Stealthy decision engine Hunch.com raises $2M
Hunch.com, the secretive self-dubbed “online decision engine,” announced that it brought in $2 million in a first round of funding — even though very little information is available about it anywhere on the web. For now, its web site is simply a form people can use to request notification when the product finally launches.
The company’s only defining feature is that it hired Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake to be its chief product officer following her departure… Continue Reading
Roundup: Flickr founders leave Yahoo, ex-Citi CFO raising $3B for cleantech, Microsoft buys Navic, and more
Flickr founders join exodus from Yahoo — Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the founders of photo-sharing app Flickr, a $35 million Yahoo acquisition, have added their names to the lengthening list of Yahoo defections. Kara Swisher speculates that a boardroom brawl is underway at the embattled search company. No word on where Fake and Butterfield will head next, although with any luck it’ll be another startup.
Another $3 $1 billion for cleantech — Todd Thompson, the ex-CFO of… Continue Reading