Posted by Thomas Oppong on October 8, 2011 · 0 Comment
Enkata, a developer of cloud-based analytics software for measuring customer service, raised $4.4M in a Series C funding round. The round came form IT Farm Corporation. Axcient, a developer of [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on August 10, 2011 · 0 Comment
San Francisco-based Bagcheck, an online social shopping and sharing service headed by Sam Pullara, was acquired by Twitter. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Interactive games software firm [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on June 3, 2011 · 0 Comment
Atari has sold off Cryptic Studios, the maker of online games such as Star Trek Online, to China’s Perfect World. Perfect World is paying 35 million euros, or $49.8 million [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on May 27, 2011 · 0 Comment
Sunnvyale-based Innovalight, a developer of silicon ink technology, scored $3.4M from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The firm said the funding came under the DOE’s SunShot initiative. SugarMade, which [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on May 12, 2011 · 0 Comment
JiWire, a provider of location-based information for the wireless market raised $20M in a Series C funding round. The funding was led by Trident Capital San Jose-based Proformative, an online [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on April 30, 2011 · 2 Comments
April 2011 was another busy month for most investors. Some startups secured funding for resource expansion, increase in workforce to secure strategic partners to expand to new markets. The following [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on November 9, 2010 · 1 Comment
More than $160 million is set to be injected into high-potential start-ups as part of the Federal Government’s Innovation Investment Fund. Carnegie Venture Capital, MRCF, Southern Cross Venture Partners and [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on July 28, 2010 · 0 Comment
Posted by Thomas Oppong on July 1, 2010 · 5 Comments
In the month of May, a total of $101M was raised in funding by 9 startups. Funding has always been crucial at some point in any startup’s development process. Angel [...]