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Apps and Internet Tools are preferred by Investors: Life360, Bill.com and MarkaVIP raise Funds
It has become obvious for anyone interested in funding that new technologies are more and more appealing for investors. If a business focuses on providing applications or solutions for online communication, internet or e-commerce, the company has more chances than others at receiving funding for development and expansion. For instance, the family communication mobile application company Life360 has recently managed to raise the amount of $3.5 million from Fontinalis Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, 500 Startups, Kapor Capital, Venture51, Bullpen Capital, Social Leverage, EchoVC Partners and others in series A of funding. The purpose of this application is that of maintaining families in touch by the means of tabs and group chats [...]December 14th, 2011 No comments
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Revolutionary technological solutions from Zink, Framehawk and Bypass Lane raise funds
We are living in a new type of society, for which the continuous development of IT solutions is a must. This is why investors are also putting lots of their money into companies which are providing solutions to a permanently expanding market. Whether we are speaking about cloud systems or applications for web or mobile devices, we are speaking about finding out way into the future. And, sometimes, we are also speaking about some companies which develop such a revolutionary product that it makes you wonder whether we are not living in the future already. This is the case of Zink, a company which has recently raised $35 million in the [...]December 7th, 2011 No comments
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Health Care Solutions companies Infinity Pharmaceutics, NanoVobronix and Selventa raise funds.
It has now been quite a long time since the IT and cloud systems have started to be quite successful on the venture capital market. It is true that, for a while, they have been more important than any other activity field, even the health care one. But the new trend on the market now is that of combining the two activity fields and raising money for the health care department by the means of IT projects. One of the successful companies which have recently managed to get a hold of a $50 million extension fund is Infinity Pharmaceuticals, the Cambridge, MA – based company which has recently extended its partnership [...]November 30th, 2011 No comments
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eVariant raises $5.3 Million from Health Enterprise Partners in Round A of Funding
It has been rumored lately that the actual economic conditions are no longer favorable to businesses which are trying to raise capital. Although there is some truth to it because it is a bit more difficult for investors to raise the needed funds for sustaining lots of businesses, it is not at all true that venture capital has become history. As a matter a fact, we can see that all the fine businesses that activate on the market have managed to raise funds for development and expansion. Moreover, although there are several activity fields which are preferred by investors, we can notice that there are still available funds for any [...]November 25th, 2011 1 comment
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Panda Power opens $420 Million Fund for Solar and Natural Gas Projects
Panda Power Funds, the Dallas-based investing company, has recently announced that it had raised a $420 million private equity fund which the company is going to invest into new and already existing solar energy and natural gas project which activate in Texas and in other high-growth states. The company intends to use the money from this fund in order to focus in constructing, capitalizing and maintaining the infrastructure. Some of the projects the company is very happy to invest in are based in Texas. These are two natural gas projects, based in the towns of Sherman and Temple. Based on the calculations made by the companies, these two projects are to [...]November 21st, 2011 1 comment
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Better Place raises $200 Million for Electric Cars in the Series C of Funding
November 17th, 2011 No comments
Better Place, the Palo Alto, Calif. – based electric vehicle infrastructure start-up, has recently announced the end of the series C of funding which has brought the company the amount of $200 million. This equity financing round has been led by a consortium of investors which includes GE Capital and UBS. The existing shareholders have also participated to this funding round, along with some new investors from Israel Corp., HSBC Group, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Ofer Group and Maniv Energy Capital. This new financing transaction is expected to last up to the fourth quarter of 2011.By the means of this new [...]
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Accel Partners raise $100 Million Big Data Fund to Invest in Hadoop, NoSQL and other Companies
November 16th, 2011 1 comment
Accel Partners, the venture capital firm, has recently announced that it has managed to raise a big data fund of $100 million which the firm is going to invest in companies which are focusing on building new IT infrastructure or on applications which already use a new infrastructure. Accel Partners is a venture capital firm which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., which is the heart of the Silicon Valley’s venture capital community. This venture capital firm has previously invested in companies which turned out to be a great success on the market, such as Facebook, Dropbox, Cloudera and Etsy. This is how Accel Partners [...]
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Skimlinks raises $4.5 Million to help Bloggers Increase their Gains
Skimlinks, the San Francisco, California – based in-text monetization platform for Web publishers, has recently announced the end of the second round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $4.5 million. This funding round has been led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. Along with this new amount of money, the company has managed to obtain by now the total amount of $7.5 million. In addition to BDMI, there are some new investors which participated to this funding round along with the previous investors: 500 Startups and Venrex Investment Management. The already existing investors are: Sussex Place Ventures, The Accelerator Group and NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology [...]November 15th, 2011 No comments
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Standing Cloud raises $3 Million to help New Cloud Providers grow Faster
November 14th, 2011 No comments
Standing Cloud, the Boulder, CO – based provider of cloud application management services, has recently announced the end of a new round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $3 million in a new series of funding. This funding round has been led by the already existing investors from Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures. With this new amount of money, the company has raised by now the total amount of $8 million. As a result of this funding round, Will Herman, the famous entrepreneur and mentor of TechStars, is going to join Standing Cloud’s board of directors. Will Herman currently activates [...]
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November 9 2011 Pontifax raises $88 Million Fund Pontifax Ltd., the firm which generally invests in pharmaceutical companies and in medical device companies, has announced that it had raised a third fund of $88 million. Read the full story here November 8 2011 Quarri Announces $3M Series B to Expand into North America Earlier this month, Quarri™ Technologies, the leading provider of on demand web information security solutions, announced a $3 million Series B round of financing led by Houston Angel Network (HAN) and supported by Daylight Partners and other Texas angels. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors Database TweetNovember 10th, 2011 No comments
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Zillow acquires Diverse Solutions for $7.8 to help Real Estate Agents increase their Visibility
November 10th, 2011 No comments
Zillow, the Seattle – based real estate information marketplace, has recently announced the fact that it has acquired Diverse Solutions, a Californian company which develops marketing tools for the real estate agents. This acquisition has been made for $7.8 million in cash and stock. Diverse Solutions is a company which develops property search and listing tools which are very suitable for real estate agents as they can easily be integrated on the agent’s websites and blogs. Zillow stated that this new acquisition has been made in their attempt of helping real estate agents increase their visibility online, helping them thus to grow their business. [...]
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Pontifax raises $88 Million Fund
November 9th, 2011 No comments
Pontifax Ltd., the firm which generally invests in pharmaceutical companies and in medical device companies, has announced that it had raised a third fund of $88 million. The most part of this amount of money comes from the fund’s previous investors, including Eli Hurvitz, who has provided 10% of the funding. But there are some new investors as well, among which we can name Moshe (Mori) Arkin, Prof. Ruth Arnon, Pujo Zabludowicz, and other Israeli investment institutions. Hurvitz is the former chairman at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. who has now the head position at Pontifax, although he does not also the chairman of the fund. [...]
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Quarri Announces $3M Series B to Expand into North America
Earlier this month, Quarri™ Technologies, the leading provider of on demand web information security solutions, announced a $3 million Series B round of financing led by Houston Angel Network (HAN) and supported by Daylight Partners and other Texas angels. Formerly known as Quaresso, Quarri will use the funds to accelerate expansion into the North American market with its flagship product, Protect On Q. Since its inception three years ago, Quarri has experienced significant growth in Europe, particularly within the manufacturing, pharmaceutical and financial services markets. With the recent addition of Bill Morrow as Quarri’s new executive chairman, and his more than 20 years of business foundation and leadership experience, the company [...]November 8th, 2011 No comments
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Kaggle raises $11 Million in Series A of Funding
November 8th, 2011 1 comment
Kaggle, the San Francisco – based company which develops crowdsourcing competitions, has recently announced the end of the series A of funding which has brought the company the amount of $11 million. This funding round has been led by Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Stanford University’s endowment, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Google chief economist Hal Varian and Applied Semantics’ (now Google Adsense) co-founder Gil Elbaz were also participants to this funding round. As a result of this funding round, Neil Rimer, the partner at Index Ventures, is going to join Kaggle’s board of directors. Also, Max Levchin has been named the chairman of the [...]
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Appcelerator raises $15 Million in Series C of Funding
November 7th, 2011 No comments
Appcelerator, the Mountain View, Calif. – based company, has recently announced the end of the series C of funding which has brought the company the amount of $15 million. This funding round has been led by Mayfield Fund, TransLink Capital, Red Hat, eBay, Inc., Sierra Ventures, and Storm Ventures. Navin Chaddha, the managing director at Mayfield Fund stated the following: “Appcelerator has become the agent of change for Fortune 500 companies looking to make a strategic move to mobile. We see Appcelerator’s world-class integrated mobile platform as essential to overcoming increasing levels of fragmentation that currently challenge the entire mobile industry.” Appcelerator is a company which [...]
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Dropbox raises $250 Million in Series B of Funding
November 4th, 2011 No comments
Dropbox, the San Francisco, Calif. – based company providing services which allow people to quickly upload and share their documents, photos and videos, has recently announced the end of the series B of funding which has brought the company an amount of $250 million. This funding round has been led by Index Ventures with the participation of some new investors from Benchmark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Greylock Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, RIT Capital Partners, and Valiant Capital Partners and of the previous investors from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Hadi and Ali Partovi. By now, Dropbox has managed to raise a total of $257.2 million in [...]
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November 2 2011 Code Academy raises $2.5 Million for Free Coding Lessons for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Redfin Corporation, the Seattle, WA – based technology-powered real estate brokerage, has recently announced the end of a new round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $14.8 million. Read the full story here November 1 2011 Redfin, the Real Estate Company, raises $14.8 Million from Globespan Capital Partners Redfin Corporation, the Seattle, WA – based technology-powered real estate brokerage, has recently announced the end of a new round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $14.8 million. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors Database TweetNovember 3rd, 2011 No comments
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Code Academy raises $2.5 Million for Free Coding Lessons for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
November 2nd, 2011 1 comment
Code Academy, the Chicago-based coding company, has recently announced the end of a first round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $2.5 million. This funding round has been led by Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly, SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Social+ Capital Partnership, Thrive Capital, CrunchFund, Collaborative Fund, Founder Collective, Joshua Schacter, Vivi Nevo, Naval Ravikant and others. Code Academy is a site which provides computer programming lessons by the means of tutorials. The fun part of the process is that the site also displays a progress bar which indicates how much of the course you have completed and which provides you reward [...]
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Redfin, the Real Estate Company, raises $14.8 Million from Globespan Capital Partners
November 1st, 2011 No comments
Redfin Corporation, the Seattle, WA – based technology-powered real estate brokerage, has recently announced the end of a new round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $14.8 million. This funding round has been led by Globespan Capital Partners, along with the previous investors, including Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Greylock Partners. Redfin has previously raised up to $31 million, so this new funding round leads them to a total amount of external capital of almost $46 million. Venky Ganesan, the Globespan’s Managing Director, stated the following: “Globespan invested in Redfin for one big reason: service. We had [...]
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Klout, the Valuator of your Online Influence, raised $30 Million in Series C of Funding
October 31st, 2011 2 comments
Klout, the start-up company which valuates the influence one has in the online environment, has recently acquired a third round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $30 million. This funding round has possibly been led by Kleiner Perkins, with the participation of IVP. This amount of money has been received after a $200 million valuation. At the moment, Klout refuses to make any statements and continues to present this new funding round as a rumor which has managed to spread quite a lot in the investment field. If this funding round is for real, it means that this new amount of [...]
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Brammo raises $28 Million from Polaris Industries for Electric Motorcycles
October 27th, 2011 1 comment
Brammo, the Ashland, Ore. – based maker of electric motorcycles, has recently announced the end of the round B of funding which has brought the company the amount of $28 million. This funding round has been led by Polaris Industries. Scott Wine, the CEO at Polaris, stated the following: “We are excited to advance our electric vehicle capability by establishing Polaris as a business partner and part owner of Brammo, one of the most innovative and aggressive companies I have found in the electric motorcycle space. Our companies share a passion for performance, and I look forward to exploiting the numerous opportunities created by pairing [...]
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Liftopia raises $1.3 Million for Mountain Activity E-Commerce Platform
October 26th, 2011 No comments
Liftopia, the San Francisco – based online retailer of lift tickets and mountain resort activities, has recently announced the end of a round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $1.3 million. This funding round has been led by First Round Capital, along with Dave Morin and Chris Sacca, which have added to the existing investors which include Erik Blachford and Sam Shank. Evan Reece, the co-founder and CEO of the company, stated the following: “Nearly three in four Liftopia customers skied more last season because of the deals they found on our site. By working with resorts to manage their [...]
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October 24 2011 CouponCabin.com raises $54 Million in First Round of Funding CouponCabin.com, the Whiting, Ind. – based online company providing discount coupons for online users, has recently announced the end of its first round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $54 million. Read the full story here October 25 2011 Workday raises $85 Million for HR and Payroll Services Cloud Workday, Inc., the Pleasanton, CA – based leader in the SaaS-based enterprise solutions for payrolls, HR and financial management, has recently announced the end of the series Fof funding which has brought the company the amount of $85 million. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors [...]October 26th, 2011 No comments
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Workday raises $85 Million for HR and Payroll Services Cloud
October 25th, 2011 3 comments
Workday, Inc., the Pleasanton, CA – based leader in the SaaS-based enterprise solutions for payrolls, HR and financial management, has recently announced the end of the series F of funding which has brought the company the amount of $85 million. This funding round has been led by several new investors, including T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Janus Capital Group Inc. and Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. This new incredible round of funding comes in order to convince us of the fact that the cloud-based services are really important in today’s market and [...]
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CouponCabin.com raises $54 Million in First Round of Funding
October 24th, 2011 No comments
CouponCabin.com, the Whiting, Ind. – based online company providing discount coupons for online users, has recently announced the end of its first round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $54 million. This funding round has been led by JMI Equity, a growth equity firm which focuses on investments in leading software and internet companies. After this round of funding, JMI Equity is going to hold a minority stake in the company. The money raised in this round of funding is intended to be used in order for the company to deepen its content position, to expand its consumer bases and [...]
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Visual.ly raises $2 Million to make Data look Interesting and Nice
October 21st, 2011 No comments
Visual.ly, the infographics start-up, has recently announced the end of a new round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $2 million. This funding round has been led by Crosslink Capital, SoftTech and 500 Startups, with the participation of Kapor Capital, Giza Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Mark Goines, Josh James and others. The company intends to use the money raised in this new round of funding in order to increase its development team and to hire some more data visualization specialists. Visual.ly is now designing a service which is going to allow customers to create interesting and beautiful, custom infographics by using [...]
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Inspirato raises $17.5 Million for Luxury Vacation
October 19th, 2011 No comments
Inspirato, the start-up provider of luxury vacations, has recently announced the end of a new round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $17.5 million. This funding round has been led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, along with Access Venture Partners, and the New York Yankees All-Star First Baseman, Mark Teixeira. The company has been launched in the month of January 2011 and it is different from the other similar companies on the market due to the fact that it gives members all of the luxury of a timeshare, without the hassle of having an extra mortgage to deal with. This [...]
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October 14 2011 Box.net raises $81 Million in an Extension Round Box.net, the cloud storage provider, has recently announced the closure of a news $81 million extension to its fourth round of funding. Read the full story here October 18 2011 Idle Games raises $10 Million for Social Games Idle Gaes, the San Francisco, Calif. – based social gaming company, has recently announced the end of a new round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $10 million. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors Database TweetOctober 18th, 2011 No comments
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Idle Games raises $10 Million for Social Games
October 18th, 2011 1 comment
Idle Games, the San Francisco, Calif. – based social gaming company, has recently announced the end of a new round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $10 million. According to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it seems that a part of this second round of funding, in amount of $4.5 million, is part of the Idle Games’ last round, which has been announced at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011. At the moment, the company specializes in producing games on top of a proprietary engine which is named the “Idle Engine”. This is a social recommendation system which analysis [...]
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Khosla Ventures raises Fund of $1.05 Billion
October 17th, 2011 No comments
Vinod Khosla, the famous venture capitalist, has recently announced that his venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, has managed to raise a fund of $1.05 billion. If we are comparing this amount of money with the ones raised by other venture capital firms, we can notice that this new investment puts Khosla Ventures among the top five firms who have raised the biggest funds this year. The company announces that this amount of money is going to be used for numerous purposes. According to a report published in the Wall Street Journal, half of the amount will be used for financing clean technology companies. The [...]
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