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SEC filing cracks the egg on Chegg’s Notehall purchase
New details on Chegg’s June acquisition of Notehall came through SEC filings yesterday. We do not know how much cash the textbook renting company paid for Notehall, a provider of lecture notes, but...
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Bootstrapping builds strength, Cvent founder says
After the dot com bubble burst, Cvent, an online events management company, had to scrimp. The company barely survived. Twelve years later, founder Reggie Aggarwal, pictured left, had the pleasure of...
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Groupalia rakes in millions to help Europeans, South Americans find deals
Deals site Groupalia doesn’t do something new, but does it in a new place. The year-old consumer deals company has exploded onto the southern European and Latin American markets and is raking in...
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Tumblr grabs another $85M in fresh funding
Popular blogging service Tumblr has raised a fresh $85 million round of funding. Hopefully, the company will use this infusion to find more ways to make money. Tumblr has seen some impressive page view...
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Build-your-own-website service Wix.com adds HTML5 support
Monday, drag and drop website builder Wix.com launched its HTML5 website builder, which builds websites with video and animation for devices that don’t support Flash. Creating a website these days is...
View ArticleFanatics shows its team spirit with $150M investment
Sports-centered e-commerce site Fanatics, owned by Kynetic, grabbed the attention of Silicon Valley venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Venture Partners to raise a $150 million round...
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Pluralsight closes $27.5M to stave off the Great Developer Shortage of 2013
Dubbing talented developers the unicorns of the tech world is one of my favorite analogies. They are elusive and valuable, and everybody wants one. The dearth of software engineering talent was a hot...
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Insight Venture Partners raises a huge $2.57B fund for software, e-commerce,...
Insight Venture Partners isn’t slowing down after Yahoo’s $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition last week. The firm announced today that it has raised a whopping new $2.57 billion fund (Insight Venture...
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Funding daily roundup: Games, tunes, e-commerce, call centers, and ads
Today was a big money day for startup funding — and post-startup growth-stage and late-stage fund funding. Online radio startup TuneIn closed $25M round of funding TuneIn, the terrestrial streaming...
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Blue Jeans raises a massive $50M round to continue pounding Cisco, Microsoft,...
Blue Jeans Network, the new face of business-class videoconferencing, has raised a massive $50 million fourth round of financing, the company announced this morning, bringing its total financing to a...
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Storage marketplace SpareFoot closes $10M funding
Storage service SpareFoot has raised a fresh $10 million round of funding to continue its record growth, the company informed VentureBeat today. SpareFoot‘s service is essentially a marketplace for the...
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Insight Venture Partners acquires majority interest in security intelligence...
Venture Capitalist firm Insight Venture Partners is taking a majority interest in cyber security purveyor FireMon, which has seen a massive 120 percent growth since Q1 of last year. FireMon specializes...
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Softbank leads $50M round in enterprise mobile app firm Kony
Softbank Capital just made a big bet on Kony’s cloud-based development tools for enterprise mobile apps. Altogether, Kony secured $50 million in new financing, the company announced today. But that...
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HelloFresh's $50M round shows that all these food-delivery startups are onto...
Despite its decidedly low-tech premise, meal delivery service HelloFresh has captured the interest of several prominent high-tech investors. The food-centric startup has raised $50 million in a new...
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Photo sharing app PicsArt scores $15M from Sequoia and Insight Venture Partners
It’s not Instagram, it’s not Flickr, it’s PicsArt. The image editing and sharing app announced today it scored $15 million from Insight Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital in its latest round. PicsArt...
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SmartRecruiters raises $30 million from Insight Venture Partners and Mayfield...
Insight Venture Partners led a $30 million investment for SmartRecruiters, the hiring startup announced today. SmartRecruiters said the capital will be used to further develop its product and global...
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Marketing software startup Bynder scores $22.3 million
Marketing software company Bynder announced today that it landed a $22.3 million investment from Insight Venture Partners to further develop its product and continue international efforts. As part of...
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Ecommerce startup CloudCraze raises $20 million led by Insight Venture Partners
CloudCraze, an ecommerce startup that integrates into Salesforce’s cloud services, announced this morning that it landed $20 million in funding. The round was led by Insight Venture Partners....
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EquipmentShare raises $20 million for construction equipment marketplace
Construction machinery marketplace EquipmentShare today announced $20 million in new funding to help bring more efficiency to the buying, selling, and lending of equipment, which ranges from backhoes...
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Benioff-backed ed-tech startup Nearpod raises $21 million
Gone are the days where students have to hide their smartphones from their teachers — the devices are now being used as an ed-tech tool. Nearpod, which allows school teachers to find, create, and...
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