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Mogl, a San Diego-based customer loyalty platform company, has raised $10 million, led by Sigma Partners, with participation from Austin Ventures and Avalon Ventures. The company has raised $12.4 million altogether, and launched in April of last year. PRESS RELEASE: SAN DIEGO, Jan 31, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — MOGL ( www.MOGL.com ), the award-winning customer […]
As most industry observers already know, today Andreessen Horowitz, the Sand Hill Road firm, announced it has closed on $1.5 billion in fresh capital, bringing the money raised by the firm – founded less than three years ago — to a stunning $2.7 billion. Whether that’s good news or bad for Silicon Valley is an […]
L.A.-based BaronsMedia.com, an online advertising network, has acquired Hypster.com, a six-year-old music site. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. PRESS RELEASE: BaronsMedia.com announced on Monday January 30th its acquisition of Hypster.com, a site that enables users to listen to music and offers a generous amount of free tracks and albums for its users. This […]
CardSpring, a Palo Alto-based payments infrastructure startup, has raised $10 million in Series A financing led by Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, with SV Angel, Morado Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and WIN also participating. PRESS RELEASE: Payments infrastructure startup CardSpring announced today the raise of a $10M Series A investment led by Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, […]
The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have always been fierce competitors, but as different accounts surface about which exchange Facebook has chosen or is about to choose, the public relations’ battle appears to be heating up. At least, the New York Stock Exchange seems eager to send a message to potential future issuers in […]
Five9, a Pleasanton, Calif-based, venture-backed company that makes call center software, has hired Barry Zwarenstein as CFO. Most recently, Zwarenstein served as CFO for SMART Modular Technologies, through the $635 million purchase by Silver Lake Partners. He has also served as CFO with VeriFone Holdings Inc., Iomega Corporation, Mellanox Technologies Ltd., Acuson, and Logitech S.A. PRESS […]
House Party, a New York-based social media company, has raised a $5.3 million Series C round of funding led by Acadia Woods Partners, a New York-based venture firm. No other funders were announced as part of the round. House Party was founded in 2005 has previously raised roughly $4.6 million, including from a long list […]
HydroNovation, a San Francisco-based water treatment company, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series B venture funding from 3M New Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Maplewood, Minn.-based 3M. According to an SEC filing, HydroNovation has raised almost $3.1 million in its latest securities offering. PRESS RELEASE: 3M New Ventures, the corporate venture organization of 3M, […]
Stanford professor Clifford Nass has been studying the social-psychological aspects of human-interactive media interaction for many years, and his newest study, released this week, examines the negative emotional and social effects on children who engage in heavy media use. Among its conclusions: that the more girls spend interacting with media online, the less “normal” and […]
Recently, Washington Post columnist Steve Pearlstein wrote a wake-up call to the nation’s capital. In it, he argued that while “local economic boosters love to remind anyone who will listen that the Washington region boasts the greatest concentration of technical or knowledge workers in the country,” the claim is “misleading.” The reality, wrote Pearlstein, is that […]