| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.08.2016 | iBeat raises $1.5 million to build a heart monitor that people will actually want to wear | A San Francisco startup called iBeat has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to make a smartwatch that constantly monitors a wearer’s heart and, in the event of cardiac arrest, checks in on them, and notifies loved ones and emergency respon... |
| 30.01.2016 | Connecting Silicon Valley and the rest of the world | Not all roads to Silicon Valley were created equal. Those born in close proximity to the southern San Francisco Bay Area region can build local contacts organically just from being there. Meanwhile, budding entrepreneurs elsewhere in the wo... |
| 30.01.2016 | Connecting Silicon Valley and the rest of the world | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Not all roads to Silicon Valley were created equal. Those born in close proximity to the southern San Francisco Bay Area region can bui... |
| 23.11.2015 | HealthCrowd raises $2.1M to expand Medicaid plan customer base | “Behavior change is the name of the game,” said Bing Doh, co-founder and CEO of HealthCrowd said in a phone interview.
Doh views its platform not only as a way to help plan members but also to give plans additional analytics insights on the... |
| 23.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 23, 2015 | ColorChip raised $25M; Quizlet secured $12M; Sportpursuit received $14.4M funding
South Korean apartment cleaning service WaHome has received $1 million in a seed investment from Sparklabs Global Ventures, Mashup Angels, Fast Track Asia and... |
| 30.10.2015 | How non-U.S. startups should approach Silicon Valley investors | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“Everything is trending, everything is hot,” said... |
| 30.10.2015 | How non-U.S. startups should approach Silicon Valley investors | “Everything is trending, everything is hot,” said Bill Reichert, managing director at California venture capital (VC) fund Garage Technology Ventures, at an event put on by the Slovakian government to connect big tech companies with emergin... |
| 27.05.2015 | BarTrendr, a social network for you and your drinking buddies, raises $1M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“Don’t drink and tweet,” said every social media ... |
| 27.05.2015 | BarTrendr, a social network for you and your drinking buddies, raises $1M | “Don’t drink and tweet,” said every social media expert ever. However, BarTrendr just raised $1 million so you can share your night out with friends — and liquor marketers.
The iOS and Android app lets users share and access pictures, tags,... |
| 17.02.2015 | BARTRENDr Closes $1.3M Seed Funding | BARTRENDr, an Oakland, CA-based social networking app dedicated to bar-goers, closed a $1.3m seed funding round.
The round was led by Menlo Park-based investor group Band of Angels.
The company intends to use the funds to expand in the U.S.... |
| 08.08.2014 | New York digital health startup CareDox raising $3.1M | Investors so far include First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures, Band of Angels and Giza Ventures.
Advising the company is Dr. Joe Hairston, who for 12 years was superintendent in Baltimore County in Maryland, and Dr. Angela Wong, a pr... |
| 10.07.2014 | NextInput Raises $1.5M in Bridge Funding | NextInput, an Atlanta, GA-based developer of force sensing touch technology for mobile, wearables, and many other Internet of Things sensing applications, raised $1.5m in bridge funding.
The Band of Angels and its affiliates made a 500k inv... |
| 24.06.2014 | HealthCrowd expands healthcare messaging platform to reach patients | The company’s name stands for Dynamic Human-activating Realtime Multimodal Automation. Doh said the platform is designed to learn from the preferences of its customers’ members to deliver helpful reminders to help them manage their health. ... |
| 06.05.2013 | Healthtech startup Prebacked wants to reverse the incubator process | Most incubators aim to help startups land funding for their ideas, but one healthcare technology startup is aiming to change this model. Prebacked hosts pre-incubation programs that get customers (large enterprises, such as Fortune 500 comp... |
| 31.01.2013 | Perkville Closes $500k Seed Funding | Perkville, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) loyalty programs, closed a nearly $500k seed funding round.
This funding brings the total amount raised to date to $1.2m. Backers included members of Band of Ange... |
| 21.03.2012 | Social Marketing Platform PromoJam Raises $1.2M From Golden Seeds, Band Of Angels | PromoJam, a social marketing platform for the enterprise that allows businesses to create campaigns across Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and Myspace, has raised $1.2 million in Series A funding, the company is announcing ... |
| 30.11.2011 | 100Plus Raised Additional Seed Funding | 100Plus, a San Francisco, CA-based personalized health prediction startup, has raised additional seed funding.
Backers include Greylock Discovery Fund partners John Lilly and Reid Hoffman, Felicis Ventures and Band of Angels Acorn Fund.
The... |
| 30.11.2011 | 100Plus Raises $1.25M From Greylock and Band Of Angels To Make You Live Longer | Less than a month after securing $500K from Founders Fund, health prediction service 100Plus has brought its funding up to $1.25 million. The new $750K in funding comes from Reid Hoffman and John Lilly via Greylock Partners’ Discovery Fund,... |
| 14.09.2011 | New Angel Alliance Aims to Keep Startups Out of Venture Capital’s Clutches Longer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 5:15 pm PT with fresh quotes from Richard Sudek, see below] Regional angel investing groups in Southern California, Northern California, and New York say they’re band... |
| 30.06.2011 | Turpitude Closes $1M Series A Funding | Turpitude, Inc., a Walnut Creek, CA-based independent online, mobile and social game company, closed a $1m Series A funding round.
Investors included The Band of Angels, The Angels Forum, Golden Seeds, and Sand Hill Angels.
The company plan... |
| 05.05.2011 | Trustnode Receives Seed Funding from the Band of Angels | Trustnode, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of an online, interactive, cartoon character-driven benefits education and enrollment platform for people involved in the provision and sale of voluntary group insurance products, has received ... |
| 03.02.2011 | EveryTrail Thumbs A Ride From TripAdvisor, As Internet Travel Business Consolidates | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Newton, MA-based TripAdvisor, the travel review site owned by Bellevue, WA-based Expedia (Nasdaq: EXPE), said today that it’s buying EveryTrail, a Palo Alto, CA, startup that ... |
| 09.06.2010 | MassDevice Q&A: Practice Fusion founder and CEO Ryan Howard | To raise the seed money for Practice Fusion, founder Ryan Howard sold his house and car.
“I was really going all in,” the 34-year-old CEO told MassDevice.
Howard might have made a smart bet. According to Practice Fusion, the company has the... |
| 29.12.2009 | Interactive Trip Sharing Service EveryTrail Locates $1 Million In Funding | Palo Alto, CA-based GlobalMotion Media has raised $1 million in Series A financing from the Band of Angels and a group of domestic and international private investors. The young company is probably best known for operating EveryTrail, a GPS... |
| 17.08.2009 | Vapore raises $348K to turn liquid medicines into vapors | Vapore, developer of technology that quickly and efficiently turns liquids into vapors for medical applications, has raised $348,000 of a targeted $500,000 first round of stock and warrants, according to regulatory filings. The Alameda, Cal... |
| 29.04.2009 | ShotSpotter refines gunshot sensors with QinetiQ buy | ShotSpotter, maker of sensory systems used to detect gunshots, has acquired technology from British defense firm QinetiQ for an undisclosed amount. The deal will extend ShotSpotter’s reach into new markets, including law enforcement and mil... |
| 23.04.2009 | Symantec snaps up Mi5 to grow its small business protections | Symantec announced that it has bought web security firm Mi5 Networks to expand its portfolio of security software tailored to small businesses. With the Sunnyvale, Calif. company’s technology, the corporation plans to strengthen its abiliti... |
| 20.07.2008 | The anatomy of angel networks | Herding is critical to angel funding
(Note: This was republished to highlight due to its popularity)
There are four main sources of funding including:
Angels like relatives, friends, colleagues, customers, partners, or vendors.
Angel networ... |
| 17.05.2007 | Therative raises $9M for pimple-device ads | Therative, a Livermore, Calif., medical-device maker, raised $9 million in a third round of financing, largely to fund television ads for its consumer-oriented acne product.
Therative makes and markets a pimple-clearing device called Therma... |
| 08.09.2006 | Roundup: Slim Devices, ChaCha, Digg, eBay ibank of Web 2.0, more | SlimDevices to release latest Squeezebox — The come-out-of-nowhere Mountain View start-up sells a device that lets you play your music anywhere in the house, and hooks up with all kinds of services, from Pandora to Rhapsody. Its latest one ... |
| - | HealthCrowd expands healthcare messaging platform to reach patients | Healthcare messaging service HealthCrowd, led by advertising veteran Neng Bing Doh, knows firsthand the power of communicating in multiple formats to reach customers. To that end, the digital health company has expanded its DH*RMA platform ... |
| - | HealthCrowd raises $2.1M to expand Medicaid plan customer base | HealthCrowd, a digital health company that transmits condition-specific alerts to mobile devices to help health plan members manage their health and provide insight on which messages work and which ones don’t, has raised a fresh round of ca... |
| - | New York digital health startup CareDox raising $3.1M | CareDox, a New York startup focused on cloud-based storage solutions for health records, is in the midst of raising about $3.1 million, according to SEC filings.
The company, founded in 2010 through Startup Health Academy, is headed by Hesk... |
