Heyday, which makes a photo journal app for the iOS platform, officially launched today. The San Francisco-based company, which was founded last year, told peHUB that it raised $2 million in seed funding, all of which was raised in July 2012. Investors include Google Ventures, Spark Capital, TriplePoint Capital, CrunchFund, SV Angel and individual investors Shervin Pishevar, Keith Rabois, Garry Tan, Matt Ocko, Robin Chan, Kevin Chou, David Spector, Amitt Mahajan, Joel Poloney, Ben Narasin, Eric Ries, Saad Khan, Charles Moldow and Roy Sehgal.
3 min read · 05 December 2013
Brian O'Malley comes over from Battery Ventures, which he joined in 2004.
3 min read · 05 December 2013
Comes over from Battery Ventures, which he joined in 2004
1 min read · 05 December 2013
MOVE Guides, which provides a software-as-a-service platform to help employees relocate, announced today that it has raised $1.8 million in seed funding from Notion Capital and New Enterprise Associates. The funding brings the total seed capital raised by the London-based startup to $2.4 million. In addition to Notion Capital and NEA, a number of individuals also participated in the funding round, including Sherry Coutu, Tom Hulme, Sean Park, Dale Murray CBE and Kevin Eyres.
4 min read · 04 December 2013
Season’s greetings! It’s time to tell us what you think think of the past year
2 min read · 01 December 2013
Arista, Box, Lending Club and other high-profile tech companies are likely on the fast track, on the heels of Twitter’s debut.
3 min read · 22 November 2013
Arista, Box, Lending Club and other high-profile tech companies are likely on the fast track, on the heels of Twitter’s debut
5 min read · 22 November 2013
CoachUp, which helps connect athletes with private coaches via the desktop and a mobile app, has raised $6.7 million in Series A funding co-led by Point Judith Capital and General Catalyst Partners. Other new investors in the Boston-based company include Data Point Capital, Suffolk Equity Partners and individual investors, including Paul English (co-founder and CTO of Kayak.com) and Albert Dobron (managing director at Providence Equity Partners). Current investor Breakaway Ventures (Dennis Baldwin, former CMO of Reebok) also participated in the round. The company told peHUB that it had previously raised $2.2 million in seed funding from General Catalyst and Breakaway in November 2012. As part of the Series A round, Sean Marsh of Point Judith Capital has joined the board, which also includes David Fialkow of General Catalyst.
3 min read · 21 November 2013
Apartment List, which operates an apartment search engine for the rental market, has raised a $15 Million Series A round of funding round. Matrix Partners led the round. As part of the funding, Dana Stalder, general partner of Matrix, has joined the board of the San Francisco-based company. Apartment List, which launched in late 2011, had previously been bootstrapped.
4 min read · 20 November 2013
European venture investments during October 2013
1 min read · 19 November 2013
