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Early Twitter Product Head Anamitra Banerji Becomes An EIR At Foundation Capital
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When Twitter shook up its product leadership in July, it let loose four Silicon Valley veterans into a talent-starved job market. While the three others have become a VC, a cofounder, and an engineering head, the last one left unaccounted for now has a new home. Anamitra Banerji has just...
Averail Raises $6M To Help Enterprises Share Documents On Mobile Devices
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Stealthy startup Averail has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Foundation Capital and Storm Ventures. In addition, the company has appointed Paul Holland, General Partner at Foundation Capital, and Tae Hea Nahm, Managing Director at Storm Ventures, to its Board of Directors. While some of the details...
13 energy data startups to watch in 2013
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Dozens of startups building analytics that can collect and analyze energy data emerged or grew their businesses in 2012. It was a hot trend for a variety of reasons including the development of big data technologies as a massive and growing business, the notion that energy analytics are a more...
“Office On The iPad” App CloudOn Raises $16 Million, Is Adding Group Collaboration
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CloudOn - yes, the company known best for bringing Microsoft Office to the iPad – has just closed a $16 million Series B round led by The Social+Capital Partnership with participation from Translink Capital as well as existing investors Foundation Capital and Rembrandt Venture Partners. Mamoon Hamid, General Partner at Social+Capital, will now...
AdRoll nabs $15M from Foundation, Accel, & Merus to get you clicking more ads
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Online ad retargeting startup AdRoll has raised $15 million in its second-round of funding with an aim of expanding the company and improving its tech that allows companies to serve more relevant display ads, the company announced today. As we’ve written about previously, AdRoll has somewhat cracked the code...
Introducing a big data prediction engine for the power grid
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A startup called AutoGrid is looking to provide big data analytics — the same type of analytics that companies like Amazon and Netflix use for their web recommendation engines — for the power grid. Tools like this will be needed, given that down the road there could be more data created...
Social Talent Management Solution SilkRoad Secures $35M Series C Round, Preps For Potential IPO
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Online human resources and social talent management solution SilkRoad just announced that it has raised a $25 million Series C financing round. The investors in this round include new investors Keating Capital and NTT Finance, as well as existing investors Intel Capital, Crosslink Capital, Foundation Capital, Azure Capital and Tenaya...
CloudOn Raises $16M to Go Beyond Office for iPad Success
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Palo Alto startup CloudOn today announced the successful close of a $16 million Series B round, led by The Social+Capital Partnership, and including TransLink Capital as well as existing investors Foundation Capital and Rembrandt Venture Partners. CloudOn’s sizeable Series B will help the mobile productivity company focus on going...
Google Ventures-Backed Cliqr Brings Old-School Business Apps To The Cloud
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In all the talk of cloud computing, Cliqr Technologies CEO Gaurav Manglik says there’s one area of enterprise technology that’s been sitting out the transition — business applications. The cloud has led to an explosion of new apps, but (to pick two random examples) chip design and medical imaging apps...
Copious Raises $5 Million Series A To Build Out The eBay With A Social Backbone
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Copious, a San Francisco startup that makes an online marketplace where people can buy and sell things, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The new round was led by Foundation Capital, with Google Ventures and Relay Ventures participating — all three firms had invested previously in Copious’...
CliQr, with Google backing, puts legacy apps into the cloud
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Most platforms as a service aim to help developers write new cloud-based applications. Startup CliQr Technologies is more interested in putting the applications that already run businesses into that business’s cloud of choice. The Palo Alto, Calif. startup, which is emerging from stealth with $1 million in seed funding from...
Google Ventures-Backed Copious Debuts A More Personalized, Social Marketplace For Fashion
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Last year, we wrote about Copious, an eBay-like marketplace that leveraged your social graph on Facebook. The site aimed to use your social graph from Facebook to make the marketplace experience that you’d find on Amazon or eBay more social, allowing buyers and sellers to see if friends in common,...
CloudOn raises $16M in Series B funding to move beyond ‘Office for tablets’
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CloudOn, the tablet app for creating, editing and managing Microsoft Office and Adobe documents in the cloud, has announced $16m in Series B funding as it looks to continue its mission to transform the mobile productivity space. Just to recap, CloudOn delivers full Microsoft Office capabilities with Dropbox integration, transforming...
Pocket gets $5M from Baseline, Foundation and Google to expand its read later service to new platforms
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The incredibly popular ‘save for later’ service Pocket is now clocking some 1M items saved per day and has announced a new $5M round of funding. Participating in this round is Foundation Capital, Baseline Ventures and Google Ventures, with the funds going to boost the speed of its rollout to...
Pocket gets $5M from Baseline, Foundation and Google to expand its read later service to new platforms
Bureau of Trade Raises $1.2M From Foundation Capital & Others For New Men's Shopping Site
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Bureau of Trade, a new online marketplace for men’s shopping, is today launching into public beta and announcing a $1.2 million round of seed funding led by Foundation Capital, with contributions from Founder Collective, Founders Fund, and other angels. Offering a catalog filled with thousands of unique, primarily pre-owned items sourced...
AdRoll Raises $15M For Ad Retargeting, Round Led By Foundation Capital
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AdRoll, one of the leaders in online ad retargeting, has raised a new $15 million round of funding. Back in February, the company announced that it had quadrupled revenue and become profitable in 2011. AdRoll now says it has more than 5,000 customers and is adding almost 500 new ones...
Transphorm, An Energy Efficiency Groundbreaker Backed By Google, Raises $35M From Japan Powerhouses
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Transphorm, a company that has developed a power conversion technology to drive energy efficiency, emerging from stealth early last year, has today announced a Series E raise of $35 million led by a particularly strategic pair of investors. The round is led by the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ)...
With 7.4 million users and 240 million saves, Pocket breaks down its most popular content of 2012
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Shedding the Read It Later moniker and adapting its save-it-later service to encompass all forms of media back in April, Pocket has been on a tear over the course of 2012. The service has seen its user base nearly double, rising from 4.5 million users in April to 7.4 million...
Google Ventures-backed CliQr launches to move your business apps to the cloud
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App migration and management startup CliQr Technologies has come out of stealth mode. Its CloudCenter software is aimed to help enterprises move their apps to public and private clouds, the company announced today. One of the more pressing problems for enterprises that are interested in tapping the power of...
SilkRoad raises a $35 million Series C, looking to boost its global expansion
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Funding news becomes interesting for any of several reasons, the most common of which is that a young company is raising enough cash to aggressively attack its market. But on the other end of that spectrum is news of an older firm raising a huge round, usually following other fat investments. That’s...
Pocket Raises $5M Series B; Plans To Bring Its 'Save For Later' App To More Devices And Platforms
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In a doubling-down by existing investors, Pocket, the content-shifting company formerly known as Read It Later, has raised a $5 million series B round led by Foundation Capital, while Baseline Ventures and Google Ventures also participated. This follows a previous funding round of $2.5m, which all three VC firms participated...
Kik raises another round of funding at $19.5M to support its increasingly growing user base and hire more talent
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Kik Interactive today announced another round of funding at $19.5 million to support its rapidly growing user base and hire more employees. “[The funding] is a sign that we are trying to build a big, sustainable company,” Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik Interactive, told us in an interview. “This round...
Kik raises another round of funding at $19.5M to support its increasingly growing user base and hire more talent
CloudOn raises $16M to unleash the power of MS Office on tablets
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Clearly I’m not the only one excited by CloudOn and its goal of making tablets more productive with software like Microsoft Office. The company announced today that it has raised $16 million in a second round of funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership. CloudOn offers apps for the iPad...
Pocket (formerly Read It Later) raises $5m in second funding round
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Pocket, the company for saving online content formerly known as Read It Later, has raised $5 million in a Series B funding round and will use the money to expand its platform. The funding round was led by Foundation Capital, with participation from Baseline Ventures and Google Ventures. Read It...
Averail exits stealth, nabs $6M to improve mobile file management
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Mobile content management startup Averail has raised $6 million in its first round of funding and exited stealth mode, the company announced Tuesday morning. Averail co-founder and head of marketing John Drewry told us the company wants to make management of files across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone devices...
ForgeRock grabs $15M to push access and identity management software
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When Oracle finished buying Sun Microsystems in 2010, it got Sun’s identity and access management software, among many other technologies, but Oracle already had its own versions in its Fusion line of middleware. Within a few months, many of the Sun employees who worked on the identity and access management software...
Silver Spring Networks prices boosted IPO, raises $81M
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Smart grid company Silver Spring Network’s long awaited IPO is finally here. On Tuesday night the company priced its IPO at the midpoint of its planned range, at $17 per share, and also made 4.75 million shares available, which is 1 million shares more than the company had originally planned....
Office-for-iPad App CloudOn Raises $16 Million Series B Funding
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CloudOn, an application for accessing Microsoft Office applications, Adobe Reader and DropBox on iPads and Android tablets, has raised $16 million in Series B funding today from Social+Capital, Translink Capital and existing investors Foundation Capital and Rembrandt Venture Partners. The company first launched in January 2012 and claims over 1...
Copious Raises Ample First Round Totaling $5 Million
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Copious has secured $6 million in a first round of funding led by Foundation Capital, with Google Ventures and Relay Ventures also participating. The San Francisco company is creating a marketplace like eBay or Craigslist, except that it connects with social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to find out...
NovoEd, another Stanford MOOC startup, opens small-group learning services to public
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In an online class of 80,000 students, breaking up into small groups is no easy task — as we saw from a suspended Coursera class earlier this year (that tried to use a Google doc to create groups), it can lead to confusion and technical glitches. But a new startup...
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