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Databox Raises $3.3M Seed Round To Help Marketers Understand Key Metrics
Businesses of all sizes now have access to reams of data about their performance, but it can be difficult to read the story behind the numbers. Boston-based startup Databox’s goal is to make data relatable. Its mobile app draws in data from different analytic platforms, analyzes it, and then presents the results in customized reports. Read More
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AOL Confirms It Is Buying Millennial Media In $238M Deal To Expand In Mobile Ads
This just in: AOL, itself acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion earlier this year, has announced that it is making another purchase of its own. It is buying Millennial Media as it continues to build out its presence in digital advertising and specifically mobile ads. AOL will be paying $1.75/share for publicly traded Millennial, working out to an enterprise value of $238 million after… Read More
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Social CRM Provider Capillary Technologies Raises $45M, Acquires MartJack
Capillary Technologies, the Singapore-based social CRM company, has raised a $45 million Series C to fuel its evolution into an omnichannel retail platform. The round was led by Warburg Pincus with participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners and brings Capillary’s total funding so far to $79.1 million. Read More
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Intel Invests In Qnovo’s Battery Boosting Tech
Qnovo, a Newark, California-based firm that’s been developing battery charging enhancement technology since 2010, is today announcing an $8.6 million Series B funding round, with Intel Capital joining as a strategic investor, alongside existing investors RockPort Capital, US Venture Partners and Blue Run Ventures. Read More
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Wi-Fi Sharing Community Instabridge Locates $3M Series A
Instabridge, the Wi-Fi sharing community and mobile app, appears to be on somewhat of a roll, including (and perhaps unsurprisingly) finding a lot of traction in developing markets where the draw to Wi-Fi over cellular data is particularly prevalent. All of which hasn’t gone unnoticed by investors. Read More
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E-Commerce Feed Management Company Lengow Secures €10M Series B
Lengow, which claims to be the European leader in “e-commerce feed management,” has closed a Series B round.
The French company, originally backed by Kima Ventures, the personal fund of French billionaire Xavier Niel, has raised €10 million in new funding from Serena Capital, BPI and Series A backer Alven Capital. It brings the total raised to €11.4 million since Lengow was… Read More
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On-demand Alcohol Delivery Startup Saucey Drinks To $4.5 Million In Seed Funding
Los Angeles-based on-demand alcohol startup Saucey has delivered good times in a bottle since 2013 but held off raising VC funding till now. The service just pulled in $4.5 million in seed money to make its platform more efficient. Saucey origins begin with three buddies who worked together and liked to imbibe after a long day. Founders Chris Vaughn, Daniel Leeb and Andrew Zeck were… Read More
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Mobile Gaming Live-Streaming Service Mobcrush Raises $11M
Mobcrush, which live-streams mobile games like Twitch does for PC games, said today that it has raised $11 million in a new financing round led by Kleiner Perkins. TechCrunch previously reported that the company had raised around $10 million. As we noted before, the company’s bet — along with investors — is that mobile game live-streaming will be bigger than just PC games.… Read More
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LotusFlare Raises $6 Million To Help Emerging Markets Access The Mobile Internet
The mobile revolution may be booming, but not everyone has the same level of access. That’s why major tech companies like Facebook and Google are building out systems involving drones or high-flying balloons to make sure those in developing regions still have the opportunity to get connected. Hoping to capitalize on that trend is LotusFlare, a startup founded by former Facebookers which… Read More
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Guru, With $2.7 Million In Funding, Simplifies Internal Knowledge Sharing
Given the speed at which startups often grow, disseminating important information to the folks that need it (when they need it) can become a huge hurdle. Guru, started by Boomi founder Rick Nucci, aims to solve that problem. Guru is a Chrome web extension that sits on top of pretty much anything you do on your computer, and intelligently surfaces the relevant information about your startup… Read More
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