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Khosla Ventures Replaces Yuri Milner In Y Combinator’s YC VC Program
Khosla Ventures is joining Y Combinator's YC VC program, which provides $80,000 to each startup that goes through the seed stage accelerator. According to a Y Combinator blog post, the firm will be taking the place of Yuri Milner, who is spending less time doing seed-stage investments. Read More
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Salon Booking Platform StyleSeat Goes Mobile, Ahead Of Upcoming Series A
Salon-booking service StyleSeat has finally made its way to mobile, after seeing its smartphone usage increase from 15% during the company's first year (2011) to now 78% of total usage today. Says company co-founder and CEO Melody McCloskey of StyleSeat's mobile traction, "it's completely blown up in the last couple of years." The company, which has today grown to 200,000 stylists across 15,000… Read More
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella On Outgoing CEO Ballmer’s Legacy, Management Style, And Vision
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley today published an interview with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, one of its key executives and a candidate to be its next CEO. The discussion as written focuses on the legacy and style of the company’s outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer, with whom Nadella has worked closely. Given the CEO buzz about Nadella, his views, and criticisms of Ballmer matter. If you are at all… Read More
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My Long Road To Self-Publishing
After blindly supporting it for a number of years, I've decided to crowdfund my own project, a novel that I wrote for my son, and then write about the experience for you guys. Today I'd like to talk about my own experiences in publishing and why I think crowdfunding is, at the very least, a viable alternative to the traditional models. Be warned: this is a little introspective and I'm writing it… Read More
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Comcast Will Spend Millions Developing And Promoting Khan Academy To Encourage Low-Income Broadband Adoption
Comcast has committed to pumping millions of dollars into a joint program with Khan Academy that will promote its free, online education alongside Comcast's cheap broadband access tier Internet Essentials for low-income families. Comcast's executive VP David Cohen hopes that promoting Khan Academy will boost digital literacy and get more people paying for broadband because "its content is the… Read More
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Windows Phone 8.1 Brings Popular Android And iOS Features To The Emerging Third Mobile Platform
For all its polish, Windows Phone still lags the competition in certain features that seem obvious to include. Windows Phone 8.1, set for a public reveal at Microsoft's Build conference in April, brings two iOS and Android standards to the Windows Phone quiver, including a Notification Center and a smart personal assistant. Read More
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Moments Lets You Quickly Build A Photo Book On Your iPad, Pick It Up At Walgreens When Complete
Looking for a last-minute holiday gift you can create on your iPad and pick up the same day? Moments.me (not to be confused with photo-sharing app Moment.me), is a newly launched photo book maker which lets you quickly build a customizable, hardcover-bound photo book using images from your social networks, iCloud or your Camera Roll. When you're finished, the book can be picked up within just a… Read More
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MyOptique Raises Another £8M To Grow Internationally And Acquire Others
A million years ago (ok, back in 2005), Glasses Direct was founded in the UK. It wasn't quite Warby Parker, but it did help pioneer the whole wave of online optometrist startups. Now the business behind Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop and LensOn brands has gone back to its existing investor pool to raise new funds, closing an £8 million investment round to grow internationally and expand through… Read More
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Google Ventures: $1.2B Under Management, 75 New Investments And 9 Exits In 2013
Google Ventures is releasing its year-end data for 2013, showing that the firm made 75 new investments and saw 9 exits for the year. In total, GV has backed 225 companies since its founding four years ago. Read More
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With $5.3M In Funding, Entitle Launches E-Book Service Emphasizing Ownership And Big Titles
In the past few months, we've seen the launch of several e-book subscription services using a Netflix-style pricing model, where users pay a monthly fee and get access to any title in the catalog. A new service called Entitle is going in a different direction — users still pay a subscription fee, but they can only download a few books each month. Isn't that a worse deal? CEO Bryan Batten… Read More
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Trustev
- Size $500K
- Round Seed
- Investors Notion Capital
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SensioLabs
- Size $7M
- Round A
- Investors CM-CIC Capital Prive
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Wowcracy
- Size $32.2K
- Round Seed
- Investors Club Italia Investimenti 2
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Visedo
- Size $5.1M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Finnish Industry Investment, Power Fund II
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Cass Art
- Size $4.8M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Business Growth Fund
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Plumbee
- Size $13M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Endemol, IDInvest Partners
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MyOptique Group
- Size $12.1M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Index Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Acton Capital Partners
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Freenom
- Size $3M
- Round A
- Investors Kima Ventures
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Crowdtilt
- Size $23M
- Round B
- Investors SV Angel, Sean Parker, Silicon Valley Bank, Matt Mullenweg, Naval Ravikant ... See More
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VIOlife
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Consumer Growth Partners, PMC Partners, Banyan Mezzanine Funds, Diamond ... See More
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PassportParking
- Size $6M
- Round A
- Investors Grotech Ventures, Relevance Capital
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Datical
- Size $3M
- Round A
- Investors Mercury Fund, Austin Ventures
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AmpliPhi Biosciences
- Size $18M
- Round Post_ipo_equity
- Investors ROTH Capital Partners
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Aggios
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Avantha
- Size $150M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors AION Capital Partners
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Infinio
- Size $12M
- Round B
- Investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture ... See More
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Abeona Therapeutics
- Size $750K
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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RethinkDB
- Size $8M
- Round A
- Investors Highland Capital Partners
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deck
- Size $600K
- Round Seed
- Investors Qualcomm Ventures, Sabeer Bhatia
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QuickPay
- Size $5.5M
- Round Seed
- Investors Fontinalis Partners, Ecomobilitu00e9 Ventures, IncWell, SNCF
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Gnammo
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Club Italia Investimenti 2
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Metail
- Size $3.9M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors New World Private Equity
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Nanotronics Imaging
- Size $7M
- Round B
- Investors Palantir Technologies, Facebook, ZocDoc, The Climate Corporation
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Juhayna Food Industries
- Size $73M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Manalto
- Size $1M
- Round Seed
- Investors Europlay Capital Advisors, Raven Capital
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Moasis
- Size $1.2M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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BuzzElement
- Size Not available
- Round Angel
- Investors CyberAgent Venture Capital, Japanese venture capital
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Nebo.ru
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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NPR
- Size $17M
- Round Grant
- Investors Not available
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Chefmarket.ru
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Not available
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Deck, A Cloud-Based Presentation App From India, Raises $600K From Qualcomm, Hotmail Co-Founder
Deck, a mobile-first app that lets users create presentations on the go, has raised a $600,000 seed round from Qualcomm Ventures and angel investors led by Sabeer Bhatia, the Hotmail co-founder. The Bangalore-based startup of the same name says it will be using the funds to hire people — it’s recently picked up designers whose teeth were cut working on Avatar — and to expand… Read More
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Rebtel Launches Sendly, A Money Transfer App For Topping Up Pre-Paid Phones
VoIP provider Rebtel has been steadily growing ever since launch in 2006, with over 20 million users and an increasingly popular VoIP SDK. But today the company is dipping their toes in a new pool, launching a credit transfer service called Sendly. Read More
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Yahoo Makes Its iOS Weather App iPad-Friendly, To The Everlasting Joy Of Those Who Miss A Native One
Yahoo's new direction under Marissa Mayer is still coming together, but one thing they've unquestionably done right is the weather app for iPhone they debuted earlier this year. The iPad version has just been released, and it's about as close to a native iPad weather app as you can get, given the similarity in design choices between Apple's native iPhone weather app and that of Yahoo's third-party… Read More
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Crowdtilt Raises Another $23 Million From Andreessen Horowitz & Others For International Expansion, Enterprise Tools
Crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt wasn't looking to raise another round, but when their Series A lead investor Andreessen Horowitz offered to lead their B round, the team decided it would make sense given their plans. Today, the company is announcing $23 million in new funding, which includes participation from SV Angel, Sean Parker, Matt Mullenweg, Oliver Jung, DCM, Felicis Ventures, Naval… Read More
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Endemol Bets On Gaming, Leads $14 Million Round In Social Casino Startup Plumbee
Endemol, the Netherlands-based TV production house known for game shows like Fear Factor and Deal Or No Deal, is now making a bet on online gambling. The company today announced that it has made a strategic investment of $13 million in social casino startup Plumbee, as it plans to raise its digital profile by investing in online gambling and going beyond the traditional video production business. Read More
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Update: AOL Says Its Hyperlocal News Network Patch Is Not Closing
Update: AOL says implications that Patch is closing down are inaccurate. A New York Times article stated that AOL is reportedly planning to "dismantle Patch or perhaps sell it off to various partners," even though CEO Tim Armstrong "cannot quite admit that it is over." In response, a spokesman for the company told TechCrunch that it stands behind what CEO Tim Armstrong said at a Dec. 11 UBS… Read More
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Impala: Another Google Inspired Platform Enters The Mainstream Data World
Amazon Web Services has added support for Impala, the Google inspired query tool developed by big data startup Cloudera. It provides real-time, parallel processing for large amounts of data. With Impala, a developer can load new or access existing data to run their queries using an SQL-like language on AWS Elastic MapReduce clusters. Its faster, more accessible and shows the increasing use of… Read More
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How Smule’s Jeff Smith Got A Ph.D. While Running A Startup
You hear about graduate students who drop out to found startups, but I guess that would be too easy for Jeff Smith. He co-founded and serves as CEO at Smule, the startup behind social music apps like Ocarina and Magic Piano. At the same time, he recently received a Ph.D. in computer-based music theory and acoustics from Stanford. Smith and I spoke earlier this week about being a full-time… Read More
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Zuli’s Smartplugs Turn Your Phone Into The Proximity-Based Switch For The Connected Home
A recent Kickstarter project called the Zuli Smartplug makes each of your power outlets intelligent thanks to Bluetooth low-energy, along with remote control from a smartphone, proximity triggering and scheduling, too. It's sort of like what you maybe have been hearing about with Apple's iBeacons, where retail can sense a shopper's specific location within a store and provide different content to… Read More