Intercom, a customer relationship management-focused startup, has raised $1 million from a bevy of Silicon Valley’s trendiest angel investors.
Yeah, we said trendy. Rather than taking checks from a slew of long-time angels in the area, Intercom has turned to …
The New York Tech Meetup, a monthly gathering where startups can demo their products, is now more than 21,000 members strong and is the heart and soul of the Silicon Alley scene. It launched hometown heroes like Foursquare and Tumblr, …
A startup is hard at work making a new type of high-speed memory that stores data even when the power is turned off. Avalanche Technology, a company focused on Spin Programmable Memory (SPMEM) non-volatile memory class storage solutions (not pictured), …
CapLinked, the startup that wants to make it easy to invest in private companies, has just taken in a $500,000 round of from a new group of investors.
“Investing in private companies has depended on outdated technology for too long,” …
Buzzfeed, a site known for curating the best viral content across the web, has raised a new $15.5 million round of funding and has added a handful of staffers responsible for the Huffington Post’s early success.
Buzzfeed’s aim is to …
“She’s got to feed the monkey, I mean, hasn’t that ever occurred to you man?”
That might be a quote from cult classic The Big Lebowski, or it might be what Chartbeat recently told their current investors. Who’s to …
Buyosphere is web celebrity Tara Hunt‘s greatest gamble, and after some shaky months, it might be starting to pay off.
Following a successful rebranding effort, the team has just closed an oversubscribed seed round of funding — $325,000, to be …
Moontoast, a startup that specializes in turning social media influence into revenue, has closed a new $6 million round of funding, the company tells VentureBeat.
Moontoast gives musicians, celebrities, and brands a way to generate money from the often large …
Just five months after raising $18.5 million, online legal services provider Rocket Lawyer has added $10.8 million in funding to its bank account, according to an SEC filing VentureBeat uncovered today.
“This is a combined Series D financing of $18.5M …
A five year-old company that seeks to deliver “awesome social video campaigns” finds itself embroiled in a hairy Internet pickle on a day that would have otherwise been ripe for celebration.
Unruly Media, a video promotion company, has announced that …
While it’s been talked about for some time, Klout today finally confirmed that it raised a “strong” third round of funding — though it won’t say how much.
Klout CEO Joe Fernandez confirmed the funding with All Things D, and …
SoundCloud, a startup focusing on audio-sharing in social media, has announced a new (and reportedly sizable) round of funding.
The round, which was led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, may have been as large …
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
This famous introduction by Charles Dickens sums up what entrepreneurs seeking startup capital are facing in 2012.
On the one hand, banks still aren’t lending. And with the …
See that? Someone just gave that $2.7 million dollars.
The video is a promotional vehicle for stealth startup Just.Me. Yes, we’re in the kind of bubble where “stealth” companies make promo videos for tech conferences (Le Web, in this case) …
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.…
New statistics from Silicon Valley’s top law firms show that new startups spend around $80,000 on legal costs.
AttorneyFee, a website that compares lawyer’s fees, pulled recent numbers from Silicon Valley’s most prominent law firms. The digits reveal the average …
Task outsourcing startup TaskRabbit has closed a new $17.8 million round of funding, the company announced today.
TaskRabbit lets people outsource errands, commitments and tasks to other people. TaskRabbit users then make bids for each of those tasks and the …
Social-media video advertising company Jun Group has secured $2.5 million in funding from Western Technology Investment (WTI).
Jun Group specializes in making video advertising for social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube. The company focuses on transparent advertising and …
Soasta, a cloud-based performance testing services company, has secured $12 million in its fourth round of funding. This series D round was led by Jeff Webber through The Entrepreneurs’ Fund III and existing investors Canaan Partners, Formative Ventures, and Pelion …
Fab.com, the flash sales site for design-oriented products, is seeing its pivot pay off in a big way.
The company, which initially started out as Fabulis, a social network for gay men, announced yesterday that it has raised $40 million …
