Lift fattens up with funding to help you keep your New Year’s resolutions

With fresh funding and big-name backers, Lift is now exponentially more fit to help people keep their resolutions.

Not a piece of sh*t, LightSpeed lands $30M for polished Mac and iOS POS system

POS. It’s the universally understood acronym that can stand for “piece of sh*t” or “point of sale” — and that’s no coincidence. LightSpeed, which seeks to change retailers’ perception of point-of-sale systems, has today announced $30 million in its first …

DataSift scores new round to make sense of social data, plans move into startup city

DataSift, a social data platform that extracts large amounts of data from a number of online sources, raised $7.2 million in a first round of funding from existing investors IA Ventures and GRP Partners, the company announced today. The funding …

Twitter commerce platform Chirpify raises $1.3M from social media execs

By turning tweets into transactions, startup Chirpify has secured an important transaction of its own.

The young, Portland-based company has raised $1.3 million from social media executives and angels in its first formal round of funding. Voyager Capital, angel investor …

How to secure the next round of funding

(Editor’s note: Phil Fernandez is founder and CEO of Marketo. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)

Approaching the venture capital community with the hopes of getting funding can be daunting.  However, understanding where you are in the cycle can help …