Laffster Adds $750K, Tackles Comedic Content Discovery With Mock the Vote App
Venice, CA-based Laffster today announced the release of its political satire and humor discovery app, Mock the Vote, and…
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Tradesy Launches With $1.5M and a New Spin on Women's Resale Marketplaces
Startup Tradesy is trying to solve a problem other fashion resale marketplaces have long been trying to tackle: helping women…
PEX Card Adds $3.2M in Funding to Scale Prepaid Expense Card Solution for SMBs
New York City-based PEX Card, provider of prepaid expense card solutions for the SMB market, announced today that it has secured…
QuickMobile Raises $3.3M to Take Custom Mobile Event Apps International
Event organizers have increasingly been looking to connect their event attendees in more meaningful ways with the advent of…
Handybook Adds $2M to Connect Homeowners With Vetted Service Providers
Boston-based Handybook announced today that it has closed $2 million in seed funding for its online home services booking…
Referly Adds $1.1M to Grow Referral-Driven Curated Shopping Platform
Today San Francisco-based Referly announced it has closed $1 million in seed funding for its referral-driven shopping platform,…
TitanFile Adds $1.1M, Pivots From One-Way File-Sharing to Take on Dropbox
Waterloo, ON and Halifax, NS-based cloud storage company TitanFile announced today that it has added $1.1 million in funding,…
On Track for $6M in 2012 Revenue, Online Men's Retailer Frank & Oak Raises $5M
Today Montreal-based ecommerce startup Frank & Oak announced it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Lightbank,…
Sharethrough Adds $5M to Help Publishers Build Native Ads Into Their Content
Today San Francisco-based Sharethrough, a native video advertising company, announced it has raised $5 million in a Series…
Plexus Engine is Reborn as Little Bird With $1M to Identify and Map Influencers
Today Portland, OR-based Plexus Engine, a platform started by former ReadWriteWeb reporter Marshall Kirkpatrick to unearth…
thredUP Raises $14.5M in Series C Funding to Expand Beyond Kids Clothing
Today San Francisco-based kids resale marketplace thredUP announced it has closed $14.5 million in Series C funding from Highland…
Entelo Launches With Seed Funding to Help Companies Proactively Recruit
Today San Francisco-based Entelo announced it has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Battery Ventures and Menlo…
DataStax Adds $25M in Series C Funding to Scale Big Data Platform
Today San Mateo, CA-based big data company DataStax announced it has raised $25 million in C round of funding led by Meritech…
Size It Up: BeauCoo Raises $1.1M to Create a Fashion Social Network Based on Size
Today Calgary-based BeauCoo announced that it has added $1.1 million in a seed funding round led by Zinc Ventures, adding to…
Evzdrop Raises $500K, Launches Local Marketing App to Tie Notes to Locations
Today, Chicago-based Evzdrop announced the launch of its iPhone app, which lets businesses and individuals ‘listen to places…