CouchSurfing Raises $15M to Help Travelers Make Stronger Local Connections
CouchSurfing, the Airbnb predecessor that began life as a non-profit helping travelers find a place to rest their weary head…
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GraphEffect Launches Basecamp-Style Collaboration Platform for Marketers
GraphEffect, a Santa Monica-based startup that connects marketers, is debuting a new social network for marketers today, and…
Ness Raises $15M for Recommendation Engine to Build Partnership Opportunities
Ness Computing, a startup tackling the increasingly popular science of providing accurate personalized recommendations, today…
Wave Accounting Acquires Vuru To Help Address Personal Finance Management
Today Toronto-based Wave Accounting, the free small business web-based accounting solution, announced that it has acquired…
MusicHype Launches Social CRM Platform The Appreciation Engine
Recently we covered MusicHype, a Los Angeles-based startup trying to help musicians and record labels identify their diehard…
PropertyVista Launches Property Management Tool to Connect Landlords, Tenants
Toronto-based PropertyVista is launching its property management platform today in public beta, providing landlords and tenant…
Pure Devices Goes to Kickstarter to Fund Its Cloud-Based Web for All Solution
Pure Devices, a new startup based in Seattle, this week launched its Kickstarter project to fund its first product, a table…
Sqrrl Closes $2M in Funding, Moves to Cambridge to Grow Big Data Solution
Sqrrl announced today that it has raised $2 million in funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners for its new scalable…
Fleksy Debuts Update to Predictive Typing iOS App for the Visually Impaired
This week the team at Syntellia launched an update to its iOS app Fleksy, which aims to make predictive typing a breeze for…
Mendeley Acquires SciLife, a Social Network for Scientists and Researchers
London-based Mendeley, a research collaboration platform that’s host to over 270 million research papers and documents,…
BenchPrep Partners With Educational Publishers Including Pearson, O’Reilly, Microsoft Press
BenchPrep today announced that it has added a number of new publisher partners to its roster, including Pearson Education,…
With 1M Monthly Uniques, Beautylish Adds Ecommerce Boutiques to Beauty Community
Today San Francisco-based beauty content and review startup Beautylish is adding ecommerce Boutiques to its community, meaning…
Hopper Raises $12M Led By OMERS Ventures to Make Sense of Travel Data
Cambridge-based travel startup Hopper announced today that it has raised another $12 million in funding, bringing its pre-launch…
biNu Raises $2M to Bring Smartphone Functionality to Feature Phones
Sydney-based biNu today announced a $2 million Series A funding round led by Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, and including…
uTest Acquires Mobile Testing Startup Apphance to Take on TestFlight
uTest, the Boston-based company specializing in real-world user software testing, has announced today its acquisition of Apphance,…