Tapiture Raises $825K Seed Round, Looks To Crack ‘Pinterest for Dudes’ Code
Today Venice Beach, CA-based Tapiture, a ‘Pinterest for dudes’ social discovery site, announced that it closed $825,000…
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With $100M in Sales, Taxi Hailing App Hailo Adds $30.6M & Prepares for NYC Launch
Today UK-based taxi hailing app Hailo announced that it has added $30.6 million in Series B funding, led by NYC-based Union…
DropShip Commerce Adds $4.3M, Looks to Be Turnkey Inventory Management Solution
Today, Salt Lake City, UT-based DropShip Commerce, a SaaS platform focused on virtual supply chain management, announced this…
Rover Adds $7M Series B to Mark Its ‘Airbnb For Dogs’ Territory
Today Seattle-based Rover, a marketplace that connect dog owners with screened dog sitters for when they’re away, announced…
Sift Adds $540K, Turns Marketing Emails Into a Visual iPad Shopping Catalog
Today, Burlingame, CA-based Sift, an iPad app that goes through a user’s inbox to aggregate marketing emails to create an…
Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang, Others Put $1.7M Into Tomfoolery’s Enterprise Apps
Tomfoolery, a San Francisco-based startup led by a seasoned team of software and consumer app veterans from AOL and Yahoo!…
Pluto Media Adds $500K to Help Kids Learn Music Through Tablet Games
Today Menlo Park, CA-based Pluto Media, a tablet-based gaming and education startup, announced that it has closed a $500,000…
Compliance Tool Convercent Adds $10.2M to Help Companies Track Issues in the Cloud
Today Denver, CO-based startup Convercent is jumping into the enterprise compliance and regulatory space, launching out of…
FarmLogs Adds $1M to Bring Farmers Up to Speed With Cloud-Based Software
Today Ann Arbor, MI-based FarmLogs, a Y Combinator alum that provides software to help farmers plan, manage, and optimize their…
With 4,500 Daily Meetings, Zoom.us Adds $6M & Debuts New Videoconferencing Plans
BetaKit first covered Santa Clara, CA-based Zoom.us, a video conferencing tool founded by a team of former Cisco WebEx engineers,…
Social Advocacy Platform Extole Adds $7.6M to Help Brands Drive Referrals
Today San Francisco-based Extole, a consumer-to-consumer social advocacy platform, announced that it has closed $7.6 million…
Radius Adds $12.4M from American Express to Scale SMB Sales Intelligence Platform
Today San Francisco-based Radius, which provides companies with SMB data from across the U.S., announced that it has closed…
PayNearMe Launches PayNearMe Express, Adds $10M to Prove Cash is King
Recently BetaKit wrote about BlueKite, a cross-border bill payment solution that evolved out of helping the “unbanked,”…
Square Competitor Payleven Adds Funding, Looks to Cater to Chip-and-Pin Regulations
Today London and Berlin-based payleven, a Square-like mobile POS provider for SMBs, announced today that it secured a ‘high…
Top Hat Monocle Adds $1.1M to Series A, Looks to Lead Student Engagement Platform Pack
Toronto-based Top Hat Monocle, a student engagement platform that replaces traditional classroom clickers with a web-based…