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YouTube Co-Founders Hit Up Google Ventures and NEA for AVOS Series A
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com If there’s one thing the co-founders of YouTube don’t need, it’s money (Chad Hurley and Steve Chen each made an estimated $300-plus million from selling to Google). But, in...
View ArticleVenture-Capital Firm NEA Raises $2.1 Billion
In the venture-capital industry’s most significant fundraising this year, New Enterprise Associates has closed on $2.08 billion for a fund that could grow in size to become one of the largest ever...
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Pinterest Prompts a Start-Up's Pivot: Meet Curalate, an Analytics Engine for...
Pinterest’s rocket rise may be slowing, but there are still lots of companies struggling to keep up with the image-sharing site. Apu Gupta wants to help: His Curalate promises to help brands and...
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Former Facebooker Scoops Up $1.4 Million for Freshplum, Sales Analytics for...
Pricing physical goods can be relatively straightforward: Fixed costs like labor and materials are calculable, while watching competitors and market demand can aid you in finding a solid target price....
View ArticleCoursera Signs 12 More Universities to Bring Classes Online
Coursera, part of the current bumper crop of college-level online education projects, seems to be off to a quick start. The company is announcing that it has 1.5 million enrollments, will add courses...
View ArticleK-12 Education Start-Up Edmodo Raises a Quick Series C
After raising $15 million in a round led by Greylock Partners’ Reid Hoffman and Benchmark Capital’s Matt Cohler late last year, Edmodo has now already added another $25 million led by NEA’s Tony...
View ArticleNew Enterprise Associates Announces Mega Venture Fund of $2.6 Billion
New Enterprise Associates, or NEA, is officially announcing a $2.6 billion fund, one of the largest venture capital funds ever raised. It marks the Washington, D.C.-area company’s 14th time at bat, and...
View ArticleApartment Rental Start-Up Zumper Closes $1 Million in Seed Round
Zumper, an apartment rental listing Web site that matches landlords with prospective tenants, announced the closing of its seed funding round on Thursday morning, raising $1 million. The group of...
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With Six Million Uniques, Upworthy Gets $4M From NEA to Find More Virals That...
In March, a new start-up called Upworthy launched a site that promised to find viral content on important topics. It seemed an earnest aspiration — it’s like cat videos, but serious! — that was...
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Braintree Raises $35 Million to Tackle PayPal's Core Business
Braintree, which promises to simplify payments for retailers online and mobile, has raised another round of capital. The second round, totaling $35 million, was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA)...
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Vuclip Looks Outside the U.S. for Mobile Video Watchers and Finds a Lot of Them
YouTube is the king of Web video, and that dominance extends to phones, too: The site now generates a billion views a day. But, just like video on the PC, you can still make a go of it in mobile video...
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Pinterest Analytics Service Curalate Raises $3M
Curalate has already done one thing right: Unlike competitors like Pinfluencer, PinReach and Pinerly (now Reachli), it doesn’t have “pin” in its name. In the big, bad world of building services on top...
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10gen Promotes Schireson to CEO Slot
10gen, the company behind the open-source MongoDB database software, said today that it has promoted its president Max Schireson to CEO. Former CEO Dwight Merriman will become Chairman. Schireson...
View ArticleQuad Learning Raises $11M to Make College Affordable
MOOCs are revolutionary and all, but free online courses for thousands of people at a time still seems like a crazy experiment. Another edtech startup, called Quad Learning, is taking an approach that...
View ArticleShopping Analytics Startup Euclid Snags $17.3 Million
Euclid Elements, a startup focused on helping brick-and-mortar retailers track shopping habits with in-store sensors, has raised $17.3 million in a series B venture round, the company announced...
View ArticleDeveloperAuction Raises $2.7M for Novel Talent Marketplace
DeveloperAuction matches engineers and job openings through a process that involves curating a pool of candidates for two-week “auction” periods, requiring employers to specify an offer value before...
View ArticleTwitter Engineering SVP Joins Board at Mobile Payments Company Braintree
Twitter SVP of engineering Chris Fry has joined the board of directors at mobile payments platform Braintree, the company announced on Friday. Braintree provides the backend infrastructure powering a...
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Social Startup Viddy Recapitalizes, Shuffles Board
Viddy, the social video app for mobile devices, is overhauling its capitalization table, returning a large amount of money to investors in the company’s most recent round of funding. Viddy will return...
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Tableau Software and Marketo Fire Up IPO Action Today
Today is going to be a busy day for tech IPOs. Two software companies are floating today, and there is a steady stream of IPO deals on the way behind them. The bigger of today’s two is Tableau...
View ArticleSocial Radar Raises $12.75 Million Round
Social Radar, the mobile-focused startup that aims to connect users through location-based targeting and social network cross-referencing, announced a $12.75 million Series A round on Wednesday. The...
View ArticlePerfect-Fitting Bras With Just a Selfie Earns ThirdLove $5.6 Million Investment
Another intimate apparel company is entering the fray, but with a technological twist. ThirdLove, which is announcing a $5.6 million investment from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Novel TMT Ventures,...
View ArticleHearsay Social Raises $30M More to Help Companies Sell Socially
Social sales company Hearsay Social has gotten a $30 million vote of confidence led by its existing investors, Sequoia Capital and NEA. With customers in fields such as financial services and...
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Early Groupon Backer NEA Dishes Out $226 Million in Deal Site's Stock
New Enterprise Associates, a venture firm that was one of Groupon’s earliest investors, distributed 20 million shares of Groupon common stock to its general partners and its own investors on Friday,...
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Causes.com Reinvents Itself (Sort of) as a Social Network for Social Good
With six million active users per month, “We have the world’s largest socially conscious audience,” according to Causes.com CEO Matt Mahan. Problem is, those are six million Facebook users. Causes CEO...
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Silicon Valley Big-Data Startup Bought for $1B by … Monsanto?
Climate Corporation, which crunches weather data to model agricultural crop risks and yields, is not the average Silicon Valley technology company. And now it has been bought by not-at-all-the-average...
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