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Sarah Lacy Debuts New Tech Site, PandoDaily -- $2M+ in Funding and Guess...
As has been widely reported, well-known TechCrunch columnist and Silicon Valley journalist Sarah Lacy has a new gig: Running her own new tech news site, which debuts today. (She’s pictured here with...
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CEO Tim Cadogan Talks About OpenX's First Profitable Quarter and Where Ad...
OpenX, the online digital advertising upstart, announced this morning that it had reached profitability for the first time, as well as “exceeding an annualized revenue run rate of more than $100M” in...
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Spotify's Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves to Path to Do Same
Shakil Khan, the well-known head of special projects for the popular Spotify music service, is taking a job with the same title at Path, the fast-growing personal social networking start-up. Khan will...
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Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential...
According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue has approached Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and co-founder Jack Dorsey about moving off the board of Twitter. It is not...
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Exclusive: Japan's Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race...
Rakuten, which runs the largest e-commerce site in Japan, is expected to be the lead investor in the much-contested next round of funding for Silicon Valley’s hottest start-up, Pinterest. The funding...
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Dear Internet IPO Investors: So Very Sorry! (But Not Really, After You See...
If you invested some of your money in the series of big, splashy IPOs that Silicon Valley has largely funded and churned out over the last year, you might be a little irritated. Even irked. Possibly...
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Fenwick VC Survey: Q2 Funding Valuations Shoot the Moon
According to Fenwick & West’s latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey, fundings in the second quarter of this year showed the highest valuation increases in more than five years. Looking at...
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Jeff Ma Talks About TenXer Raising $3 Million More to Help You Judge Yourself...
On-the-job personal productivity start-up tenXer has raised $3 million in a Series B round, which it said it will use to accelerate growth outside its software industry market. The San Francisco...
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Criteo Nabs $40 Million in Funding at $800 Million Valuation
Criteo, the performance display advertising company, just nabbed about $40 million in additional venture funding. The Series D round, led by SoftBank Capital, gives the Paris-based company an $800...
View ArticleCrowdSource Raises $12.5 Million for Enterprise Tasks
CrowdSource, which uses hundreds of thousands of workers to manage labor-intensive enterprise tasks, raised $12.5 million in a Series A round. The funding was led by Highland Capital Partners. The...
View ArticleSocial Media Marketing Firm HubSpot Adds $35 Million in Funding
HubSpot, which helps users with marketing via social media, has completed a new funding round of $35 million. The Cambridge, Mass., software company had previously raised about $65 million. The latest...
View ArticleCloud Media Start-Up Plizy Raises $4 Million From Atlas
Plizy, a San Francisco-based cloud media start-up, said it has raised $4 million in a Series A funding from Atlas Venture. The company, which recently launched a new version of its product on the Web...
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Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe on One Million-DNA March and More (Video)
Last week, I paid a visit to the Mountain View, Calif., offices of personal genomics company 23andMe, which just raised more than $50 million in a new funding round, to add to the $68 million it has...
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OpenX Raises $22.5 Million in Round Led by Samsung Venture Unit
OpenX Software said it had raised $22.5 million in a Series E funding round, with Samsung Venture Investment Corporation as lead investor. All told, the Los Angeles-based online advertising technology...
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Square COO Keith Rabois Departs Company
In a major exec departure, Square COO Keith Rabois will be leaving the San Francisco payments company. Square gave no other information about the sudden management change, but sources said...
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Loose Lips: Yahoo M&A Head Told Employees Company Looking at Two...
Lost in the sauce of the national work-from-home debate of last week that engulfed all things Yahoo, was a fascinating tidbit that several employees passed on to me from a recent Friday FYI meeting at...
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Commercial Drone Platform Company Gets $10.7 Million From Andreessen Horowitz...
Airware, a startup that is creating a software platform for commercial drones, said it had raised $10.7 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Google Ventures also...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Raises $50 Million More on $800 Million Valuation
According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard has raised $50 million in new funding, in a round led by Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs. The new funding puts the valuation of the...
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Good Eggs Nabs $8.5 Million from Sequoia and Others for Local Farm-to-Fridge...
Good Eggs, the local farm-to-fridge local grocery delivery startup, has nabbed $8.5 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, which it will use to expand its sustainable food service to more cities....
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Pinterest Does Another Massive Funding -- $225 Million at $3.8 Billion...
According to several sources, Pinterest has completed another enormous funding, this time nabbing $225 million with late-stage investor Fidelity Investments in the lead. The new infusion of cash —...
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Explaining What It's Going to Do With All That Dough, Pinterest Unveils Stats...
Pinterest confirmed an earlier report by AllThingsD that it had raised $225 million more from investors at a valuation of $3.8 billion. This Series E round will bring the total funding to $564 million...
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Yves Behar's "Smart" Lock Startup August Raises $8 Million
August, the home automation startup that makes a “smart” lock that uses virtual keys, said it has raised $8 million to bring the device to market next spring. If you are talking about the Internet of...
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Forget Trendy Coffee Beans -- Now Seaweed Innovation Gets Techie Money
First, it was twee organic coffee bean purveyor investments. Then it was better-for-you candy bar funding and soy-based meal replacement. And now? Seaweed, naturally. In the ongoing interest in...
View ArticleFlipboard to Close Additional $50 Million Investment Tomorrow
Flipboard, which recently raised $50 million in new funding in a round led by Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs, will file information about an additional $50 million investment from Rizvi...
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Exclusive: Foursquare Raises a $35 Million Round and Adds DFJ's Schuler to...
Foursquare, the iconic social location service, has raised $35 million in a Series D round, led by DFJ Growth and the Capital Group’s Smallcap World Fund. The company confirmed the raise to me and...
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