A hodgepodge of items today about smartphones, cloud experts, Brian Wong, Snoop Lion stickers, Washington Monument and the "Happy Birthday" song.
2 min read · 15 August 2013
Seismic, which provides a cloud-based enterprise content management system, has raised a $4.5 million Series A funding round led by Sigma West. Encinitas, Calif.-based Seismic was founded in mid-2011 and this is its first institutional round. Sigma West Managing Director Peter Solvik has joined the company board.
4 min read · 15 August 2013
San Francisco-based Apsalar announced today it has raised a $9 million Series B round led by DCM, with participation from Correlation Ventures and existing investors Thomvest Ventures and DN Capital. The company, which provides mobile analytics, previously raised a $5 million Series A round in September 2011.
3 min read · 15 August 2013
Swiftype, a Y Combinator startup that provides a search engine for websites and mobile apps, has raised a $1.7 million seed-stage round of funding from a number of individual investors and venture firms. Investors include Andreesen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Ignition Partners, as well as Sam Altman, SV Angel, Alexis Ohanian, Paul Buchheit, Crunchfund, DST/Start Fund, Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, Jared Kopf, William Morris Endeavor, Data Collective, Scribd founders Jared Friedman and Trip Adler, and Tikhon Bernstam.
3 min read · 15 August 2013
It's hump day, and at this midpoint in the week, be grateful, you don't work at AOL or Zynga. Plus, more people love LinkedIn. Do you?
2 min read · 14 August 2013
Elon Musk and his hyperloop, ma and pa could have an affinity for PE and Simon Cowell hates the number 13.
2 min read · 13 August 2013
Early last year, many VCs publicly and privately said that the crowdfunding portion of the JOBS Act would have little to no impact on their operations. Many have changed their tune.
2 min read · 13 August 2013
Arkami announced that it has raised a $1.8 million Series A round of funding from Gordon Clemons of Verity Ventures, McNeel Capital based in Florida, Mark Swanson and a number of other veteran angel investors to develop its consumer electronics device myIDkey. The device, which sells for $170, is expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter.
3 min read · 13 August 2013
Second Opinion kicks off this week with how iPhone 6 is sure to sell, the BlackBerry company is up for sale, Ashton Kutcher answers on Quora about his role as Steve Jobs, and photographic proof Usain Bolt is literally lightning fast.
2 min read · 12 August 2013
Venture-backed Pluralsight, a provider of online training resources to developers, has made its second acquisition in less than a month, announcing today it has acquired Chicago-based TrainSignal for $23.6 million. In late July, Pluralsight bought Seattle-based PeepCode for an undisclosed amount. Pluralsight raised $27.5 million in Series A funding from Insight Venture Partners in January.
4 min read · 06 August 2013
