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…
Canadian Startup News
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…
Influitive Acquires Engagio, Aims to Engage Advocates By Tapping Into the Social Web
Today, Toronto-based Influitive, a B2B advocate marketing platform, announced that it has acquired another Toronto-based startup Engagio,…
Reduce Data Launches, Adds $500K to Help Advertisers Better Manage Ad Spends
Today Mountain View, CA-based Reduce Data launched its advertising analytics and optimization platform, and announced that…
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…
Dijit Acquires Second Screen App Miso, Looks to Provide ‘Hyper-Personalized’ Discovery
Today San Francisco-based second Dijit Media, creators of second screen app NextGuide and Dijit Remote, announced its acquisition…
The Little Book Club Launches to Apply Subscription Model to Children’s Books
Despite keeping busy as the first innovation partner at AOL ventures, Doug Ludlow, former CEO of Hipster, which was acquired…
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…
Mediafed Launches Qrius to Reinvent RSS for the Social Newsreader Generation
BetaKit covered UK-based RSS monetization tool Mediafed in September 2012 when it acquired social news reader Taptu, and…
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!…
Food Photos Are Big Business: OpenTable Snaps Up Foodspotting for $10M
Foodspotting was one of the earliest success stories to launch out of a Startup Weekend event, an idea that was pitched at…
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…