Though associates at VC firms can always find mentors, there are a few things that the Kauffman Fellows might not tell you. Remmy Oxley gives his five unexpected tips for upping your venture capital game. Read more »
A startup called Color has raised a whopping $41 million from a group of funds including Sequoia Capital. Is the company’s photo-sharing app worth that much? Probably not. The funding is likely just a bet that the team involved will eventually come up with something worthwhile. Read more »
TuneUp is software that helps you organize your iTunes library. The makers of TuneUp just secured an additional $2 million in funding, which they plan to use to add features and stay relevant in a world where, more and more, music lives in the cloud. Read more »
Cheezburger — the blog network that brought you I Can Has Cheezburger, the Fail blog and many other similar humor-oriented sites — today announced that it has closed a $30-million round of funding from a group of venture capital firms including Foundry Group and SoftBank Capital. Read more »
Earlier, we reported that the TikTok and LunaTik watchband kits for the iPod nano had broken a funding record on Kickstarter. Well, fast forward to now, with the funding about to close, and the project has garnered more than $900,000 in funding. Read more »
Kontiki announced this morning that it has raised a $10.7 million funding round led by MK Capital, with New World Ventures and Cross Creek Capital also participating in the funding. It says it will use the funds to expand product development and sales and marketing programs. Read more »
Angels are winning the startup-funding race, and that appears to be accelerating an ongoing shift in the venture capital market. As more startups are turning to angels for funding, recent data shows that the amount of money raised by traditional VC funds continues to shrink. Read more »
TubeMogul has raised a Series B round of funding of $10 million from new and existing investors. The online video advertising and analytics company wants to use the new cash infusion to build out its ad platform, which has proven to be a major money maker. Read more »
Eventbrite has closed $20 million in Series D funding led by DAG Ventures, and including Tenaya Capital as well as previous investor Sequoia Capital. The four-year-old, San Francisco-based company has now raised a total of $29.5 million. Read more »
Online video companies in China continue to attract investors, as they battle it out for the attention of the 1.3 billion people that reside there. The latest to raise money is Tudou.com, which just announced a $50 million Series E investment led by Singapore-based Temasek Holdings. Read more »
Amidst widespread discussion and fear of collecting personal data for ad targeting, one of the leading marketplaces for such audience data has raised a big round of venture funding. New York City-based eXelate today announced a $15 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures. Read more »
Foursquare, which has been nearly as exhibitionist about sharing the details of its corporate dealings as some of its users are about sharing their locations, has finally closed its second funding round of $20 million led by Andreessen Horowitz and including previous investors. Read more »
Pandora, the music streaming provider and Silicon Valley darling, has raised additional late-stage funding of an undisclosed amount. Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy said in an emailed statement the funding would be used “to invest in resources we need to continue to execute on our strategy.” Read more »
Beyond just connecting us through voice and text, our mobile phone numbers are quickly becoming our identities and our wallets. Now they can also receive physical gifts! Well kind of — Giiv, a newly funded year-old startup, allows users to send each other virtual gift cards. Read more »
5to1, a company founded by former Fox Interactive executives including Ross Levinsohn, is out raising funding again. The San Francisco-based startup helps publishers find better ads for their sites, and has raised the first $68,000 of what looks to be a $3.45 million convertible note. Read more »
Morgan Solar, a Toronto-based startup developing acrylic solar concentrators, told us today it has raised $8.2 million in its first round of venture-capital funding from Spanish utility Iberdrola, plastics manufacturer Nypro, and Turnstone Capital Management, which led the round. Back in October, when Morgan Solar announced […] Read more »
The Echo Nest, a music recommendation engine developer that has announced partnerships with Spotify and MOG, has raised $1.3 million in a new round of funding from venture investors. Read more »
Hungry Machine Inc., the application developer behind LivingSocial.com, the social cataloging service, has raised $5 million in a new round, bringing its total funding to $10 million. Existing investors Steve and Jean Case and Grotech Capital Group contributed to the round alongside company CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy. Read more »
Video encoding provider Envivio has raised $1 million worth of debt in a convertible note filed today with the SEC. The South San Francisco, Calif.-based company, which was one of the first allowed onto Apple’s new HTTP streaming platform, had last raised funding in 2008, when […] Read more »
Bitgravity co-founder and former CTO Barrett Lyon has a new venture, which he recently introduced by announcing a round of funding from Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson, Storm Ventures and Greenwich Technology Associates. Lyon wouldn’t give much in the way of detail on the new company, called 3Crowd, […] Read more »
While the shakeout in the online video market has already occurred in the U.S. with YouTube reigning supreme over other sites, in China it’s a different story — which is why Chinese video site Youku.com was able to raise $40 million in a funding round announced […] Read more »
Widevine has nabbed an additional $15 million in a strategic investment from Liberty Global, a global cable operator, and Samsung Ventures to boost its business for multiplatform digital rights management. The DRM provider is looking to use the funding to expand its ability to offer TV […] Read more »
Gowalla, maker of a 10-week-old geo-location app with some 50,000 users, said today it’s raised $8.4 million in a second round of funding. The money will be used “to strengthen growth efforts and further enhance Gowalla’s development capability,” the Austin, Texas-based startup said in a release. Read more »
We’re at an odd time in the technology industry. While there’s bound to be some pre-holiday layoffs around the corner, it shouldn’t be like the carnage of last winter. The market wreck isn’t over, yet new venture deals have been coming across our desk in droves. Read more »
Video ad network ScanScout today said it had (finally) closed its Series B round by bringing in funding from Singapore-based EDB Investments. We’d previously written about the round in March, when the company had raised $5.1 million of a planned $8.1 million round, according to a […] Read more »
