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AppointmentCity.com has raised an $800,000 angel round of funding for its online appointment-setting and lead generation platform, per an SEC filing. CEO Sherwin Krug said the m (Read More)
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AppNexus, a company that provides online advertising via a cloud computing platform, has secured a $5 million third round funding as it looks to capitalize on the growth of real (Read More)
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AppNexus, a company that provides online advertising via a cloud computing platform, has secured a $5 million third round funding as it looks to capitalize on the growth of real (Read More)
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This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Learn more about Grasshopper at Grasshopper.com.Let’s face it: as an entrepreneur, the odds are stacked against you. Most business (Read More)
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Credit Karma, a site that lets users get free access to their credit scores in exchange for receiving targeted ads, has raised $1.5 million worth of a $2.5 million round of fund (Read More)
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No wonder serial investor Ron Conway talked up Scoopler during his panel at the 140Conf last week—he’s an investor in the real-time search startup. Scoopler co-founder A.J. Asve (Read More)
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Former Bebo and MTV exec Angel Gambino is joining Latin American social network Sonico as its VP for business development at the company’s Buenos Aires HQ.She’s tasked with sign (Read More)
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Canadian microblogging startup StatusNet has raised $875,000 in a round of seed funding from Montreal Start Up, iNovia Capital and angel investor Oleg Tscheltzoff. StatusNet’s open source platform is used by organizations to (Read More)
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Hot Potato, an online startup that hopes to connect people watching live events in real-time, has raised $1 million in a funding round led by First Round Capital and RRE Ventures, MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka reports. Tech incubat (Read More)
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DailyBooth, a nine-month-old social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $1 million in a round of funding from a group of big name investors and VC firms, according to the WSJ. Investors include VC fi (Read More)
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Palaran, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based web startup, has raised $1 million worth of a $1.8 million first round of funding, per an SEC filing. True Ventures led the round; Palaran’s undisclosed round of angel funding came from Esth (Read More)
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Good, the media/online company founded by Ben Goldhirsh, has closed its first official round of funding, though the amount was not disclosed. The round was raised led by Goldhirsh himself, and included several angel investors (Read More)
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Jason Calacanis has gone to war against groups that charge startups for introductions to angel investors. Jason published the diatribe below privately and has already been deluged with responses. (We'll publish these tomorr (Read More)
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John Tozzi has a post on Business Week’s Small Biz blog regarding the trend of an increase in angel funds. I think one reason for this trend is a result of some angel investors who are excited by the idea of investing in star (Read More)
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DeepDyve, a search startup that can take queries of up to 20 words long, is in the process of raising a $5 million first institutional round, VentureWire reports. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup previously raised $9 milli (Read More)
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Morpheus describes itself as "a gang of serial entrepreneurs and around 40 startup founders" who are "trying to make a small contribution towards India's startup revolution." The venture aims to fill the gap in early-stage fi (Read More)
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With ski season just ahead, discount ski ticketing site Liftopia has raised $1 million in a second round of funding led by former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford and Amicus Capital. Sand Hill Angels, North Bay Angels, along with i (Read More)
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PitchBook Data, which offers a subscription-only private equity deals database, along with a popular e-mail newsletter on the industry, has raised $3.8 million in a first round of funding. CEO John Gabbert—a former managing d (Read More)
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A 2-year-old Silicon Valley startup is working on technology to solve the problems of machine vision. Their new product, launching today at DEMO, will lay the foundation for true video search, wherein software will learn, rec (Read More)
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Fluther, a “collective” Q & A site, has raised $600,000 in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The company did not respond to our request for comment, but the filing lists angel investor and Epinions founder Naval (Read More)