The online venture capital firm has raised a $1.1 million fund as part of its new "Accelerate Series" that will support startups from Y Combinator's Winter 2013 batch.
Online hotel booking service Ostrovok nabs $25 million from General Catalyst, Accel Partners, and Yuri Milner to become the top Internet travel company in the Russian-speaking world.
Step aside, Nobel. You've got some competition in the prize category.
General Assembly aims to teach technology skills that the market needs, not just what professors think you ought to know -- and it's expanding its locations worldwide.
SmartThings, the hack-your-world Kickstarter project that had already raised $1.2 million, added another $3 million from First Round Capital and more than 20 angel investors.
Ever heard of Prismatic? Until yesterday, neither had we. But founder Bradford Cross wouldn’t stop pinging our collective inbox about his company’s latest news, which turned out to be a $15 million round of funding from none other than überinvestor …
Y Combinator is tightening the purse strings, cutting the $150,000 investments startups get in half.
Google Plus, eat your heart out. Group video conferencing service Meetings.io has grown to 100,000 users since launching in April. The startup’s three founders have been heads down developing screen-sharing and file transfer features, released today, with lofty plans of …
Editor's Pick Betable hopes to disrupt social casino games by enabling real-money online gambling in social gaming titles.
There is no cure for the headache induced by excessive paperwork every time you visit the doctor’s office. So its no surprise that as tablet computer come to replace clipboards and smartphones become ubiquitous among patients, the medical app DrChrono …
In July, it was reported that Sina Corp. had turned down Digital Sky Technology (DST)’s $500m investment in Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blogging service. But it seems that the talk between two parties is still on going. We just heard …
Jawbone, the maker of Bluetooth headsets for cell phones and other cool hardware, announced today that it has raised $40 million.
That amount is one of the biggest raised by a mobile hardware company, but San Francisco-based Jawbone has always …
There’s something about Codecademy that made investors plunk down $2.5 million dollars today to help the Y Combinator startup teach more people to code online. Codecademy uses game mechanics to make JavaScript instruction fun and engaging for people who use …
Yesterday’s massive layoffs at daily deals site BuyWithMe were the result of shrinking capital markets, the company’s chief operating officer said today.
The announcement that BuyWithMe, the No. 3 daily deals site on the Web, was cutting significantly more than …
Venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz announced today that it is participating in startup incubator Y Combinator‘s Start Fund, alongside venture capitalists Ron Conway and Yuri Milner.
“We’ve been working with Paul [Graham, founder of Y Combinator] for awhile and we’ve just …
Startup incubator AngelPad will offer applicants an additional $100,000 in funding when they enter the program, bringing the incubator’s total investment in each of its 15 or so startups up to $120,000.
Startups entering AngelPad have to decide whether they …
Twitter today confirmed that it is raising a large funding round from Russia’s DST, the investment company that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga.
“Now we have an opportunity to expand Twitter’s reach with a significant round of funding led …
Twitter is raising $400 million in its seventh round of funding, according to documents uncovered by venture capital information service VCExperts.
The company is issuing around 10.1 million shares of Series G-1 preferred stock and 14.8 million shares of Series …
Apartment sharing startup Airbnb has raised $112 million at a $1.3 billion valuation, confirming past rumors about the hot company.
The San Francisco company lets people travel to places more affordably by letting the book apartments from people around the …
Micro-blogging service Twitter is in the process of raising $400 million in funding that would value the company at $8 billion, according to a report by the New York Times.
The site has more than 300 million registered users who …
