Football just started this weekend, but we know Bruno Mars will be the next Super Bowl entertainer. Plus, lots of anticipation over tomorrow's iPhone event.
2 min read · 09 September 2013
Ad optimization startup BoostCTR has raised an $8 million Series B round led by Battery Ventures. Existing investors Javelin Venture Partners and Western Technology Investment also participated in the round. As part of the deal, Battery General Partner Brian O’Malley has joined the board. The San Francisco-based company has now raised more than $12 million in funding, including a $2 million Series A round earlier this year.
3 min read · 06 September 2013
Congrats to Betty White. Happy Birthday to Google. The new Bay Bridge is awesome. And Yahoo finishes its 30-day rollout of its new purple logo!
2 min read · 05 September 2013
Check it out: For VCJ, we compiled much of our-data-heavy content and placed it in a new section of the magazine called Data Center.
2 min read · 05 September 2013
HotelTonight, maker of an app to help users with last-minute hotel bookings, has raised a $45 million Series D round that was led by Coatue Management. GGV Capital joined the round along with existing investors Battery Ventures, Accel Partners, U.S. Venture Partners and First Round Capital. The company has now raised $80.35 million since it was founded in 2011, including most recently a $23.5 million Series C round in June 2012.
5 min read · 05 September 2013
AdYapper, which provides analytics for display and mobile ads, has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding round led by KGC Capital and including numerous angels. Investors include David Cohen of Techstars, Laurel Touby of mediabistro.com, Paul Sethi, Sameer Jagetia, Ari Newman, Vip Sandhir of Brown Capital and Dave Lerner of Rugged Ventures.
3 min read · 05 September 2013
Stanford University and Stanford Hospital & Clinics have pledged a three-year $1.2 million annual grant and created a new venture fund to invest in StartX companies. Stanford is also creating an uncapped fund to invest in companies that emerge from the program. StartX is a Palo Alto, Calif.-based student-run nonprofit that operates a startup accelerator for Stanford-affiliated entrepreneurs. StartX says that since it was launched in 2009, 10 startups that have gone through the program have been acquired, including seven in the past year.
4 min read · 05 September 2013
SwiftKey, a maker of a keyboard app primarily used by Android devices, has raised $17.5 million in Series B funding led by return investor Index Ventures. Also participating in the round is previous investor Octopus Investments and a number of individuals, including Nick Hynes, Carl Uminski, Jon Craton, as well as the Cambridge Capital Group. SwiftKey says it has now raised $21.5 million in total equity funding. The London-based company, which also has offices in San Francisco and Seoul, provides a keyboard app for smartphones and tablets that learns from users to offer better auto-corrections and next-word predictions.
4 min read · 04 September 2013
The new Bay Bridge in San Francisco costs less than what Microsoft agreed to pay for Nokia. Also, wearables starting to impact tablet sales.
3 min read · 03 September 2013
We compiled much of our-data-heavy content and placed it in a new section of the magazine called Data Center
2 min read · 01 September 2013
