Tameka Kee
Dec 14, 2009 7:05 PM
Zecter, developer of the cloud-based media storage and transferal platform ZumoDrive, has raised $1.5 million in funding. New investor Sherpalo Ventures led, with participation from previous backers Tandem Entrepreneurs and VeriFone CEO Douglas Bergeron. Zecter was initially funded by Y Combinator. ZumoDrive lets users port their media files to mobile…
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Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, sherpalo ventures, verifone, y combinator
Tameka Kee
Nov 2, 2009 4:19 PM
No wonder serial investor Ron Conway talked up Scoopler during his panel at the 140Conf last week—he’s an investor in the real-time search startup. Scoopler co-founder A.J. Asver tells VentureWire (subs req) that the startup raised between $500,000 and $1 million in this angel round. Conway, Bebo co-founder Michael Birch,…
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Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Search, Social Media, avalon ventures, michael birch, ron conway, xg ventures, y combinator
Rory Maher
Mar 16, 2009 6:27 PM
There’s some life in the venture-funding world after all. Seed investment fund Y Combinator is starting a new fund backed by Sequoia Capital and angel investors Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit and Aydin Senkut. The fund will focus on the small bets Y Combinator specializes in—seed bets of about $5,000 to…
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Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, sequoia capital, y combinator
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