Tag Management Startup Tealium Raises $15.6 Million Series C Round
Tealium — a tag management company — has raised a $15.6 million Series C round led by Tenaya Capital, with participation from Battery Ventures and Presidio Ventures, according to TechCrunch. Tealium...
View Article‘PowerPoint Killer’ Haiku Deck Raises $3 Million Series A Round
Haiku Deck — an iPad-based presentation-tool company — has raised $3 million in a Series A funding round, led by Trilogy Partnership and including Madrona Venture Group, Founders Co-Op and others,...
View ArticleHere’s How the Whisper iOS App Went Viral and Raised $3 Million in Funding
Whisper has what every app developer wants — a hot idea, virality and a few million in the bank. The app allows users to anonymously share secrets with each other, via text overlaid on photos. The iOS...
View ArticleHere Is the Only Sure Way to Create a Billion-Dollar Internet Company
In a blog post for Forbes, James Slavet of Greylock Ventures explains that there are currently only about 50 U.S. Internet companies that have ever been acquired or are currently worth $1 billion or...
View ArticleTHE COMING CRASH? VC Deals Are Now at Highest Levels Since Height of 2000...
According to TechCrunch, VCs invested $6.9 billion across 841 deals in Q1 2013 — the highest level since the dot-com days of 1997-2000. Series C, D and E rounds all saw increases in distribution of...
View ArticleAre Smart Phones Already On the Way Out?
In the past year, “mobile-first” has become a mantra for much of the venture community, but is mobile already getting left behind even while half the world is still catching on? Maybe. There are two...
View ArticleCrowdstar, Maker of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Mobile Game, Raises $12 Million...
Crowdstar, a social/mobile gaming company, has raised $12 million from an undisclosed group of investors, according to TechCrunch, and will be releasing two new titles later this year. Amongst other...
View ArticleFormer Zynga Employees Tell All: Inside the Copycat Culture, Severance...
Earlier this week, Zynga slashed over 520 jobs in its New York City offices, and now, a former ‘Zyngite’ is hosting an AMA on Reddit, according to Valleywag. Not surprisingly, the gossip is juicy....
View ArticleCHRIS DIXON: Here’s Why Microsoft is Wrong About Tablets
In a blog post, Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz has a few thoughts on how to win at mobile — the first being that anyone who dismisses the power of tablet apps is a fool. He believes the interface...
View ArticleClinkle, The Hottest Mobile Payments Startup In Silicon Valley, Has Been Hacked
According to TechCrunch, Clinkle — the stealth payments service with $30 million in funding and a whole lot of Stanford graduates (and undergraduates) — has been hacked. A ‘guest user’ posted a list of...
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