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Taiwanese cloud gaming firm Ubitus raises $15 million from Samsung Ventures and others

May 13, 2013
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Taiwanese cloud gaming firm Ubitus raises $15 million from Samsung Ventures and others

Taipei, Taiwan-based cloud gaming company Ubitus today announced that it has raised $15 million from a number of investors most notably including Samsung’s venture capital arm. Founded in 2007, Ubitus deployed its first cloud gaming service in Japan in September 2011 and has been deploying commercial offerings with carriers and OEMs spanning across the United…

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DGAP-Adhoc: eValue Ventures AG: Ergebnis Geschäftsjahr 2012

April 30, 2013
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DGAP-Adhoc: eValue Ventures AG: Ergebnis Geschäftsjahr 2012

eValue Ventures AG / Schlagwort(e): Jahresergebnis 30.04.2013 22:38 Verffentlichung einer Ad-hoc-Mitteilung nach 15 WpHG, bermittelt durch die DGAP - ein Unternehmen der EquityStory AG. Fr den Inhalt der Mitteilung ist der Emittent verantwortlich. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- eValue Ventures AG, Ergebnis Geschftsjahr 2012 30.04.2013 Die eValue Ventures AG blickt auf ein Jahr der Konsolidierung und des weiteren Ausbaus…

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HomeAway partners with Gogobot to add local insider guides from home owners

April 25, 2013
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HomeAway partners with Gogobot to add local insider guides from home owners

Vacation rental site HomeAway is working together with Gogobot to launch “Insider Guides”, a new feature that lets home owners share recommendations with their guests. The new guides offer competition to AirBnB’s new Neighborhoods feature, which launched in February. Listings on HomeAway and VRBO.com, the company’s Vacation Rentals By Owner site, now have a “View…

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Big data company SiSense raises $10M round from Battery Ventures, Opus Capital, and Genesis Partners

April 3, 2013
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Big data company SiSense raises $10M round from Battery Ventures, Opus Capital, and Genesis Partners

Big data analysis company SiSense has announced it has closed its $10 million Series B funding round. Led by Battery Ventures, with participation by Opus Capital and Genesis Partners, the company says that it will use the funds to help it meet the “intense demand” for its service. Alongside the announcement of new funding, SiSense…

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MuleSoft debuts ‘integration 2.0′ platform Anypoint; lands $37m from Salesforce, NEA and others

April 3, 2013
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MuleSoft debuts ‘integration 2.0′ platform Anypoint; lands $37m from Salesforce, NEA and others

Integration software company MuleSoft is today announcing that it is bundling a set of new and existing products in a single offering dubbed the ‘Anypoint Platform’. In addition, the company is announcing that it has raised $37 million in new funding from prior investors, as well as first-time backers like NEA and Salesforce.com. Anypoint With…

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Kabbage Raises $75M In Debt To Fund Online Merchants On Amazon, eBay, And Etsy

April 3, 2013
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Kabbage, which provides working capital to online merchants, is announcing $75 million in debit financing led by Victory Park Capital (VPC) with existing equity investor Thomvest Ventures participating. We’re told the debt facility will go towards funding advances for the company customer base. The Atlanta-based company enables online merchants and sellers on marketplaces like eBay,…

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Lagoa Debuts ‘Industry First’ Cloud Based 3D Design Platform, Raises $1.6M Round From 500 Startups, Atlas And More

April 2, 2013
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From physical to digital rendering, 3D is being celebrated by many as the future, and today, Lagoa, one of software startups in this space, is unveiling a new product, called Lagoa, that’s helping it enter a new dimension: a full 3D rendering and collaboration platform based entirely in the cloud. To mark the launch, Lagoa…

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Menlo Ventures Adds Playspan Founder Karl Mehta As Its Newest Partner

April 1, 2013
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Menlo Ventures said today that Karl Mehta, the tech entrepreneur perhaps best known for founding virtual goods monetization startup PlaySpan and leading it as CEO through its $190 million sale to Visa, has joined the Silicon Valley venture capital firm as a partner. According to Mehta’s LinkedIn, he stayed on at Visa as the CEO…

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Backed By General Catalyst Partners & First Round Capital, Chloe & Isabel Offers A Modern, Tech-Savvy Take On Direct-Selling

March 29, 2013
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When many people think of direct-selling, they envision Tupperware parties or pink-suited women lugging cases of cosmetics door-to-door. New direct-selling companies, however, are using social media to disrupt the industry. Chloe & Isabel is part of the new wave of startups currently re-defining direct selling, and giving people with an entrepreneurial bent–in particular young women–a…

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Alchemist Accelerator’s Second Class Highlights 9 Enterprise Startups In Flight Data Tech, Learning Management And More

March 27, 2013
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I’m at Citrix corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for the presentations by the nine members of the second class of the Alchemist Accelerator group. It’s quite an eclectic class for the B2B accelerator. The Alchemist Group is a new, venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage enterprise startups. Backers include Cisco Systems,…

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