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| Feb 25, 2014 | Workboard Completes $2.75M Series A Financing | Workboard, a Redwood City, CA-based provider of execution intelligence applications for enterprise managers, completed a $2.75m Series A financing.
The round was co-led by Granite Ventures and Opus Capital with participation from Crosslink ... |
| Aug 28, 2013 | Martini Media Raises $14M in Financing | Martini Media, a San Francisco, CA-based global media and advertising company, raised $14m in financing.
The round was led by existing investors Venrock, Granite Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
The company intends ... |
| May 16, 2013 | Pelican Imaging Closes $20M Series C Funding | Pelican Imaging, a Mountain View, California-based developer of camera technology for mobile devices, closed a $20m Series C funding.
Backers included new strategic investors Qualcomm Incorporated, through Qualcomm Ventures, and Nokia Growt... |
| May 16, 2013 | Marqeta Raises $14M in Series B Funding | Marqeta, an Emeryville, Calif.-based provider of a commerce and payments platform, raised $14m in Series B funding.
The company intends to use the capital to introduce new platform features and expand nationally.
Backers included existing i... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Anaplan Closes $30M in Venture Financing | Anaplan, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of cloud-based modeling and planning solutions for finance and operations, closed $30m in new venture financing.
The round was led by Meritech Capital, with participation from existing investors G... |
| Nov 21, 2012 | Empowered and UCLA Bring Career Retraining to the iPad | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Many of us see a reason to lament when we hear that millions of Americans are unemployed while millions of US jobs go unfilled. Steve Poizner looks at the same facts and envis... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | Rewarder Closes $7M Series A Funding | Rewarder, a San Francisco, CA-based social marketplace that connects individuals seeking knowledge and expertise with real people who want to help in exchange for monetary rewards, has closed a $7m Series A funding.
The round was led by Gra... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | Funding Daily: A tantalizing bowl of 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!
While looking into Salerno, Italy in conjunction ... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | Earn rewards for helping people complete their quests | 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!
The internet has woven instant gratification into... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Anaplan Closes $11.4M Series B Financing | Anaplan, a San Francisco, California-based provider of a cloud platform designed for business users to rapidly build and maintain strategic, operational and business planning & performance management applications, has closed an $11.4m S... |
| Jan 18, 2012 | Symplified Raises $20M in Series C Venture Capital Financing | Symplified, a Boulder, Colo.-based cloud identity company, has raised $20m in Series C venture capital financing.
The round was led by Ignition Partners, with participation from existing investors Allegis Capital, Granite Ventures, and Ques... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Martini Media Raises $13M in Venture Capital | Martini Media, a San Francisco-based digital media platform for engaging affluencers, has raised $13m in venture capital.
The round was led by Granite Ventures, with participation from existing investors Reed Elsevier Ventures, Silicon Vall... |
| Oct 31, 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.... |
| Oct 31, 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 ... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Localmind’s check-in app update gives you the power of omniscience | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When mobile location service Foursquare released its API, Lenny Rachitsky wondered what he could do with all of that data. Foursquare i... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Encore Career Institute raises $15M to educate Baby Boomers | A new online education startup for Baby Boomers, The Encore Career Institute in Los Gatos, announced today that it has landed $15 million in first round financing co-led by VC firms Granite Ventures and InterWest Partners.
Founder and CEO S... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Encore Career Institute raises $15M to educate Baby Boomers | 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!
A new online education startup for Baby Boomers, ... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Bunchball raises $6.5M for gamification expansion | Bunchball has raised a round of $6.5 million to expand its investments in gamification, or using game-like mechanics to increase consumer engagement with non-game web sites.
The announcement is another sign that gamification is trendy among... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Bunchball raises $6.5M for gamification expansion | 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!
Bunchball has raised a round of $6.5 million to e... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Bunchball Closes $6.5M Financing Round | Bunchball, a San Jose, CA-based provider of online “gamification” solutions, has raised $6.5m in funding.
The round was led by Triangle Peak Partners, with participation from existing investors Northport Investments, Correlation Ventures an... |
| Mar 8, 2011 | Grid2Home Raises $2.6 Million To Help Smart Devices And Power Suppliers Communicate | On Tuesday, a San Diego-based startup Grid2Home raised $2.6 million in a new round with its previous investors, Granite Ventures according to a new SEC filing.
The company sells integration software and systems to: semiconductor manufacture... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Bunchball helps Bravo “gamify” its Top Chef All-Stars TV show | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Bravo TV channel is teaming up with start-up Bunchball to “gamify” its Top Chef All-Stars show so that fans will be more engaged an... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Bunchball helps Bravo “gamify” its Top Chef All-Stars TV show | The Bravo TV channel is teaming up with start-up Bunchball to “gamify” its Top Chef All-Stars show so that fans will be more engaged and loyal.
Gamification adds game-like features, such as rewards and achievements, to non-game applications... |
| Oct 26, 2010 | Pelican Imaging Receives $10M in Series B Financing | Pelican Imaging Corporation, a Mountain View, CA-based software start-up in the business of commercializing computational cameras for the smartphone market, has received $10m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Globespan Capital Par... |
| Oct 8, 2010 | 7 new experts who will share their app secrets at DiscoveryBeat 2010 | We’re entering the home stretch in preparations for DiscoveryBeat 2010, our conference about how to get apps noticed. DiscoveryBeat 2010 is an event focused on the secret recipes for application discovery and monetization. Our newest speake... |
| Oct 8, 2010 | 7 new experts who will share their app secrets at DiscoveryBeat 2010 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re entering the home stretch in preparations for DiscoveryBeat 2010, our conference about how to get apps noticed. DiscoveryBeat 201... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | 33 ways to make your app a hit: VentureBeat’s Discovery Directory | As app stores multiply and the number of publicly released apps — just the ones we can see and count — approaches 1 million, content developers are having a hard time standing out from the crowd.
That process is known in the app world as di... |
| Mar 2, 2010 | Bunchball unveils analytics program to measure engagement with web sites | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Bunchball is announcing a new analytics service today — one that measures how well a web site incentivizes and rewards consumers.
The S... |
| Mar 2, 2010 | Bunchball unveils analytics program to measure engagement with web sites | Bunchball is announcing a new analytics service today — one that measures how well a web site incentivizes and rewards consumers.
The San Jose, Calif.-based company is dedicated to what it calls “game-ification,” or making non-game sites mo... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Smule, creator of hit iPhone music apps, raises $8M more | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Smule, the company behind popular, music-based iPhone apps like Ocarina and I am T-Pain, has raised $8 million in a third round of fund... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Smule, creator of hit iPhone music apps, raises $8M more | Smule, the company behind popular, music-based iPhone apps like Ocarina and I am T-Pain, has raised $8 million in a third round of funding.
The Menlo Park, Calif. company’s apps usually take advantage of the iPhone’s capabilities in cool, i... |
| Aug 10, 2009 | Pelican scoops up $7M for computational cameras | Pelican Imaging, a company specializing in computational cameras, has brought in $7 million in a first round of funding, according to PE Hub. Recent backers of the Soquel, Calif., company include Granite Ventures and InterWest Partners.
Ven... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Ozmo snags $3.75M for wireless personal area networks | Ozmo Devices, provider of technology that allows users to create wireless personal area networks for battery-operated devices at low prices, has raised $3.75 million toward an anticipated $10 million round of equity, according to PE Hub. Pa... |
| Jul 28, 2009 | Mixamo takes $4M for animation creation software | Mixamo, maker of technology that allows users to quickly and efficiently create motion-capture animation, just launched with $4 million from Granite Ventures and Keynote Ventures. Based in San Francisco, the company says it provides softwar... |
| Jul 7, 2009 | Plato Networks rakes in $7.5M for energy-efficient chips | Plato Networks, maker of chips used to make data centers more energy efficient, brought in $7.5 million of an anticipated $10 million round of preferred stock. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., the company previously raised $20 million in a sec... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | Ozmo takes $750K for personal Wi-Fi networks | Ozmo Devices, maker of software that generates “personal area” Wi-Fi networks around individual computers, has brought in $750,000 in debt, right and securities, reports VentureWire. In the past, the Palo Alto, Calif., company has been back... |
| Jun 18, 2009 | Lucid Imagination scares up funds for open-source search software | Lucid Imagination, maker of open-source search software tailored to enterprise applications, has added undisclosed funds from In-Q-Tel to its first round of capital. It had previously raised $6 million in the round from Granite Ventures and... |
| Feb 12, 2009 | Ocarina-creator Smule raises $3.9M to make iPhones musical | Smule, which makes interactive music applications for the iPhone, has raised $3.9 million in a second round of funding.
The Menlo Park, Calif. company made a splash last year with its Ocarina app, which turns your iPhone into a musical inst... |
| Jan 25, 2009 | Lucid Imagination: Open source competition in enterprise search | A San Mateo, Calif. startup called Lucid Imagination is launching today with the goal of supporting (and making money from) Apache Lucene and Solr, open source search products that power high-profile websites like Netflix and Ticketmaster.
... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Lucid Imagination Raises $6 Million for Open Source Search Support | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Lucid Imagination, a startup in Newton Highlands, MA, that specializes in support and services for the open-source search technologies Lucene and Solr, has collected $6 millio... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | DecisionView lands financing to optimize clinical trials | DecisionView, developer of software applications that streamline the clinical trials process for biotech and pharmaceutical companies, announced today that it closed a fourth-round of funding earmarked for product development — including ad... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Analog chip firm Quantance raises $12 million to speed up cell phone data | High-speed data networks on cell phones, such as the iPhone, are anything but high speed. But Quantance, a chip maker that has just raised $12 million in funding, has a solution that could triple data speeds in future phones at very little ... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Agilence raises $4M for retailer theft prevention | Agilence, based in Camden, N.J., has raised a $4 million funding round led by Granite Ventures for its “video-based exception reporting,” which keeps an eye on employees at retail outlets.
The company’s subscription-based service minimizes ... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | YottaMark: Worrying about your tomatoes so you don’t have to | I remember a care-free time when salmonella and E. Coli were confined to rotten eggs, bad meat and the occasional unfortunate fast-food chain. That age of innocence has passed. Now dangerous bacteria could be everywhere, not only in your be... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Arcot Systems pulls down $23 million for digital authentication | As more people handle tasks that require personal verification online, digital signatures are increasingly important.
Arcot Systems, which does digital-based signatures has raised a second round of funding. The money will no doubt be used t... |
| Jun 15, 2008 | PSS Systems gets another $18M for legal document software | PSS Systems, which dubs itself as “the standard for legal hold and management software” (basically document policy software), has closed a fourth round of funding
The plan is to use the money to expand PSS Systems’ legal governance product ... |
| Jun 4, 2008 | Crowd Science offers demographic data for mid-sized blogs, but how big is the market? | When it comes to their audiences, most blogs have a knowledge gap: while Google Analytics is wonderful for determining the sources and volume of their traffic, it tells them very little about the people that constitute it.
Expensive traffic... |
| Jun 2, 2008 | Ozmo Devices comes out of stealth mode to do Wi-Fi PAN software | Ozmo Devices has come out of hiding to make software to create a short-range wireless network around someone’s computer.
Ozmo’s software uses Wi-Fi radio to create a “personal area network,” or a short-range wireless Internet network that c... |
| May 6, 2008 | MK Capital finalizes acquisition of Kontiki from Verisign | MK Capital has completed its previously announced acquisition of content delivery network Kontiki from Verisign for an undisclosed price. The companies plan to announce the deal this morning.
As announced, Verisign is likely divesting Konti... |
| Apr 30, 2008 | Fulcrum Microsystems creates alliance for partners and raises $29 million round | Fulcrum Microsystems has created an alliance for its partners to adopt its chips more quickly and has raised $29.2 million in venture capital.
The Calabasas, Calif., chip company has now raised nearly $100 million in five rounds since its f... |
| Feb 22, 2008 | SellPoint creates salesperson for the web | Every part of our visual life is being taken over by video.
SellPoint is just the latest company to conspire with the takeover: The start-up produces online video tours for products, and is replacing that comely sales representative who onc... |
| Dec 20, 2006 | What is proper etiquette for VCs — fiddle with Blackberry or not? | The VC snoman video reminds us of a post we’d intended to write, but which we dropped when ValleyWag got there first.
It is about the proper etiquette for a venture capitalist, while hearing a pitch from an entrepreneur.
VCs are the ones wi... |
