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API Marketplace Mashape Raises Funding
Mashape, an up-and-coming marketplace for APIs, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding — which seems like a pretty small amount given the investors it came from: NEA, Index Ventures, Charles River...
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Ifttt Raises Funding for Its Digital Duct Tape Service
Ifttt, a start-up that helps even nontechnical users manipulate and connect Web services to do their bidding, has closed its first funding round. It’s not unexpected that the hot young two-person...
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Cisco Fellow Bruce Davie Joins Stealth Start-Up Nicira
It has been a while since we heard any rumblings from the super-secret stealth networking start-up Nicira. When last seen, the company — backed by investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed...
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Making Sure the Next Zuckerberg or Gates Stays Put at Harvard
Earlier today, Harvard University and New Enterprise Associates announced the Experiment Fund, aimed at making sure that future Mark Zuckerbergs and Bill Gates can stay on campus and innovate without...
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Networking Start-Up Nicira Wants to Mess Up Cisco and Juniper's Business
For the last several months, I’ve been tracking the movements of Nicira, a start-up company that has been operating in stealth mode, but which has been raising eyebrows mainly for the people it has...
View ArticleSXSW Serendipity Gets Yet Another Helper: Kismet
Does the world need another iPhone app to help find people to talk to and drink with at SXSW in Austin this week? No. But here’s another good one, with a few tweaks. Kismet helps users meet friends...
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Stanford Professors Launch Coursera With $16M From Kleiner Perkins and NEA
There seems to be something in the water at Stanford University that’s making faculty members leave their more-than-perfectly-good jobs and go teach online. Coursera co-founders Andrew Ng and Daphne...
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Networking Start-Up Nicira Hires New VP of Sales From Riverbed
Nicira, the once secretive networking technology start-up that aims to mess up the business of giants like Cisco Systems, has just made another key executive hire. Denis Murphy, the senior vice...
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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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