm. Our roundup begins now. —San Diego’s Websense (NASDAQ: [[ticker:WBSN]]) said it has installed its network security … Continue reading “Websense Partners With Facebook, Qualcomm Shuffles Top Execs, ViaSat Satellite Set for Launch Next Week, & More San Diego BizTech News”
Stickery Secures New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f2414265-ccb5-4bc3-a3a0-73d2189a09ae&Preview=1 Date 10/11/2011 Company Name Stickery Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description Stickery aims to make mobile games that are not just fun for kids, but useful for parents. Mobile games for kids need to get out of the “euphoria” phase of sensory stimulation into the “eureka” phase of … Continue reading “Stickery Secures New Financing”
Enterproid Continues Development of App With $11M Series A From Comcast, Google, Qualcomm
Bruce V. Bigelow in San Diego contributed to this story. With $11 million from a Series A that was announced yesterday, New York-based Enterproid is moving closer to a full release of its app, which allows users to set their smartphones for business or personal use. Comcast Ventures (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CMCSA]]) led the round, with participation from … Continue reading “Enterproid Continues Development of App With $11M Series A From Comcast, Google, Qualcomm”
Enterproid Secures $11,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=02f946d4-3db3-4926-8926-f4cf325a32ac&Preview=1 Date 10/6/2011 Company Name Enterproid Mailing Address 49 West 38th Street 14/F New York, NY 10018 Company Description Enterproid helps organizations and individuals get the most out of mobile technology. The company’s flagship Divide Platform combines cloud-based management with device-level technology that ensures enterprise security and control without compromising personal freedom … Continue reading “Enterproid Secures $11,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
Blueprint Health, New Incubator in NYC, Looks to Nurture Health IT Startups
When Brad Weinberg started up his first company, ShapeUp, in 2006, incubator programs like TechStars and Y Combinator were barely off the ground. So Weinberg and his colleagues were left pretty much on their own to develop their software platform, which combines social networking, gaming, and financial incentives to promote wellness. The company has done … Continue reading “Blueprint Health, New Incubator in NYC, Looks to Nurture Health IT Startups”
Intel Capital Leads $13M Round for SweetLabs in Bid to Re-Invent Desktop Experience
SweetLabs scored what could be construed as a Google seal of approval in April 2010 when the San Diego startup, then known as OpenCandy, landed $5 million in a Series B round of venture funding led by Google Ventures. Today, the four-year-old startup says it has scored a similar coup—raising $13 million in a Series … Continue reading “Intel Capital Leads $13M Round for SweetLabs in Bid to Re-Invent Desktop Experience”
SweetLabs Secures $13,000,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1c862559-bcde-4056-bdec-8f97a5387e4b&Preview=1 Date 9/29/2011 Company Name SweetLabs Mailing Address 656 5th Avenue San Diego, CA 92120 Company Description OpenCandy was started by founding and early members of DivX, at which we were responsible for distributing hundreds of millions of DivX software downloads, and now we want to use what we’ve learned to help … Continue reading “SweetLabs Secures $13,000,000 Series C Funding Round”
TechStars Pins Down $24M, Visible Measures Gets $13M Series D, Yesware Announces Seed Funding, & More Boston-Area Deals News
The IT space accounted for most of the deal-making we tracked in New England over the last week. —Boulder, CO-based TechStars said it pulled in $24 million in new funding, which will go to giving each company in its startup incubator programs (in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, and New York) another $100,000 in the form of … Continue reading “TechStars Pins Down $24M, Visible Measures Gets $13M Series D, Yesware Announces Seed Funding, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
Yesware Talks About Hiring Plans and Seed Funding from Google Ventures, Foundry Group
Yesware, the Cambridge, MA-based developer of e-mail plug-ins for salespeople, announced today that its $1 million first-round funding came from Google Ventures, Foundry Group, Golden Venture Partners, and angel investors Geoffrey Hyatt, Colby Wood, Mike Baker, David Cohen, Mike Dornbrook, and Will Herman. The money will go toward developing Yesware’s technology for helping salespeople contact … Continue reading “Yesware Talks About Hiring Plans and Seed Funding from Google Ventures, Foundry Group”
Parse Secures $1,100,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a196918e-7773-4de8-85a6-ab6d43b8433c&Preview=1 Date 9/12/2011 Company Name Parse Mailing Address 1 Mongtomery St. 28th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Our vision is a world where mobile developers never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Our simple, but powerful native mobile SDKs provide all the server-side functionality developers need … Continue reading “Parse Secures $1,100,000 New Financing”
Echoecho Receives Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d8de25b1-898d-4689-816a-72873a18e630&Preview=1 Date 9/9/2011 Company Name Echoecho Mailing Address 2629 Manhattan Avenue Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 Company Description The Echo Chamber is where we share news about the echoecho app, stories about how people are using it, the trials and tribulations of developing on multiple platforms and our thoughts on location services. Website … Continue reading “Echoecho Receives Seed Financing”
Tuesday Funding Roundup: Lanyrd, Mashape, Clean Power Finance
Regular visitors to the Xconomy website may have noticed that we recently killed off the “News Xpress” box at the top of each city’s home page. The news that formerly appeared there—mostly notices of venture investments, mergers & acquisitions, and the like—will now show up in the main news stream, alongside our regular features. But … Continue reading “Tuesday Funding Roundup: Lanyrd, Mashape, Clean Power Finance”
Google Ventures, Zurb, MyPad: The 1-Minute Version of Last Week’s Bay Area BizTech News
In the run-up to the long weekend, we churned out a few of our patented long stories. —My big opus for the week was a writeup of a lengthy conversation with Bill Maris, the managing partner at Google Ventures. Maris shared insights about Google Ventures’ founder-friendly operating philosophy and its roots in his own experiences … Continue reading “Google Ventures, Zurb, MyPad: The 1-Minute Version of Last Week’s Bay Area BizTech News”
Clean Power Finance Secures $25,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=adea39aa-9b8c-430e-a541-36a1325d4770&Preview=1 Date 9/2/2011 Company Name Clean Power Finance Mailing Address 201 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Clean Power Finance is the leading provider of integrated software, services and financing solutions to the solar industry. Website http://www.cleanpowerfinance.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $25,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “Clean Power Finance Secures $25,000,000 New Financing Round”
The Education of Bill Maris: How One Entrepreneur’s History Shaped Google Ventures
Fade in on a paper-strewn office in Manhattan. It’s the North American headquarters of Investor AB, a giant Swedish holding company with investments across the healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and financial industries. Two recent college graduates, a man and a woman, share a small office; they are the only Americans at the firm. One is trained … Continue reading “The Education of Bill Maris: How One Entrepreneur’s History Shaped Google Ventures”
RelayRides Boosts Series A Round
RelayRides, the San Francisco-based car sharing network, said this week that it has increased its Series A2 funding round to $10 million with help from existing investors Google Ventures and August Capital and new investor Shasta Ventures. Author and entrepreneur Lisa Gansky also contributed to the round. RelayRides raised $5.1 million in Series A2 funding … Continue reading “RelayRides Boosts Series A Round”
Post-IPO Active Network Shows Profit, SmartDrive Raises $10M, Human Engines Goes Commercial, & More San Diego BizTech News
Software-as-a-service is driving strong growth at two San Diego Web companies, and several other tech companies raised cash last week. We’ve got the highlight reel, and our play-by-play analysis begins now. —After its May 25 IPO, San Diego’s Active Network (NYSE: [[ticker:ACTV]]) reported its first quarterly financial results, showing a $5.5 million profit on $99 … Continue reading “Post-IPO Active Network Shows Profit, SmartDrive Raises $10M, Human Engines Goes Commercial, & More San Diego BizTech News”
Nettle Obtains $500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=665bc234-562e-49d6-91fc-6c2d0adae7a6&Preview=1 Date 8/12/2011 Company Name Nettle Mailing Address Undisclosed San Diego, CA 92130 Company Description We are a startup in San Diego working in python using technologies that include, but aren’t limited to, postgres, django, redis on Linux platforms serving data to customers via Apache and Nginx through our own API’s. Our … Continue reading “Nettle Obtains $500,000 New Financing”
Google Ventures Leads $500K Seed Round for San Diego’s Nettle
Nettle, a 10-month-old San Diego startup with a new social/local/mobile application for the global entertainment market, says it has raised $500,000 in seed financing led by Google Ventures. Advancit Capital and 500 Startups also participated, along with some angel investors that include former eBay and Qualcomm executives. Nettle co-founder and CEO Brian Dear isn’t saying … Continue reading “Google Ventures Leads $500K Seed Round for San Diego’s Nettle”
Rocket Lawyer Served $18.5M
Rocket Lawyer, a San Francisco-based provider of online legal documents and attorney-finding services, said today that has collected $18.5 million in Series D financing. The round was led by August Capital, with Google Ventures and Investor Growth Capital also participating. August Capital partner David Hornik has joined the company’s board. “We see a large market … Continue reading “Rocket Lawyer Served $18.5M”
Rocket Lawyer Lands $18,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8d5e84f7-f9df-4d3a-8a56-54f6743e79f8&Preview=1 Date 8/11/2011 Company Name Rocket Lawyer Mailing Address 220 Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description RocketLawyer.com is a service of Rocket Lawyer Incorporated. Our mission is to empower consumers, business professionals and lawyers to get and give legal help. Our comprehensive line of do it yourself legal assistance solutions … Continue reading “Rocket Lawyer Lands $18,500,000 New Financing”
Airy Labs Obtains $1,500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=17926248-118c-4902-a0d5-e778494436c2&Preview=1 Date 8/3/2011 Company Name Airy Labs Mailing Address 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Airy Labs is creating the next generation of social learning games for kids. We build mobile and tablet games, browser-based social games, and massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), all with a core educational … Continue reading “Airy Labs Obtains $1,500,000 New Funding”
WhaleShark Media Secures New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=83315de8-93a7-414d-b4d1-49724491b2b4&Preview=1 Date 8/2/2011 Company Name WhaleShark Media Mailing Address 301 Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78701 Company Description WhaleShark Media Inc. is the world’s leading marketplace for coupons and deals. The company’s websites connect consumers seeking savings with discounts from more than 100,000 top merchants, stores and retailers. WhaleShark Media welcomes more than … Continue reading “WhaleShark Media Secures New Funding Round”
just.me Obtains $600,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=676c94d7-91cf-4c69-821f-2be887fa8630&Preview=1 Date 7/29/2011 Company Name just.me Mailing Address 2158 Wellesley Street Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description The company is developing technologies in the social and mobile spaces. Website http://www.just.me Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $600,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Google … Continue reading “just.me Obtains $600,000 New Funding Round”
Read It Later Bookmarks $2.5M
Read It Later, the San Francisco startup behind the popular Web content-saving tool of the same name, revealed yesterday in a blog post that it has collected $2.5 million in funding. Foundation Capital, Baseline Ventures, Founder Collective, and Google Ventures pitched in, according to founder Nate Weiner, who adds that he’s no longer a solo … Continue reading “Read It Later Bookmarks $2.5M”
Read It Later Lands $2,500,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ec6d7a2f-3619-414d-8225-0eb8fd9379dc&Preview=1 Date 7/27/2011 Company Name Read It Later Mailing Address 562A Belvedere Street San Francisco, CA 94117 Company Description Read It Later lets you save what you find on the web to watch and read on any device, at anytime. It’s been called “a DVR for the web” by the New York … Continue reading “Read It Later Lands $2,500,000 Series A Funding Round”
ThinkNear Garners $1,600,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a737aa9a-f915-4af3-abcf-f3f0648409cc&Preview=1 Date 7/26/2011 Company Name ThinkNear Mailing Address Undisclosed Los Angeles, CA 90001 Company Description We started ThinkNear because we love local businesses and didn’t think there were any good marketing solutions out there that helped get customers at the right time, with the lowest cost, and with zero effort. Website http://www.thinknear.com … Continue reading “ThinkNear Garners $1,600,000 New Financing”
Some Future Secrets Revealed: An Update on Recorded Future
The future for most of us is a totally uncharted territory. The noble art of divining doesn’t seem to have made much progress since the days of the Delphic oracle more than 2,000 years ago. But Recorded Future, an American-Scandinavian startup founded by Swedish entrepreneur Christopher Ahlberg and headquartered in the Boston area, claims to … Continue reading “Some Future Secrets Revealed: An Update on Recorded Future”
Crittercism Wins Funding
San Francisco-based Crittercism, a startup offering a plugin that helps developers track and debug their iOS and Android mobile apps, said today that it has obtained seed funding from a syndicate including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Opus Capital, Shasta Ventures, AOL Ventures, and individual investor Lucas Nealson, an early engineer at Facebook. … Continue reading “Crittercism Wins Funding”
Astrid Garners New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e102ccb2-9ad9-49c9-a98c-3d9f0f99109e&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2011 Company Name Astrid Mailing Address 625 Market Street 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Astrid’s goal is to help over 1 million people lead happier and more productive lives. We think that too many apps are expensive, complicated and boring, so we are committed to making ours … Continue reading “Astrid Garners New Financing Round”
Performable Picked Up by HubSpot
Cambridge, MA-based HubSpot, a marketing tech company, has acquired fellow Cambridge startup Performable, which focuses on marketing automation. Terms of the deal weren’t announced, but Performable’s 18-person team, including founder and CEO David Cancel, will join HubSpot (now more than 260 strong) at the latter company’s headquarters on First Street. Cancel will become HubSpot’s chief … Continue reading “Performable Picked Up by HubSpot”
Shopobot Secures New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7573f41d-ef23-47a0-a1f6-f74f6603ce4e&Preview=1 Date 6/17/2011 Company Name Shopobot Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description Shopobot discovers experts in the user’s social graph to provide advice from friends and trusted sources. Shopobot’s price index crawler monitors prices across many stores and tells users the best time to buy an item. Website http://www.shopobot.com … Continue reading “Shopobot Secures New Round”
Copious Garners $2,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=65e8f347-3d16-474e-b034-ab023bcc0d50&Preview=1 Date 6/16/2011 Company Name Copious Mailing Address 330 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Founded in January 2011, Copious is a social marketplace for buying from and selling to people, not strangers. Copious is backed by Foundation Capital, Embarcadero Ventures, The Blackberry Partners Fund, Google Ventures and a handful … Continue reading “Copious Garners $2,000,000 New Financing Round”