ChowNow raises $3 million to give restaurants quick, easy online and mobile tools
ChowNow gives restaurants streamlined mobile-and-online-ordering templates and marketing consulting services.
4 startups reinventing finance from L.A., not NYC
November 28, 2012 9:00 AM
Tim Lloyd
Los Angeles is turning into a surprising hub for financial technology startups. We profile four of the area's interesting "fintech" companies.
DataSift scores new round to make sense of social data, plans move into startup city
May 2, 2012 6:25 AM
Lindsey Compton
DataSift, a social data platform that extracts large amounts of data from a number of online sources, raised $7.2 million in a first round of funding from existing investors IA Ventures and GRP Partners, the company announced today. The funding …
Trouble getting a loan from your bank? ZestCash gets $73M to help the underdogs
January 19, 2012 4:00 AM
Sarah Mitroff
For most people, getting a loan requires a clean credit record and a strong credit score. Since not everyone’s credit report is spotless, ZestCash offers loans to customers who don’t belong to banks or who don’t have any credit data. …
