MapMyFITNESS Gets $9M to Grow Connected Fitness Apps
Fitness tracking Austin-based software company MapMyFITNESS today announced an investment round of $9 million in Series B funding…
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Layar Shifts From Future to Present Tense With Creator Launch
Dutch augmented reality (AR) startup Layar today unveiled its new Creator tool, which is designed to allow publishers of offline…
Napster Founders Launch Airtime, Aim for PG Version of Chatroulette
Today former Napster founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning launched their video startup Airtime to the public at a star-studded…
innRoad Raises $5.8M to Usher in the Future of Online Hotel Management
Southampton, NY-based innRoad just announced a $5.8 million Series B round of funding, led by Blue Heron Capital and Rose…
Motif Investing Launches Tool for Buying Stocks Grouped by Idea
San Mateo, CA-based startup Motif Investing is launching today to the public, making its platform for ideas-based investing…
DataSift Partners With Cloudera, Looks to Expand Historics Product
This week, social data analytics company DataSift announced a partnership with Hadoop data management software provider Cloudera,…
Vyclone’s Collaborative Video Platform Set for North American Launch
Shooting mobile video tends to be a one of the few experiences that remains relatively secluded, cut off from the social web.…
Datahero Raises $1M to Simplify and Tailor Big Data
Palo Alto-based startup Datahero today announced a $1 million seed round, led by Foundry Group, to help the company realize…
Diffbot Raises $2M to Power Its Learning, Web Browsing Robot
The first startup out of Stanford’s StartX student accelerator program, website form and content recognition engine Diffbot,…
Grubwithus Raises $5M to Expand Communal Dining Platform
Looking to go out to eat with friends, but short on the friends? Startup Grubwithus was among the first to offer an option…
Mindshapes Lands $4M to Fuel Interactive E-Learning Platform
Startup Mindshapes, founded in 2010 and based in London, New York and San Francisco, today announced a new $4 million round…
EnRecruit Brings the Audition Tape to Business Recruiting
A full-scale recruiting process is a bit of a beast from a logistics standpoint. The scheduling aspect alone can be tricky,…
NeedTagger Helps Identify Customer Needs Via Social Media
There are plenty of social media monitoring tools out there, including Hootsuite, Radian6 and more. But Florida-based NeedTagger…
Junar Launches With $1.2M in Funding to Make Open Data Easy
Junar, a Chile-founded startup which made the move to Palo Alto last year, today announced a $1.2 million round of initial…
Bitly Gets a Makeover Focused on Bookmarking and Privacy Controls
As part of its continuing evolution from a simple URL shortening service into a website sharing and bookmarking tool, bitly…