| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.02.2017 | Dovetale launches tool to identify influencer communities using image recognition | 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!
Dovetale today launched what it calls its flagshi... |
| 07.02.2017 | What ‘social artificial intelligence’ means for marketers | 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!
Artificial intelligence is already well-establish... |
| 19.11.2016 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/19/16 | FanDuel and DraftKings merged; Facebook bought FacioMetrics; Hulu acquired The Video Genome Project
Facebook acquired FacioMetrics, a developer of vision-based customer solutions. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
FacioMetrics ... |
| 18.11.2016 | Term Sheet — Friday, November 18 | Et Cetera
Gig Economy: On-demand startups—the ones bringing us grocery, housecleaning, parking, lawn mowing, and personal butlers with a tap on our smartphones—have been out of vogue with venture investors for most of this year. When Postma... |
| 17.11.2016 | Sprinklr acquires Little Bird, a tool for finding experts on anything via Twitter | New York marketing tech firm Sprinklr has acquired Portland-based Little Bird, according to Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas.
Little Bird was founded in 2011 to help researchers quickly find the top experts and influencers on any given ... |
| 17.11.2016 | Sprinklr acquires Little Bird to find Twitter influencers | Little Bird's helps businesses find influencers in their field and follow those conversations
We tend to look at Twitter, for the most part, from the consumer perspective, including how they're using it and whether or not Twitter is able to... |
| 21.01.2016 | Little Bird’s latest update helps brands search for influential people on social media | 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!
Little Bird has released the next generation of i... |
| 24.04.2014 | Social discovery engine Little Bird snags Google and Adobe award-winning marketer Carmen Hill | Carmen Hill, an award-winning expert in content marketing, is joining Marshall Kirkpatrick’s social discovery engine Little Bird as director of marketing.
“If you know Carmen Hill, you know this is incredible,” Kirkpatrick told VentureBeat,... |
| 24.04.2014 | Social discovery engine Little Bird snags Google and Adobe award-winning marketer Carmen Hill | 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!
Carmen Hill, an award-winning expert in content m... |
| 11.04.2014 | Three social media trends every startup should know about | There’s a golden saying that networking is about getting someone else’s business card, not giving away your own. When you meet someone you want to connect with; someone who inspires you, a potential business partner, a future employee; your... |
| 28.03.2014 | 6 New Salestech Tools You Should Try Right Now | For awhile, conventional wisdom said the world of CRM was particularly harsh for newcomers. With behemoths like Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft, there just wasn’t much room for startups. But much has changed over the last few years, and th... |
| 16.02.2014 | Little Bird Raises $1.7M in Seed Funding | Little Bird, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of influencer engagement technology for sales, marketing and other smart businesses, raised $1.7m in seed funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $2.7m, was led by the Oregon Angel F... |
| 14.02.2014 | Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Social Marketing Startup Little Bird Raises $1.7M More | Little Bird, the startup led by former tech writer Marshall Kirkpatrick, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in new funding.
Kirkpatrick, formerly an editor at ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite) and before that a writer at TechCrunch, l... |
| 14.02.2014 | Marshall Kirkpatrick’s social media search startup Little Bird raises $1.7M, adds execs | Little Bird, a Portland-based startup that helps businesses identify top influencers on social media, today announced $1.7 million in additional funding and two new executives.
The new investment was led by Oregon Angel Fund and ups total f... |
| 14.02.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/14/14 | Tapiture, Kaltura, iCitizen, Architizer, DealCircle, Splice Machine, InfiniDB, iDevices, Rocketrip
Seed stage
Tapiture, a social curation and e-commerce platform, closed $2.25 million in seed funds. JUMP Investors led the round.
A package m... |
| 14.02.2014 | Little Bird helps you find social media heavyweights | 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!
As a data journalist, Marshall Kirkpatrick used a... |
| 17.11.2013 | Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce1, A New CRM Platform For Connecting Apps, Services Like Dropbox And the Internet of Things | Salesforce.com is launching Salesforce1, its next-generation CRM platform that it has designed for developers, independent software vendors and customers to connect apps and third-party services such as Dropbox, Evernote and LinkedIn.
The m... |
| 08.10.2013 | Nimble Pioneers Social Selling Movement, Experiences Record Growth as Businesses Worldwide Focus on the Social Customer | Global Adoption of Social Media for Customer Engagement and Relationship Management Drives Record Nimble Usage, Making it a Popular Choice for B2B Professionals
SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 8, 2013–
Today, Nimble, the pionee... |
| 27.07.2013 | Take a look at top accelerators from around the country | Accelerators are popping up in cities such as Kansas City, Atlanta, Baltimore and Indianapolis
We here at Vator have recently been taking you on a tour of some of the biggest accelerators and incubators around the country. We've, of course,... |
| 19.04.2013 | RW10: Catching Up With Some Of ReadWrite’s Most Influential Writers | ReadWrite celebrates its 10th anniversary on Saturday, April 20, 2013. For the occasion, we’re running a series of articles looking back—and looking forward.
It’s hard to believe that ReadWrite went live an entire decade ago. Since founder ... |
| 07.04.2013 | 10 Startups That Turn Complexity Into Simplicity | Here’s the thing about simplicity. It’s all relative. A developer’s idea of simplicity is different from a finance chief or a customer service agent.
I run across a variety of startups in my daily work at TechCrunch. But few have that innat... |
| 06.03.2013 | Marshall Kirkpatrick’s ‘Hey Big Fish’ Project Highlights Influential People And Tweets At SXSWi | South by Southwest Interactive is coming up this weekend, and that usually means a flood of content on Twitter — some of it interesting and relevant to you, much of it not. If you’re starting to feel overwhelmed by all the social media nois... |
| 08.10.2012 | Little Bird Raises $1M in Angel Funding | Little Bird, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that provides tools to discover topical influencers online, has raised $1m in angel funding.
The round was led by Mark Cuban‘s Radical Investments, with participation from Howard Lindzon’s Socia... |
| 05.10.2012 | Little Bird Takes Flight: Marshall Kirkpatrick Launches His Influence-Finding Startup, Raises $1M | Little Bird, a startup that helps PR agencies, marketers, and media companies identify influencers on virtually any topic, is launching in private beta today.
The company was founded by tech blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick — an early TechCrunc... |
| 05.10.2012 | Blogger Kirkpatrick scores $1M in the bank for Little Bird, a startup about real influence | 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 anyone knows about influence, it’s Marshall Ki... |
