Facebook Alums Use Buzz to Push New Site
Days ahead of Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, the company’s network of former executives and investors are doing their own deal-making. Quora Inc., a question-and-answer site started by two of...
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Sonos Raises $135 Million From KKR, Redpoint, Elevation
Wireless music systems maker Sonos has a round of primary and secondary financing of $135 million, a figure that is more than double what it has previously raised in total, according to sources close...
View ArticleVevo Seeks New Financing
Vevo, the online music video company, is seeking to raise new equity financing, people familiar with the company’s plans said, amid plans to expand its operations overseas. Vevo hired Allen & Co....
View ArticleBox Is Raising New Financing Round
Box Inc., a venture-capital-backed company whose software lets workers store and access documents on the Web, is raising a new round of financing that would value the start-up at $1.2 billion, people...
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Fenwick VC Survey: Q2 Funding Valuations Shoot the Moon
According to Fenwick & West’s latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey, fundings in the second quarter of this year showed the highest valuation increases in more than five years. Looking at...
View ArticleStudent-Loan Online Start-Up Gets Financing
Social Finance Inc., a one-year-old Internet start-up that offers inexpensive student loans through a mechanism known as “group-to-group” lending, has raised $77.2 million to expand its service to...
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Amazon Quietly Jumps Into Another Business: Lending Money to Sellers
Amazon has started rolling out a new program that will provide short-term loans to merchants that sell their products on Amazon.com. The program was first discovered by Channel Advisor, after Amazon...
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Here's Another Hewlett-Packard Spinoff Idea: Finance
Remember how, a year ago, Hewlett-Packard briefly considered spinning off its personal computer unit? Then, after jettisoning the CEO who put the plan in motion, decided not to do it? Well, the spinoff...
View ArticleSpotify Nears Financing at Over $3B Valuation
Spotify Ltd. is in the midst of closing a round of financing that will value the Internet music service at slightly more than $3 billion, said people with knowledge of the matter. The U.K.-based...
View ArticleVCs Still Chasing Web Companies, but With Less Cash
Venture investors still have a healthy appetite for early-stage consumer Internet companies, but those startups are having a harder time raising follow-on financing. Overall the amount invested in...
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Exclusive: Cloudera Closes Massive $65 Million Funding Round at $700 Million...
Whenever you hear the phrase “big data” these days, and depending on whom you’re talking to, the word Hadoop usually isn’t far behind. When companies and large organizations seek to tackle the biggest...
View Article23andMe Raises $50 Million in New Funding, Adding Yuri Milner as Investor
Personal genomics company 23andMe said it has raised more than $50 million in a new funding round, a near doubling of its investments so far. 23andMe has already raised over about $68 million since it...
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Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe on One Million-DNA March and More (Video)
Last week, I paid a visit to the Mountain View, Calif., offices of personal genomics company 23andMe, which just raised more than $50 million in a new funding round, to add to the $68 million it has...
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WhaleShark Media Hires CFO With Public Company Experience
WhaleShark Media, the profitable coupon company that generated more than $140 million in revenue last year, has hired Douglas Jeffries as its new chief financial officer. The Austin, Texas-based...
View ArticlePinterest in Talks to Raise Funding at Valuation up to $2.5 Billion
Online scrapbooking site Pinterest is in talks to raise a new round of financing at a $2 billion to $2.5 billion valuation, said people familiar with the matter. The talks are fluid and a deal isn’t...
View ArticleSocial Sports Startup Bluefields Scores $1 Million
Bluefields, the social network that links sports players together for easier communication between teams and leagues, announced Friday it had raised a $1 million seed round. Contributors include Zappos...
View ArticleSharp Faces Dwindling Financing Options
Japan’s Sharp Corp. is trying to find new sources of capital ahead of key looming financing deadlines. But the electronics maker’s options have shrunk, as management has told potential funders it...
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Commercial Drone Platform Company Gets $10.7 Million From Andreessen Horowitz...
Airware, a startup that is creating a software platform for commercial drones, said it had raised $10.7 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Google Ventures also...
View ArticleDish Secures $9 Billion in Committed Financing for Sprint Bid
Dish Network Corp. took one step closer to arranging $9 billion in committed financing for its $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. Dish received...
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Checking Into Foursquare? Yahoo's CFO Talks About Next Mobile M&A --...
I always like to listen to the dulcet tones of Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman, especially when he talks about what’s next for Yahoo. That’s because the last time he appeared at an investor conference, the...
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Carl Icahn May Walk Away From Dell Proxy Fight He Started
Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor who has been one of the key players in the proxy fight over the struggling computer maker Dell, may be ready to take his chips off the table. CNBC’s David Faber...
View ArticleAltair Semiconductor Raises $25 Million
LTE chipset developer Altair Semiconductor announced Monday it raised a $25 million round of financing from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, BRM, Giza Venture Capital, JVP and Pacific...
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Nokia Taps Option for Nearly $2 Billion in Bond Financing From Microsoft
One of the many terms of the Microsoft-Nokia megadeal is an option for Nokia to get 1.5 billion euros ($1.975 billion) from Microsoft ahead of the transaction’s closing. Nokia said on Friday that it...
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The Value of a Board at the Seed Stage
Image copyright http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-923639p1.htmlFor most startup founders, the idea of creating a board of directors early in the company’s life is as welcome as spending a week at...
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Exclusive: Foursquare Raises a $35 Million Round and Adds DFJ's Schuler to...
Foursquare, the iconic social location service, has raised $35 million in a Series D round, led by DFJ Growth and the Capital Group’s Smallcap World Fund. The company confirmed the raise to me and...
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