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Simplee Raises $6 Million Series A For Its Mint-Like Approach To Tracking Healthcare Expenses
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Simplee, a Mint-like platform for tracking healthcare expenses and then paying them online, is today announcing the close of its $6 million Series A round of funding. The round was led by The Social+Capital Partnership (aka “s23p”), and includes current investors, Greylock Partners Israel. As a part of the investment, s23p’s General Partner...
Addressgate: After The Path Fallout, Whose Address Book Is It Anyway?
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Editor’s note: Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of newly funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. Just.me is a stealth company in the mobile space and as such Keith’s opinions on this issue are likely to reflect his product focus. Addressgate...
Quattro Alums Launch Mobile Targeting Startup Adelphic, Raise $2M
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Two mobile veterans who worked together at Quattro Wireless, the mobile ad network that formed the basis of Apple’s iAd program, are announcing a new company today called Adelphic Mobile. Jennifer Lum, who was the vice president of ad ops at Quattro, tells me that me that she teamed up...
Online Education Startup Coursera Lands $16M From Kleiner & NEA, Adds John Doerr To Its Board
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It has already been a year since Peter Thiel called our attention to the bubble that has grown around American higher education. Yet, the costs inherent to receiving a college degree have continued to grow, as student debt in the U.S. today has pushed over $1 trillion, with the average...
Leap Motion Raises $12.75 Million, Wants To Change “The Future Of Human/Computer Interaction”
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Last year, stealth startup OcuSpec raised $1.3 million from Andressen Horowitz, Founders Fund, SOSventures International and a number of angel investors. Today, the company is announcing that is has raised a $12.75 million Series A round led by Highland Capital Partners with participation from its existing investors. This brings Leap...
How The Media (Including TechCrunch) Is Wrong About Facebook’s IPO
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Editor’s note: Dan Scholnick is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures where he invests in early stage cloud computing and consumerized IT companies such as New Relic, dotCloud, StackMob, Cloudscaling, and Loggly. You can read more about Dan at the Trinity Ventures website or follow him on Twitter @dschol. He is not an investor...
Top 10 Phat Startups of 2012
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There’s nothing wrong with making phone apps or mobile games. But Jamie Goldstein thinks that startups — and their backers — should attack bigger, meatier problems. So, while many people talk up the virtues of lean startups, Goldstein thinks it’s time to focus on companies willing to take big risk...
It’s Not About Instagram — It’s About Mobile
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Editor’s note: Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. Follow him on Twitter @kteare. It has been more than a week now, but Techmeme today is dominated by Instagram related headlines. Was the Board involved? Did Marc Andreessen know?...
The Least Stealthy Startup In The Valley Has Officially Launched (CSCO)
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One of the most talked about startups in Silicon Valley has opened for business today: Nicira. The company is formally launching its software, the Network Virtualization Platform (NVP), and announcing a set of impressive early customers: AT&T, NTT, Rackspace, Fidelty Investments and eBay. Although Nicira (pronounced nis-era) has been...
Institutional Venture Partners Raises $1 Billion For Fund XIV, Its Biggest Yet
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Angel investing may be hot, but it looks like things are not too shabby for the tech industry’s most powerful late-stage venture capital firms either. Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is announcing today that it has closed on $1 billion for its 14th fund, dubbed IVP XIV. This represents the...
MongoDB database creator 10gen grabs a whopping $42M
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10gen, the startup that created the popular MongoDB open-source data application, has raised a new $42 million round of funding to improve its data-harnessing technology and build out its team. The New York- and Palo Alto-based company generates most of its revenue by offering support, training, and consultation for...
LeWeb London theme announced: Faster than Real Time [Discounts]
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LeWeb is coming to London and the theme for the event has been announced as ‘Faster than Real Time’. Real time is defined as “occurring immediately”. So naturally the event organisers Loic and Geraldine Le Meur are asking, “Is it possible then to be Faster than Real Time?” To break...
With More Than 2M Downloads, HotelTonight Raises Another $23M From US Venture Partners
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Last-minute hotel booking startup HotelTonight just announced that it raised a $23 million Series C round led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The financing includes existing investors Accel Partners, Battery Ventures, and First Round Capital. In addition to the funding, HotelTongiht will be adding USVP general partner Rick Lewis to...
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...
Another Science Start-Up, Wittlebee, Gets $2.5 Million in Funding for Kids Clothes Club
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Wittlebee, a monthly kids clothing club that was incubated at Los Angeles area “technology studio” Science, has gotten $2.5 million in funding. Much like another Science start-up, Dollar Shave Club, Wittlebee ships a custom box of high-quality kids clothes to members. The seed round of funding was led by...
Enterprises to cloud: Ready or not, here we come
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The number of diehards who resist the notion of running business apps in the cloud is dwindling. More than a third of end users polled recently feel that the cloud is safe for mission-critical applications, according to new research. The 2012 Future of Cloud Survey, sponsored by North Bridge Venture...
Payments Company Jumio Raises $25.5M From Andreessen Horowitz; Will Hit $100M In 2012 Revenue
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Disruptive mobile and online payments startup Jumio has raised $25.5 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The firm’s General Partner Scott Weiss has joined Jumio’s board of directors. Jumio’s earlier investors include Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin Peng T. Ong, partner at GSR Ventures and founder of Match.com...
Greylock Adds Joseph Ansanelli As Its Newest Partner To Focus On Enterprise
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Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Greylock Partners is announcing today that it’s added a new face to its roster of general partners: Joseph Ansanelli, a longtime tech industry entrepreneur. Though Greylock may be best known at the moment for its recent investments in the consumer Internet space, and...
You’re Funded! Zao Raises $1.3M For Its Social Recruitment Platform
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Finding potential job candidates through existing employees and their networks is probably as old as the labor market itself, but in the age of social networking, the process can be made much more efficient. Add in a little gamification and other incentives, and things get really interesting. To that end,...
Andreessen Horowitz’s Jeff Jordan: Are Companies Building On Top Of Facebook Really Growing Or Just “Spam?”
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This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012, TechCrunch editor Eric Eldon sat down with for a fireside chat with Jeff Jordan, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former CEO of OpenTable, to discuss his investment perspectives. Jordan, who took OpenTable public in 2009, shared his thoughts on the current investment landscape, including the situation...
Andreessen Horowitz’s Jeff Jordan: Are Companies Building On Top Of Facebook Really Growing Or Just “Spam?”
“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...
NEA Leads Educational Network Edmodo's $25 Million Series C
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Edmodo, the collaborative learning network for teachers and students, is announcing today it has closed a $25 million Series C round of funding. The round was led by new investor New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA), and included participation from Edmodo’s existing investors Greylock Partners, Benchmark Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Learn Capital....
Never, Ever Promote From Within
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Editor’s note: Scott Weiss is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. He blogs at http://scott.a16z.com and you can follow him on Twitter @W_ScottWeiss. My father, Alfred “Bud” Weiss, owned a car dealership — “Bud’s Cadillacs”...
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...
Github finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz
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Github is ready to take a huge step forward. After successfully bootstrapping its operation since 2008, the open-source code hosting site is set to announce Monday that it has accepted $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz in order to improve and expand a platform that has become an industry standard...
3D Startup Real5D Raises $1.2m To Let You Walk Around Construction Plans
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3D visualization technology has been around for some time, so Real5D closing a $1.2 million Seria A rund from the U.S. venture fund DoubleRock might look out of place to some. But San Francisco-based startup Real5D has taken 3D visualization to an interesting level of interactivity by applying it to...
Tech Companies Rejoice! IVP's New Jumbo Fund Totals $1 Billion.
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Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) could be considered an old-timer in the world of venture investing, especially by today’s youthful Silicon Valley standards. At 32 years old, the venture firm has backed more than 300 companies and has witnessed 90 companies go public. Some of its better-known deals include comScore, Dropbox, HomeAway, Kayak, LivingSocial, Netflix,...
500Friends Raises $4.5M Series A For Its Social Loyalty Platform
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500Friends, the social loyalty solution for e-commerce retailers, is announcing it has completed a $4.5 million Series A round led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from Intel Capital as well as company CEO (and angel investor) Justin Yoshimura. Founded in 2010, and launched in summer 2011, YC-backed 500Friends’ LoyaltyPlus service...
Thirst Aims To Slake Your Hunger For Relevant Twitter Content
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Is the Twitter platform about to get a second wind of dedicated apps? In the last few weeks, I’ve seen a handful products that are starting out by filtering out the most relevant news stories, videos and photos from people’s personal streams. Thirst is one of them and it’s...
The VC industry is broken. So now what?
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OMG! These returns!! The investment team at the Kauffman Foundation believes the venture capital industry is broken and they — or rather investors in VC funds — are partially to blame. The report condemns venture firms for being too big, not delivering returns and not adjusting to the times, but...
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