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What Series A Crunch? Why Some Startups Are ImmuneJohn Greathouse, a general partner at Rincon Venture Partners and peHUB guest columnist, weighs in on the "Series A crunch" and offers some practical strategies startups can use to increase their odds of surviving the crunch.
Divshot raises $1.1MLos Angeles-based Divshot, developer of a drag-and-drop visual builder for web applications, has raised $1.1 million in seed financing. Rincon Venture Partners led the round, with participation from investors including 500 Startups, Daher Capital, Floodlight Ventures, Cooley LLP, Drummond Road Capital, and Eric Hammond.
- App Security Provider MyPermissions Secures $1M in Funding
App security provider MyPermissions announced today it has raised $1 million in a round by lool Ventures, 500 Startups and 2B Angels, with participation by Plus Ventures and Israeli tech investor Robby Hilkowitz. Dave McClure says this is the first investment by 500 Startups in an Israeli startup.
- Soldsie Scores $1M for Facebook App
Soldsie, a service that allows users to make purchases within comments on Facebook, has raised $1 million in seed funding. Backers include 500 Startups, e.ventures and FundersClub. Former Facebook employees Yun-Fang Juan and Jonathan Ehrlich, Peanut Labs founder Prosper Nwankpa, and angel investors Elliot Loh and Tom Kelly also participated, the company said.
- 500 Startups' McClure To Manage Twilio European Fund
Twilio and 500 Startups said the newly formed Twilio Fund Europe 2013 will be managed by 500 Startups founding partner Dave McClure. The micro fund will provide seed funding to startups in Europe that make use of Twilio's cloud communications APIs.
- CircleCI Secures Seed Funds
CircleCI has secured $1.5 million in seed funding from investors in the cloud and agile development space. Backers include Heroku founder James Lindenbaum, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Hiten Shah from Kissmetrics, Jason Seats, founder of Slicehost, and Eric Ries.
- Digital First Ventures Backs OwnLocal
Digital First Ventures, the venture capital arm of Digital First Media, has invested an undisclosed amount in digital advertising startup OwnLocal. Founded in 2010, OwnLocal provides white-label advertising platforms. Digital First Media is based in New York City.
500 Startups Names A Chinese Partner As VCs Pack Its Demo DayThe place to be in Silicon Valley on Wednesday was 500 Startups’ latest demo day, judging by the number of venture capitalists who attended. The busy affair drew partners from New Enterprise Associates, Canaan Partners, Onset Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Khosla Ventures and Emergence Capital Partners.
- 500 Startups Talking Up Demo Days For Its 5th Batch
500 Startups has been making a big hurrah about three planned February demo days for its 5th batch of 32 accelerator companies. The events are planned for the East and West coasts. BTW, there is a live stream.