Connie Loizos
The founder of TheFunded.com and Founder Institute says that corporate giants that can afford to acquire startups should do so to protect the ecosystem that is right now thriving around them.
The founder of TheFunded.com and Founder Institute says that corporate giants that can afford to acquire startups should do so to protect the ecosystem that is right now thriving around them
CoTap has raised $5.5 million from Charles River Ventures and Emergence Capital to help make texting as ubiquitous a work tool as email or phone calls.
Cambridge Associates and the NVCA just released fourth quarter numbers from last year. And while they’re still nothing to boast about in conversations with LPs, they're cause for less embarrassment.
UpOut, a San Francisco-based online guide that provides users with personalized recommendations to places and events, has closed $850,000 in seed funding from Sand Hill Angels and TEEC Angels, among others. Before receiving its new round of financing, UpOut had participated in Tandem Entrepreneurs, a Burlington, Calif.-based accelerator that targets mobile applications, providing the teams that create them with six months of support and guidance, along with an initial investment.
Compare Metrics, an analytics software startup that helps brands harness disconnected information to drive sales, has raised $4.2 million led by Austin Ventures. The round also included individual investors Mike Maples, Bob Greene, Julie Allegro, and Ralph Mack.
ViewRay Inc., a Cleveland-based medical device company, has raised $15 million in fresh funding, raising the total amount raised by the company to nearly $100 million. The company's machinery, which can produce real-time images of cancerous tumors while the tumors are being treated radiation, raised what has been in its biggest round, a $45 million Series C, last year. ViewRay's investors include Aisling Capital, Fidelity Biosciences, Kearny Venture Partners, OrbiMed Advisors and Siemens Venture Capital.
Seattle-based HasOffers, a startup that provides white-labeled software for ad networks and egencies to manage their performance advertising programs, has raised $9.4 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Accel Partners and included participation by Seattle investors Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks, and Chris DeVore of Founder's Co-op.
San Francisco-based Brightpearl, a software-as-a-service company that integrates orders, inventory, and customer data for small and medium-size businesses, has raised $8 million in Series B funding. The round was co-led by seed investors Eden Ventures and Notion Capital, which had previously given the six-year-old company $5 million in funding.
Will Griffith, a venture capitalist who spent a dozen years with Technology Crossover Ventures, is raising a fund for a firm called Iconiq Strategic Partners.