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Don't Put Venture Capital At Risk
VC Circle &bull Feb 9, 2012
Who wouldn't want to be a venture capitalist right now? Investment bankers may be reviled and private equity executives hammered but Silicon Valley's billionaire elite can do no wrong. Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, is forced by a public outcry to waive a bonus of less than 1m and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs gains little credit for seeing his share bonus nearly halved to $7m. Yet no one minds that Jim Breyer of Accel Partners could gain $500m from Facebook's initial public offering,… Full Story »
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Cerulean Pharma Closes Series D
Private Equity Hub &bull Dec 15, 2011
Cerulean Pharma, a developer of nanopharmaceuticals, has closed a $15 million Series D financing with participation from new investor, CVF, an affiliate of Henry Crown and Company of Chicago, Illinois, as well as full participation from all other existing investors,… Full Story »
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Life360 Closes Series A
Private Equity Hub &bull Dec 14, 2011
Life360, a provider of mobile family safety applications has reached its ten millionth user milestone. The company has also closed a $3.5 million Series A financing. Investors included Fontinalis Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, 500 Startups, Kapor Capital, Venture51, Bullpen Capital,… Full Story »
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Family safety app Life360 receives $3.5M funding
Vator News &bull Dec 13, 2011Family communication mobile app company Life360announced Tuesday a $3.5 million Series A funding round, as well as a milestone of reaching 10 million users in two years. Investors in the funding included Fontinalis Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, 500 Startups, Kapor… Full Story »
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Life360 pulls in $3.5M round, hits 10 million users
GigaOm &bull Dec 13, 2011
Life360, a mobile family safety app that we've followed, has been on a tear and is now up to 10 million users. That growth has helped the San Francisco location start-up pull in a $3.5 million Series A round from… Full Story »
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Life360s Family Safety App Grabs $3.5 Million Series A
TechCrunch &bull Dec 13, 2011
Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to becoming a professional blogger, Sarah worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Family safety startup… Full Story »
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Are You The "Family CTO"? A New Soluto Aims To Turn You Into A One-Person Help Desk
TechCrunch &bull Dec 13, 2011
Back in July , TechCrunch Disrupt winner, Soluto , raised $10.2 million in a series B financing led by Index Ventures. The new round of investment brought the Israeli startup's total funding to $18 million, which it's raised over the… Full Story »
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DFJ & VenturEast Back Former GE India Chief's Clean Energy Venture
VC Circle &bull Dec 9, 2011
Early-stage investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and VenturEast have committed to back Bharat Light & Power (BLP), an independent power producer founded by Tejpreet S. Chopra, former president and CEO of GE India. The amount committed by the VC firms in this series A round of funding for the clean energy producer stands undisclosed. The monies raised will be used to further pursue the greenfield project… Full Story »
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SweetLabs Awards $50K To App Developers
Socal Tech &bull Dec 1, 2011
San Diego-based SweetLabs, the developer of the Pokki desktop app software, reported Wednesday that it has awarded $50,000 in its Pokki Challenge, a contest for encouraging developers to create desktop applications using HTML5. The firm said it awarded $30,000 to… Full Story »
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Android continues to dominate mobile ad impressions
Vator News &bull Nov 22, 2011While Apple's iPhone dominates mobile phone makers as the No. 1 phone in the market, Android phones dominate the share of ad impressions across mobile platforms. Android converted 56% of ad impressions in the Connected Device and Smartphone OS category,… Full Story »
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eBay Buys VC-Backed Hunch
Private Equity Hub &bull Nov 21, 2011
eBay has acquired data analytics startup Hunch in effort to build more recommendation technology into its online marketplace, Reuters reported Monday. Terms of the acquisition were not released. Formed in 2009, Hunch raised capital from venture firms including General Catalyst… Full Story »
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EBay snaps up taste-recommendation site Hunch for $80M
Vator News &bull Nov 21, 2011Ecommerce service eBay announced Monday its acquisition of Hunch, an online platform that scans user data and offers user recommendations based on taste. Hunch's core technology, which it calls a "taste graph," collects data from a wide array of online sources, including social networking, to compile… Full Story »
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Yelp, Intermolecular, Hotel Tonight: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers
X-Conomy &bull Nov 21, 2011
According to the S-1, its largest shareholders are Bessemer Venture Partners (22.5 percent), Elevation Partners (22.4 percent), Benchmark Capital (16.2 percent), and Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal (13.8 percent). Intermolecular's venture backers included CMEA Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and U.S. Venture… Full Story »
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eBay Buys Chris Dixon's Startup Hunch For $80 Million (EBAY)
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Nov 21, 2011
EBay is buying recommendations engine Hunch for $80 million, Michael Arrington at Uncrunched reports. EBay will use the technology for its own e-commerce recommendations, says Arrington. He also reports Dixon will lead a recommendations team of 50 people for eBay… Full Story »
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Aileron Expands Roche Deal, Agios Gets $78M, Genzyme MS Drug Advances, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News
X-Conomy &bull Nov 18, 2011
Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme revealed that its experimental multiple sclerosis treatment, alemtuzumab (Lemtrada), significantly reduced relapses and disability in a Phase 3 trial where it was tested head-to-head against Rebif, a form of interferon sold by EMD Serono and Pfizer. The… Full Story »
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Yelp files for IPO, plans to raise $100M
Vator News &bull Nov 17, 2011The San Francisco-based social networking and review site for business says that it has generated $58.4 million in net revenue for the first nine months of 2011 and it booked a net loss of $7.6 million over the same time.… Full Story »
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Yelp Files For $100 Million IPO
TechCrunch &bull Nov 17, 2011
Alexia Tsotsis currently works for TechCrunch as a writer. She is also a blogger who attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. She majored in Writing and Art, moving to New York City shortly after graduation to… Full Story »
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Cloud Storage Platform Box Debuts Developer Platform /Bin; $2M Fund To Invest In The Enterprise
TechCrunch &bull Nov 17, 2011
After raising a whopping $81 million in funding from a group of all star investors, including Salesforce, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson; cloud storage platform Box.net is setting its sights on the next… Full Story »
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Accel Raises $155 Million for India Fund
New York Times - DealBook &bull Nov 16, 2011
Accel Partners, an early backer of Facebook and Groupon, has raised $155 million for a new India fund that will focus on early stage investments, the venture capital firm announced on Wednesday. The fund, called Accel India III, is aimed… Full Story »
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Allena Pharmaceuticals Launches with $15M
Private Equity Hub &bull Nov 16, 2011
Allena Pharmaceuticals Inc. , a company developing oral protein therapeutics, has raised $15 million in a first round of venture funding. Bessemer Venture Partners , Frazier Healthcare and Third Rock Ventures led the Series A round. The funding will help… Full Story »
