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Kleiner Perkins partner Bing Gordon will join Ouya's board.
Guest Post You might think your smartphone is pretty smart, but many smartphone apps are still pretty dumb, lacking contextual knowledge about you, your preferences, and your environment. That's about to change.
Basis Sceince wants to use its lead to race ahead of the rumored Apple iWatch.
Fashion app Poshmark can afford diamonds and pearls now. The company just got a $12 million second round of funding led by Menlo Park Ventures.
Cloud company AgilOne launches predictive marketing intelligence platform and closes $10 million.
Guest Post Today's advertising moguls are no longer booze-swilling confidence men -- they're big-data quants who know how to use tech for targeting and more.
"Big data" company CloudPhysics rolled on to the bright sky of the tech scene today, blown by $2.5 million and a powerful wind of technical jargon.
Recession? What recession? The Mayfield Fund, one of Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital firms, has raised a $365 million fund in just about 13 weeks.
“We’re extremely fortunate to have a fund close within a few months,” said managing director …
We’re just over two weeks away from MobileBeat 2012, VentureBeat’s annual mobile conference, and we’ve lined up some of the biggest names in the industry to delve into the event’s core theme: “Design is the new battleground.”
We’ve snagged Navin …
Guest Post Let’s start with the following facts, gleaned from Mary Meeker’s 2012 Annual Internet Trends report and the Cisco Visual Networking Index report...
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Venture capital investment is hitting the skids in China, the world’s largest Internet market.
VC investment fell to its lowest level in six years this quarter, as reported by Dow Jones VentureSource. A slew of unprofitable companies going public have …
Ad tech startup Moat has attracted $12 million in a second round of funding aimed to help brands better measure the effectiveness of their online ads, the company announced today.
Moat thus far has been used by more than 15,000 …
We’ve unveiled our first speakers and other details for our fourth annual game conference, GamesBeat 2012. Our roster of speakers includes Will Wright, creator of blockbuster video games from Sim City to The Sims and Spore. Wright is now the …
Kiwi Crate, a subscription service that delivers hands-on crafts to your door, has secured $5 million in its first round of funding the company announced Thursday.
The company, which launched in October 2011 with $2 million in seed funding, delivers …
Any good spring cleaner enjoys weeding out a load of clothes, shoes and bags that still have life in them, but are just taking up closet space. Poshmark launched today with $3.5 million in funding to let anyone sell their …
HealthTap has raised $11.5 million in a first round of funding to expand its expert online physician community, which answers questions that patients pose online or via smartphones.
The backers include Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors fund and Mohr …
Marketing automation firm Marketo has raised a massive new round of funding — $50 million — that will help it continue assisting companies with aggressive lead and revenue generation, the company announced today.
“We have a phenomenal growth opportunity now,” …
Kiwi Crate is announcing today it has raised $2 million in funding for a subscription service that delivers hands-on crafts and activities for pre-school and kindergarten age children.
The service is aimed at parents who don’t have the time or …
Venture capitalist Tim Chang is leaving Norwest Venture Partners to become a managing director at the Mayfield Fund.
Chang made a name for himself as a member of the Forbes Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists last spring, mainly …
