San Francisco's East Bay is known for its hippie movement, Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, and oil refineries -- not so much for venture capital. Claremont Creek Ventures, an East Bay's VC, wants to change this perception.
Just a reminder that Accel Partners will be hosting a day of meetings at their offices in Palo Alto next week, and it’s not too late to grab a spot there. If you’d like to swing by and show off …
VentureBeat has already been everywhere from New York to Korea, but next on our DEMO world tour, we’ll be meeting companies in our own backyard with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, Calif. If you’re working on the next big tech …
Jason Citron's latest venture, Phoenix Guild, lands funding, plans to build hardcore social games for tablets in the "post-PC world."
Every year, 100 billion minutes are spent on traditional audio-only teleconferences, while only 200 million minutes are used for video conferencing. Blue Jeans Network thinks it’s the company that can flip those numbers around.
With $25 million in new funding, …
POS. It’s the universally understood acronym that can stand for “piece of sh*t” or “point of sale” — and that’s no coincidence. LightSpeed, which seeks to change retailers’ perception of point-of-sale systems, has today announced $30 million in its first …
Only a dozen or so really big names have led the venture capital industry consistently over the past decade. Jim Breyer of Accel Partners is one of them.
This weekend, Breyer, who sits on Facebook’s board, was the subject of …
Silicon Valley’s brightest young minds will vie for $150,000 in rewards as part of a full-day entrepreneurial challenge at Stanford University this Tuesday.
The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), the student-run organization behind the event, has birthed a …
I have a secret. In college, sometimes students pay each other to do their homework. I know! The research takes a lot of time, and in the end often you still don’t have all the information you need. Researching tool …
Lenddo, which helps people build credit with small loans and a social-based Klout-like scoring system, raised an $8 million first round of funding Tuesday.
The brains behind Lenddo, co-founders Jeff Stewart and Richard Eldridge and chief scientist Dr. Naveen Agnihotri, …
Customer support software in the cloud provider Freshdesk helped itself grab a $5 million in funding, the company reported Thursday.
Freshdesk gets that you’d rather be liking your friend’s drunk vacation photos on Facebook than sitting on the phone with …
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Israel’s start up economy is hotter than ever. But a question haunts entrepreneurs there: Why are Israeli start-up hits generally so small? Where is their version of Instagram, the Silicon Valley-based photo-sharing company that Facebook just bought for $1 billion …
Israeli social and mobile game startup Dragonplay has raised $14 million in a first round of funding. The investors are Accel Partners, Entrée Capital, and Founder Collective.
This is a large amount of money for a Series A funding for …
Cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox revealed today that half of the mega-popular rock band U2, Bono and The Edge, are investors in the company, according to a Dropbox tweet this morning.
Dropbox closed a jaw-dropping $250 million round this past October, …
There are many mobile applications that help tired city-dwellers flag down cabs. But Hailo, a London-based cab-app company, is picking up passengers by focusing on giving the drivers a great product. Accel Partners took notice and has given the company …
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With 10 million downloads in three days, Angry Birds Space has vaulted the mobile-game business into the stratosphere of bona fide entertainment blockbusters.
It’s hard to calculate how much money the game has generated because prices range from 99 cents …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details for the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
Ad company OpenX, which helps publishers and enterprise companies sell valuable ad space, said today it has acquired LiftDNA, which helps find untapped ad sources and track how much money publishers make off of ad campaigns.
OpenX is an ad-serving …
ResearchGate, a social network for scientists to share knowledge and research, announced Wednesday it has raised its second round of funding, led by Founders Fund partner and PayPal co-founder Luke Nosek.
“ResearchGate is a full-blown network for scientists and researchers …
Online video startup Brightcove has set the price range for its initial public offering at $10 to $12 a share and could raise up to $60 million, according to its latest S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Brightcove …
