OpenStack-powered cloud startup Cloudscaling scores $10M from Trinity, Juniper, & Seagate

Elastic cloud infrastructure startup Cloudscaling has raised $10 million in its second round of funding so it can keep growing at a quick clip and innovating its cloud technology.

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Nasdaq-SharesPost deal provides liquidity at the price of transparency

The new Nasdaq-SharesPost private market will make it far easier for pre-IPO companies and their investors to turn shares into cash. But at what price?

Trinity Ventures using $325M warchest for SaaS and e-commerce startups

Rumors have been circulating about this latest round for over a week,and the firm has issued a confirmation this morning. The new fund was oversubscribed but capped at $325 million to allow for a higher partner-to-fund ratio.

Loggly rejects notion of ‘bumps on a log,’ raises $5.7M

Online log management company Loggly announced today that it’s secured $5.7 million in a second round of investment.

For those of you unfamiliar with “log management,” it is a method of organizing large volumes of data. Logs are basically a …

Round three of our MobileBeat 2012 speakers

We’re a few weeks away from MobileBeat 2012, VentureBeat’s annual mobile conference, where 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 Ajay Chopra, …

Mobile startup HyperBees wins seed funding in Android games contest

London-based HyperBees won the Get Discovered Android mobile game contest on Tuesday with a quiz game that will land the startup a funding deal.

The three-person team headed by Tom Mleko (pictured below, second from right) will receive a term …

Skyfire gets $8M to stream mobile videos without any wait

Mobile browsing and video optimization company Skyfire announced today it has raised $8 million in its third round of funding.  The round was facilitated by Verizon Investments, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Skyfire gained popularity as an …

Cloudability raises $1M, helps keep your cloud spending in check

Cloudability, a company that helps people manage cloud services spending, has secured $1 million in its latest investment round. This seed investment round was led by Trinity Ventures and Walden Venture Capital, including $250,000 in funding from Portland-based angel investors.…

Best Buy and Hooked Media hold contest to find best Android game developers

Best Buy and Hooked Media have launched a competition to find the best Android mobile game developers, and VentureBeat is helping out. The Get Discovered! competition will give the winner and finalists distribution on mobile platforms, media recognition and seed …

Dylan’s Desk: How I learned to stop worrying and love “the cloud”

As I write, the VentureBeat offices sit enveloped by a cloud. In all directions, the fog wraps our office building in a soft, gray fuzz, obscuring the views of downtown San Francisco, the bay, and the ocean.

It’s not unlike …

Cloud technologies are a huge, untapped market, says Trinity Ventures’ Dan Scholnick (video)

Dan Scholnick is a general partner at Trinity Ventures. In this conversation with VentureBeat editor-in-chief and founder Matt Marshall, he discusses the future and potential of cloud technologies.

Scholnick will also be speaking at CloudBeat 2011, VentureBeat’s upcoming enterprise cloud …

Trion prepares to host third-party games on its online gaming platform

Game maker Trion Worlds, which successfully launched its first major online role-playing fantasy game, Rift, back in March, is now unveiling a game platform to publish games created by other companies.

While Trion will continue making massively multiplayer online games …

Taulia raises $8.5M to help suppliers avert their own debt crises

Taulia, which offers discounts in exchange for timely payments, announced an $8.5 million second round of funding yesterday. DAG Ventures joined existing investors Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures to lead the round.

In a sluggish economy, San Francisco-based Taulia is …

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 …