Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 31, 2010 12:40 PM
Chartbeat, an analytics startup that provides subscribers with a snapshot of how people are interacting with their sites—in real time—has raised $3 million in a first round of funding. The company, which was incubated at NYC-based tech investor Betaworks and launched in April 2009, pitches its service as an alternative…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 29, 2010 6:00 PM
Foursquare, the extremely hot mobile check-in service, has finally raised a new round of funding. Since at least March, venture capital firms (and large internet companies) have been courting Foursquare, which has been growing very rapidly; at one point, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) was said to have offered as much as…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 4, 2010 3:50 PM
TripIt, which offers a series of online tools that travelers can use to organize their travel plans, has raised $7 million in a funding round. With TripIt, users e-mail in their itineraries and then have TripIt organize them into a single “master travel itinerary” that they can easily share and…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 8, 2010 4:45 AM
An example of how some straight tech investment is making the shift into green technology: AMEE, which has built an engine to calculate greenhouse gas emissions, has raised $5.5 million from investors that include Amadeus Capital Partners and existing investors O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Union Square Ventures. AMEE says in…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Mar 31, 2008 1:37 PM
Chumby Industries, the developer of a gadget to access the web, has raised a $12.5 million second round led by JK&B Capital, with participation from previous backers Avalon Ventures, Masthead Venture Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV). The size of the San Diego-based company’s first round was not announced. The…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 16, 2008 5:00 AM
London-based Openads, an open-source ad server, has managed to raise a $15.5 million (£7.9 million) second round of funding, with the aim of stepping up product development and hiring more staff. (Rafat adds: We use the software to serve ads currently, but are moving away to a commercial software) Its…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Dec 19, 2007 8:50 AM
Acquia, the commercial developer of open source publishing platform Drupal, has raised a $7 million first round led by North Bridge Venture Partners; also participating were Sigma Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Funding will go towards the establishment of value-added software and services around Drupal. Drupal started as a hobby…
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