Archive : Funding

Every week  in our startup funding roundup series, we track top startups that raised funding for expansion, growth or increase in customer base. This week is no exception.  Swiss virtual [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Entrepreneurs are always looking for opportunities to pitch and present their ideas to the right investors. It even gets exciting when an investor grants you the audience to impress him [...]

Start-Up Chile has announced that 100 startup companies have been selected to be part of its acceleration program’s third generation. Start-Up Chile is a program created by the Chilean Government, [...]

HealthTap, health Q&A startup has announced that it has closed $11.5 million in its first round of funding after its $2.5 million angel round this past March. HealthTap is an [...]

Meltwater Foundation has invested in 2 new Ghanaian technology startups-ClaimSync and Saya Mobile.  The two companies will join six others currently in the MEST incubator program, and hope to launch [...]

Square Inc. has announced today that world-renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Richard Branson, an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies has become one [...]