UserVoice raises $800K for customer feedback systems
UserVoice, provider of online tools used to gather and organize customer feedback, complaints and product requests, has raised $800,000 in a first round of venture capital from Baseline Ventures, Founders Fund, Betaworks, David Shen Ventures, Accelerator Group, and several individuals.
Based in Santa Cruz, Calif., the… Continue Reading
Huffington Post’s Lerer teaches journalism students to think like VCs
[Editor's note: As newspapers watch their business models crumble, journalism schools are moving fast to restructure their curricula to emphasize technology and new media. Below, Columbia journalism graduate student Chikodi Chima reviews a new seminar with an entrepreneurial bent.]
Cub reporter Kenneth Lerer was sure his… Continue Reading
Twitter app TweetDeck raising angel round
TweetDeck, an application for organizing messages (”tweets’) received via microblogging service Twitter, is raising an angel round of funding. The round will total less than $500,000 and is led by Betaworks, according to All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka. Not bad for a one-man operation.
The application… Continue Reading
Outside.in gets fresh funding for local news
Local news and discussion site Outside.in has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding from existing investors. Let’s hope the New York startup has enough money now to keep the going during a tough time for many media and news organizations.
Local search sites like Judy’s… Continue Reading
Iminlikewithyou raises $1.5M for social gaming site
Iminlikewithyou, a startup that began as something close to a dating site and has become closer to a casual game portal and social network over time, has raised a $1.5 million second round tor expansion.
The New York-based company only features its own games on the… Continue Reading
Outside.in gets $3M and a new CEO for local news
Outside.in, a site for community news and discussion, has raised an additional $3 million and appointed a new chief executive.
The Brooklyn, New York startup named Mark Josephson, former president of marketing company Seevast Corp., as its new CEO. Josephson doesn’t appear to have experience in… Continue Reading
Songkick’s concert recommendation engine: It goes to 11
Behind the online service Songkick is a simple motivation: To make going to a concert as easy as going to a movie.
Some 70 percent of U.S adults did not go to a concert last year, according to Songkick chief executive and co-founder Ian Hogarth, who… Continue Reading
Lotame Solutions takes funding for social media advertising
Lotame is an advertising platform for social media and networks, with a targeting technology that it calls “Crowd Control”.
The company says that it is “capturing previously unavailable data based on engagement,” and feeding it back to advertisers and publishers to increase ROI. Such behavioral targeting… Continue Reading