Attention digital health startups: VCs say now is a ‘great’ time to raise money

Partners at Sequoia, Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers discuss health industry trends and what they look for in potential investments.

Storied VC firm NVP bulks up its enterprise team

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture capital firms, is bulking up its international team of venture investors, and predicts it will be highly active in 2013.

With its data warehouse for hospitals, Health Catalyst pulls in $33M

HealthCatalyst is the latest health technology startup to benefit from the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, which mandates that health providers and hospitals shift to to electronic records.

Former CEO of Vibram USA starts his own minimalist footwear brand

The former CEO and President of Vibram FiveFingers starts his own minimalist footwear brand, backed by $5 million in venture capital.

Bangalore-based enterprise IT startup Appnomic raises a modest $5M

Appnomic has secured its third round of funding from existing investor Norwest Venture Partners for its cloud application monitoring service.

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, …

If Facebook were an online stock brokerage, it would look like Motif

Take one helping of Facebook: social, status updates, friends, and games. Add any online brokerage: stocks, money, charts, and choices. Mix them together, and you’ve got Motif Investing.

Launching Monday, Motif allows investors to easily build portfolios of companies grouped …

Fraud detection startup 41st Parameter raises $13M

41st Parameter announced today it has raised $13 million in its fourth round of funding. The company helps prevent fraudulent online transactions.

Its flagship product, FraudNet, combs through the Internet to make sure people trying to process transactions or open …

Small business community Manta grabs $44M

Manta, a website that connects customers and small businesses with company profiles, just raised $44 million. The company helps small businesses gain visibility and attract new customers, as well as create a community of small business owners.

Think of Manta …

Funding daily: small social networks, kid-friendly games, and college search tool

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …

Adaptive Planning gets $22M for cloud-based performance management

Adaptive Planning, a business performance management company, announced Wednesday that it has raised a cool $22 million in venture capital.

Unless you work in accounting or as a business manager, you probably won’t find Adaptive Planning’s services all that exciting. …

Extole turns regular customers into brand ambassadors, raises $10M

Nearly every company has a social presence these days, but personal recommendations are often a more powerful way to boost sales. If you’ve never heard about a company before, but your friend has, you’ll likely trust her opinion over that …

Bionic Panda raises seed funding for Android mobile games

Bionic Panda Games has raised seed financing to develop mobile games for Google’s Android operating system, the company announced today. Not surprisingly, Google Ventures is one of the backers.

San Francisco-based Bionic Panda got its start in 2010 and has …

Google Ventures funds RelayRides, again

Car sharing startup RelayRides has raised $3.6 million in a round of funding only five months after its last, according to a form D filed with the SEC. Involved in the round are Google Ventures, August Capital.

RelayRides takes advantage …

Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games

Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed.

As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was all about the wide-open battle for control of the emerging mobile gaming market. …

Badgeville raises $12M to lead the way in gamification

Gamification startup Badgeville has raised $12 million in a second round of funding to add game-like features to non-game applications.

Kris Duggan, chief executive of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Badgeville, said that the funding will help the company accelerate its growth …