Pebble receives $15 mil in funding, releases SDK and Sports API | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
www.tuaw.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: The company behind the Pebble smartwatch, which not only looks awesome but connects up to your iPhone, has picked up US$15 million in funding from venture capitalists, and has released yet another version of its SDK. The funding is obviously a solid chunk of change, and should help Pebble not only fulfill its current orders (the company is still aiming to get watches out to all of its supporters from a successful Kickstarter bid), but push the company on into the future as well. This latest SDK release, called the PebbleKit, allows for two-way communication back and forth between the watch and your smartphone, which means there are lots of new options for apps to work with the watch as a display or even a remote control.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Internet-of-Things, Investment, Pebble, Wearable Computing
Google Ventures Joins CrunchBase Venture Program, Now More Than 100 Members Strong
info.crunchbase.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: Since launching the CrunchBase Venture Program at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last week, we’ve added more than 100 venture firms, angel groups, and incubators to the program including Google Ventures. Together our partners have taken part in over 3,900 funding rounds, funded 2,700 companies, and helped guide investment of over $35B. Beyond the numbers, each firm we’ve spoken to has given us incredible feedback about the platform and offered their support in building out an open, timely, and accurate dataset. Here’s a sampling of what we are hearing:
SoftTech VC is very excited to support the development of Crunchbase into an even more comprehensive data set for our community of startups and investors.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Investment, VC
MadeiraCloud nets $1.5M to paint a pretty picture of your Amazon cloud
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Startup says its visualization tool is an easier way to see all AWS resources associated with a given application and will use its new money to advertise that feature. MadeiraCloud, a startup in the crowded field of Amazon Web Services monitoring and management services, snagged $1. 5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. The company provides a graphical visualization of the architecture and resources used by a given application, not just a spreadsheet-like list of all the AWS instances on one page and all the databases on another, said CEO Daniel O’Prey via email. MadeiraCloud got its start in Beijing and now has an office in San Francisco.... read the full post.
Tags: Cloud Computing, Investment, visualization
HealthTap Secures $24 Million Series B to Accelerate Growth of the World’s Most Trusted Digital Health Platform
blog.healthtap.com
on 05/08/2013
Excerpt: Palo Alto, Calif. — May 8, 2013 — HealthTap, the popular mobile health platform that connects millions of people with a network of more than 38,000 top doctors for free, today announced it raised $24 million in Series B financing. Khosla Ventures led the round, in which prior investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Ventures also participated. Keith Rabois will join HealthTap’s board of directors, and Vinod Khosla will join as an advisor to assist HealthTap as it redefines modern healthcare. HealthTap’s new financing represents one of the most substantial series B investments to date in the digital health industry.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Healthcare, Investment
Startup HealthTap gets $24M to treat ‘demand shock’ of new Obamacare patients
gigaom.com
on 05/08/2013
Excerpt: Fast forward to 2014 and it might be harder to get an appointment with your doctor, thanks to an influx of up to 30 million new patients expected to enter the health care system under the Affordable Care Act. But Palo Alto-based HealthTap believes its online health community for doctors and patients can help offset the impending avalanche of demand – and it just raised $24 million more to prepare. The Series B round, which was led by Khosla Ventures and included current investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Venture Partners, brings the company’s total amount raised to $37. 9 million. In addition to the new funding, the startup added a new board member: former Square COO and Khosla Ventures’ newest partner Keith Rabois.... read the full post.
Tags: Healthcare, Investment
PlaceIQ Raises $6.75 Million in Series B Financing Led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).
www.placeiq.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: NEW YORK, NY, May 7, 2013 PlaceIQ (http://www. PlaceIQ. com), a leading provider of location intelligence solutions for marketers, today announced the company has raised $6. 75 million in a Series B financing round led by U. S. Venture Partners, and including IA Ventures, Valhalla Partners, kbs+ Ventures, and several prominent angel investors. PlaceIQ will use the funding to further its lead as the premier location intelligence solution for marketers, and to meet the groundswell of demand for more accurate solutions that enable advertisers to reach and define mobile brand audiences at scale across a wide range of marketing activities.... read the full post.
Tags: Investment, Local, Marketing, Places
Funding soars for security startups as cyberattacks keep coming
gigaom.feedsportal.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Venture capitalists are seeing all the headlines about cyberattacks, and they’re moving quickly to fund security startups that could solve problems. Cyberattacks hitting one company after another — including defense contractor QinetiQ — have garnered plenty of headlines in recent months. And while that’s got to cause headaches for victims, it might not be such a bad thing, because it makes governments and other businesses notice. It turns out that venture capitalists have taken note, too, and have been putting more of their dollars behind security startups in hopes that those companies go big. The numbers bear out the trend.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Investment, Security
Intel banks on enterprise mobile app development again, leading $9M FeedHenry round
gigaom.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Intel Capital and others have put $9 million into Irish outfit FeedHenry, which provides a mobile app development and deployment platform, along with backend-as-a-service, for mostly enterprise customers. The Irish mobile app development and deployment outfit FeedHenry (which was one of GigaOM’s Mobilize Launchpad finalists a couple years back) has just scored a respectable $9 million, Intel-led funding round. VMware was already an investor along with Kernel Capital and Enterprise Ireland, and all three have participated in the new round as well. Intel has however taken the lead this time with ACT Venture Capital also joining in.... read the full post.
Tags: BaaS, Intel, Investment
What You Should Know About Google Ventures’ Investment in On Deck
blog.ondeckcapital.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: After we closed our Series D back in February, we had some additional interest from other equity investors. With On Deck growing at a rapid rate of 100% in the past year, several investors stood apart as being really valuable partners to work with as we scale.
We’re excited and humbled to officially announce a $17 million expansion to our Series D led by Google Ventures (the venture capital arm of Google), with participation from Peter Thiel (PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook) and Industry Ventures. This is a phenomenal group of new investors that further cements our position as a leader in the world of tech-enabled finance. So, what does this mean for the future of On Deck?... read the full post.
Tags: Google, Investment, VC
Pulse introduces sharing to LinkedIn, 3 weeks after being bought by the business social network
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/01/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: Acquisition, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Ecosystem, Investment, LinkedIn
Excerpt: Since launching the CrunchBase Venture Program at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last week, we’ve added more than 100 venture firms, angel groups, and incubators to the program including Google Ventures. Together our partners have taken part in over 3,900 funding rounds, funded 2,700 companies, and helped guide investment of over $35B. Beyond the numbers, each firm we’ve spoken to has given us incredible feedback about the platform and offered their support in building out an open, timely, and accurate dataset. Here’s a sampling of what we are hearing: SoftTech VC is very excited to support the development of Crunchbase into an even more comprehensive data set for our community of startups and investors.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Investment, VC
MadeiraCloud nets $1.5M to paint a pretty picture of your Amazon cloud
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Startup says its visualization tool is an easier way to see all AWS resources associated with a given application and will use its new money to advertise that feature. MadeiraCloud, a startup in the crowded field of Amazon Web Services monitoring and management services, snagged $1. 5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. The company provides a graphical visualization of the architecture and resources used by a given application, not just a spreadsheet-like list of all the AWS instances on one page and all the databases on another, said CEO Daniel O’Prey via email. MadeiraCloud got its start in Beijing and now has an office in San Francisco.... read the full post.
Tags: Cloud Computing, Investment, visualization
HealthTap Secures $24 Million Series B to Accelerate Growth of the World’s Most Trusted Digital Health Platform
blog.healthtap.com
on 05/08/2013
Excerpt: Palo Alto, Calif. — May 8, 2013 — HealthTap, the popular mobile health platform that connects millions of people with a network of more than 38,000 top doctors for free, today announced it raised $24 million in Series B financing. Khosla Ventures led the round, in which prior investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Ventures also participated. Keith Rabois will join HealthTap’s board of directors, and Vinod Khosla will join as an advisor to assist HealthTap as it redefines modern healthcare. HealthTap’s new financing represents one of the most substantial series B investments to date in the digital health industry.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Healthcare, Investment
Startup HealthTap gets $24M to treat ‘demand shock’ of new Obamacare patients
gigaom.com
on 05/08/2013
Excerpt: Fast forward to 2014 and it might be harder to get an appointment with your doctor, thanks to an influx of up to 30 million new patients expected to enter the health care system under the Affordable Care Act. But Palo Alto-based HealthTap believes its online health community for doctors and patients can help offset the impending avalanche of demand – and it just raised $24 million more to prepare. The Series B round, which was led by Khosla Ventures and included current investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Venture Partners, brings the company’s total amount raised to $37. 9 million. In addition to the new funding, the startup added a new board member: former Square COO and Khosla Ventures’ newest partner Keith Rabois.... read the full post.
Tags: Healthcare, Investment
PlaceIQ Raises $6.75 Million in Series B Financing Led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).
www.placeiq.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: NEW YORK, NY, May 7, 2013 PlaceIQ (http://www. PlaceIQ. com), a leading provider of location intelligence solutions for marketers, today announced the company has raised $6. 75 million in a Series B financing round led by U. S. Venture Partners, and including IA Ventures, Valhalla Partners, kbs+ Ventures, and several prominent angel investors. PlaceIQ will use the funding to further its lead as the premier location intelligence solution for marketers, and to meet the groundswell of demand for more accurate solutions that enable advertisers to reach and define mobile brand audiences at scale across a wide range of marketing activities.... read the full post.
Tags: Investment, Local, Marketing, Places
Funding soars for security startups as cyberattacks keep coming
gigaom.feedsportal.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Venture capitalists are seeing all the headlines about cyberattacks, and they’re moving quickly to fund security startups that could solve problems. Cyberattacks hitting one company after another — including defense contractor QinetiQ — have garnered plenty of headlines in recent months. And while that’s got to cause headaches for victims, it might not be such a bad thing, because it makes governments and other businesses notice. It turns out that venture capitalists have taken note, too, and have been putting more of their dollars behind security startups in hopes that those companies go big. The numbers bear out the trend.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Investment, Security
Intel banks on enterprise mobile app development again, leading $9M FeedHenry round
gigaom.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Intel Capital and others have put $9 million into Irish outfit FeedHenry, which provides a mobile app development and deployment platform, along with backend-as-a-service, for mostly enterprise customers. The Irish mobile app development and deployment outfit FeedHenry (which was one of GigaOM’s Mobilize Launchpad finalists a couple years back) has just scored a respectable $9 million, Intel-led funding round. VMware was already an investor along with Kernel Capital and Enterprise Ireland, and all three have participated in the new round as well. Intel has however taken the lead this time with ACT Venture Capital also joining in.... read the full post.
Tags: BaaS, Intel, Investment
What You Should Know About Google Ventures’ Investment in On Deck
blog.ondeckcapital.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: After we closed our Series D back in February, we had some additional interest from other equity investors. With On Deck growing at a rapid rate of 100% in the past year, several investors stood apart as being really valuable partners to work with as we scale.
We’re excited and humbled to officially announce a $17 million expansion to our Series D led by Google Ventures (the venture capital arm of Google), with participation from Peter Thiel (PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook) and Industry Ventures. This is a phenomenal group of new investors that further cements our position as a leader in the world of tech-enabled finance. So, what does this mean for the future of On Deck?... read the full post.
Tags: Google, Investment, VC
Pulse introduces sharing to LinkedIn, 3 weeks after being bought by the business social network
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/01/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: Acquisition, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Ecosystem, Investment, LinkedIn
Excerpt: Palo Alto, Calif. — May 8, 2013 — HealthTap, the popular mobile health platform that connects millions of people with a network of more than 38,000 top doctors for free, today announced it raised $24 million in Series B financing. Khosla Ventures led the round, in which prior investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Ventures also participated. Keith Rabois will join HealthTap’s board of directors, and Vinod Khosla will join as an advisor to assist HealthTap as it redefines modern healthcare. HealthTap’s new financing represents one of the most substantial series B investments to date in the digital health industry.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Healthcare, Investment
Startup HealthTap gets $24M to treat ‘demand shock’ of new Obamacare patients
gigaom.com
on 05/08/2013
Excerpt: Fast forward to 2014 and it might be harder to get an appointment with your doctor, thanks to an influx of up to 30 million new patients expected to enter the health care system under the Affordable Care Act. But Palo Alto-based HealthTap believes its online health community for doctors and patients can help offset the impending avalanche of demand – and it just raised $24 million more to prepare. The Series B round, which was led by Khosla Ventures and included current investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Venture Partners, brings the company’s total amount raised to $37. 9 million. In addition to the new funding, the startup added a new board member: former Square COO and Khosla Ventures’ newest partner Keith Rabois.... read the full post.
Tags: Healthcare, Investment
PlaceIQ Raises $6.75 Million in Series B Financing Led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).
www.placeiq.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: NEW YORK, NY, May 7, 2013 PlaceIQ (http://www. PlaceIQ. com), a leading provider of location intelligence solutions for marketers, today announced the company has raised $6. 75 million in a Series B financing round led by U. S. Venture Partners, and including IA Ventures, Valhalla Partners, kbs+ Ventures, and several prominent angel investors. PlaceIQ will use the funding to further its lead as the premier location intelligence solution for marketers, and to meet the groundswell of demand for more accurate solutions that enable advertisers to reach and define mobile brand audiences at scale across a wide range of marketing activities.... read the full post.
Tags: Investment, Local, Marketing, Places
Funding soars for security startups as cyberattacks keep coming
gigaom.feedsportal.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Venture capitalists are seeing all the headlines about cyberattacks, and they’re moving quickly to fund security startups that could solve problems. Cyberattacks hitting one company after another — including defense contractor QinetiQ — have garnered plenty of headlines in recent months. And while that’s got to cause headaches for victims, it might not be such a bad thing, because it makes governments and other businesses notice. It turns out that venture capitalists have taken note, too, and have been putting more of their dollars behind security startups in hopes that those companies go big. The numbers bear out the trend.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Investment, Security
Intel banks on enterprise mobile app development again, leading $9M FeedHenry round
gigaom.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Intel Capital and others have put $9 million into Irish outfit FeedHenry, which provides a mobile app development and deployment platform, along with backend-as-a-service, for mostly enterprise customers. The Irish mobile app development and deployment outfit FeedHenry (which was one of GigaOM’s Mobilize Launchpad finalists a couple years back) has just scored a respectable $9 million, Intel-led funding round. VMware was already an investor along with Kernel Capital and Enterprise Ireland, and all three have participated in the new round as well. Intel has however taken the lead this time with ACT Venture Capital also joining in.... read the full post.
Tags: BaaS, Intel, Investment
What You Should Know About Google Ventures’ Investment in On Deck
blog.ondeckcapital.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: After we closed our Series D back in February, we had some additional interest from other equity investors. With On Deck growing at a rapid rate of 100% in the past year, several investors stood apart as being really valuable partners to work with as we scale.
We’re excited and humbled to officially announce a $17 million expansion to our Series D led by Google Ventures (the venture capital arm of Google), with participation from Peter Thiel (PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook) and Industry Ventures. This is a phenomenal group of new investors that further cements our position as a leader in the world of tech-enabled finance. So, what does this mean for the future of On Deck?... read the full post.
Tags: Google, Investment, VC
Pulse introduces sharing to LinkedIn, 3 weeks after being bought by the business social network
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/01/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: Acquisition, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Ecosystem, Investment, LinkedIn
Excerpt: NEW YORK, NY, May 7, 2013 PlaceIQ (http://www. PlaceIQ. com), a leading provider of location intelligence solutions for marketers, today announced the company has raised $6. 75 million in a Series B financing round led by U. S. Venture Partners, and including IA Ventures, Valhalla Partners, kbs+ Ventures, and several prominent angel investors. PlaceIQ will use the funding to further its lead as the premier location intelligence solution for marketers, and to meet the groundswell of demand for more accurate solutions that enable advertisers to reach and define mobile brand audiences at scale across a wide range of marketing activities.... read the full post.
Tags: Investment, Local, Marketing, Places
Funding soars for security startups as cyberattacks keep coming
gigaom.feedsportal.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Venture capitalists are seeing all the headlines about cyberattacks, and they’re moving quickly to fund security startups that could solve problems. Cyberattacks hitting one company after another — including defense contractor QinetiQ — have garnered plenty of headlines in recent months. And while that’s got to cause headaches for victims, it might not be such a bad thing, because it makes governments and other businesses notice. It turns out that venture capitalists have taken note, too, and have been putting more of their dollars behind security startups in hopes that those companies go big. The numbers bear out the trend.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Investment, Security
Intel banks on enterprise mobile app development again, leading $9M FeedHenry round
gigaom.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Intel Capital and others have put $9 million into Irish outfit FeedHenry, which provides a mobile app development and deployment platform, along with backend-as-a-service, for mostly enterprise customers. The Irish mobile app development and deployment outfit FeedHenry (which was one of GigaOM’s Mobilize Launchpad finalists a couple years back) has just scored a respectable $9 million, Intel-led funding round. VMware was already an investor along with Kernel Capital and Enterprise Ireland, and all three have participated in the new round as well. Intel has however taken the lead this time with ACT Venture Capital also joining in.... read the full post.
Tags: BaaS, Intel, Investment
What You Should Know About Google Ventures’ Investment in On Deck
blog.ondeckcapital.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: After we closed our Series D back in February, we had some additional interest from other equity investors. With On Deck growing at a rapid rate of 100% in the past year, several investors stood apart as being really valuable partners to work with as we scale.
We’re excited and humbled to officially announce a $17 million expansion to our Series D led by Google Ventures (the venture capital arm of Google), with participation from Peter Thiel (PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook) and Industry Ventures. This is a phenomenal group of new investors that further cements our position as a leader in the world of tech-enabled finance. So, what does this mean for the future of On Deck?... read the full post.
Tags: Google, Investment, VC
Pulse introduces sharing to LinkedIn, 3 weeks after being bought by the business social network
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/01/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: Acquisition, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Ecosystem, Investment, LinkedIn
Excerpt: Summary: Intel Capital and others have put $9 million into Irish outfit FeedHenry, which provides a mobile app development and deployment platform, along with backend-as-a-service, for mostly enterprise customers. The Irish mobile app development and deployment outfit FeedHenry (which was one of GigaOM’s Mobilize Launchpad finalists a couple years back) has just scored a respectable $9 million, Intel-led funding round. VMware was already an investor along with Kernel Capital and Enterprise Ireland, and all three have participated in the new round as well. Intel has however taken the lead this time with ACT Venture Capital also joining in.... read the full post.
Tags: BaaS, Intel, Investment
What You Should Know About Google Ventures’ Investment in On Deck
blog.ondeckcapital.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: After we closed our Series D back in February, we had some additional interest from other equity investors. With On Deck growing at a rapid rate of 100% in the past year, several investors stood apart as being really valuable partners to work with as we scale.
We’re excited and humbled to officially announce a $17 million expansion to our Series D led by Google Ventures (the venture capital arm of Google), with participation from Peter Thiel (PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook) and Industry Ventures. This is a phenomenal group of new investors that further cements our position as a leader in the world of tech-enabled finance. So, what does this mean for the future of On Deck?... read the full post.
Tags: Google, Investment, VC
Pulse introduces sharing to LinkedIn, 3 weeks after being bought by the business social network
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/01/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: Acquisition, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Ecosystem, Investment, LinkedIn
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: Acquisition, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Ecosystem, Investment, LinkedIn
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