5 things you need to do to put your first funding round to best use
Guest Post Here are five important ways to make the most of your first big round of funding.
Watch out for Bigfoot! ‘Series A crunch’ sighting reported in Silicon Valley
March 25, 2013 4:04 PM
Rebecca Grant
Well-known law firm Fenwick & West releases its 2012 Seed Financing Survey which found that the mythical Series A crunch does in fact exist.
Get in line: Investors flock to hot anti-fraud startup Sift Science
March 19, 2013 3:30 AM
Christina Farr
SiftScience has raised $5.5 million from high-profile investors, including Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, and more.
Silicon Valley’s big, dumb angel bubble
December 8, 2012 9:00 AM
Jolie O'Dell
Editor's Pick Series A crunch? There ain't no Series A crunch, just too many inexperienced angels throwing dumb money after bad.
Language-learning tool Busuu gains $5M and a boardmember from LastMinute.com
October 21, 2012 3:54 PM
Christina Farr
Busuu, a startup with a free tool for you to master a new language, has raised its first round of funding.
San Francisco coffee chain, Blue Bottle, raises $20M
October 15, 2012 5:20 PM
Dylan Tweney
$20 million is quite a hill of beans, and it's an especially large hill for a coffee chain with 11 locations. But that's just what Blue Bottle Coffee is sitting on top of right now.
Anametrix nabs $4 million to bring predictive analytics to marketers
October 9, 2012 4:30 AM
Christina Farr
For marketers, it's not always easy to prove return on investment (ROI), particulary for their social media campaigns.
‘Convertible equity’: a plan to keep early-stage startups out of debt
August 31, 2012 10:37 AM
Christina Farr
As we enter into a quarter in which we're likely to see more early-stage investment deals than ever before, Adeo Ressi, CEO of The Founder Institute, believes there must be an alternative to convertible debt.
Fast-growing cloud infrastructure startup SingleHop grabs $27.5M from Battery
April 25, 2012 11:04 AM
Sean Ludwig
Infrastructure-as-a-service startup SingleHop has raised $27.5 million in its first round of funding, cash that will help it quickly accelerate growth, the company announced today.
SingleHop has been slowly making a name for itself in the cloud computing and cloud …
Oh baby, Citrus Lane bags $5.1M to send care packages to new moms
April 24, 2012 9:23 AM
Jennifer Van Grove
Betting that new mommies will want to supply baby with the best toys, outfits, snacks, and goodies vetted by other mommies, investors have handed startup Citrus Lane a bundle of a joy in the form of $5.1 million in fresh …
Social events marketplace Lifecrowd raises $5M from Lightbank, Bullpen, others
April 19, 2012 4:30 AM
Sean Ludwig
Social events startup Lifecrowd has raised $5 million in its first round of funding, with a goal to expand its evolving marketplace that connects like-minded users connect at nearby events, the company announced Thursday.
The service has come a long …
CloudOn raises $7.7M to build mobile productivity apps
September 1, 2011 9:53 AM
Sean Ludwig
Mobile-workspace company CloudOn, formally known as AppToU, has raised $7.7 million in first-round funding, according to the SEC.
Palo Alto-based CloudOn’s marketing materials say the company is “creating a mobile, enterprise, cloud-based workspace” to help workers with productivity and collaboration. …
