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  • Code Academy raises $2.5 Million for Free Coding Lessons for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

    November 2nd, 2011 2 comments

    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 1 comment

    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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  • Latest Venture Capital Deals News:

    October 26th, 2011 No comments

    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 […] 

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  • Workday raises $85 Million for HR and Payroll Services Cloud

    October 25th, 2011 4 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 1 comment

    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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  • Latest Venture Capital Deals News:

    October 18th, 2011 No comments

    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 Tweet  

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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 1 comment

    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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  • 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 1 comment

    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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