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Maker of snap-together electronics kits for kids, LittleBits has just raised $44.2 million to overhaul its executive team and expand its products into more markets. LittleBits has hired former MarkerBot CEO Jenny Lawton to be the company’s chief strategy officer. Joey Neal, also a formerly on the MakerBot payroll, will join LittleBits as vice president of user experience and […]... →

LittleBits, a 3.5-year-old, New York-based maker of electronic components that both children and designers can snap together to create everything from toy robots to lightweight industrial products, has raised $44.2 million in Series B funding led by DFJ Growth, with managing director Barry Schuler joining the board. Morgan Stanley, Alternative Investment Partners, Grishin Robotics and Wamda… Read More... →

Redis Labs, a company that offers enterprise-grade services around the open-source NoSQL Redis database and memcached object caching system, today announced that it has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures. Silicon Valley Bank also participated in this round. Read More... →

Lost My Name, the London-based startup behind the hugely popular “The Little Boy/Girl Who Lost His/Her Name”, a personalised picture book for kids, has picked a $9 million Series A round. Google Ventures led the investment, along with Greycroft, The Chernin Group, Allen & Co, and former SunGard President and CEO Cris Conde. Read More... →

London has emerged as a major hub for digital advertising and marketing, and today one of its faster growing startups is getting some funding to go to the next level. Yieldify, a marketing tech business that has built software to improve and track on-site and email conversions — that is, for e-commerce businesses to keep people shopping, buying and generally interested instead of… Read More... →

Google Ventures is investing in a startup that makes personalized children’s books. Called Lost My Name, the company uses algorithms to create children’s books based on the letters in their name. Today they’re announcing a $9 million funding raise from Google Ventures, Greycroft, The Chernin Group, Allen & Co, and angel investor Cris Conde. Each book follows the same […]... →

Digital scarcity is an oxymoron. Unless it isn’t. Thanks to a recently funded startup called Ascribe, artists and writers can now create unique copies of their work that can be bought and sold and cannot, in theory, be duplicated. The founders, Bruce Pon, Trent McConaghy, and Masha McConaghy have experience in banking, hardware, and curation. Masha, a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne, curated at… Read More... →

Where General Assembly got a reputation for technology education in an offline-teaching environment, last year CareerFoundry out of Berlin launched an online, customisable training platform for vocational tech skills for engineers, new employees and startups. The idea was that it remained a peer-to-peer environment where people would teach each other. In some respects it is similar to… Read More... →

One of the biggest issues with online marketplaces is that buyers and sellers rarely know or trust one another, which often leads to disputes between the two parties. PromisePay aims to fix this issue by providing marketplaces with a payment platform to manage the entire transaction. The company just announced that it has raised an additional $2 million from strategic investors like… Read More... →

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Nearly all startups use the same methodology to figure out when to raise their next round of capital. The founder projects the planned burn rate and estimates the day they will run out of cash. Then they subtract a margin for fundraising approximately four months from the date the company’s bank account will be empty, and declares the difference the fundraising-process start date. Read More... →

HackerOne, makers of a bug bounty platform where companies pay hackers to find vulnerabilities in their products, announced a $25 million Series B round today. The round was led by NEA. Benchmark, its lead Series A investor, also participated along with several prominent individual investors including Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Digital Sky Technologies Partner Yuri Milner, Dropbox… Read More... →

Have you ever been hungry at a sporting event but didn’t want to deal with the lines? Well VenueNext has raised $9 million to roll out an app for your lazy ass. From mobile ordering to in-stadium directions, VenueNext is a technology platform that is working to change the way fans experience live venues. The company just closed its Series A, with participation from strategic investors… Read More... →

Фонд «Сколково» и сингапурский акселератор HaxAsia запустили совместную акселерационную программу для hardware-проектов в Москве и Сингапуре. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Цель программы — подготовить и развить проекты от прототипов до готовых продуктов, довести их до этапа массового производства или выпуска пилотной партии, а также тестирование потребительского спроса через краудфандинг на IndieGoGo и Kickstarter. Акслерационная программа пройдет в два этапа — в Москве и в Сингапуре. Первая часть програ... →

Jelli, makers of an ad platform for radio broadcasters to digitise how they fill space on their airwaves — think “AdWords for audio” — has raised a $21 million round of funding to grow its business as it prepares to expand to other kinds of audio services — specifically streamed music. The Series B round comes from a mix of strategic backers and top shelf VCs… Read More... →

AtScale, a tool that aims to provide the "glue" between Hadoop and traditional business intelligence tools, has raised a $7 million Series A round.... →

Snowflake Computing, a startup that has built data warehouse software based in the Amazon Web Services cloud, announced a new $45 million funding round and made its software generally available. Snowflake made a big splash when it came out of stealth mode in October with $26 million in funding and a superstar chief executive, Microsoft […]... →

Clinton Foy joins firm as managing director with gaming expertise.... →

Yotpo, a platform that helps businesses with original content marketing, just announced the closing of a $15 million funding round. This brings total funding so far by the company to $30 million. Read More... →

Snowflake, a novel data warehousing service that’s run by former Microsoft server and tools executive Bob Muglia, is coming out of beta today. In addition, the company today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series C round led by Altimeter Group, with participation from previous investors Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wing VC. At first glance, data warehousing may… Read More... →