WhipTail, a Whippany, N.J.-based flash based storage company, has raised a $31 million Series C round of funding from SanDisk, Ignition Partners, RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital. Silicon Valley Bank provided debt financing and the company said an unnamed Silicon Valley industry titan also invested.
4 min read · 13 December 2012
U.S. Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund and undisclosed individual investors have put $4.3 million into Easilydo, which launches today. San Francisco-based Easilydo provides a personal productivity app for the iOS.
3 min read · 13 December 2012
Tony Post, the guy behind the minimalist shoe effort and former president and CEO of Vibram, has launched Topo Athletic, an atheltic gear company. The company is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, which invested $5 million in a Seris A round.
3 min read · 12 December 2012
Morgenthaler Ventures has begun the initial steps of looking to raise its 10th fund, an IT-focused, early stage fund with a hard cap of $200 million, according to an LP source familiar with the fundraising effort.
3 min read · 05 December 2012
A few sites have aimed to sync all your social networking sites in one. Addappt, which launches today with no VC funding, aims to manage all your mobile contacts through the address book on your smartphone. The free app, which became available on the iPhone App Store today, was launched by co-founders Mrinal Desai and Jorge Ferreira.
3 min read · 04 December 2012
Mobile advertising startup Adelphic Mobile has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Google Ventures and including previous investor Matrix Partners. Adelphic Mobile earlier this year raised $2 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners.
4 min read · 04 December 2012
2 min read · 01 December 2012
At its "Minds and Machines" conference in San Francisco, GE announced today its “Industrial Internet Quests” challenge to developers and data scientists to create new algorithms and design applications to reduce air travel delays and improve the patient experience. Winners of the challenge will receive a $600,000 stake for mining data and developing solutions for productivity.
5 min read · 29 November 2012
Sequoia-backed Ruckus Wireless braves the weather and launches a public offering as the year draws to a close.
2 min read · 19 November 2012
Entrepreneur and investor Ross Fubini, who's been a partner with seed-stage investor Kapor Capital for the past year, has joined Canaan Partners as a venture partner. Fubini, who's listed as an advisor to Palantir Technologies, led investments in Piazza, CitrusLane, GingerIO, KarmaLoop, ElationEMR, Omada Health and HealthLoop and others while at Kapor Capital.
4 min read · 13 November 2012
