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Gogo partners with HotelTonight for inflight booking
Vator News &bull Feb 10, 2012Inflight Web company Gogo upped their game on Friday by announcing a partnership with hotel-booking mobile app HotelTonight, which enables the company to offer their users last minute hotel booking capabilities from their inflight platform. The service will be available… Full Story »
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Investor Profile: BR Venture Fund
Funding Post &bull Feb 10, 2012
To list your Company on our website and make your profile available to 7,500+ VCs and Angel Investors, Click Here. BR Venture Fund (BRV) is Johnsons early stage venture capital fund. Operated entirely by a team of MBA students, BRV typically invests up to $250,000 in US-based high growth companies across all industries. Initially funded by donations to the University, BRV is… Full Story »
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Health Fidelity Closes Series A Financing Round
PR Newswire &bull Feb 9, 2012
MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Fidelity, Inc. has closed a Series A financing round led by Charter Life Sciences of Santa Clara, CA. The funds will be used to develop and market its clinical natural language processing (NLP) platform. Health Fidelity's platform allows healthcare… Full Story »
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Nivio nabs $21 million for affordable cloud computing
Vator News &bull Feb 9, 2012One cloud computing company, that wants to make accessing and visualizing data easier for anyone, has just announced a $21 million Series A funding round Thursday. Nivio allows users to store up to 10GB of their documents, music, and movies in the cloud for free with the product nDrive. This service allows the… Full Story »
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Altheos Announces Initiation of Phase 2a Clinical Trial for its Lead Glaucoma Drug Candidate, ATS907
VCA Online &bull Feb 9, 2012SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 9, 2012-- Altheos, Inc., announced today the dosing of the first patient in a Phase 2a clinical trial of its lead investigational candidate, ATS907, a Rho kinase (ROCK)-selective inhibitor in development as a next-generation eye drop for the reduction of elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) in primary open angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension. ATS907 is one of… Full Story »
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Online Art Market Paddle8 Secures Series A Funding of c.$4MM Led by Prominent Technology Investors Founder Collective with Luxury Investors Mousse Partners
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Social TV's Big Week: Flingo's $7M Funding Follows Super Bowl
Yahoo Finance &bull Feb 7, 2012
Two days after social TV made a splash at the Super Bowl, yet another new entry in that field, Flingo, announced that it has secured $7 million in series A funding from August Capital. Best known as the company started by BitTorrent… Full Story »
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Numecent Raises $2M
Socal Tech &bull Feb 2, 2012
Irvine-based Numecent, a stealth-mode, cloud computing firm run by Osman Kent, said yesterday that it has raised $2M as part of a Series A financing round. The firm said the tranche is part of a $10M, Series A funding round.… Full Story »
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The Case Against Conversion Discounts for Convertible Debt
VC Experts The Buzz &bull Jan 26, 2012
Entrepreneurs often turn to economic development organizations or angels for pre-seed or seed funding for start-ups when they're not yet ready for institutional venture capital. A large proportion of these pre-seed or seed financings are structured as convertible debt which is, at first glance, surprising. Looking deeper into this market anomaly provides understanding of why debt is used for early round financings, and also of the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Investors in start-ups are really taking the earliest equity risk in a company, and a debt instrument doesn't provide them with a reward commensurate with that risk. However,… Full Story »
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Cloud recruiting platform snags $5 million
Zdnet &bull Jan 18, 2012
Summary: SmartRecruiters offers a cloud-based recruiting applications that integrates with social networks and third-party recruiting services. SmartRecruiters, which offers cloud-based recruiting software for small businesses, has raised $5 million in Series A financing from investors led by the Mayfield Fund. The site provides a platform that small… Full Story »
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DailyWorth Raises $2M of Series A Funding
Venture Capital Update &bull Jan 6, 2012What do you have to say? New York, New York - DailyWorth, a community of women who talk money has raised $2 million of series A funding from angel investors Joanne Wilson, a blogger and angel investor and Howard Lindzon,… Full Story »
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Third Rock Ventures Launches Ember Therapeutics with $34M
Private Equity Hub &bull Dec 15, 2011
Boston-based Third Rock Ventures has unveiled a new company, Ember Therapeutics, a product-focused company that's trying to harness breakthroughs in brown fat biology and insulin sensitization to revolutionize the treatment of metabolic disease. Third Rock, a venture firm that helps… Full Story »
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Aussie group buying platform goes shopping in HK
The Register &bull Dec 14, 2011
Dealised, the Australian developed technology platform behind group buyer Spreets, has made its first international acquisition with the purchase of Hong Kong start-up, Lokaly Network Limited. Like Dealised, Lokaly is a platform vendor, operating the consumer group buying site ValuUp,… Full Story »
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TaskRabbit hops off with $17.8M for chore-helping
Vator News &bull Dec 14, 2011The San Francisco-based company that connects people with extra time to those with more items on their t-do list than they care to tackle was founded in 2008 and captured $5 million in Series A funding in May and brings… 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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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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PlaceIQ Raises $4.2M From US Venture Partners, Valhalla, Others
Private Equity Hub &bull Dec 12, 2011
PlaceIQ said it raised $4.2 million of Series A funding in a round with new investors U.S. Venture Partners and Valhalla Partners, and existing investors IA Ventures, kbs+p ventures, and angel investor Jerry Neumann. The ad targeting company moved from… Full Story »
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Hyper-Local Ad Targeting Startup PlaceIQ Raises $4.2 Million And Moves To New York City
TechCrunch &bull Dec 12, 2011
Ah, the allure of the Big City. PlaceIQ , a hyper-local ad targeting startup from Boulder, Colorado is moving to New York City, flush with $4.2 million in series A funding. New investors include U.S. Venture Partners and Valhalla Partners.… Full Story »
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Norwest Backs Pepperfry
Private Equity Hub &bull Dec 12, 2011
India-based Pepperfry.com has secured a $5 million Series A funding from Norwest Venture Partners. Due to launch by Christmas 2011, Pepperfry will offer a range of over 25,000 competitively priced lifestyle products across categories such as clothing, jewellery, furniture &… Full Story »
