Gumroad Raises $7M to Shake Up P2P Buying and Selling
Gumroad, the San Francisco-based startup that’s simplifying ecommerce transactions by making it possible for anyone to…
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Sweet Tooth Lands $2.25M to Expand Its Loyalty Platform
May 7, 2012
Waterloo, ON-based Sweet Tooth announced a round of seed financing this morning, totalling $2.25 million and including OMERS…
Teddle Puts Service Scheduling and Recommendations All in One Place
May 4, 2012
Online skill and task marketplaces are springing up like weeds in the tech startup community, but U.K.-based startup Teddle…
Fruux Adds Device Management, Prepares Its iCloud for Teams
May 4, 2012
German startup fruux, which announced seed funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds and netSTART Ventures in March, today unveiled…
WePay Lands $10M Round to Help it Take On PayPal
May 3, 2012
Originally launched as a group payments platform to help friends and family pool their resources, Palo Alto-based WePay has…
Storybricks Taps Kickstarter to Help Fund Its Game Storytelling Tool
May 3, 2012
Video games have been moving towards greater player involvement for a while now. Users are now faced with tough moral choices,…
Clarity Opens Its Phone-Based Expert Advice Network to All
May 3, 2012
After a closed beta begun in January of this year, startup Clarity is launching today to the public. The mobile-focused company…
Understoodit Helps Confused Students in the Classroom
May 3, 2012
One of the things professors and instructors often tell students at the beginning of a class is to just raise their hand and…
Zerply Gets $600K to Jazz Up Professional Networking
May 2, 2012
500 Startups grad Zerply is announcing a seed funding round of $600,000 today to help it accelerate its efforts around modernizing…
Hyperink Goes After All-Star Bloggers With New eBook Creation Service
May 2, 2012
Prolific bloggers turn into ebook authors with fairly often; it only makes sense that people writing lots of content on a regular…
Prezi Passes 10M User Mark, Debuts New PowerPoint Importer
May 2, 2012
Online presentation tool Prezi, which allows users to combine static images, video and other media in a free-form, scrollable,…
Flingo Nets Another $1M, Targets “Holy Grail” of Synced TV Experiences
May 2, 2012
San Francisco-based Flingo today announced a $1 million add-on to its existing $7 million round, bringing the total for its…
DataSift Raises $7.2M to Help It Meet Social Media Analytics Demand
May 2, 2012
Social media monitoring and analytics firm DataSift announced a $7.2 million follow-on to its Series A funding today, which…
Crocodoc Unveils New Document Embedding Service for Enterprise
May 1, 2012
Document sharing service Crocodoc is making the leap from consumer-focused tool to enterprise-targeting platform today, announcing…
YogiPlay Launches Personalized Network for Kid-Friendly Apps
May 1, 2012
Kids love tablets and smartphones. There are a heap of studies indicating that, but you could also ask any tech-savvy parent…