TechStars alum Cloudability snags $8.7M from Foundry to track your cloud costs

Cloud-cost tracking startup and TechStars Cloud alum Cloudability has raised $8.7 million in its first round of funding, the company announced Thursday morning.

Clouability offers cloud-based software that ties into various IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services and tells you how …

‘Data Viz for Dummies’ startup raises a cool $1M

Data visualization for huge sets of information can be hard, man. Datahero wants to make it easy, and apparently, some pretty interesting investors do, too.

The product is still in private testing stages, but it’s impressed (to the tune of …

The maker movement starts to attract venture capitalists’ interest

Every year, my family looks forward to Maker Faire, a family-friendly celebration of DIY mayhem, with eager anticipation. But when venture capitalists get involved in the maker movement, you know something new is afoot.

One such VC is Brad Feld, …

TechStars alum Mocavo grabs $4M to help you find your ancestors

TechStars 2011 alum Mocavo has raised $4 million in its first round of funding in a bid to help people find their ancestors through its search engine, the company announced today.

Mocavo started getting notice when it become part of …