Replay Solutions raises $11M to help find software bugs
Replay Solutions, a startup that develops technology to bug-check software during development, has raised more than $11 million in a second round of funding, according to Private Equity HUB, citing a regulatory filing. Backers include new investor Sigma Partners.
Redwood City, Calif.-based Replay says its technology… Continue Reading
ScanCafe hits image-scanning milestone, raises round
ScanCafe, a Burlingame, Calif. company that professionally restores old photos and other images, is announcing a new landmark in its two-year existence. It has scanned 10 million images.
The way the service works is that you send your images in, the company uses software and manual… Continue Reading
YouSendIt gets $14M to send large files
YouSendIt, a company that lets you send and receive large files through your email, has raised $14 million in a third round of funding.
The financing comes from new investor Emergence Capital Partners (the online services-focused firm best-known for backing Salesforce.com) and existing investors Sigma Partners,… Continue Reading
Power control company iWatt gets $12.4M
IWatt, a Los Gatos, Calif. company that makes power control products, has taken a fifth round of funding for $12.4 million, led by an unnamed strategic investor.
The products that iWatt makes include AC-DC and DC-AC power supplies, coupled inductors and other power devices, and it… Continue Reading
Vlingo’s speech recognition for Blackberry officially outcools the iPhone — for now
Vlingo, a Cambridge, Mass, speech recognition company, has just launched an awesome voice-powered interface for Blackberry smartphones.
In a recent post about speech-to-SMS provider Yap, we posited that the ultimate mobile interface would let us navigate a phone using a combination of voice and manual input…. Continue Reading
Hanger Network gets $10M boost for coat hanger campaigning
Few are aware of the looming issue of coat hanger pollution. Yet there they are, lying in heaps, projecting up from overburdened landfills, their anonymous, identical tops crooked into a single a questioning pose: Why? Why so much hanger waste?
Coming to the rescue is Hanger… Continue Reading
CrownPeak raises $6M for web content management
CrownPeak, a startup that offers online software to help companies manage their web content, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding.
This round brings CrownPeak’s total funding to $10.25 million. It was led by SunAmerica Ventures, with backing from existing investors Sigma Partners… Continue Reading
ODesk raises $15M to manage remote employees
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Outsourcing technology startup oDesk has raised a $15 million third round of funding led by DAG Ventures.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based oDesk allows companies to hire technology “providers” like programmers and web designers, and it provides companies with the technology to monitor those remote employees. Chief executive… Continue Reading
E-commerce company MarketLive raises $20M
MarketLive, a provider of e-commerce retail technology and services, has raised a new $20 million round of financing. Backers include new investors JAFCO Ventures and Northgate Capital, as well as Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners, Globespan Capital and others.
MarketLive was founded in 1995, and it’s still… Continue Reading
Intacct raises another $15M to offer online financial management software
Intacct Corp, a San Jose online financial management software company that competes with Intuit’s Quickbooks, said it has raised an additional $15 million of financing.
The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners, and Sutter Hill Ventures participated.
This follows the… Continue Reading
Yahoo teams with Vlingo to offer voice search
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With just-announced improvements to its mobile service, Yahoo oneSearch gives customers the ability to search the web by simply speaking into their phones. To make this happen, Yahoo is partnering with startup Vlingo and has led Vlingo’s $20 million second round of funding.
Yahoo isn’t the… Continue Reading
RecycleBank gets $30M from Kleiner Perkins to reward recyclers
RecycleBank, a Philadelphia company that rewards people for recycling at home, has raised another $30 million in financing led by Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, according to VentureWire.
We first reported on RecycleBank last year, when it raised $13.1 million in a… Continue Reading
Voxify raises $15M for voice recognition systems
Voxify is an Alameda, Calif. company that creates self-servicing systems for call centers based off templates of question-and-response menus that are specific to particular industries.
Automated systems like Voxify’s have gradually become better, and the company’s products can handle relatively complex transactions like making reservations and… Continue Reading
Performance management software company Enkata raises $8M
Performance management software company Enkata Technologies has raised $8 million in financing.
Sigma Partners and Apex Venture Partners led the funding, which Enkata says will accelerate domestic and international growth.
The San Mateo, Calif. company was founded in 1999 and raised $20 million before recapitalizing in 2006,… Continue Reading
The Jellyvision Lab draws $5M for interactive websites
The Jellyvision Lab helps its clients to create interactive, reactive websites that adapt themselves to the needs of their visitors in order to reach some desired goal — for example, buying a computer.
The company also offers pay-per-action tracking software for advertisers, which helps them pay… Continue Reading
HiWired raises $9M for technical support
HiWired is a service company that provides technical support for both businesses and consumers, and has customers including OfficeMax and Cox Communications.
Much like a highly successful public company, LivePerson, HiWired offers outsourced live help and support for everything from gadgets to internet installation. It’s based… Continue Reading
Acquia raises $7M for Drupal platform
Founded only a few months ago, Acquia is a North Andover, Mass. startup that capitalizes on a content management system written by its co-founder in 2001.
The Drupal platform is an open-source product that can be used to create blogs, content portals, wikis and other Web… Continue Reading
GainSpan receives funding for wireless sensors
Tucked unobtrusively away in corners and out-of-the-way places, sensors record the world around us — tracking air quality, electricity usage, temperature and other variables. The modern world needs such measurements, but installing and maintaining the sensors is costly.
GainSpan is a Sunnyvale, Calif. company that says… Continue Reading
Blackwave, says it has major storage improvement for video
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Blackwave, a video storage company that says it can store video seven to ten times more efficiently than other technologies, has raised $16 million more in a second round of financing. The company’s bold technology claims, however, can’t be verified just yet: It plans to… Continue Reading
Quantenna, building a better wireless chip
Quantenna Communications, seeking to exploit the rising number of mobile device users globally, says it is building a better semiconductor chip for wireless signal transmission in phones, laptops and other devices.
The chip includes multiple inputs and outputs for wireless signal transmission, and will be smaller,… Continue Reading