With its audio-fingerprinting technology, the company says it can pinpoint 80 percent of would-be attackers on their first call.
"Web businesses have the potential to re-create the old pub experience, where businesses know every customer by name, their interests, and what makes them happiest in order to better serve them," said Intercom.
After pivoting away from flash sales and toward its own products, New York City-based Fab has just raised a huge amount of funding to help drive its transformation and support its fast-growing audience.
Showing VCs are more than willing to throw money at buzzword-filled startups, software-defined storage startup CloudByte has raised $4 million in new funds.
This startup is trying to organize and make useful just about every kind of data imaginable -- not only large volumes of data but also data that appears at high velocities.
Enterprise cloud-backup provider Zetta.net has raised $8 million in new funding to help it bolster its backup, disaster recovery, and archiving services.
With privacy concerns at a new high following PRISM revelations, VCs want to invest more in security and privacy. Antitracking startup Disconnect fits the bill.
Whatever it was, it wasn't sweet charity. Today VCs pumped uncharacteristically large amounts of money into startups -- and collected some funding for themselves as well.
Boston-based cold data storage startup SageCloud announced that it completed $10 million in Series B financing.
InternMatch wants to give students a safe place to search for jobs and get noticed. The company raised $4 million in its first round of funding today.
Locaid, a Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) startup, has closed $4.05 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing released today.
Guest Post One of my ex-students recently gave me an update on his startup. When I asked, “What are you working on?” the first words out of his mouth was his fundraising progress. This is not good.
Hot Russian e-commerce startup Lamoda has raised an insane $130 million in funding.
Custom-made goods marketplace CustomMade has raised $18 million in new funding with an aim to grow further and connect more makers and buyers who crave one-of-a-kind items.
A $50 million investment into Anki, which debuted at Apple's developer conference today, leads the day's funding news.
As Twilio CE Jeff Lawson said, "Telecommunications is one of the biggest industries that there is, and it's transitioning from a world of hardware and carriers into the future, which is a world of software." Seventy million dollars' worth of Twilio software.
Glorified sexting app or not, Shapchat may be on the verge of raising a hefty funding round.
Panzura, the cloud storage company, has closed a $25 million funding round. The San Jose Calif.-based company provides faster web-based services for its corporate customers than the alternative: storage devices attached to locally-hosted servers.
SoFi has received an additional $41 million from Bancorp for its private student lending solution.
Guest Post The rising value of coding skills and the lowered barriers to entry are making development a popular career. Here's why VCs should read that and see dollar signs.
