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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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