Airship Ventures raises $2.5M to bring zeppelins to the Bay Area
Airship Ventures, a company that offers zeppelin rides from the San Francisco Bay Area’s Moffett Field, has raised $2.5 million in new funding. Since Airship raised its $8 million first round, the company has started offering two-hour flights for about $1,000 per head. Backers include… Continue Reading
Dopplr lands on the radar of some of the internet’s bigger names, raises cash
Updated
Dopplr, a site that lets you share your jet-setting travel plans with your jet-setting friends, has raised a second round of undisclosed size from a plethora of jet-setters from the world of tech.
The site, which we first covered in September, clearly caters to business travelers… Continue Reading
OrganizedWisdom Health raises $2.3M for doctor-guided health search
OrganizedWisdom Health, a New York-based company that creates and organizes medical information online, has taken a first round of $2.3 million
The company uses physicians and other health professionals to compile “WisdomCards” on various conditions. It says it has over 10,000 cards now, and is aiming… Continue Reading
Look, up in the sky: Zeppelin company Airship Ventures raises $8M
This fall, if our San Francisco Bay Area readers spot a zeppelin overhead, don’t worry — you haven’t been caught in a time warp. It will just mean that a startup called Airship Ventures has succeeded in bringing the zeppelin (an icon of 1930s aviation)… Continue Reading
Roundup: Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down, Montalvo’s mobile chip and more
1. Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down
2. Montalvo Systems vs. Intel, with chip for handheld devices
3. Fox Interactive to introduce “music Hulu for MySpace”
4. Yahoo’s board moving against Yang
5. Google searchers are wealthier, buy more online
6. Xobni hires Jeff Bonforte away from Yahoo, to be its… Continue Reading
Will Outside.in nail the community Web site? Maybe
Updated with full list of names of angel investors
How do you build the perfect local community Web site — with news, events, comments and more?
If you manage to, it will be a grand slam. It becomes the talk of the town, people spend more time… Continue Reading
Boxbe raises $1.5M to let spammers reach you via email
Boxbe, the San Francisco company that wants you to accept marketing pitches through an email account, has raised $1.5 million in venture capital.
We wrote about this company last month, and said it sounds pretty useless.
Basically, you create an-email account at Boxbe, provide some basic information… Continue Reading
O’Reilly takes over Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0, renames it Release 2.0
Tim O’Reilly, of O’Reilly Media has acquired analyst Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0 publication, and is renaming it Release 2.0 to help promote the Web 2.0 brand, which was coined by and is owned by O’Reilly’s group.
O’Reilly confirmed the story, first reported at Valleywag, however told… Continue Reading