Funding Daily: Break out your Top Hat, it’s time to Boom, Twist and Pulse a LittleBit

July 18, 2012 5:15 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Here’s a wrap-up of the day’s funding news:

Boom Financial raises $17M to bring banking to the masses

Mobile banking company m-Via has raised $17 million in funding and changed its name to Boom Financial.  Boom provides an online financial …

Hardware hacker startup grabs $3.65M for computer/Lego hybrid toy

July 18, 2012 4:00 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

LittleBits is a maker/hacker startup through and through, and it’s just taken a sizable round of venture funding from a few of the bigger names in Silicon Valley.

Its product is half building block, half circuit board, and it’s intended …