Founders: Bid for pitch slots with Tim Draper, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and more VCs

How much would you donate to charity to have a private pitch meeting with your favorite venture capitalist?

Prepping for IPO, MuleSoft nets $37M from NEA & others to make app integrations easier than ever

MuleSoft, an integration-focused startup that helps huge and tiny companies alike, has raised $37 million in its fifth round of funding.

Stormpath gives companies an easier way to authenticate users, with $8.2M

Cloud service providers need to authenticate hundreds of thousands of users every day. Stormpath wants to take over that responsibility.

Love it or hate it, Buzzfeed just got $19.3M for its crazy take on news

Social news site Buzzfeed has raised $19.3 million in its third round of funding, a war chest that will likely help the company take its quirky content to a new level.

Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft

While consumer-focused companies like Facebook and Zynga exploded, business software startups have been quietly scoring household-name customers with multi-million dollar budgets, kicking legacy players off their pedestal, and filing for higher-than-expected IPOs.

Is the technapolocalypse upon us as investments drop in Q3?

Venture capital investments declined in both dollars and deal volume this quarter, according to the latest TheMoneyTree report.

Funding Daily: Goodie Goodie Gumdrops

Some good souls raised money in funding land today. Ticketfly raised a third round to help people’s assaulted ears listen to better music, and Meteor brought in money to support stressed web developers everywhere. GiveForward received investment for its platform …

Get your money here! NEA raises gigantic $2.6B venture fund

New Enterprise Associates has raised one of the largest venture capital funds ever at $2.6 billion.

Funding Daily: VC helping hands lead to startup happy feet

Good thing we start happy hour late here at VentureBeat, or we would have missed Fab.com’s big news yesterday afternoon. In other $100+ announcements, Penguin took an independent, self-publishing platform under its wing, and Microsoft and Yammer sealed the deal. …

Edmodo exec: New $25M funding is just the beginning of spike for edtech

Edmodo‘s campaign to bring collaborative, social media tools to the classroom was bolstered today with a $25 million funding round led by new investor, New Enterprise Associate’s Tony Florence.

The digital education startup uses a social network to connect students, …

BenchPrep promises to offer 500 digital courses by year’s end

BenchPrep, the company that creates entire digital courses for high school and college students, is aiming to up its 100-course portfolio to 500 by year’s end.

The company hopes to accomplish this goal with a $6 million round of funding …

Blue Jeans: Flipping 100 billion minutes of audio conference calls into video

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, …

MongoDB database creator 10gen grabs a whopping $42M from NEA, Sequoia, others

10gen, the startup that created the popular MongoDB open-source data application, has raised a new $42 million round of funding to improve its data-harnessing technology and build out its team.

The New York- and Palo Alto-based company generates most of …

Daily dose of funding: social city maps, safer apps, and a dash of Hollywood

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we decided to round up the quick-and-dirty details for the funding deals of the day and put them in …

Freelance marketplace Elance secures $16M in funding

Elance, a freelance marketplace that connects clients and freelancers, announced Tuesday it has raised $16 million in funding. Stripes Group led the funding, with participation from New Enterprise Associates and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

“Elance has experienced tremendous growth …

Live tonight: Steve Wozniak, Leonard Nimoy highlight an evening of disruptive tech (updated)

Update: Scroll down to see a gallery of Nimoy and Wozniak on the DEMO stage!

Come kick off the new year with a celebration of disruptive enterprise technology featuring two huge geek heroes: Steve Wozniak and Leonard Nimoy.

The VentureBeat …

Updated: Xoom, the money transfer company, gets a little money of its own: $25M from Sequoia

[Editor's note: Updated with quotes from Xoom's chief executive John Kunze.]

Money transfer company Xoom received a $25 million round of funding today, according to a Form D filed with the SEC. The round comes from existing investors, including Sequoia …