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  • Box.net raises $81 Million in an Extension Round

    October 14th, 2011 No comments

    Box.net, the cloud storage provider, has recently announced the closure of a news $81 million extension to its fourth round of funding. This new extension has been sustained by the old investors along with some new investors from New Enterprise Associates and from Bessemer Venture Partners. Box.net is a company which provides back-end storage on remote servers for enterprise applications. For them, this new funding expansion brings a new and consistent quantity of cash which is going to help them develop and become a land rush in the enterprise software space. Aaron Levie, the Chief Executive at Box.net, announced that the money raised in [...]     

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  • Kiwi Crate raises $2 Million for Projects that Stimulate the Creativity of Kids

    October 12th, 2011 1 comment

    Kiwi Crate, the start-up company which provides hands-on crafts and activities for pre-school and kindergarten age children, has recently announced the end of a first funding round which has brought the company the amount of $2 million. This funding round has been led by First Round Capital, with the participation of Mayfield Fund, Comcast Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Consigliere Brand Capital, UJ Ventures and 500 Startups. Some individual angel investors participated to this funding round as well, among which we can name Raymond Tonsing and Seth Goldstein, the co-founder of Turntable.fm. This service is going to be useful for those parents who are too [...]     

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  • Banyan Branch raises $1.7 Million in Round A of Funding

    October 11th, 2011 No comments

    Banyan Branch, the Seattle, WA – based full-service social media agency, has recently announced the end of the first round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $1.7 million. This first round of funding has been led by a group of investors, among which we can name Bob Gray, the CEO and co-founder of Huntsman Gay Global Capital, Bill Bryant, venture partner at Draper Fisher JUrvetson, Geoff Entress, venture partner at Voyager Capital, Neil Patel, founder of KISSmetrics, Chase Franklin, co-founder and former CEO at Qpass, Taft Price, co-founder of Oakley Networks, Adam Gross, Chief Marketing Officer, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, [...]     

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  • Enterproid raises $11 Million for Android Separation between Business and Personal

    October 10th, 2011 No comments

    Enterproid, the mobile software start-up company, has recently announced the end of a first round of funding which has brought the company the amount of $11 million. This funding round has been led by Comcast Ventures, with the participation of Google Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures. The money raised in this funding round is intended to be used in order to create Divide software for Android whose purpose is that of allowing Android users to divide their mobile phones between business and personal profiles. The company has launched at the Demo Spring 2011 conference which took place in March. The fact is that the company [...]     

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  • Latest Venture Capital Deals News:

    October 6th, 2011 No comments

    Latest Venture Capital Deals News: October 4 2011 Coupons.com raises $30 Million from Greylock Partners Coupons.com, the Mountain View, Calif. – based provider of digital coupons, has recently announced the end of a new funding round which has brought the company the amount of $30 million. Read the full story here October 6 2011 Clean Power Finance raises $75 Million from Google to connect Investors with Solar Providers Clean Power Finance, an online service which establishes connections between investors and solar panel providers, has recently announced the fact that the search giant Google has invested a large amount of money in the residential solar providing. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors [...] 

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  • Clean Power Finance raises $75 Million from Google to connect Investors with Solar Providers

    October 6th, 2011 2 comments

    Clean Power Finance, an online service which establishes connections between investors and solar panel providers, has recently announced the fact that the search giant Google has invested a large amount of money in the residential solar providing. Google has offered the amount of $75 million this time, sustaining thus the renewable energy. Clean Power Finance is a company which focuses on connecting solar panel providers and installers with investors who are interested in financing residential solar providers. Practically, this means that the interested investors are providing the money to home owners in order for them to be able to purchase or lease solar panels [...]     

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  • Coupons.com raises $30 Million from Greylock Partners

    October 4th, 2011 No comments

    Coupons.com, the Mountain View, Calif. – based provider of digital coupons, has recently announced the end of a new funding round which has brought the company the amount of $30 million. This funding round has been led by Greylock Partners. This new round of funding, which comes in addition to the recently raised $200 million from institutional investors, is going to bring the amounts of money needed by the company in order to transform this multi-billion dollar coupon industry into something different from what their opponents such as Groupon.com have to offer, meaning to extend the variety of products put at the disposal of [...]     

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  • Power Assure raises $13.5 Million for Energy Management Solutions

    October 3rd, 2011 No comments

    Power Assure, the Santa Clara, Calif. – based data center power-saving software company, has recently announced the end of its series B funding round which has brought the firm the amount of $13.5 million. This funding round has been led by the strategic partner, ABB, along with the previous investors from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Good Engines, and Point Judith Capital. Tarak Mehta, the Head of Low Voltage Products division at ABB, stated the following: “The data center market continues to grow at 8 to 12 percent per year. However it is becoming constrained by the availability of power, especially in high density areas where [...]     

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  • ClearSide raises $11 Million to expand its Sales Communication Service

    September 29th, 2011 No comments

    ClearSide, the San Francisco, Calif. – based startup which provides sales communication tools, has recently announced the end of its series A of funding which has brought the company the amount of $11 million. This funding round has been led by Greylock Partners, which has also just been the leader of the Tumblr’s massive $85 million funding round, and which has previously invested in companies such as Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn and Constant Contract. The current investor, Felicis Ventures, has also participated to this funding round. The company provides solutions for salespeople so as for them to find it easily to share presentations and related content [...]     

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  • CareCloud raises $20.1 Million for Medical Professionals Cloud

    September 28th, 2011 No comments

    CareCloud, the Miami-based cloud provider for healthcare business, recently announced the end of a funding round which has brought the company the amount of $20.1 million. This funding round has been led by the Silicon Valley-based Intel Capital along with the Norwest Venture Partners. Albert Santalo, the CEO and founder of the company, has stated the following: “They must believe in us if they’re willing to spend money on frequent cross-country flights for meetings.” The company specialises in providing cloud-based practice management tools for all the healthcare providers. This means that CareCloud creates applications which are used by medical professionals in their business. These [...]     

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  • FirstFuel Software raises $2.4 Million for Remote Building Energy Analysis

    September 26th, 2011 No comments

    FirstFuel Software, the Waltham, Mass. – based provider of analytics software that tracks energy usage in commercial buildings, has recently announced the end of its series A of funding which has brought the company an amount of $2.4 million. This funding round has been led by Battery Ventures and Nth Power, with participation from individual investors. The money raised in this round of funding is intended to be used to accelerate the rhythm of development of the Rapid Building Assessment platform, which gives very precise information about the energy performance of commercial buildings. The company specialises in tracking the energy usage in buildings without [...]     

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  • Lookout Mobile Security raises $40 Million for Phone Security

    September 23rd, 2011 No comments

    Lookout Mobile Security, the San Francisco-based mobile security software developer, has recently announced the end of a new funding round which has brought the company the amount of $40 million for its smarphone security system. This new funding round has been led by Andreessen Horowitz, the venture fund which is co-led by Marc Andreessen, one of the investors at Silicon Valley. Current investors have also participated in this funding round, which means that the funding round also reunites the names of Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners and Index Ventures. This amount of money may seem incredible for a company which produces mobile software, such as [...]     

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  • Latest Venture Capital Deals News:

    September 22nd, 2011 No comments

    Latest Venture Capital Deals News: September 22 2011 Arcsoft raises $20 Million for Mobile and Cloud Applications Arcsoft, the Fremont, California based multimedia software maker, has recently announced the end of a new funding round which has brought the company the amount of $20 million. Read the full story here September 21 2011 Magisto raises $5.5 Million to Automate Video Editing Magisto, the cloud video editing, has recently announced the end of a series B of funding which has brought the company an amount of $5.5 million. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors Database Tweet  

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  • Arcsoft raises $20 Million for Mobile and Cloud Applications

    September 22nd, 2011 No comments

    Arcsoft, the Fremont, California based multimedia software maker, has recently announced the end of a new funding round which has brought the company the amount of $20 million. This money is going to be used in order to create mobile and cloud-based browser applications and to invest in core technologies. This funding round has been led by Intel Capital, the Intel’s global investment arm, and by Tudor Ventures, the venture capital unit of Tudor Investment Corp. Michael Deng, the CEO at Arcsoft, declared the following: “We’ve been in talks with Intel and Tudor about possible investments for two years. Finally, we’ve made this happen [...]     

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  • Magisto raises $5.5 Million to Automate Video Editing

    September 21st, 2011 No comments

    Magisto, the cloud video editing, has recently announced the end of a series B of funding which has brought the company an amount of $5.5 million. The money raised in this second round of funding are intended to be used in order to automate the painstaking editing process for the masses. This funding round has been led by Hong Kong investor Li Ka-shing’s Horizon Ventures, with the participation of Magma Venture Partners. As a matter of fact, Magma Venture Partners is the company which has previously funded Magisto, with terms which remain undisclosed. Oren Boiman, the CEO at Magisto, stated the following: “Video editing [...]     

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  • Pinterest raised $10 Million in Series A of Funding over a $40 Million Valuation

    September 19th, 2011 No comments

    Pinterest, the San Francisco based company, has recently announced the end of the first round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $10 million based on a valuation of $40 million. The company functions as a social catalog which allows users to load and share the things they love and to develop a community where they can also discover the things their friends and taste-makers love and share as well. All the digital information you consider to be important to you and to the rest of the world can be uploaded on this platform in order to also be discovered by [...]     

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  • SOS Online Backup raises $3 Million for Cloud Storage Channels

    September 16th, 2011 No comments

    SOS Online Backup, the leading provider and pioneer of cloud computing technology in the area of data protection, based in El Segundo, California, has recently announced the end of the first round of funding of $3 million. This funding round has been led by Splashpond Investors. The money raised in the round A of funding is going to be used in order to create a new cloud-based service and products. At the moment, the company has more than 500.000 subscribers for its services. Ken Shaw, the founder and CEO of the company, said that SOS Online Backup currently partners with 600 to 700 MSPs along [...]     

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  • Latest Venture Capital Deals News:

    September 15th, 2011 No comments

    Latest Venture Capital Deals News: September 12 2011 Woozworld raises $6 Million for Mobile Tween Application Woozworld, the Montreal based company, has announced the end of newest funding round, which has brought the company an amount of $6 million. Read the full story here Septmeber 13 2011 Aurora Algae raises $22 Million for Biochemical Energy Aurora Algae, the developer of biofuels and biochemicals which come from algae, has recently announced the end of another round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $22 million. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE Venture Capital investors Database Tweet  

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  • Aurora Algae raises $22 Million for Biochemical Energy

    September 13th, 2011 No comments

    Aurora Algae, the developer of biofuels and biochemicals which come from algae, has recently announced the end of another round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $22 million. The company is part of a small set of biologically-produced chemical companies which receive funds and which are focusing on producing diverse and multiple types of biochemical products which are used in order to replace other sources of energy. One of their products is the feed stock and transportation fuel. Lately, these companies have registered a large number of successful exits. Some of the companies which have successfully completed the files which [...]     

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  • Woozworld raises $6 Million for Mobile Tween Application

    September 12th, 2011 No comments

    Woozworld, the Montreal based company, has announced the end of newest funding round, which has brought the company an amount of $6 million. This funding round has been led by Telesystem and iNovia Capital, but also from some anonymous angel investors. As a result of this funding round, Bernard Gershon, the former General Manager and Senior Vice President of Disney, has joined the company’s board of advisors. Woozworld is a massive multiplayer user-generated social game for tweens (children aged between 9 and 14). The chief executive of the company, Eric Brassard, declared that the goal of the company is that of turning Woozworld into [...]     

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  • Shocking Technologies raises $15.2 Million in Series C of Funding

    September 9th, 2011 No comments

    Shocking Technologies, the company based in San Jose, California, has recently announced the end of the third round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $15.2 million which is going to be used in order to make electric-shock-proof electronic circuit boards. This funding round has reunited investors from Littelfuse, Arch Ventures, ATA Ventures, Balch Hill Capital, Skylake Incuvest, Vista Ventures and some private investors. The company is going to use the money in order to build additional manufacturing capacity as for it to be able to meet the demand on the market. The company specializes in using nanotechnologies in order to [...]     

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  • CloudOn raises $7.7 Million in Series A of Funding for Mobile Productivity Applications

    September 8th, 2011 No comments

    CloudOn, the company based in Palo Alto, California, has recently arrived at the end of the discussions for the first round of funding which brought the company an amount of $7.7 million, announced the SEC. The company specializes in providing access to the productivity and collaboration tools needed by customers for the devices they are using. The company has been formally known as AppToU, a company which provided high-quality solutions for all type of mobile devices. According to the marketing materials released by the company, CloudOn is “creating a mobile, enterprise, cloud-based workspace” in order to find solutions as to help workers increase their productivity [...]     

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  • Latest Venture Capital Deals News:

    September 6th, 2011 No comments

    Latest Venture Capital Deals News: September 6 2011 Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, starts Venture Capital Fund The Associated Press has recently announced that Michael Arrington, the founder of the very popular tech blog, TechCrunch, has taken the decision of starting a venture capital firm. This venture capital fund will have an initial capital of $20 million. Read the full story here September 5 2011 Druva raises $12 Million in Series B of Funding for Smart phones and Tablets Druva, the company based in Mountain View, California, recently announced the end of the round B of funding, which has brought the company an amount of $12 million. Read the full story here Click here to download our FREE [...] 

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  • Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, starts Venture Capital Fund

    September 6th, 2011 No comments

    The Associated Press has recently announced that Michael Arrington, the founder of the very popular tech blog, TechCrunch, has taken the decision of starting a venture capital firm. This venture capital fund will have an initial capital of $20 million, money which the founder intends to use in order to support other entrepreneurs start-up businesses such as TechCrunch, meaning blogs which cover the same type of subjects as the ones we are used to see on TechCruch. The venture capital firm will receive funds from investors such as the tech company AOL Inc., company which has purchased TechCrunch last year for an amount which has remained undisclosed to the public, and [...] 

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  • Druva raises $12 Million in Series B of Funding for Smart phones and Tablets

    September 5th, 2011 No comments

    Druva, the company based in Mountain View, California, recently announced the end of the round B of funding, which has brought the company an amount of $12 million. The company specializes in designing data protection systems, consolidation and application recovery challenges software. This funding round has been led by Nexus Venture Partners along with Sequoia Capital. According to the funding deal, Jishnu Bhattacharjee, from Nexus Venture Partners, is going to join the board of directors at Druva. The money raised in this second funding round is going to be used in order to provide support for smart phones and tablets and to expand sales [...]     

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  • Double Verify raises $33 Million for Advertising Monitoring System

    September 1st, 2011 No comments

    Double Verify Ltd., the start-up offering solutions for online advertising monitoring, has recently announced the end of the series B of funding, which has brought the company an amount of $33 million. This second funding round has been led by JMI Equity among with the previous investors from Blumberg Capital, Genacast Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners and one of the venture capital sections of Comcast Communications Corporation. Up to this moment, the company has managed to raise an amount of $46.5 million, which actually gives the firm a value of $200 million. From this moment on, JMI Equity is going to dictate the direction towards [...]     

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  • Zeebo raises $17 Million in series B of Funding for Education Platform

    August 30th, 2011 No comments

    Zeebo, a game producing company, whose purpose has been that of “helping the next billion play, learn and connect”, has recently announced the end of the second round of funding, which has brought the company $17 million. This amount of money comes from a private equity firm, SEC filing. The company intends to use this amount of money in order to sustain the evolution and spreading of a new gaming console which can be used for educational purposes. Despite the fact that education and entertainment are not exactly industries that seem to get along just fine, as there are more and more statistics which [...]     

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  • Zerto raises $15 Million in Series B of Funding for Disaster Recovery for Cloud Systems

    August 29th, 2011 No comments

    Latest Venture Capital Deals News: August 22 2011 Zerto raises $15 Million in Series B of Funding for Disaster Recovery for Cloud Systems Zerto Inc., the Israeli based developer of the software called Disaster recovery, has recently announced the end of the second round of funding which has brought the company an amount of $15 million. Read the full story here August 6 2011 Multinational Team of Investors Invest $3.6 Million in Series B Funding Round for Tantaline QuickMobile, the US company which specializes in developing mobile solution in order to provide the necessary applications for meetings and events industries, has recently announced the end of a first round of funding which has brought the company a [...] 

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  • Voxy raises $2.8 Million for Language Learning Application

    August 29th, 2011 No comments

    Voxy, the company based in Roseland, New Jersey, has recently announced the end of the first round of funding for the company, which has brought them an infusion of capital of $2.8 million. The company specializes in developing software solutions for learning languages in an easy and fun way. This first funding round has been led by Seavest Inc., along with ff Venture and Contour Ventures. This means that Seavest, Inc. and at Contour Ventures are going to join Voxy’s investor base and to join off the Asset Management and several other new and existing angel investors. This money is intended to be used for [...]     

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  • AliveCor raises $3 Million for iPhone/Android Heart Monitors

    August 26th, 2011 No comments

    AliveCor has recently managed to raise $3 million in venture capital for the new service they have developed. The company succeeded in creating an application which functions as a low-budget electrocardiogram (ECG) which is compatible with lots of mobile devices, such as iPhones, iPads and Android devices. This series A funding round has been led by Burrill & Company, with the participation of Qualcomm Ventures and of the Oklahoma Life Science Fund. The application allows users to monitor their hearts by the means of a card-sized wireless device which manages to turn the mobile device into a low-cost heart monitor which has similar features [...]     

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