| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.07.2024 | Ario: AI-Based Assistant For Parents Secures $16 Million In Seed Funding | Ario, an AI-powered assistant for parents, announced $16 million in seed funding from top-tier investors, including Wing Venture Capital, Floodgate, Bain Capital Ventures, Moxxie, and prominent angels.
Parents often spend hours per week man... |
| 28.06.2024 | Ario: Revolutionizing Personal Assistance with AI | Ario, a startup on a mission to democratize digital helpers, has raised $16 million in funding to develop what they call "universal basic AI." Founded by cybersecurity veterans, Ario is taking a unique approach in the AI assistant... |
| 26.06.2024 | Ario Raises $16M in Seed Funding | Ario, a Palo Alto, CA-based AI-powered assistant for parents, raised $16M in Seed funding.
Backers included Wing Venture Capital, Floodgate, Bain Capital Ventures, Moxxie, and angels.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operation... |
| 16.09.2022 | VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough? | One could probably argue that Floodgate, the Bay Area-based seed-stage venture firm, punches above its weight. The roughly 15-year-old firm has just around $500 million in assets under management — including a $150 million fund that it quie... |
| 13.01.2022 | Has Y Combinator’s new deal changed the early-stage investing game? | Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed.
By raising its so-called “standard deal” to include an additional $375,000, th... |
| 04.12.2021 | Founders need to uncouple their own idea from its creator | All founders want their companies to thrive without them, but the readiness to act on that awareness continues to be one of the more uncomfortable conversations within today’s market. After all, the glorification of founders (and our consta... |
| 30.07.2020 | Four keys to building your startup | At last week’s Early Stage virtual event, founders and investors shared some of their best insights about startup building and what they’re looking for in their next investments. We’ve assembled a compilation of insights covering different ... |
| 30.06.2020 | Dumpling raises $6.5m Series A for personalized eGrocery to give comfort to gig workers, wary online shoppers | Although much remains to be seen about how the pandemic will impact our economy, its effect on grocery delivery is clear. Shoppers have flocked to the service in an attempt to curtail their trips from the home and about 28% more shoppers ar... |
| 31.05.2020 | 6 VCs share their bets on the future of work | As tech companies like Twitter and Facebook gear up for longer-term remote work solutions, the future of work is becoming one of the more exciting opportunities in venture capital, CRV general partner Saar Gur told TechCrunch.
And as loneli... |
| 28.05.2020 | Almanac raises $9M in seed funding led by floodgate to bring open source documents to the workplace | Almanac, a San Francisco, California-based tech startup and a provider of cloud-based platform for open-source documents, today announced a $9 million seed funding round led by Floodgate with nearly 100 investors from the world’s most succe... |
| 17.05.2020 | The Great Reset | Ann Miura-Ko Contributor
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| 02.03.2020 | Understanding 2020’s early-stage fundraising market | Welcome to Equity on Extra Crunch, a semi-regular series of interviews between the Equity team, venture capitalists, and operating executives at the neatest startups. The goal of this irregular medium is to dig into topics that don’t fit in... |
| 22.02.2020 | How to raise money – it’s a journey not an event | 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!
Every year I teach classrooms full of students wh... |
| 22.02.2020 | How to raise money – it’s a journey not an event | Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/market fit — and thinking their next goal is to “get funded.”
That’s a mistake.
There are two reasons to raise money:
You h... |
| 05.02.2020 | The Zebra raises $38.5M as the insurance marketplace race heats up | This morning The Zebra, an Austin-based insurance marketplace startup, announced it has closed a $38.5 million Series C. Accel led the funding event, which was participated in by prior investors Silverton Partners, Ballast Point Ventures, a... |
| 31.01.2020 | True product-market fit is a minimum viable company | Ann Miura-Ko Contributor
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| 31.01.2020 | You need a minimum viable company, not a minimum viable product | Ann Miura-Ko Contributor
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| 17.01.2020 | Startup Lessons: Why Visa Paid $5.3 Billion For Plaid | Fintech theme with business woman using a tablet computerGetty |
| 07.01.2020 | 6 VCs explain why seed investors now favor enterprise startups | Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
Today we’re digging into seed-stage companies, the vanguard of the venture market. In particular, we’re trying to underst... |
| 12.08.2019 | Announcing the Disrupt SF 2019 agenda | Disrupt SF 2019 is set to be the biggest and best Disrupt yet. We’ve got a little something for everyone, including space chats with Lockheed Martin’s Marillyn Hewson and Blue Origin’s Bob Smith, a word from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, a firesid... |
| 28.09.2018 | SoftBank pays big, SurveyMonkey goes public and JUUL’s next step | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This week on Equity, the gang was back together. We had the ever-excellent Connie Loizos on hand, along with T... |
| 16.08.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday August 16 | THE NEW WEALTH OF NETWORKS
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. In today’s guest column, Floodgate partner Mike Maples explores how the tech community can harness the power of connections in a world of “networked capitalism.”
Paid Content Secu... |
| 18.07.2018 | Swivel Raises $4.75 Million Seed Round | Swivel, a new online service where fast-growing companies can find and design their own plug-and-play workspace and pay for it on flexible terms, has raised a $4.75 Million seed round led by First Round Capital and from other leading firms ... |
| 28.06.2018 | Financial floodgate: This new exchange opens up a $5 billion C&I solar financing network | The C&I solar stalemate — with massive development potential on one side, and available but complex financing on the other – might finally be ending thanks to a clearer path to action. That path is the first finance exchange platform fo... |
| 25.07.2017 | AI Grant aims to fund the unfundable to advance AI and solve hard problems | Artificial intelligence-focused investment funds are a dime a dozen these days. Everyone knows there’s money to be made from AI, but to capture value, good VCs know they need to back products and not technologies. This has left a bit of a v... |
| 30.03.2017 | JoyRun, a food delivery app with a twist, raises $8.5 million | A Santa Clara, Calif. startup called JoyRun has raised about $10 million in Series A and seed funding for its peer-to-peer food and drinks delivery app. Floodgate led the $8.5 million Series A round in JoyRun, and Norwest Venture Partners l... |
| 02.03.2017 | Floodgate closes sixth fund with $131 million | Floodgate, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based early stage venture capital firm, has raised $131 million for its sixth fund, according to an SEC filing that shows the 11-year-old firm turned to just eight investors for the capital commitments.
Though sm... |
| 02.03.2017 | Floodgate Closes Latest Venture Capital Fund, at $131M | Floodgate, a Palo Alto, CA-based early stage venture capital firm, closed its latest fund, at $131m.
Per an SEC filing, 8 backers participated in the offering of Floodgate Fund VI, L.P..
Led by Mike Maples, JR., Ann Miura Ko, Iris Choi, Arj... |
| 02.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, March 2 | BIG FOOD + SNAP
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Today’s guest column is a doubleheader: In part one, Fortune writer John Kell looks into why Big Food wants to play the VC game; in part two, Fortune writer Jen Wieczner breaks down the bigg... |
| 23.11.2016 | Encouraging Austin Entrepreneurs to Think Big | By LAURA LOREK
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| 22.11.2016 | When to Quit the Startup Grind and Work on Something Else | At the Think Big! Capital Factory panel discussion at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz Monday, Joshua Baer, founder of Capital Factory, asked a question about when is it time to quit doing a mediocre startup and work on something legendary. |
| 18.11.2016 | Sesame Street’s VC fund makes its first investment in tutoring app Yup | A venture fund formed by Sesame Workshop and New York-based Collaborative Fund early this year has made its first investment in a tutoring platform called Yup.
Specifically, Yup (formerly known as MathCrunch) has raised $4 million in a seed... |
| 11.10.2016 | Caregiving service startup KindlyCare raises $3.1M for California-Texas launch | The two year-old company’s caregiving service is available in California cities including Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego, as well as Dallas-Fort Worth, according to the website. KindlyCare’s growth ... |
| 11.10.2016 | Kindly Care raises $3.1 million to launch elder care marketplace | Elder care management startup Kindly Care launches today, backed by a $3.1 million investment led by MHS Capital.
Kindly Care offers customers a solution to the hiccups of working with home care agencies by pairing them with care profession... |
| 11.10.2016 | Kindly Care raises $3.1 million to launch elder care marketplace | 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!
Elder care management startup Kindly Care launche... |
| 23.09.2016 | Driver’s ed app Aceable raises $4 million | Although self-driving vehicles feel like a near future reality, people still need driver’s licenses to get around independently in cars today.
Now, an Austin, Texas startup called Aceable has raised $4 million in Series A funding to deliver... |
| 20.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 20, 2016 | Khazanah Nasional invested $160M in WeLab; LendUp raised $150M; Maluuba secured $6.2M funding
Maluuba, a machine learning company that offers a Siri-like experience for Android devices, today announced that it has secured $9 million CAD (ab... |
| 08.10.2015 | “Bros funding bros”: Why VC isn’t moving with the times | New data compiled by The Information and Social Capital suggests the tech industry in the United States is just “bros funding bros”.
Over the course of three months, data was gathered on 552 senior investment professionals at 71 US-based Ve... |
| 16.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 16, 2015 | Sunlight Financial bagged $300M; Lightspeed secured $61M; Omada Health raised $48M
We don't talk about it much in this country for some reason, but diabetes and heart disease are huge problems. So big that three out of four Americans now ha... |
| 09.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 9, 2015 | Blue Apron completes $135M; Outset Medical raised $91M; Rancher Labs landed $10M
As part of its co-investment activities, E.ON acquired a stake in the US start-up Enervee. Founded in 2012, Enervee provides a dynamic platform on which consum... |
| 28.05.2015 | Startup Revenue Milestones | At K9 we invest in companies which have a clear/direct revenue model and typically don’t invest in companies that follow the Ubiquity first Revenue Later (URL) revenue model made famous by Eric Schmidt in 2007. In my discussions with K9 por... |
| 21.04.2015 | Mixmax Raises $1.5M From Harrison Metal, Floodgate To Bring Interactive Apps To E-mail | Mixmax, which is making e-mail interactive with apps that set-up calendar meetings and polls, raised $1.5 million from Harrison Metal, Floodgate’s Mike Maples and Ann Miura-Ko, Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures and angels Eric Ries, Soundclo... |
| 18.02.2015 | 50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley | “One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science, and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that we’ve got a... |
| 13.01.2015 | Bringing Programming Education Online, Thinkful Raises $4.25 Million | Thinkful, the online continuing education services company for programmers and developers, has raised $4.25 million in a new round of funding as it looks to expand its portfolio of education offerings.
“We’ve found a away to get a lot of pr... |
| 13.01.2015 | Thiel-Backed, Learn-to-Code Startup, Thinkful, Raises $4.25M Series A | Corporate jobs don’t suit everyone. Just ask Tracy Huynh, who landed such a position shortly after graduating Rice University in 2013 but soon found the bureaucratic pace of the work stifling.
So Huynh decided to try her hand at coding. She... |
| 29.12.2014 | 10 Boston Ed-Tech Startups to Watch in 2015 | (EdTrips Co-founder Jakob Garrow at Techstars Boston Fall 2014 Demo Day.)
The education technology industry has seen a 212 percent increase in venture capital over the last five years, and Massachusetts is a primary reason as to why. The st... |
| 16.12.2014 | Boxbee Raises $5M Series A for On-Demand Valet Storage Solution | Boxbee, the New York, NY-based provider of on-demand valet storage for those who live in the urban jungles of NYC and San Francisco, announced this morning that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Metamorphic Ventures. Other... |
| 14.12.2014 | What to do when a VC says no | 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!
You have the concept. You have the passion. You h... |
| 14.12.2014 | What to do when a VC says no | You have the concept. You have the passion. You have the team. You even have a meeting lined up with your dream VC. So what do you do when a VC rejects you — multiple times?
I learned this lesson from personal experience. Here’s my story.
M... |
| 08.09.2014 | Lob Secures $7M in Series A Financing | Lob, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a cloud-based print and mail API platform, secured $7m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Polaris Partners with participation from First Round Capital, Floodgate, and other individuals. In... |
| 29.08.2014 | Floodgate closes its fifth fund with more of the same | 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!
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?
That’s ex... |
| 29.08.2014 | Lyft-Off: Zimride’s Long Road To Overnight Success | When John Zimmer and Logan Green launched a new ride-sharing service called Lyft in the spring of 2012, they instantly knew they had a hit on their hands. But that wasn’t always the case.
Prior to creating Lyft as part of a hack-day project... |
| 29.08.2014 | Floodgate closes its fifth fund with more of the same | If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?
That’s exactly what seed-stage venture firm Floodgate is thinking as it closes its fifth and new fund. According to a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, this fund of just under $76... |
| 21.05.2014 | Mobile health app that uses incentives to improve pill taking raises $5.25M | Mango distributes alerts and reminders to users to take their medication. It also uses a point system in which users earn points for taking medication on time. Depending on how many points they earn, they can be entered into a drawing for g... |
| 09.05.2014 | Hatching Thunder Lizards from Radioactive Eggs in Austin | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| 18.02.2014 | LiveOak Venture Partners Sees Lots of Quality Startup Deals in Austin and Texas | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| 13.02.2014 | Front Desk raises $4M to help small service businesses manage scheduling, payments | Front Desk, the Seattle startup that helps businesses manage scheduling, payments, and other administrative tasks, has raised an additional $4 million.
This round, led by Floodgate and a few of the region’s top angel investors, follows a $1... |
| 13.02.2014 | Front Desk Raises $4M Series A Led by Floodgate To Expand Its Mobile Business Management Service | Front Desk, a software as a service platform and mobile business management tool that can handle things like scheduling, payments and client management, today announced that it has raised a $4 million Series A round. This round was led by F... |
| 03.02.2014 | Austin’s Capital Factory partners with Silverton & Floodgate to match startup investments | It’s a good day to be part of Austin, Texas’ startup community, thanks to a new partnership between incubator Capital Factory and venture firms Silverton Partners and Floodgate.
Capital Factory’s program consists of Austin-based tech compan... |
| 03.02.2014 | Austin’s Capital Factory partners with Silverton & Floodgate to match startup investments | 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!
It’s a good day to be part of Austin, Texas’ star... |
| 03.02.2014 | Capital Factory’s New Partnership: Growing the Pie | By SUSAN LAHEY
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| 10.10.2013 | VCs and Founders Give Advice on Funding a Startup | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| 19.08.2013 | How hybrid cloud is transforming IT: An interview with Mike Maples, Jr. | 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!
You might like the flexibility of Amazon Web Serv... |
| 06.08.2013 | Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Floodgate’s Ann Miura-Ko | This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, we have Floodgate’s Ann Miura-Ko in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and we’ll ask them during the show.
Miura-Ko is a co-fou... |
| 25.07.2013 | Bigcommerce raises $40M to help small businesses 'sell more' online | Bigcommerce has raised big bucks to help physical retailers keep up in an increasingly digital world.
The company helps small business owners create professional stores online. E-commerce is on the rise — Forrester recently said that online... |
| 25.07.2013 | Bigcommerce raises $40M to help small businesses 'sell more' online | 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!
Bigcommerce has raised big bucks to help physical... |
| 02.07.2013 | Outbox Raises $5M in Series A Funding | Outbox, an Austin, Texas- and San Francisco, CA-based provider of a service that digitizes users’ postal mail and then makes it available online, raised $5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Floodgate with participation from Founder... |
| 13.06.2013 | N3twork Raises $12M in Funding | N3twork, a provider of new media discovery and interaction solutions, raised $12m in funding.
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation from Google Ventures and Floodgate Capital. In conjunction with the ... |
| 09.05.2013 | On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards in Austin | BY LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News
Mike Maples Jr. wants Austin entrepreneurs to create a “Thunder Lizard,” a $100 billion company within 10 years.
He explained that the idea for Thunder Lizards comes from Godzilla, the fictional ... |
| 06.05.2013 | Tango Card Raises $4.1M in Series B Funding | According to the company’s blog (read here), Tango Card, a Seattle, WA-based provider of a “reward as a service” platform, raised $4.1M in Series B funding.
Backers included Allegro Venture Partners, Floodgate, Swan and Legend Ventures, as ... |
| 07.03.2013 | “In The Studio,” FLOODGATE’S Mike Maples Maintains An Outsider Mindset Despite His Valley Successes | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
“In the Studio” welcomes a co-founder of a company which went public, a native Texan who studied engineering in Silicon Valley and business o... |
| 16.01.2013 | Ayasdi Receives $10.25M in Series A Funding | Ayasdi, a Palo Alto, CA-based developer of technology that combines advanced mathematics, computer science, and visualization to help organizations find insights in large and complex datasets, received $10.25m in Series A funding.
The round... |
| 31.12.2012 | Silicon Valley VCs predict 2013 trends: Space, robots, self-driving cars | As the year draws to an end, Silicon Valley investors are looking for the next wave of technology after social networking.
VentureBeat spoke to a slew of the top players at well-known West Coast institutions — the founding team at Stanford ... |
| 20.12.2012 | Want a meeting with a storied Silicon Valley investor? Start raising money for charity. | 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!
It’s all too rare that we hear about San Francisc... |
| 20.12.2012 | FitStar Closes $1M Seed Funding | FitStar, a San Francisco, CA-based digital fitness startup, has closed a $1m seed funding.
The round was led by Google Ventures, with participation from Advancit Capital, FLOODGATE Fund, Founder Collective, MESA+, Neil Young and Bob Stevens... |
| 05.12.2012 | Okta Closes $25M in Series C Funding | Okta, a San Francisco, CA-based enterprise-grade identity management service, closed $25m in Series C funding.
The round was led by new investor Sequoia Capital, which joied existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Khosla ... |
| 27.11.2012 | Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft | 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!
Smart investors are betting big on business techn... |
| 27.11.2012 | 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 best, enterprise startups have been qui... |
| 19.11.2012 | Get funded! An idiot’s guide to angel investment | 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!
Silicon Valley’s most prolific angel investors ar... |
| 14.11.2012 | OutboundEngine Raises $1.6M in Series A Funding | OutboundEngine, an Austin, Texas-based provider of automated, customized email and social media services for managing customer relationships, has emerged from stealth mode with $1.6m Series A funding round.
Backers include Floodgate, Austin... |
| 12.11.2012 | DoubleDutch Raises $4M in Series B Funding | DoubleDutch, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of mobile CRM applications, has raised $4m in Series B funding.
The round was led by FLOODGATE Fund, with participation from Bullpen Capital and Lightbank.
In conjunction with the funding, Mi... |
| 11.10.2012 | Sharethrough Raises $5M in Series B Funding | Sharethrough, a San Francisco, CA-based video advertising company, has raised $5m in Series B funding.
Backers include existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners and Floodgate (read here).
The company intends to use the funding to exp... |
| 18.09.2012 | Funding Daily: If the world was run by robots… | 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!
There were so many funding announcements, it woul... |
| 18.09.2012 | GENWI takes extra $2M to be the delivery boy of mobile content | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Writing is the easy part. It’s distributing your work it effectively and attractively to a range of mobile devices that is the challeng... |
| 05.09.2012 | Bigcommerce helps retailers master the art of selling online | 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!
Bigcommerce has taken a big $20 million to accomm... |
| 05.09.2012 | Funding Daily: Dolly and Dollar Mania | 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!
Its 9/5 today, and as a result, I’ve had the song... |
| 22.08.2012 | Area Startup Raises $2.1 Million For Some Damn Thing It Won’t Talk About | An exciting new startup* is launching soon, unveiling technology that it promises will change the way that all content is distributed and consumed to all sorts of mobile- and Internet-connected devices. And to do that, it’s raised $2.1 mill... |
| 29.07.2012 | Founders Are Not Heroes. Let’s Get Back To Work | Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 15-city event series hosted around the world to help educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. He’s also ex-Electronic Arts, the founder of Commonred and Vaporware Labs.
A ... |
| 14.05.2012 | Femanomics: 105 Women Venture Capitalists & Angel Investors You Should Know | I know what you’re thinking. You are thinking there has been a lot of talk about women investors, or rather, the lack of women venture capitalists and angel investors. You can read about it, here, here, here, and here. You can read the outr... |
| 10.05.2012 | Image Monetization Startup Stipple Raises $5M Led By Floodgate And Relevance | Stipple, the advertising startup that helps Web publishers monetize their images, just announced that it has raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding.
The company already raised a $2 million seed round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield ... |
| 26.04.2012 | OnSports Raises $2M Led By Floodgate To Be The Mobile Watercooler For Sports Fanatics | In both sports and the tech industry, you win some and you lose some. Even though OnSports chief executive Aaron Krane got a nasty black eye this week in a pick-up basketball game, his company just closed a $2 million round led by Mike Mapl... |
| 07.03.2012 | Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations | Part 1 of 2 Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. Here are the first five.
It Feels Like 20 Years Ago Today
It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the firs... |
| 21.12.2011 | Come to the 9th Founder Showcase, with TheFunded.com’s Investor Awards | 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!
This post is sponsored by TheFunded.com.
The Foun... |
| 13.12.2011 | Errand service TaskRabbit raises $17.8M, plans to hop into Seattle and other markets | TaskRabbit is looking to nibble on some new markets, and Portland and Seattle are among the first on the company’s list now that it has raised $17.8 million in fresh capital.
The San Francisco company — which has raised about $25 million to... |
| 13.12.2011 | TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond | Ebay for real world labor TaskRabbit has seen lightning fast growth in the past couple of months, and has taken advantage of that growth by raising another $17.8 million in Series B funding. Participating in the round are existing investors... |
| 30.11.2011 | NewsCred Raises $4.75M | NewsCred, a New York-based media company focused on creating a single platform for the world’s news, said it raised a total of $4.75m in funding.
According to the company blog (read here) the company raised:
– $750K in seed round from FLOOD... |
| 31.10.2011 | Smule to make beautiful music with $12M in funding | Music app maker Smule today announced a new funding round of $12 million to support future expansion plans, and to hire more employees.
Smule is the company behind the I am T-Pain autotune app, Ocarina, a very early hit on the iPhone, Glee ... |
| 31.10.2011 | Smule to make beautiful music with $12M in funding | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Music app maker Smule today announced a new funding round of $12 million to support future expansion plans, and to hire more employees.... |
| 25.10.2011 | Slice brings its ecommerce tracking smarts to Gmail | Shopping-tool startup Slice is available for for Gmail users today, the company announced, which opens up the ecommerce tracking tool to an additional 200 million users worldwide.
Previously available for Yahoo Mail users, Slice helps shopp... |
| 22.06.2011 | Proposed: The boardroom for the 21st century | Last week, I made a call to entrepreneurs that it is time to change the boardroom structure. Startups, after all, have evolved over the past 20 years, but boardrooms haven’t.
Startups now understand what they should be doing in their early ... |
