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| 30.12.2017 | Bigfinite Raises $8.5 Million Seed Round to Help Pharma Industry Optimize its Drug Manufacturing Process | Bigengine Saas Platform Uses Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Technologies to Make Pharma Manufacturing More Efficient
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| 21.06.2017 | GreatHorn Secures $6.3 Million Series A Funding from Techstars Ventures and .406 Ventures | GreatHorn, the cybersecurity solution for cloud communications platforms, today announced it has secured a $6.3 million Series A funding round from Techstars Venture Capital Fund and .406 Ventures, with participation from existing investors... |
| 05.04.2017 | Cendana Capital — which funds 15 top seed-stage groups — just raised a ton of capital | Michael Kim is pretty much killing it.
Seven years ago, when he first approached investors with the idea of creating a fund-of-funds that would invest in seed-stage, or so-called micro VC, funds, they were cool to the idea. In fact, it took... |
| 11.01.2017 | Precursor Ventures raises $15.3 million for seed investing, with a twist | Charles Hudson has lived in the Bay Area for the last 20 years, working as product manager, as an entrepreneur, and an investor. As such, he’s had a front row seat to a number of changes in the way startups are funded, including the evoluti... |
| 14.12.2016 | Newer VC firms are trouncing their predecessors when it comes to diversity | Over the last three months, the venture firm Social Capital has worked with the media outlet The Information to put together a look at the most diverse venture firms for the second year in a row. The teams say they gathered more than 6,000 ... |
| 12.12.2016 | In Founders Den, a private club that relies on the power of persuasion | If you live in San Francisco and know much about tech startups, you’ve likely heard of Founders Den, a shared office space and private club for startups and investors that leases 8,500 square feet on a nondescript block in San Francisco.
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| 01.08.2016 | Whoa: RJMetrics just got acquired | If you measure the health of Philly’s tech scene by how many exits go down, we might have some news for ya.
Analytics software company RJMetrics has sold its legacy CloudBI business for an undisclosed amount to Silicon Valley ecommerce comp... |
| 01.08.2016 | Whoa: RJMetrics just got acquired | If you measure the health of Philly’s tech scene by how many exits go down, we might have some news for ya.
Analytics software company RJMetrics has sold its legacy CloudBI business for an undisclosed amount to Silicon Valley ecommerce comp... |
| 09.06.2016 | SoftTech VC closes $100m Fund V, $50m growth vehicle | San Francisco-based seed-stage investor SoftTech VC has closed a total of $150m across two new funds. The firm has picke |
| 08.06.2016 | SoftTech VC founder highlights health IT plans with latest $100M seed fund | Asked to identify a recent health tech investment, Clavier named Molekule. The new company develops an air purifier that uses “blue light” to degrade airborne particles to support people with respiratory conditions such as asthma or COPD.
I... |
| 08.06.2016 | SoftTech VC goes big, raising $150 million across two new funds | Back in January, we told you that SoftTech VC, a San Francisco-based seed-stage fund founded 11 years ago by investor Jeff Clavier, had promoted two of its senior investors to full partners: Andy McLoughlin and Stephanie Palmeri. The move s... |
| 08.06.2016 | Venture Capital Firm SoftTech VC Closes Two Funds Totalling $150M | Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm SoftTech VC closed two funds totalling $150m.
The funds, backed by a mix of 40 institutional LPs, family offices and individual investors – often entrepreneurs from previous portfolio companies, inc... |
| 28.03.2016 | SoftTech VC Increases Raise Effort of Opportunity Fund to $45M | According to a regulatory form filed with the SEC, SoftTech VC, a Palo Alto, CA-based early stage venture capital firm, is increasing the raising effort related to the opportunity fund to $45m.
This brings the total raise effort from $130 t... |
| 24.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 24, 2016 | Polypid closed $22M; NoBaker raised $10M funding; ClearMetal closed $3M Seed funding
Paysa, provider of market salary data, raised $4 million in seed funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Milliway Ventures, and other private investo... |
| 10.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 10, 2016 | Latch picked up $10.5M; Hexadite raised $8M; SchoolMint secured $5.6M funding
Hexadite, an Israel-based company that focuses on automated cybersecurity incident response, raised an $8 million Series A funding round from new investors Hewlet... |
| 10.02.2016 | Lantern finds clinical validation partner in UPMC for cognitive therapy tool | Users who download its app do an assessment that functions as a self-evaluation. It provides daily exercises, which help users identify and restructure negative thoughts. It also functions like a life coach with support and feedback.
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| 10.02.2016 | Halo Neuroscience raises $9M Series A for neurostimulation for athletics, stroke rehab | The company is interested in applying its brain stimulation technology in two areas –athletics and stroke rehabilitation.
For that reason it stands apart from other companies that have focused on areas like ADHD, concentration in general, a... |
| 26.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 26, 2016 | Grovo announced $40 funding; Vidyard nabbed $35M; Cedexis closed $22M Series B funding
Grovo, a SaaS-based learning management system (LMS) for companies, today announced that it has closed $40 million in a Series C funding round led by exi... |
| 22.01.2016 | SoftTech VC to Raise Two VC Funds Totalling $130M | Palo Alto, CA-based early stage venture capital firm SoftTech VC is to raise two new funds.
According to documents filed with the S.E.C., the firm is raising a $100m principal fund, called SoftTech VC V, L.P., and a $30m fund to continue to... |
| 20.01.2016 | SoftTech VC Promotes Stephanie Palmeri Andy McLoughlin to Partners | Palo Alto, CA-based early stage venture capital firm SoftTech VC promoted Stephanie Palmeri and Andy McLoughlin, two of its senior investment staff, to Partners.
Stephanie Palmeri joined SoftTech VC in 2011 as Senior Associate after receivi... |
| 19.01.2016 | As VC market cools, SoftTech gets new partners | SoftTech adds Stephanie Palmeri and Andy McLough, also look to raise $130 million across two funds
It's a tough time for venture capital right now, as things kind of fell off a cliff at the end of last year, with the lowest amount invested ... |
| 19.01.2016 | SoftTech VC Promotes Two To Partner As It Seeks Out Fresh $130M | SoftTech VC, a San Francisco-based seed-stage fund founded 11 years ago by investor Jeff Clavier, has promoted two of its senior investors to full partners, a move seemingly geared to bolster the firm as it seeks to raise a $130 million in ... |
| 04.10.2015 | Working to Walk: Designing my Walking Desk | It’s Sunday. I could have stayed home and worked from home for a couple of hours (while the kids are in language school), but instead I chose to come in to the office and work here instead. There were two driving factors for me to come in t... |
| 20.07.2015 | Spoon University Takes Food Back to School with $2.76m Seed Round | It’s no secret that food has taken the social media scene by storm. There are countless blogs, social media sites and platforms geared toward helping you satisfy all of your culinary cravings. And even the more general social media sites ar... |
| 16.07.2015 | Huddle’s desktop app now available to the public, adds deeper Microsoft Office integration | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Enterprise collaboration platform Huddle is makin... |
| 07.05.2015 | Doblet Raises $1.3M in Seed Funding | Doblet, a San Francisco-based network of batteries on demand for charging phones, raised $1.3m in a seed funding round.
The round was led by SoftTech VC.
Led by Doktor Gurson, co-founder and CEO, Doblet is a network of batteries on demand f... |
| 01.04.2015 | DroneDeploy Flies with $9M Series A | March 31st – DroneDeploy went skyward today with $9 million in first round Series A financing. The company, which provides cloud-based user-friendly software platforms for drone operations, accessible through smartphone or tablet apps, saw ... |
| 18.03.2015 | Huddle’s Co-Founder Andy McLoughlin Joins SoftTech VC | SoftTech VC, a Palo Alto, CA-based early stage venture capital firm investing in B2B and B2C startups, has hired Andy McLoughlin as a Venture Partner.
McLoughlin joined SoftTech VC from London-based enterprise content collaboration company ... |
| 18.03.2015 | Jeff Clavier’s SoftTechVC Hires Huddle Co-Founder Andy McLoughlin As Its Newest Venture Partner | Following the close of its $85 million fourth fund last year, early-stage venture firm SoftTechVC is bringing on a new venture partner. With an eye on SaaS and enterprise investments, it’s hired Huddle co-founder Andy McLoughlin to join the... |
| 06.03.2015 | Visually Gets $3.3M, Brings on Key New Hires | Our culture is trending more towards on-demand services, as you may have already noticed. When it comes to on-demand creative services though, Visually has been one of the top dogs in the field.
CrossLink Capital, 500 Startups, Mitch Kapor ... |
| 21.01.2015 | Poka Closes $2.5M Funding | Poka, a Quebec City-based social industrial platform, closed a $2.5m funding round.
The round was led by iNovia Capital with participation from SoftTech VC.
The funds will be used to accelerate Poka’s product development, grow the engineeri... |
| 09.12.2014 | Hired Pulls In $15 Million In Series B, Adds A Sales Category And Plans To Expand Globally | Hired, the startup that plays secret matchmaker for engineers and the companies hoping to hire them, has expanded beyond computer science into sales and raised $15 million in Series B funding to help it rapidly expand on a global scale.
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| 04.11.2014 | Thanx Gets $4.7 Million From Sequoia, Partners With Visa And MasterCard | Customer loyalty program startup Thanx launched today with both a Visa and MasterCard partnership and $4.7 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. An earlier seed round from SoftTech VC of $1.3 million brings the total funding rai... |
| 31.07.2014 | Fotopedia Will Shut Down Its Apps And Website On August 10 | About six years ago, former Apple Application Division CTO Jean-Marie Hullot founded Fotopedia, a startup that in its early days tried to bring the coffee table book experience to the iPad (and later iPhone). It focused on travel-related ap... |
| 30.07.2014 | How to be an early-stage investor | From SoftTech VC, Intel Capital, Bain Capital... how do top investors make decision?
How is the landscape changing for early-stage investors? Given the influx of seed-stage financing and the dearth of Series A investments, are there opportu... |
| 30.06.2014 | SoftTech VC Closes $85M Venture Capital Fund | SoftTech VC announced the closing of an $85m venture capital fund.
Backers included 20 institutional LPs and 40 individuals (43% Fund of Funds, 23% Family Offices, 15% Endowments & Pension Funds, 10% Foundations, 9% Individuals).
SoftTe... |
| 30.06.2014 | Quote of the Day: Jeff Clavier (Best Explanation Ever of What an Early Stage VC Does) | “Our job is to sift through a funnel of 2,000 to 3,000 opportunities per year, invest in 15, help them staff up, launch their product, and build their sales and marketing engine to successfully raise follow on rounds from the best VC firms“... |
| 27.06.2014 | Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC Raises $85 Million Fourth Fund | Last week, I went to a party celebrating the 10th anniversary of Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC. What I didn’t know was that the partners were also likely celebrating the close of the firm’s $85 million fourth fund for investing in startups.
Cl... |
| 10.06.2014 | About.me CEO Tony Conrad Raises $11 Million, Will Fireside Chat With Tech Cocktail in July
| About.me is quickly growing to internet notoriety, and, personally, it's my favorite way to promote myself via social media. Why, you might ask? It's simple: About.me is simple. The platform combines the flair of Facebook with the professio... |
| 27.05.2014 | Farmeron, Cattle SaaS Platform, Closes $2.65M Seed Round | Farmeron has done it again with another round of funding.
Last week, the company closed a $2.65 Million seed round from investors including serial entrepreneur Matt Swanson, former Innovative Livestock Services CEO Andrew Murphy, SoftTech V... |
| 20.05.2014 | DocSend Goes Step Beyond Sharing With Document Analytics | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
B2B document sharing services are nothing new, but DocSend, a San Francisco-based startup that launched out of TechCrunch Disrupt earlier this month, could change how you work... |
| 15.04.2014 | Twitter to Buy Boulder, CO-based Social Data Startup Gnip | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Twitter will acquire social data startup Gnip for an undisclosed price, the companies announced Tuesday.
Boulder, CO-based Gnip collects public social-media activity from site... |
| 09.01.2014 | Jeff Clavier Breaks Down His “Three Asses” Rule for Investing | At a TCWEEK fireside chat last night in downtown Vegas, SoftTechVC founder Jeff Clavier explained his famous “three asses” rule: he’s looking for “a smart-ass team building a kick-ass product in a big-ass market.”
You’ll find this rule on t... |
| 22.10.2013 | Physician finder app identifies specialists by user insurance plan raises $2.6M | Investors in the company include seed stage investor SoftTechVC, 500 Startups and healthcare venture investor Burrill & Co. Jeff Clavier from SoftTech and Dirk Lammerts from Burrill & Co are joining the company’s board.
Other physic... |
| 22.10.2013 | Doctor-finding service BetterDoctor gets $2.6M Seed | SoftTechVC, Burrill & Co, 500 Startups invest in a platform to make the doctor search easier
BetterDoctor - a platform to help you find doctors - just raised a $2.6 million seed round, led by SoftTechVC and Burrill & Co. 500 Startup... |
| 21.10.2013 | Panorama Education Raises $4M in Seed Funding | Panorama Education, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of survey and analytics platform specifically designed for K-12 schools, raised $4m in seed funding.
The round was co-led by Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup:Education and Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech ... |
| 21.10.2013 | Zuckerberg Makes First Ed-Tech Investment, Leads $4M Round for Cambridge Startup | One Cambridge-based company has caught the attention of Mark Zuckerberg. Panorama Education announced Monday it has raised $4 million in seed funding. The round was spearheaded by the Facebook founder's three-year-old Startup:Education, and... |
| 21.10.2013 | Zuck’s first major ed-tech investment? Panorama Education, the brainchild of a Yale coder | When Aaron Feuer was in high school, he helped write a bill for students to give feedback on their classes.
By the time he matriculated at Yale University, Feuer had picked up computer programming skills. He couldn’t shake the feeling that ... |
| 16.10.2013 | Bre Pettis, Jeff Clavier, And Matt Rogers Will Join Us At Hardware Battlefield In Vegas | With the rise of crowdfunding and easier paths to manufacturing, there are more gadgeteers than ever before. And we’re looking for some of the best hardware startups to compete on our Las Vegas stage for a giant $50,000 check, tons of publi... |
| 11.10.2013 | Funding Roundup - week ending 10/11/13 | DogVacay, GreenWave, TempoDB, Dollar Shave Club, ERN, elevate DIGITAL all raised new funding
Seed stage
Diagnosia, a European source for medical drug information, raised €1 million from FFG, along with angel investors Christoph Prinz, Micha... |
| 03.10.2013 | Tulip Retail Raises $2.4M in Funding | Tulip Retail, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canadda-based a retail software company, raised $2.4m in funding.
The round was led by SoftTech, with participation from Founder Collective, BoxGroup, Lerer Ventures, iNovia, Promus Ventures, KIMA Ventures... |
| 12.07.2013 | SoftTech VC To Raise $75M Fund | According to reports, Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC plans to raise a new fund.
The WSJ said that the new vehicle has a target of 75m and an $85m hard cap.
Launched in 2004, SoftTech VC makes investments ranging from $250K to $750K, acquiring a... |
| 15.05.2013 | RJMetrics Closes $6.25M in Series A Funding | RJMetrics, a Philadelphia, PA-based hosted business intelligence provider, closed $6.25m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Trinity Ventures, with participation from current investor SoftTech VC. In conjunction with the funding, Kara... |
| 03.05.2013 | SocialWire Raises $1M in Funding | SocialWire, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a dynamic product ads platform, raised $1m in additional funding.
Backers included SoftTech VC, First Round Capital, 500 Startups, Accelerator Ventures, and Joi Ito.
The company intends to u... |
| 11.04.2013 | “In The Studio,” SoftTech’s Charles Hudson Has Game When It Comes To Gaming | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
“In The Studio” rolls on this week by welcoming a long-time Valley operator, founder, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now general par... |
| 21.03.2013 | ‘YouTube For Business’, Vidyard, Raises $6M Series A Led By OMERS Ventures To Build Out Its Video Marketing & Analytics Platform | Vidyard, a Y Combinator alumnus and enterprise startup that sells a video marketing platform with embedded analytics tools to businesses to help them track and monetise video content, has closed a $6 million Series A led by Canada’s OMERS V... |
| 21.03.2013 | Vidyard (YC S11) raises $6M Series A from OMERS Ventures to build out its video marketing and analytics platform | Vidyard, a Y Combinator alumnus and enterprise startup that sells a video marketing platform with embedded analytics tools to businesses to help them track and monetise video content, has closed a $6 million Series A led by Canada’s OMERS V... |
| 21.03.2013 | Vidyard Raises $6M in Series A Financing | Vidyard, a Kitchener, Ontario, Canada-based video marketing platform company, raised $6m in Series A financing.
The round was led OMERS Ventures, with participation from existing investors iNovia Capital, SoftTech VC, and Jill Rowley.
The c... |
| 16.03.2013 | DeveloperAuction Raises $2.7M in First Funding | DeveloperAuction, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that operates a web platform where companies can bid for developers, raised $2.7m in their first funding.
The round was led by NEA and Sierra Ventures, with participation from Google Ventu... |
| 09.02.2013 | Amazon Coins Are Steroids For The Amazon Appstore | Editor’s note: Charles Edward Hudson is a venture partner with SoftTech VC and the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco-based, mobile games company Bionic Panda Games. Follow him on Twitter @chudson.
I have been trying to wrap my head around... |
| 21.01.2013 | How to get funding: Inside the investor’s mind, as seen by Jeff Clavier of Softech VC | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
So you’re trying to get your first taste of fundi... |
| 14.12.2012 | Poshmark Closes $12M Series B Financing | Poshmark, a Menlo Park, CA-based mobile marketplace for fashion, has closed $12m a Series B financing.
The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from existing investors Mayfield Fund, Inventus Capital, and SoftTech VC.
This in... |
| 19.11.2012 | Get funded! An idiot’s guide to angel investment | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Silicon Valley’s most prolific angel investors ar... |
| 04.11.2012 | “Greed Trumps Race”: How To Be A Successful (African) American in Silicon Valley | Editor’s note: Dr. Paul Judge is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is chief research officer at Barracuda Networks, co-founder and Chairman of Pindrop and Limitless Smart Shot, and previously led three companies to successful exits. Fo... |
| 31.10.2012 | isocket Raises $8M in Series A Funding | isocket, a Burlingame, CA-based company that operates a marketplace of premium, direct-to-publisher inventory, has raised $8m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Foundry Group, with participation from new investor Costanoa and seed in... |
| 21.09.2012 | SoftTech And Others Invest $1.5M In Beauty Ecommerce Site Coterie | Beauty ecommerce site Coterie is today announcing a seed raise of $1.5 million from SoftTech VC, Javelin Venture Partners and Michael Jung.
Coterie allows women to sign up for exclusive limited deals on beauty brands like Kevyn Aucoin and B... |
| 15.07.2012 | How To Prepare Your Startup To Raise An Angel Round | Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 12-city event series growing around the world to help educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. He’s also ex-Electronic Arts, the founder of Commonred and Vaporware Labs.
A... |
| 14.05.2012 | Femanomics: 105 Women Venture Capitalists & Angel Investors You Should Know | I know what you’re thinking. You are thinking there has been a lot of talk about women investors, or rather, the lack of women venture capitalists and angel investors. You can read about it, here, here, here, and here. You can read the outr... |
| 02.05.2012 | Vungle Raises $2M in Funding | Vungle, a San Francisco-based startup that helps mobile developers promote their apps through video “trailers”, has raised $2m in funding.
Backers include Google Ventures, AOL Ventures, Crosslink Capital and angel investors including Charle... |
| 19.04.2012 | Wander Wins $1.2M From Rob Go, SV Angel, Google Ventures, SoftTech And Others | The NYC-based Wander is today announcing a raise of $1.2 million from Rob Go’s NextView Ventures, Jeff Clavier and Stephanie Pameri’s SoftTech VC, SV Angel, Rich Miner’s Google Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Red Swan and TechStars.
Wander, w... |
| 01.03.2012 | Interview with VC Jeff Clavier: The Dangers of Lean Startup, Big Pitching Mistakes, and More Tips | Named a “kingmaker” of Silicon Valley, micro-VC Jeff Clavier has been pitched more than 10,000 times (according to his own estimate). His firm SoftTech VC, which recently closed a third fund of $55 million, boasts investments like Eventbrit... |
| 22.02.2012 | First Floor Labs Sold A Company To Facebook, Graduated Three YC Startups, And Is Accepting Applications | Last Friday I visited the Aol* building on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. But instead of the stench of death and decay you would normally find at a dying company, I found joy and the hustle and bustle of youth. More importantly, I found start... |
| 29.01.2012 | (Founder Stories) Jeff Clavier: On Getting Your Product In Front Of A VC (And Keeping It There) | Because every VC’s inbox is overflowing with pitches, and because VC’s don’t take meetings with just anyone, SoftTech VC’s Jeff Clavier, (who just raised $55 million for his third fund) offers advice to founders who hope to cut through the ... |
| 28.01.2012 | (Founder Stories) SoftTech VC’s Clavier: How To Avoid The Series A Crunch | At the top of this Founder Stories episode featuring SoftTech VC’s Jeff Clavier, Chris Dixon mentions much has been written about the “Series A Crunch.” It’s the occurrence of seed stage companies hitting the end of their initial funding cy... |
| 26.01.2012 | Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC Raises $55 Million For Fund III | The micro-VCs are growing up. Case in point: Jeff Clavier, who started out as an angel investor backing Web 2.0 companies and then transitioned his portfolio into a more formal venture firm, SoftTech VC. Clavier just finished raising a tota... |
| 26.01.2012 | Fitbit, tech investor SoftTech VC closes $55M fund | To snatch up some of SoftTech’s hunk of change, companies should have “a smart ass team with a kick-ass product and a big ass market,” according to the firm’s “three asses rule.” It’s looking for sharp, imaginative entrepreneurs, a solid pr... |
| 24.01.2012 | Fitbit Raises $12M in Series C Funding | Fitbit, a San Francisco, CA-based maker of the popular Fitbit Ultra Wireless Activity and Sleep Tracker, has raised $12m in Series C funding.
Backers include existing investors Foundry Group, True Ventures, SoftTech VC and Felicis Ventures.... |
| 17.01.2012 | Bionic Panda Builds A Social Gaming Business On Android, Raises Funding From Top Investors | If you’re trying to build a mobile game for the hardcore crowd, you’re going to want things like at least moderately elaborate graphics… you’ll probably choose to build on iOS first. But if you’re trying to build a casual-style game that an... |
| 06.12.2011 | Poshmark Brings In $3.5 Million To Bring The Clothing Swap To Your iPhone | You know that whole “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” thing? Well, that’s the concept behind clothing swaps, a type of gathering that’s recently become popular, where people (mainly women) get together and exchange used clothes. I... |
| 06.12.2011 | Poshmark launches iOS app with $3.5M funding | Poshmark mobile app creates virtual marketplace for the fashion-forward
Tuesday saw the announcement of a $3.5M Series A funding for Poshmark, an online fashion marketplace, as well as the launch of the company's new mobile app, which enabl... |
| 03.11.2011 | Groupon Prices Its IPO At A $12.7B Valuation, Has A Lot To Prove | Groupon has priced its IPO at $20 a share according to reports, which would give the company a $12.7 billion valuation and mean that it’d be seeking $690 million in tomorrow’s offering, by floating only 5.4 percent of its shares.
Right befo... |
| 20.10.2011 | Infographics platform Visual.ly raises $2M | The seed round is led by Crosslink, SoftTech, and 500 Startups
Infographics platform Visual.ly announced Thursday that it has raised $2 million in a seed round led by Crosslink Capital, SoftTech, and 500 Startups, with help from some notewo... |
| 20.10.2011 | Visual.ly Raises $2 Million To Make Even More Infographics | Visual.ly, the team built from the infographics team behind Mint’s spectacular infographics, has raised $2 million in seed funding, led by Crosslink Capital, SoftTech and 500 Startups as well as angels Kapor Capital, Giza Ventures, Naval Ra... |
| 17.09.2011 | The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other Big Themes From TC Disrupt SF | TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on sleep and digest what just happened. In no particular order, here are my thematic takeaways from this yea... |
| 26.08.2011 | They’re in! Meet the DEMO Fall 2011 Speakers | The fall DEMO conference is only weeks away, on September 12-14th in Santa Clara, Calif. and we’re excited to reveal our lineup. Aside from the 60-plus companies launching products, we’ve got some amazing speakers and “sages,” who will be p... |
| 18.07.2011 | How to Raise Investment Capital – According to VC Jeff Clavier | Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as “one of the few cool VCs.” Years later Clavier’s name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies fin... |
| 20.05.2011 | The Hackathon Is Almost Here. Come Root For Your Favorite Hackers This Sunday! | The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon is taking place in NYC this weekend and is shaping up to be our biggest and best yet. We’ll be hosting hundreds of hackers all weekend long. Come hang out with them, or watch their presentations in person at... |
| 14.05.2011 | Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral | The press loves the term Super Angels. They use it at almost every opportunity they get and sometimes even when they don’t have the right opportunity for it. In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and t... |
| 19.04.2011 | Deals & More: Decide lands $6M for electronics shopping service | Today’s funding announcements include new solutions for shopping, reading and computing:
Decide gets $6M for eCommerce company: The Seattle-based company has raised a second round of funding led by Maveron with participation from Madrona Ve... |
| 17.03.2011 | Bubbling in the cauldron: Is Twitter a sign? | “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble,” chanted the witches of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, cooking up trouble. Similarly, are the VCs of Silicon Valley cooking up trouble by helping to fuel a new bubble?
Valuations for... |
| 17.03.2011 | Bubbling in the cauldron: Is Twitter a sign? | “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble,” chanted the witches of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, cooking up trouble. Similarly, are the VCs of Silicon Valley cooking up trouble by helping to fuel a new bubble?
Valuations fo... |
| 05.01.2011 | Super angel Jeff Clavier raising $35M fund | Updated
Jeff Clavier, who was one of the early pioneers of “super angel” investing, is raising a new $35 million fund, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Clavier is one of the best-known angels in the Valley ... |
| 05.01.2011 | Jeff Clavier's SoftTech VC Raises $15 Million For New Fund; Adds New Partners | It looks like Jeff Clavier‘s venture fund SoftTech VC has just raised $15 million out of $35 million for a new fund, SoftTech VC III according to an SEC filing. In addition, it appears that Charles Hudson has joined as a partner in the fund... |
| 05.01.2011 | SoftTech VC III in the works with $15 million | Super angel Jeff Clavier's newest fund for early-stage and seed rounds raises portion of $35 million
Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC has secured $15 million of a new $35 million, likely SoftTech VC III, according to an SEC filing.
Though Clavier... |
| 23.11.2010 | Milo.com helps you find Black Friday deals | The local shopping site is providing a list of over 5,000 local Black Friday sales
Every year, on the day after Thanksgiving, my sisters and I wake up bright and early and brave the holiday crowds to snag us some deals. It’s sick, I know. B... |
| 14.09.2010 | Get Satisfaction raises $6M | The social customer support platform provides networks for over 200 companies
What I hate more than anything else in the world - more than freeway traffic, Thai food, and bad comb-overs -- is automated customer support voice messaging syste... |
| 10.08.2010 | Freemium business models for the enterprise? | It's commonplace for consumer applications, but can it work for enterprise software?
The Freemium business model is normal for consumer applications, but can it work for enterprise software? Freemium usually means a free service with an &qu... |
| 02.08.2010 | Lessons for Budding Angel Investors from Y Combinator’s AngelConf: Part 1 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
You’ve been a part of the startup world for a while, and you’ve had a successful exit or two. You have some money laying around that you don’t know what to do with. You feel a... |
| 12.07.2010 | Mobile investing: Angels and big VC firms converge on capital-efficient deals | As mobile applications and startups become less pricey to fund, big investment firms are overlapping more and more with Silicon Valley angel investors as their funds and deal sizes shrink.
Today’s “Smart Strategies for Mobile Investing” ses... |
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As mobile applications and startups become less pricey to fund, big investment firms are overlapping more and more with Silicon Valley ... |
