Makeover Solutions lets us all find out what we’d look like blond, raises $7mm
Women on the internet are hot.
First we had the women-centric ad network, Glam, raising $200 million and signing a $1 billion deal, then we saw the woman-centric publisher, Sugar Inc, acquiring the woman-centric sites, ShopStyle and Coutorture.
Now, New York’s Makeover Solutions, a site that lets you upload your headshot and adorn it with a variety of hair-styles, accessories, and makeup combinations, has raised $7 million to expand its offering. The impressive technology automatically and accurately… Continue Reading
Bar Harbor BioTechnology raises first round
Bar Harbor BioTechnology, a Bar Harbor, Me., developer of DNA and RNA analysis equipment, raised a “multimillion dollar” first round of funding, VentureWire reports. The round was lead by Borealis Ventures, and also involved Village Ventures.
Bar Harbor Bio is a spinout of the Jackson Laboratory, a research institute known for its large collection of genetically engineered mice. The company is developing lab equipment and software for quantitative polymerase chain reaction, or qPCR — a method… Continue Reading
Flurry, offering free email for your phone, raises $3.5M
Flurry, a San Francisco company that offers an easy download for your mobile phone to let you email and read news for free, has raised $3.5 million in a first round of financing.
Flurry is useful because it helps you get email without having to buy an expensive smartphone. It lets you read news via RSS.
Now it hits crunch time. After signing up 140,000 users over the past year (we don’t know how many of them… Continue Reading