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Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft
Smart investors are betting big on business technology. Sure, all the buzz goes to consumer-focused companies like Facebook and Zynga. But while those companies’ post-IPO performance has been tepid at...
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Silicon Valley’s under-the-radar VC firm sees record-breaking year (exclusive)
Just like your typical American high school, Sand Hill Road, the heart of Silicon Valley’s venture capital community, is governed by stereotypes. There’s Andreessen Horowitz, the cool new kid on the...
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Pinterest raises $200M at $2.5B valuation, reportedly
AllThingsD is reporting that Pinterest has raised a $200 million funding round that values the company at $2.5 billion. In other words, the rumors appear to be true. The visual social network’s last...
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Vasona Networks raises $12M to fix our mobile data congestion issues
Update on March 19, 2013 7:30 a.m.: Vasona Networks’ funding has been confirmed, with $22 million in total raised. Vasona Networks has raised $12 million in fresh funding to help it continue to fix...
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Funding daily: beer, real estate, data optimization, payments, and health
There was a lot of money placed today, not least on health-tech. Here’s a quick round-up of funding stories for April 10. Welltok wrangles $18.7M to make health plans better Social health management...
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Funding Daily: Personalized web, ‘big data,’ Yahoo Japan, and marketing...
Wednesday was a fairly busy day for deals, with old-industry blue chipper GE investing big into a new platform as a service company, Yahoo Japan investing in U.S. startups, and API management company...
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With $3.2M in funding, Dekko unveils a clever tech to insert animations into...
Dekko is launching an “operating system for the real world,” which is a fancy way of saying a new augmented-reality system. But Dekko has accomplished this in a clever way. While others put a digital...
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Attention digital health startups: VCs say now is a ‘great’ time to raise money
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s a great time for health startups to raise money, according to some of the biggest names in health investing. Funding for digital health grew dramatically in 2012 and is continuing...
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Performance management biz Adaptive Planning nets $45M from BVP & others
Leading corporate performance management (CPM) company Adaptive Planning has raised a massive $45 million in its fourth and final round of funding with a goal to further dominate the CPM space, the...
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Public cloud companies are now worth $100B — and this is just the start
According to venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, the combined value of the top publicly-traded cloud computing companies now exceeds $100 billion. But that’s just an appetizer for the...
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The new dial tone: How the API economy accelerates the growth of cloud apps
SAN FRANCISCO — When companies compete for cloud developers these days, they have to provide a way for developers to customize their platform for their own needs. In programmer’s lingo, that means they...
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The ban has lifted: Here’s what these 6 companies think about general...
FEATURE: The longstanding United States ban on “general solicitation” has been lifted. Startups can now publicly announce that they are fundraising. It’s an enormous shift in the rules for fundraising...
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With 45M monthly viewers, livestreaming startup Twitch raises $20M — and gets...
Livestreaming has become a cultural force in the video game business, and that explains why streaming leader Twitch is announcing today that it has raised $20 million in a third round of funding. The...
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Anaqua secures $25M to guard your trademarks, patents, and other valuable...
Managing intellectual property can be a time-consuming process, especially for major enterprises with thousands of inventions, patents, and trademarks. That’s why companies like Microsoft, Ford, and...
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IID accepts $8M, its first VC funding after 17 years, for security social...
In the tech world, 17 years is an awfully long time to operate without receiving a single penny of institutional investment. But that’s exactly what cybersecurity company IID (Internet Identity) did,...
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Mojave Networks grabs $5M for network-level mobile security
Mobile device management (MDM) is not equivalent to mobile security. That’s the message we heard this morning during our discussion with Garrett Larsson, the cofounder and CEO of Mojave Networks...
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Intacct nabs $45M to tell CFOs about its cloud accounting software
Intacct, an early pioneer in cloud software, is ready to get the word out about its accounting solution. The company today announced a $45 million funding round, most of which will go toward sales and...
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ClearSlide hooks $50M for its WebEx killer for sales
ClearSlide wants to make your sales pitches smarter by helping your team figure out what works — and most important, what doesn’t. The San Francisco-based software company, which today announced $50...
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Blue Apron attracts $500M valuation by catering to lazy chefs
Blue Apron customers fall somewhere in the center of the laziness spectrum. On one end, there are inspired amateur chefs who rise bright and early to get all their ingredients from their local farmer’s...
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Fiverr's $30M funding shows that the TaskRabbit model is growing
Need someone to write your wedding thank you notes? Or to proofread your resume, or even just make you a video of a puppet show? Online marketplace Fiverr is where you’d get those needs met, and it...
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