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“Dreamy” mobile startup closes “hefty” $3.25M seed round
955 Dreams, a mobile publishing startup, has sealed a sweet deal: $3.25 million from some of Silicon Valley’s buzziest angel investors and venture capitalists. The funding comes from Dave McClure’s 500...
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Trinity Ventures using $325M warchest for SaaS and e-commerce startups
Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm that has been around for 25 years, is keeping its fund-size modest despite escalating interest from its limited partners. It’s a bubble, alright....
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Venice startup Lettuce raises $2.1 M in seed round
VENICE, Calif. — For small businesses, order management can be a cumbersome and expensive ordeal. Venice-based startup Lettuce hopes to simplify the process with its new automated...
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Raise more venture capital by asking for less
One of the biggest mistakes seed-stage entrepreneurs make is asking for too much money. If you are an entrepreneur, you have probably heard from countless advisors and pseudo-advisors that you should...
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How to get funding: Inside the investor’s mind, as seen by Jeff Clavier of...
So you’re trying to get your first taste of funding. You’ve got a lot of competition, and you need to not only stand out but also prove your business is worth the cash. Jeff Clavier, the outspoken...
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Fee-fi-fo-fum: Virool raises giant-sized first round
Y Combinator seed rounds are getting so big, they seem more like Jack’s beanstalk than the beans that sprouted them. Billing itself as the “video ad network for the modern age,” Virool has raised a...
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Cory Booker confirms that LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman is among WayWire’s angel...
We are working with UK Trade & Investment to showcase the United Kingdom's thriving start-up and investment scene through a series of posts and video interviews at SXSW. Check out all of the...
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Divshot grabs $1.1M to become an ‘Adobe Creative Suite’ for web development
Even if you’re a master coder, a good visual interface can make a world of difference when doing things like building responsive web apps. That said, startup Divshot just raised $1.1 million in seed...
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Watch out for Bigfoot! ‘Series A crunch’ sighting reported in Silicon Valley
The Series A crunch has left the realm of Bigfoot and Nessie and is entering the realm of truth, at least according to Fenwick & West. The law firm released the results of its 2012 Seed Financing...
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Talking to angels and VCs? Get to ‘no’ as fast as you can
Brian S. Cohen is chairman of the New York Angels. Startups seeking angel funding shouldn’t be so afraid of the word “no.” In fact, “no” is usually the next best word — after “yes” — you want to hear....
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Halo Report: Average angel investment up 23% as web, health, and mobile are...
Angels are investing more for the same valuation, and apparently they don’t like to travel. Those are two of the conclusions of the latest Halo Report, a quarterly report on the state of angel...
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5 things you should know when pricing your seed round
Shutterstock Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Gaurav Jain is a Principal at Founder Collective, one of the most active seed funds in the country. Follow him on Twitter @gjain....
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Multichannel captures $3M to assess your marketing spend
Photo Illustration: Eric BlattbergMultichannel's seed round did not actually arrive in a treasure chest, sadly. Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Multichannel, which manages and...
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Parko seed round raises $1.1M for car-parking guidance API using crowdsourced...
Image Credit: Cyril Caton/FlickrIsraeli startup Parko successfully raised $1.1 million in seed funding for its API, which uses crowdsourced data to help drivers find available parking spots in real...
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GetYou gets $1.1M in funding
Image Credit: Charlie Foster / UnsplashGetYou — an app designed to help people see how well other people “get” them and in turn, see how well they “get” others — received $1.1 million in a seed round....
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Site for helping the homeless, HandUp, closes first seed round at $850K
Above: A homeless person can sign up for a HandUp card. Social entrepreneurism at its finest right here: HandUp, a site that allows people to donate to homeless people in their neighborhoods safely,...
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Quettra gets $2.9M in new funding to give advertisers more customer data
And you think apps that track your location are bad! Quettra, a mobile intelligence startup that compiles massive amounts of information about mobile users, just closed a seed round in the amount of...
View ArticleTrinity Ventures using $325M warchest for SaaS and e-commerce startups
Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm that has been around for 25 years, is keeping its fund-size modest despite escalating interest from its limited partners. It’s a bubble, alright....
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VENICE, Calif. — For small businesses, order management can be a cumbersome and expensive ordeal. Venice-based startup Lettuce hopes to simplify the process with its new automated...
View ArticleFee-fi-fo-fum: Virool raises giant-sized first round
Y Combinator seed rounds are getting so big, they seem more like Jack’s beanstalk than the beans that sprouted them. Billing itself as the “video ad network for the modern age,” Virool has raised a...
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