Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Swifto lands $2.5 million to make hiring a dog walker less stressful
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Commerce Dog walker marketplace Swifto, which calls itself ‘the Uber for dog...
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Connections: Starting up the bonfires in Pittsburgh
By Audrey Russo, president and chief executive officer, Pittsburgh Technology Council This past winter, I had a chance to spend an entire evening...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Conscious Company picks up $400,000 in Seed funding for its monthly sample subscription service with a ‘natural’ focus
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Commerce Conscious Company, which offers a Birchbox-like monthly sample products box...
Augment is applying Augmented Reality to real mobile online shopping
A Q&A with Augment co-founder and CEO JF Chianetta. The Paris-based company closed a €220,000 Seed funding round in mid-April from Paris-based...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: PICT gets a $1.4M boost from an all-star list of investors for its image-based social shopping app
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Commerce AngelPad alum PICT has raised $1.4 million in Seed funding from a group of...
Gush has built a price comparison engine for tablets to make it easier for consumers to save money
A Q&A with Gush founder and CEO Julian Frachtman. The Austin, Texas–based company, which is being incubated through Jutera Labs, was founded...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: VoloMetrix lands $3.3M in new funding for its enterprise productivity platform
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Enterprise VoloMetrix, which allows businesses to utilize big data and social intel to...
OnePageCRM is focused on making actionable sales CRM work for SMBs
A Q&A with OnePageCRM founder and CEO Michael Fitzgerald. The Galway, Ireland-based company raised €575,000 in new Seed funding in late March....
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Google buys natural language processor Wavii for $30M+; Pearson acquires yet another edtech startup
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Web/Content Google has acquired natural language processing startup Wavii for more...
Women and Waders: Targeting forgotten verticals with social commerce
By Denis O’Dwyer, co-founder and CEO, Wide Open Spaces When we started Wide Open Spaces in 2012, we knew that this company was moving into new...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Upstart lands a significant Series A round from some big names to help college grads crowdfund their ideas
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Crowdfunding Upstart, a crowdfunding site for funding the startup ambitions of recent...
ServiceScape is a freelancer marketplace that simplifies the project management process for both clients and service providers
A Q&A with ServiceScape founder and CEO David Costello. The Brookline, Massachusetts–based company is the result of the merging of two separate...
