Rave Wireless snags $7M to up campus safety
Rave Wireless, developer of mobile applications tailored to university campuses, raked in $7 million in a fourth round of funding to continue work on software to heighten student security. Bain Capital Ventures, Sigma Partners and RRE Ventures contributed to the round.
The Framingham, Mass.-based company already has a portfolio of apps for use by students. The Rave Guardian allows them to transmit their location and safety status to campus police at any time from anywhere. On… Continue Reading
Virtualization startup InstallFree raises $8.5M
InstallFree, a company whose virtualization products allow users to access their Windows applications remotely, has raised $8.5 million in a second round of funding. The round was led by Ignition Partners and Trilogy Equity Partners.
The Bellevue, Wash,-based startup raised $1.7 million last November, and launched its first product in April. That product gives comapnies a cost-efficient way to give their employees access to applications whether they’re in the office, at home or on the road.
Pelago raises $15 million to expand Whrrl both in the U.S. and abroad
Social networks built around location are a hot item, and getting hotter.
It’s one thing to have a group of contacts which you can update with words from a mobile device (think the micro-messaging service Twitter). It’s another to be able to quickly update your exact location on a map and have others see it. Add to that the ability to review places (think: Yelp) as well as tag places you would like to go, and… Continue Reading
SMS games company, Frengo, gets high-powered backing
Mobile social gaming startup Frengo launched last month, offering a bunch of games that you play via SMS or the Web on your mobile phone.
It offers fantasy sports leagues such as Fantasy Football, betting games about winners of sporting events like “College Hoops Pick ‘Em”, and posting of comments and pictures to MySpace — so there’s something for anyone who is bored and looking for distraction for free. We signed up, and it was easy… Continue Reading
Google’s reign of terror over Valley workforce coming to end?
For two years, Google has brutalized its competition and other start-ups by grabbing the best talent with two sexy pieces of bait: the stock option, and its fun brand.
However, the first piece of bait, the stock option, has become decidely less sexy — and we may soon see more employees start to leave for more lucrative job opportunities.
Google has recognized this, creating an unusual options trading scheme it hopes will retain employees.
While Google’s… Continue Reading
VentureBeat’s high-end jobs
Check out the fresh $100,000+ jobs at the VentureBeat JobBoard.
Here are some of the listings just posted:
–Diversion Media is looking for a product developer;
–Wellsphere is a stealth San Francisco start-up that says it is developing a community-based Internet application to help people lead healthy, happier lives. It is looking for a Web developer;
–Starting today, for a limited time, we’re offering a 30 percent discount on the normal posting price. When you post a job listing,… Continue Reading
VentureBeat’s high-end jobs
If your New Year’s resolution will be to make more money, it’s not too late to apply to some of the fresh $100,000+ jobs at the VentureBeat JobBoard.
We’re getting feedback that JobBoard is working better than other boards (see comment). Here are some of the job listings just posted:
–Perenety, a start-up that is about to relaunch, is looking for a software engineer;
–Sling Media is looking for a director of worldwide customer and technical support;
–Kosmix, the… Continue Reading
Update on VentureBeat’s high-end jobs
Since launching our $100,000 plus VentureBeat JobBoard, the job market continues to get tighter. Silicon Valley has a 4.1 percent unemployment rate, the lowest since the boom. Employers are having a tough time finding qualified applicants, so we’re trying to help.
Here are some of the latest job listings, just in time for some Thanksgiving resume-writing:
–Bing, a stealth Palo Alto start-up run by industry veteran Eric Hahn, looks for ace software developer. (This is a company… Continue Reading
Medio raises $30 million for mobile search — to battle Google, Jumptap, others
Medio, a Seattle start-up that gives you search results tailored for your mobile phone, has raised $30 million in a second round of funding to keep up with the mobile search Jones’.
Founder Brian Lent worked side-by-side with the Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. So like the guys at Kosmix, who were close with the Google guys, Lent may feel he has some self-redemption to do. Lent reportedly also turned down the No. 1… Continue Reading
Update on VentureBeat’s high-end jobs
Since launching our $100,000 plus VentureBeat JobBoard, entrepreneurs continue to tell us they’re getting highly qualified applicants via VentureBeat. We’re glad it’s working. We’ll try to bolster this shortly by promoting the JobBoard even more.
Here are some of the more recent job listings:
–Software engineers wanted at Palo Alto news site Topix (a company we wrote about here);
–Product marketer wanted a San Mateo-based network security company, Metavize;
–An Entrepreneur in Residence at National ICT Australia (NICTA), which… Continue Reading
Introducing VentureBeat’s job board — for $100,000+ jobs
We’ve just launched the VentureBeat JobBoard.
You might say, oh, yet another job board?!
The VentureBeat JobBoard is different because it is the only start-up oriented job board focused exclusively on high-end jobs — those paying $100,000 and up.
It’s relevant because the job market is the tightest it has been in years — and getting tighter. Good employees are hard to find. Employers continue to express frustration with general boards like Craigslist and Monster,… Continue Reading