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iPad Textbook Publisher Inkling Raises $17 Million

By Laura Hazard Owen Aug. 3, 2011, 6:20pm Comments Off

Just in time for the back-to-school season, iPad interactive textbook publisher Inkling has secured $17 million in Series B funding from inv… Read More »

Take Note: New $50 Million Funding Round For Evernote

By Tom Krazit Jul. 13, 2011, 11:04pm Comments Off

With more and more people accessing the Internet from multiple devices, central storage services that tie those devices together are becomin… Read More »

Sequoia’s Moritz Thinks Digital Investors Have Gone Cuckoo

By Robert Andrews May. 31, 2011, 1:56pm 2 Comments

So, is there a new tech bubble? One man who may know is Michael Moritz, the celebrated veteran Sequoia partner who invested in companies lik… Read More »

Sugar Raises $15 Million In Part For More Acquisitions

By Joseph Tartakoff Apr. 13, 2011, 12:45pm Comments Off

Female-focused online media company Sugar has raised $15 million in a new round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners; existing b… Read More »

Money Flows To Mobile Startups: Appia, Apperian, Bubble Motion, And Others

By Ingrid Lunden Mar. 30, 2011, 11:55pm Comments Off

It may not be $41 million, but there are still serious funds flowing into the mobile sector at the moment, and the companies taking advantag… Read More »

Widgetbox Rebrands As Display Platform Flite, Raises $12 Million

By David Kaplan Mar. 9, 2011, 6:30pm Comments Off

Ad tech firm Flite (fka Widgetbox) has raised $12 million third round as it completes its rebranding from a community for widget developers… Read More »

Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Back HubSpot

By Joseph Tartakoff Mar. 9, 2011, 3:30am Comments Off

Three huge Silicon Valley names — Sequoia Capital, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures, and Salesforce.com — are investing in HubSpot, as part of… Read More »

Sharing App Bump Picks Up $16M To Expand Business To Payments And More

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 11, 2011, 6:09pm Comments Off

Bump Technologies, which makes an app that lets users share information with each other by bumping their iPhones/iPods or Android devices to… Read More »

Mobile Payment Startup Square Raises $27.5 Million As Mobile Shopping Booms

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 11, 2011, 2:19am Comments Off

Off the back of the strongest holiday season yet for mobile shopping, mobile payment startup Square has raised a round of funding worth $27.… Read More »

Tumblr Raises $30 Million In New Round Led By Sequoia

By Joseph Tartakoff Dec. 18, 2010, 6:47am Comments Off

Tumblr, which has become a favorite blogging tool for hip consumers and wannabe-hip media companies, has raised $30 million in a new funding… Read More »

Multimedia Note Taking Service Evernote Raises $20 Million

By Joseph Tartakoff Oct. 19, 2010, 5:00pm 1 Comment

Multimedia note-taking service Evernote has raised $20 million in a third round led by new backer Sequoia Capital. With Evernote, users can… Read More »

Fast-Growing Eventbrite Raises $20 Million More

By Joseph Tartakoff Oct. 6, 2010, 5:00pm Comments Off

Eventbrite, which lets people set up pages to promote their events and also sell tickets, has raised $20 million in its fourth round of fund… Read More »

MobileIron Raises $16 Million To Manage Smartphones In The Enterprise

Jive Software Raises $30 Million From Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia

Mobile Tech Provider Sencha Raises $14 Million

Mobile App Firm Snaptu Gets Funding

Gaming Tech Firm Unity Technologies Raises $5.5 Million First Round From Sequoia