Tumblr, a microblogging and curation platform has reached its 10 billionth post today.Tumblr lets you share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop,...
Are you a hacker who has thought about one day starting a startup? Have you already started it? Then you’re invited to a free, one-day startup school this October 29...
SARcode Bioscience, a firm developing treatments for inflammatory disease, raised $44M in a Series B financing round. The round was led by Sofinnova Ventures, and also included Rho Ventures, Alta...
MoboTap, the mobile technology developer behind the Dolphin Browser, today announced that it will receive $10 million in Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital, with Matrix Partners also...
Symantec Corp. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Clearwell Systems. The deal had originally been announced on May 19th. Clearwell was venture backed by DAG Ventures, Redpoint Ventures,...
Evernote, the company that’s helping the world remember everything, has announced a new $50 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures. The new funds...
Airbnb a short term rentals company is a classic Silicon Valley story of bootstrapping, rejection and eventually success. Brian Chesky and his co-founder, Joe Gebbia, decided to start a company,...
Three months after receiving a $32 million Series D financing round, led by Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, and Salesforce.com, inbound marketing software company HubSpot has announced its acquisition of Performable....
The Top 30 with links to their Twitter Accounts Brad Feld Foundry Group James D. Robinson III RRE Ventures Peter Sinclair Leapfrog Ventures Mark Suster GRP Partners Howard Morgan First...
Articles Andy Rachleff on Entrepreneurship from a VC perspective: http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/20… Eric Ries on Building a Lean Startup: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/… (more at http://www.startuplessonslearned…) Achieving Product-Market Fit (Horowitz): http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/20/… Dave McClure’s, Startup Metrics...
Aquantia, a developer of 10GBASE-T PHY semiconductors, raised $21M in a Series E funding round. The funding came from LSI Corporation, New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Pinnacle...
Online events and ticketing site Eventbrite has announced that it has raised a $50 million Series E round of funding led by Tiger Global with participation from several other firms....
The lack of access to venture capital in Africa stalls the hopes and dreams of Africa’s rising tech stars. There are great developers and software entrepreneur hopefuls who work on...
Early in my investment career, I had lunch with a Sequoia partner who explained to me some of the fundamentals of their investment strategy. One of them is that “good...
These venture firms have established themselves in the industry and are well connected. They have the track record of big consumer internet deals and potential for the future. Depending on...
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Stealth online payments startup Stripe has raised $2 million in a venture round from PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, as well as Sequoia Capital, Andreesen Horowitz and SV...
Find someone. Take pictures together. Simultaneously use multiple iPhones and Androids to capture photos, videos, and conversations into a group album. There’s no attaching, uploading, or friending to do. That...
Thrutu wants to make voice calls more social. Thrutu, a division of Sequoia-backed Metaswitch Networks has introduced a new free Android app that integrates with the native phone client. Thrutu...
A lot of startups have received investor confidence this week. These companies received cash infusion to improve their services, expand product to other platforms, increase user base and expand operations...