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FiveStars Gets $50M To Help Small Retailers Run Loyalty Programs Like Their Bigger Rivals
FiveStars, a five year-old startup that has built a platform and app to run loyalty programs and shopping analytics for small brick-and-mortar retailers, has received a reward of its own: the company has raised a round of $50 million, funding that it plans to use to continue its focus on “mom and pop shops” and building its brand and business across the U.S., CEO and… Read More
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Iterate’s New Platform Helps Corporations Find The Best Tech From Startups
Startups are created to solve problems—but that doesn’t matter if the people they want to help don’t know they exist. Iterate Studio was created to match retail companies with startups that have promising technology, but it doesn’t just serve as a matchmaker. Its new cloud-based platform also integrates with popular commerce software and A/B testing services to make… Read More
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IBM Confirms Acquisition Of UStream, Forms New Cloud Video Unit
IBM confirmed that it has acquired video conferencing service UStream this morning. With several cloud video acquisitions in tow, the company also announced it was forming a new cloud video services unit.
Fortune first reported the UStream purchase and reports peg the purchase price at $130 million. IBM would not confirm that amount.
The new unit will be comprised of four acquisitions… Read More
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Enterprise Mobile Software Company Nubo Raises $7M Series A
Nubo, whose software enables employees to access company files on their own mobile devices, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Magma Venture Partners and Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. MariaDB Raises $9M More, Michael Howard Named New CEO, Monty Widenius CTO
Some more big news for the world of open source. MariaDB Corporation — the startup formerly known as SkySQL and building for-profit solutions on the SQL fork managed by the MariaDB foundation — has raised another $9 million in funding and announced a new CEO, Michael Howard, a veteran executive from the enterprise world. The funding brings the total raised by MariaDB to just over… Read More
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ForeScout Foresees IPO After $76 Million Round Led By Wellington Management
ForeScout, a security company that helps firms detect devices on their networks they might not know about, announced a $76 million investment round today on a billion dollar valuation, making it a member of the vaunted unicorn club.
The company has come a long way in a short time to attain that unicorn status, reporting it has tripled its value in just 18 months.
What’s particularly… Read More
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Security Startup Malwarebytes Raises Another $50M From Fidelity
Malwarebytes, a security company that started when its cofounder was still a teenager fixing his parents’ infected computer, has come a long way from its bootstrapped roots. Today the startup’s software is used by millions of consumers and some 70,000 businesses to protect from and clean up computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and more. And now, to grow further, it is… Read More
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Software Testing Tool Developer QASymphonyRaises $5M
QASymphony, which makes software testing tools like qTest, has raised a $5 million Series B. The company, which has offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will use the capital on product development and marketing. Botify Grabs $7.2 Million To Turn You Into An SEO Wizard
French startup Botify just raised a $7.2 million Series A round from Idinvest and Ventech. The company uses a software-as-a-service approach to make it as seamless as possible to crawl your website and give you insights into your search engine optimization strategy. Yet, Botify isn’t about making optimizations for you. Instead, it gives you data so that you can make optimizations. Botify… Read More
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Instart Logic Raises $45M Series D Round For Its Application Delivery Platform
Application delivery platform Instart Logic today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series D round. The round was led by a new investor, the late-stage fund Geodesic Capital. Other participants in this round include existing investors Hermes Growth Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Four Rivers Group, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Tenaya Capital. Telstra Ventures, the venture… Read More
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