With a little over 24 hours left on its fundraising campaign on crowdfunding site Indiegogo, Canadian startup Matterform has substantially surpassed its goal for its low cost 3D scanner called the Photon.
VivaReal, a Latin American real estate portal we wrote about in 2010, announced that it has pulled in its first round of institutional funding for an undisclosed amount.
Greg Waldorf, an investor and board member of real estate portal Trulia, …
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Alan Colmenares is facilitator for the Founder Institute program in Colombia, a contributor to VentureBeat and writes about Latin American startups at TropicalGringo.
Latin America is home to some notable startup success stories from countries such as Brazil, Argentina and …
Zio Studios, a 45-person animation and gaming startup based in Bogotá, Colombia, has announced that local venture capital firm Promotora, has invested $1.3M in the company in a first round of institutional funding. According to CEO Alejandro Gonzalez, the new …
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Alan Colmenares is the Facilitator for the Founder Institute program in Colombia, South America, a contributor to VentureBeat and writes about Latin American start-ups at TropicalGringo.
When I worked for Intel Capital, Intel’s corporate venture capital (VC) arm, in Mexico …
A new video-chat startup, SeePort, won a prize for its new software platform and video recording device Wednesday at Founder Showcase, a competition for graduates of the Founder Institute program.
The Founder Institute is an organization devoted to helping a …
New York startup Profitably recently closed a $300,000 round of funding with a group of New York investors. The company offers an online software application that analyzes data from Quickbooks, a small business accounting package sold by Intuit. The “data-driven” …
Microsoft held a meeting for financial analysts today to present the company’s strategy for its consumer, enterprise and small and medium business markets. A clear theme ran throughout the presentations: Microsoft’s continued emphasis on the industry transformation taking place around …
Kenshoo, a company that provides software to help online marketers manage campaigns, has closed an undisclosed round of funding with Sequoia Capital. The company plans to use the funds to grow its client base, deepen profitability, broaden offerings (for example, …
ConnectYard, a New Jersey startup that provides educational institutions with a centralized social media platform, recently announced raising a $500,000 first round of funding round.
The company’s tools allow students, teachers and administrators to communicate securely through established social media …
With today’s acquisition of Day Software, a Swiss Web content management software company, Adobe continues to fill out its enterprise software line. The two companies reached an agreement for Adobe to acquire all of the publicly held shares of Day …
Search site Ask.com launched a Q&A service today, making it the latest in a host of companies to do so, including Quora, Yahoo and Linkedin. The new version of the site will integrate the company’s search technology with a new …
Tiger Global Management, a New York private equity firm, has apparently invested approximately $10 million for a 40% stake of Russian online travel portal, Anywayanyday. This is according to an article in Russian newspaper, Vesomoti, and the Quintura blog. The …
Atomico Ventures, an investment group started by Skype cofounders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has invested £4 million, or more than $6 million, in a first round of institutional funding for pay-to-bid auction site MadBid.com. As with sites such as …
As e-books upset the publishing industry’s applecart, an announcement by the Wylie Agency Thursday that it would bypass publishers and sell e-books exclusively to Amazon.com for two years is sure to make people talk.
For Amazon, the deal helps ensure …
With the recent news that Groupon, the well-funded group buying site, just acquired two start-ups in Latin America, many in the region view it as a sign of things to come. Whereas, previously, only well-financed startups with strong revenues made …
Latin America’s online-travel infrastructure is sorely lacking. But Netactica, an American-Argentinean startup, is tackling the problem.
According to online travel research firm PhoCusWright, the Latin American online travel market was highlighted in a recent study as one of the key …
Thanks to services like Twitter that let users publish quick messages nearly as fast as they come to mind, a host of real-time search engines have recently emerged — engines that quickly index these messages and serve up the most …
Brazilian start-up Compra3 is leaving beta testing today and opening up its group buying site to the public, complete with social networking features, more than 100,0000 users, and almost one million products on offer. The site exclusively targets the Brazilian …
While companies such as Trulia and Zillow duke it out within the hard hit US real estate market, new startup VivaReal is targeting Latin America, a market with strong prospects for growth and higher online advertising rates. Since launching in …
