Snowball aims to make your life easier by aggregating all your messages from various chat applications in one place. Will that be enough to make it take off?…
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Seedrs opens: Dragons’ Den crowdfunding for startups
After a long gestation period, crowd investment platform Seedrs has finally opened its doors -- allowing British startups to use its platform to pitch for early stage funding. And so far things appear to be going well.…
Read MoreMeet the Q&A site where people pay $150 for answers
Forget Quora: Swedish startup Mancx is trying to put a twist on question and answer sites by getting people to pay real money for the information they receive -- and it's just raised another $1.65m to expand.…
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Props to dinCloud, a hosted virtual desktop provider for closing a round of seed funding in a market that few are convinced…
Read MoreSo, is venture money drying up or blowing up?
One report says venture capital firms are investing more now than in recent years, but another says startups aren't seeing enough money. So is the system healthy or sick? Perhaps it depends on where you think investors should be putting their cash -- and why.…
Read MoreAwayFind closes seed funding and comes to Google Apps
AwayFind, the email productivity app that lets users get alerts when they receive important messages, is getting serious about business -- its own, and others. The San Francisco startup has announced a new version specifically for businesses and the closure of its round of seed funding.…
Read MoreSeed funded startups ripe for shakeout, VCs say
Individual seed investors have been an increasingly powerful force in Silicon Valley's startup funding landscape. But some venture capital heavyweights say that while the VC industry has been shaken up by the increase of seed backers, the current environment will likely lead to a fall.…
Read MoreThe looming Series B funding crash
Much is being made lately of a potential new bubble forming in the tech industry. But some say things aren't quite as frothy as they're being made out to be. Many of today's most well-funded startups may soon find themselves without necessary second round investors.…
Read MoreRebranded Ignite100 wants to set Euro startups on fire
To take on more established accelerator programs, British startup bootcamp The Difference Engine has changed its identity and stumped up a tantalizing reward: more than $150,000 in funding for the 10 startups who make the cut. Can it spur on a new generation of European innovation?…
Read MoreBullpen Capital’s New Fund Will Rise Above the Angels
Bullpen Capital thinks there's a lot of need and opportunity investing in what Union Square Ventures Managing Partner Fred Wilson called, "the mess." The new fund is looking to give start-ups the additional support they need as they move from seed round to more traditional funding.…
Read MoreIs There a Super-Angel Crash Looming?
The frothy state of web angel investing has changed the early lives of many companies in the past year, but it's not clear how much staying power today's leading class of "super-angel" investors will have. Is this a lasting new class of investors or not?…
Read MoreSeed Deals Account for 26% of Early-stage Web Investments
It's easy to look around at the consumer Internet and see that things are hopping. The private investment research firm CB Insights today gave us a stat to work with: 26 percent of all early-stage deal flow in the first quarter was for seed investments.…
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