PayPal, Venrock Incubate BillFloat To Develop Innovative Payment Services
We got a tip recently about a startup called BillFloat, which sports a rather limited website with nothing but a logo and a call for fresh engineers. The intriguing thing about BillFloat, however, was...
View ArticleTraducción Necesita? Smartling Raises $4 Million To Do It For You.
70% of users on the web do not speak English. Considering how many web sites and services are done entirely in English, obviously, this is a problem. Smartling thinks it has the solution. And now they...
View ArticlePayPal-Backed BillFloat Launches, Secures $4.5 Million Series A Round...
BillFloat, a San Francisco-based startup incubated by PayPal and Venrock, has raised $4.5 million in a Series A round led by First Round Capital, with renewed participation of PayPal and Venrock and...
View ArticleHARMAN Buys Aha Mobile To Keep You Informed AND Safe While On The Road
Audio and infotainment group Harman International Industries (aka HARMAN) has picked up Aha Mobile, a Palo Alto-based provider of on-demand mobile and location-based Internet content services, the...
View ArticleSecurity Software Startup, SocialShield, Raises $10 Million To Keep Kids Safe...
SocialShield, a startup that helps parents monitor their kids’ online behavior without violating kids’ privacy, raised a $10 million series A investment, the company announced today. Venrock and U.S....
View ArticleAppNexus Raises A Meaty $50 Million Series C For Realtime Ad Bidding Platform
Realtime ad bidding network AppNexus today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series C financing. Investors include Microsoft, Venrock, Kodiak Venture Partners and First Round Capital. The...
View ArticleFuture of Streaming and the Many Reasons Jeff Bewkes Is Wrong (TCTV)
“It’s a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world? I don’t think so.” TimeWarner CEO Jeff Bewkes haughty dismissal of Netflix is still reverberating through the tech world,...
View ArticlePhononic Devices Raises $10 Million To Turn Heat Waste Into Energy
A Raleigh, North Carolina-based maker of thermoelectric coolers and generators, Phononic Devices, closed a $10 million series B investment from Venrock and Oak Investment Partners, the companies...
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Mobile Security Provider Appthority Raises $6.25 Million From Venrock and US...
Earlier this morning, San Francisco-based mobile app security provider Appthority announced that it has raised $6.25 million in a Series A financing round led by Venrock and US Venture Partners....
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Big Money For Cheap Razors: Dollar Shave Club Raises $9.8M, Launches In Canada
Dollar Shave Club, the startup offering a subscription razor service that costs as little as $1 per month (plus shipping), has raised $9.8 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO Michael Dubin...
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Born Out Of A Cisco Consulting Gig, Predictive Sales Tool 6Sense Raises $12M
Of the many ways that big data analytics is impacting how enterprises do business, one of the most interesting has been in the area of predictive intelligence — the idea that by looking at all of the...
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Grand Rounds Raises $40 Million To Ensure The Best Doctor Will See You Now
Building a consulting network of the best physicians in the U.S. from the nation’s best hospitals has brought the health care startup Grand Rounds $40 million in new financing. The San Francisco-based...
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Amino Raises $6.5M To Build Mobile Communities
Amino, a startup that’s built 41 different mobile community apps (so far), is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. I first wrote about the company a little more than a year...
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Venrock’s Bryan Roberts On What To Expect In 2016
Bryan Roberts has seen plenty of market swings in his 18 years as a venture capitalist with Venrock, the venture firm that started as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family and has historically...
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What life science investors got right in this most recent boom
It’s long been the case that life sciences investors don’t get the attention that their more traditional tech counterparts do. They’re underrepresented on lists of top investors in venture capital....
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Treating the healthcare issue with tech
The healthcare industry, with its maddening inefficiencies and an economic model that incentivizes disease care over health care, desperately needs a Silicon Valley-style overhaul. Why is the nation’s...
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Senior benefits platform Renew.com raises $3 million to help retiring baby...
Renew.com has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Venrock, Expa and others to launch a platform aiming to give the baby boomer generation adequate information on their benefits after...
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Venrock has raised $450 million for its eighth fund — just like its seventh fund
Venrock, the 47-year-old venture firm that started as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family, has closed its eighth fund with $450 million, which longtime partner Bryan Roberts calls “not too big...
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Doctor On Demand launches “in app” lab testing referrals
Video medical consultation service, Doctor On Demand is launching an integration with lab testing services providers like Quest Diagnostics to include more of the in-clinic care services that patients...
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Hear Dataminr and NYC officials talk about using social media in emergency...
These days, it’s probably more common to hear about news breaking on Twitter or Facebook than from a broadcast news network or the radio. In an age where eyewitness news has taken on a whole new...
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