Archive : VENTURE DEALS

Rapportive, a browser plugin that shows you everything about your contacts right inside your Gmail will soon be acquired by LinkedIn. Sources close to the story including Techrunch has stated [...]

Groupon, the group deals giant has acquired Adku- a stealth startup founded by ex-Googlers based in San Francisco. Adku is backed by Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures and True Ventures. Adku was [...]

Another week is almost over. Some startups as usual were busy making presentations and meeting investors for funding. Believe it or not many startups received millions of funds to start [...]

Facebook is looking to raise $5 billion after filing papers for an initial public offering on Wednesday. With the IPO set for May, the social network has not yet announced [...]

The most anticipated historic IPO of the year is almost here. Facebook plans to file papers with the US SEC on Wednesday to begin the process of becoming a publicly [...]

IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight in a move that will help expand the enterprise mobile capabilities it offers to clients. Worklight is a privately held Israeli-based [...]

A lot of successful entrepreneurs have built businesses and great companies with little or no money. By most of them along the way secured or raised a lot more money [...]

Twitter has acquired Dasient, a web anti-malware technology. Dasient protects the websites of leading financial services, e-commerce, media, web hosting and other global enterprises from losses of data, revenue and [...]

Twitter has acquired Summify but is planning on shutting down the social news service. Summify automatically identifies the most important news stories for you across all of your social networks [...]

Wrapp, a new social gifting service has received $5 Million from Greylock Partners. Wrapp, which lets you celebrate friends and family with free digital gift cards provided by top brands [...]

Without the proper funding, guidance, and understanding of marketing and production, chances are that a newly sprung startup will not have what it takes to survive. Flat6Labs, a new Egyptian [...]

Whether you have been in business for a few months or a couple of years, cash infusion is important to sustain the business. It is always very challenging and time [...]

SoundCloud, which develops an online service to allow users to record, promote, and share sounds with others raised funding reported to be worth $50M. The round was led by  led [...]

Teachers traditionally share required readings, notes and generally the “coursekit” with students offline. Coursekit wants to make grading, file management and submitting assignments easy for teachers whilst improving interactivity with [...]

VC4Africa matches mostly african entrepreneurs with VCs and investment organizations. Entrepreneurs register their apps and businesses with VC4Africa to receive feedback and potential funding from venture capitalists within the organization. [...]