Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $30 Million
Thumbtack, a marketplace that connects local professionals with clients, has raised a $30 million Series C round from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned. The startup has an original approach when it comes to local services. Unlike with TaskRabbit, customers don’t have to waste time searching for different options. Instead, they tell the platform exactly… Read More-
Captora Raises $22M To Help Marketers Increase Their Reach
Captora, a company led by former Marketo and SuccessFactors executive Paul Albright, announced today that it has raised $22 million in Series B funding. Albright said he co-founded the company to address some of the challenges he faced in his previous roles, where as chief revenue officer (at Marketo) and chief marketing officer (at SuccessFactors) he tried to increase the productivity of… Read More -
Autopilot Raises $10M Series B Round To Expand Its Marketing Automation Platform
Autopilot, the marketing automation platform formerly known as Bislr, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B funding round led by Rembrandt Venture Partners, with participation from Southern Cross Venture Partners, Blackbird and personal investments from Tim Draper, and Terry & Katrina Garnett. Rembrandt partner Scott Irwin will join the company’s board as part… Read More -
Mobile Music Streaming Startup Bloom.fm Fails To Escape The Deadpool, Will Shutter In Next Few Days
After a gallant effort to avoid the deadpool after its investor, Russian TV channel TNT, withdrew funding a few weeks ago, mobile-first UK music streaming startup Bloom.fm will shutter in the next few days — with its remaining assets being put up for sale. After previously calling time on the service, only to then be given hope of finding a buyer, with over 20 parties showing interest… Read More -
Privacy-Focused Search Engine DuckDuckGo Gets A New Look, Smarter Search With “Instant Answers”
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine whose popularity grew last year following the NSA and PRISM leaks, is today rolling our an updated interface for its website, which features “smarter search,” plus a new, cleaner design and improvements related to photo search, video search, place search, and more. Key to the new release are a number of features users have been… Read More -
Indiegogo Pulls In Additional Investment From Max Levchin, Sir Richard Branson And Others
Following a massive $40 million Series B, Indiegogo has just announced it has secured additional investments from Sir Richard Branson, Max Levchin, Megan Smith, and Maynard Webb. Additional investors include Dan Benton, Tim Draper, Dawn Lepore, and Hans Morris. The funding is in the millions but CEO Slava Rubin says the investment is more about getting these specific investors involved in… Read More -
Restaurant Waitlist Platform NoWait Raises $10 Million Series B
Mobile wait listing service for restaurants NoWait has raised $10 million in Series B funding, the company is announcing this morning. The new round was led by Drive Capital, the $250 million Ohio-based fund focused on Midwestern companies, and co-founded by former Sequoia partners, Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen. Existing investors also participated in the funding, which NoWait says will be… Read More -
Career Sushi Launches A Monster.com For Millennials
Taking the next step in its own professional development, the millennial-focused intern placement site Intern Sushi has launched a new professional job placement and career planning site — Career Sushi. It’s one of several startups trying to make the job-seeking process a little easier for a new generation of would-be employees and their potential bosses with their attempts to create… Read More -
AfterShip Lands $1M From IDG-Accel To Make Tracking Packages Less Nightmarish
Tracking packages is a huge hassle for online vendors, especially for international shipments made with local post services. Once an item goes abroad, tracking often stops, and sellers and customers are left in suspense until the item (hopefully) reappears and is safely delivered. AfterShip, which TechCrunch first profiled last year, solves that hassle by enabling lets vendors track… Read More -
Should Twitter Crack Open Its Nest Egg To Acquire SoundCloud?
SoundCloud might be the YouTube of music, but that doesn’t mean Twitter should play Google and acquire it. There are better ways to spend the $2 billion from its IPO than on a music startup which won’t necessarily improve its core service. [Update: And now SPIEGEL ONLINE, a German news outlet from SoundCloud's home country, says Twitter is not buying SoundCloud. SPIEGEL reports… Read More
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Baoku
- Size $10M
- Round A
- Investors CBC Capital
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in2nite
- Size $2.8M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors IDG Ventures
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Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors New Enterprise Associates, NBGI Ventures
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AdRoll
- Size $70M
- Round C
- Investors Foundation Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Northgate Capital ... See More
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Birchbox
- Size $60M
- Round B
- Investors Viking Global Investors, First Round Capital, Accel Partners, Aspect ... See More
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Airbnb
- Size $450M
- Round D
- Investors TPG Growth, Dragoneer Investment Group, T. Rowe Price, Sequoia Capital
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Biosport Athletechs
- Size $100K
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Placester
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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American Aerogel
- Size $2.5M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Mission Control Technologies
- Size $4M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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WebCurfew
- Size $450K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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RF Surgical Systems
- Size $15M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Oxford Finance Corporation
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Zapstitch
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Anupam Mittal
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Caspida
- Size $2M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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BioPharmX
- Size $1.5M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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CarNinja
- Size $2.3M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Mirage Endoscopy Center
- Size $108K
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Nova Towers Holdings I
- Size $19.6M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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PaxVax
- Size $6M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Tyrogenex
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Xcovery
- Size $2.4M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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X2 Biosystems
- Size $2.5M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Smava
- Size $5.5M
- Round B
- Investors Earlybird Venture Capital, Neuhaus Partners
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Moving Tech’s Moral Compass From The Inside Is Harder Than It Looks
Whether or not it actually lives up to its ideals, the tech industry has a long history of trying to hold itself to a higher standard in its rhetoric. (This literally goes back like 50 years or more.) But as founding a company has become de-risked over the last 10 years and many growth-stage companies begin to veer into highly regulated areas like education and transportation, this messaging… Read More -
Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers
Is finding housing getting you — and apparently, the rest of San Francisco — down? Then leave. Go somewhere else! Stop coming here! (Just kidding.) But not really. Because that’s kind of the idea behind Teleport, a new Andreessen Horowitz-incubated startup from early Skype executive Sten Tamkivi and general partner Balaji Srinivasan. This company, which was in stealth, put up… Read More -
Google Launches An Instagram Account
Instagram is so hot that no one can resist joining in. Not even Google. The search giant, in a joint-celebration over the 40th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube (??), has today launched its own Instagram account. So far there is one video post, showing today’s time-sinking Google Doodle. In other words, Google’s first Instagram is kind of, sort of (though not technically)… Read More -
Jacquelyn White Joins Newsletter Startup Daily Secret As Its New CEO
Daily Secret, the maker of popular daily emails with local tips, has a new CEO — Jacquelyn White, who was previously vice president of strategic partnerships at LearnVest and sales director at Daily Candy. Given Daily Secret’s growth (it currently serves more than 1.5 million subscribers), White told me that it made sense to bring in a new CEO “who can focus on accelerating… Read More -
Dating App Loveflutter Reboots As A More “Quirky” Tinder
Online dating startup Loveflutter soft-launched in New York and the UK early last year with a site that aimed to match prospective dates based on shared interests. So far, so like nearly every legacy dating service. But what made the UK company potentially stand out — ignoring the silly launch campaign that required users to pass an ‘interesting’ test before signing up… Read More -
I Dare You Not To Spend Your Entire Day Playing The Rubik’s Cube Google Doodle
The Rubik’s Cube, both a torture and a delight to many of us, today celebrates its 40th birthday, and Google has joined in with an interactive Rubik’s Cube Google doodle. I’ve already spent about 15 minutes playing around with it, so before you type “www.google.com” into your browser, just take a moment to prioritize the tasks of the day. Otherwise… Read More -
Born Out Of A Cisco Consulting Gig, Predictive Sales Tool 6Sense Raises $12M
Of the many ways that big data analytics is impacting how enterprises do business, one of the most interesting has been in the area of predictive intelligence — the idea that by looking at all of the data being created in and around your organisation, you can help figure out what to do in the future. In the latest development in this space, 6Sense – a startup that was created… Read More -
MBA & Company Raises Further £800K So Anybody Can Hire An MBA
MBA & Company, which we’ve previously likened to an “Elance for MBAs“, offers a marketplace for businesses to connect to a “vetted” pool of brain box-types — sorry, MBAs — as an alternative to traditional hiring of interims and consultancies. In April of last year, the UK startup, founded by Daniel Callaghan and Adam Riccoboni, raised £800,000 led… Read More -
Japanese Contact-Management Service Sansan Raises $14M To Tackle The U.S.
Sansan Inc., a cloud contact-management service, has raised $14 million in funding led by DCM. The Tokyo-based startup plans to use the capital to break into the U.S. market this month, as expand in other international markets. Other participating investors include the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Nikkei Digital Media, Energy and Environment Investment, Inc, and GMO Venture Partners. Read More -
Shazam Pulls The Plug On UK Spotify Users
Just over a week ago, Shazam updated the free version of its mobile apps for iOS and Android so that users in the UK (and Germany, Mexico and Brazil, as it happens) could now open and play tracks that have been identified and ‘tagged’ by the app, in music streaming service Deezer. What wasn’t made explicit at the time, however, is this was at the expense of support for… Read More
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