Outright raises $5.5M to help small businesses with their finances
Outright, which offers a free online application to help small businesses manage their finances, has raised $5.5 million in a first round of institutional funding led by Sequoia Capital. The firms that invested in Outright’s seed round — First Round Capital, Shasta Ventures, and SoftTechVC — also participated. The Campbell, Calif., company has now raised a total of $7.5 million.
Outright raises $2M for dead simple finance software
Outright, a company that offers simple web software to help small businesses manage their finances, has raised $2 million in a first round of venture funding.
Chief executive Kevin Reeth gave me a demo last July, back when the company was called Bootstrap, and I was impressed by the way he’d been “absolutely ruthless in simplifying and paring things down.” Services include tracking sales and business expenses, organizing your business records for taxes, and reminding you… Continue Reading
Foodzie raises $1M for foodie treats
Foodzie, an online marketplace for specialty-food producers and growers, has just raised $1 million in seed funding. The company is part of this year’s group of startups incubated by TechStars.
Foodzie launches with 25 small food artisans and growers on its site. It’s much easier for foodies to discover new products on a single site than through the artisans’ standalone web sites (think about how many bands link to their MySpace music pages). With an emphasis… Continue Reading
Circle of Moms gets circle of traffic
Save the drama for your mama, or at least take it online. Circle of Moms, a new parenting website launched in October 2008, can now celebrate its 850,000 registered users. Only two months after crashing the parenthood site party, it’s now the second largest community of mothers after CafeMom with its public launch today.
Circle of Moms is a community where mothers befriend each other, keep friends and family updated on their kids’ lives, and join… Continue Reading
WeGame raises $3M for gaming video site
WeGame is a video site aimed exclusively at gamers, offering a niche for them to show off clips taken of gaming sessions alongside previews from publishers.
The site also offers a desktop application used to record games, which supports 31 games at the time of writing. Once clips are recorded they can be automatically uploaded to the site.
Niche sites like WeGame appear to be working pretty well because larger sites like YouTube often don’t serve smaller… Continue Reading