Will Adreessen Horowitz Back Foursquare’s New Round?
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Foursquare is looking to raise an additional $20-40 million this summer at a $500 million valuation. Betabeat chatted with several sources this week...
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TechStars Grad Shelby.tv Looking to Double Down its Round to $1 M
Shelby.tv founder Reece Pacheco was reportedly fielding offers for $200,000 in funding minutes after getting offstage at the TechStars NY demo day. The company was initially aiming for a $500,000 seed...
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Yipit Raises $6 M. Series B and Eyes International Markets
Yipit co-founders Vinicius Vacanti and Jim Moran Daily deal aggregator Yipit just raised a $6 million B round led by Highland Capital partners with participation from previous backers RRE, DFJ Gotham...
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What Happens The Day After You Get Funded?
Post-funding grin? If Betabeat just closed a $350,000 round of funding from folks like Dave McClure, Eric Ries and Esther Dyson, we're pretty sure we'd spend the next day hungover trying to form our...
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Fab.com’s Secret Sauce for Raising $40 M.? Show Them Your Data and Don’t...
Mr. Goldberg. (twitter.com/betashop) For any startup looking to raise venture funding--or even VCs trying to figure out what entrepreneurs want (where is Mel Gibson on that, anyways?)--Jason "Prince of...
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Brooklyn-Based SocialGuide, a TV Guide for the Twitter Era, Is Raising a...
SocialGuide, a startup that determines what TV shows and movies are popular by combing Twitter and Facebook, is in the process of raising a $500,000 debt round, according to the company's latest SEC...
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Investors Get In Bed with InBed.me
Diego Saez-Gil, InBed.me's cofounder and CEO (twitter.com) Everyone knows that opting for hostels instead of hotels can save you tons of money on travel costs, but for the more anxiety-prone among us,...
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Facebook Offspring Quora Raises $50M Round Led By Facebook Investor
Mr. Cheever (flickr.com/techrunch) Those Facebookers are making it rain and the IPO isn't even scheduled until Friday. The Wall Street Journal reports today that ex-Facebookers Adam D'Angelo and...
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AxialMarket, an Online Network for Deal Professionals, Raises $6.5M
Peter Lehrman, AxialMarket's CEO (firstround.com) Here's a quickie for your Tuesday evening: AxialMarket, an online network that connects potential buyers and sellers of private businesses, has raised...
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10gen Raises $42M to Expand MongoDB, Its Open Source Database Software
Mr. Merriman (ny.tie.org) Look out, Oracle: a swiftly-growing open source startup could be coming for you. 10gen, the New York-headquartered database company that boasts clients like Foursquare, MTV...
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One Funding Announcement That Probably Won’t Restore Your Faith in Humanity:...
BuzzFeed raises $20M to build Snackadium. BuzzFeed, the Internet's biggest time suck, announced in a press release today that it has raised $20 million in a series D round led by NEA Ventures, bringing...
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What Your Culture Really Says: The Toxic Lies Afoot in Silicon Valley
(Photo: Twitter/Shanley) This is a guest post by Shanley Kane. It was originally published on her blog Pretty Little State Machine and is republished here with her permission. Ms. Kane works in product...
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Jeff Bezos Invests in Business Insider to Fund More Henry Blodget Crotch Shots
(Photo: AlanLevenson.com) In a stunning gesture of support for EXCLUSIVE airplane journalism, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is leading a $5 million round in Business Insider, the web property helmed by Henry...
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Dwolla Raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz and Others, Will Be Expanding...
Dwolla founder Ben Milne. (Photo: Twitter) Dwolla*, the Des Moines-based payment platform that has a strong presence in NYC, announced today that it has received a $16.5 million Series C investment led...
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Snapchat Is Reportedly Close to Raking in $100 Million in Fresh Funding So...
So happy, obviously. Snapchat, the ubiquitous photo-sharing app, is not seeing its bank account dissolve anytime soon. Gigaom reveals that it's close to bringing in $100 million in new investment that...
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Booting Up: Shazam ID’s Its Way to Fresh Funding, WebTV Gets the Ax
The tech industry. (Photo: ThinkNear.com) New York Times' sugardaddy Carlos Slim is investing $40 million into music discovery app Shazam. The company plans to use the little treat to bolster its...
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Profitless Snapchat Is Reportedly Seeking $3.6 Billion Valuation
Hope these girls made some money. (Photo: Digital Trends) If the Snapchat bubble was going to explode, it doesn't sound like that's going to happen anytime soon. AllThingsD is reporting that it's close...
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Flatiron School Scores $5.5 Million in Funding, Vows To Become ‘Super...
Students at the Flatiron School learnin' stuff. (Flatiron School) The Flatiron School announced this morning that it closed a $5.5 million funding round, led by Charles River Ventures (CRV) and Matrix...
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LearnVest Closes $28 Million Funding Round
LearnVest helps you avoid blowing all your money on Seamless. (LearnVest) Online financial planning service LearnVest has just raked in some major funds of its own. The company announced in a press...
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NYC’s Birchbox Scores $60 Million in Series B Round
All of the Birchboxes. (Facebook) Birchbox announced this morning that it's just closed a $60 million Series B led by Viking Global Investors, along with existing investors First Round Capital, Accel...
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