Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: February 14, 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: HR/Employment Yahoo buys up video recruiting platform Distill (via...
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Crowdfunding the triple bottom line: With a successful Indiegogo campaign completed, Social Venture Network seeks to increase diversity among socially-conscious entrepreneurs
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat editor By now, crowdfunding has been used to jumpstart a substantial number of ventures, non-profit initiatives...
Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: February 13, 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Financiers/Funds True Ventures Is Raising $250M For Its Fourth Fund (via...
Featured Startup Pitch: Belgrade, Serbia-based Strawberry Energy’s solar-powered public Wi-Fi-enabled device chargers are built to keep people connected on-the-go
By Miloš Milisavljević, Strawberry Energy founder and CEO Elevator Pitch: Strawberry Energy is developing clean technology solutions in order to...
atVenu gets $1.1M in Seed funds to move live event merchandise sales and management off of Excel and on to mobile platforms
A Q&A with atVenu co-founder and president Ben Brannen. The Sausalito, California-based startup, which offers a multi-platform event merchandise...
Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: February 12, 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Financiers/Funds Gary Vaynerchuk Launches New $25 Million Seed Fund (via...
Featured Startup Pitch: Netherlands-based INFIMET is working to rid drinking water of arsenic with its AquAszero powdered filter technology
By Kyriakos-Michael Loufakis, INFIMET co-founder and COO Elevator Pitch: AquAszero is a patented filter media for arsenic removal from drinking...
Guardly wants to disrupt the corporate security market through its real-time mobile app-based platform
A Q&A with Guardly co-founder and CEO Josh Sookman. The Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based startup, which has designed a corporate security platform...
With more direct involvement with student- and faculty-initiated ventures, the UCLA VC fund seeks to build a strong startup eco-system akin to Stanford and Berkeley
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat editor Universities like Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT have long been associated with strong startup ecosystems....
Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: February 11, 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Mobile Yahoo acquires Days diary app-maker Wander, Days to live on as a...
Singapore-based Klinify gets $600K to migrate doctors to electronic records without interrupting their workflow
A Q&A with Klinify co-founder and CEO Surendran Krishanthan. The Singapore-based startup last week announced the closing of a $600,000 Seed...
Y Combinator alumn Statwing wants to democratize statistical analysis, and challenge Excel’s dominance
A Q&A with Statwing co-founder Greg Laughlin. The San Francisco-based startup, which offers software built to make data analysis easier for both...
