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Collabor’s Software for Outward Collaboration at Businesses Ramps Up with...
Erin Kutz It’s a big month for Collabor, a Maynard, MA-based maker of software that powers online communities—for banks, nonprofits, manufacturers and a slew of industries in between. The company is...
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What’s Ahead for Groupon, LivingSocial? Seattle’s Tippr Has Some Ideas
Curt Woodward LivingSocial will skip the IPO and get acquired. Hundreds of smaller daily deals startups will shut their doors. Groupon’s special product offerings will crash and burn. Those are among...
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How Mindflash Disrupted Itself by Taking Training Software to the Web
Wade Roush If you’re a technology company, it’s painful to bury an obsolete product before it’s well and truly dead. Most established companies can’t bring themselves to do it, choosing instead to...
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Apptio Adds $50M to “War Chest,” Plans to Double Sales Bookings
Curt Woodward Looks like those predictions about a boom in IT infrastructure companies might not just be idle talk. Apptio, a Bellevue, WA provider of IT management software for large companies, has...
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Verve Raises $7M, Studies Mobile ‘Paradox’ for Old Media Customers
Bruce V. Bigelow Verve Wireless has raised at least $7 million from investors in a new round of financing, according to a recent regulatory filing. Verve, which has headquarters both in Encinitas, CA,...
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Zillow Buys RentJuice for $40M, Reports Record Revenue
Curt Woodward Zillow, one of the country’s leading online real-estate companies, is acquiring San Francisco-based RentJuice to beef up its growing professional services business. Zillow is paying $40...
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Yapta Continues Makeover With Corporate Airfare Tracker FareIQ
Curt Woodward Five years into its existence, online airfare tracker Yapta is going through a major overhaul. The company is searching for a permanent CEO, after co-founder Tom Romary stepped down late...
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Buddy Platform Open for Business, Raises $1M for App Backend Service
Curt Woodward Buddy Platform, a Kirkland, WA-based startup that sells back-end services for mobile apps, is now open for business and says it has raised $1 million from investors. The company was...
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Fundraising Notes: Xenon Arc, Concurix, Red Loop
Curt Woodward Xenon Arc, a semi-stealthy provider of software services for materials manufacturers, has filled out its Series A fundraising to a total of $22 million, CEO Chad Steigers says. The...
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Avalara Rings Up $20M Growth Round Led by Battery Ventures
Curt Woodward Fast-growing sales tax software provider Avalara wasn’t out looking for additional investment cash, after raising a $21 million round just last year. But when Battery Ventures came...
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Developers Are the New Decision-Making Elite of the Digital Economy
Jeremy Allaire Ever since the birth of interactive Web applications in the mid 1990s, we’ve been on a path of convergence between content and software platforms. This evolution has continued for the...
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Anametrix Raises $4.4M, Unveils Web-Based B2C Marketing Analytics
Bruce V. Bigelow San Diego-based Anametrix, a cloud-based provider of digital analytics for business customers, says today it has raised $4.4 million in a Series A round of funding from TVC Capital,...
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The Enterprise Sales Game Has Changed. Have You?
Matt Fates As a venture firm that focuses exclusively on enterprise IT and has backed more than 100 companies, we have witnessed a wide variety of different sales models. Scaling a business rapidly...
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Reflexion Health Raises $4.5M to Advance Idea for ‘Prescribed Software’
Bruce V. Bigelow Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup developing a system that uses Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensing system to help physical therapy patients with their rehab, has raised $4.25...
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Deals Roundup: Limeade’s $5M, Blue Box’s $3.5M, Zillow’s Acquisitions
Benjamin Romano As investors showered attention on the latest crop of Seattle TechStars companies last week, other more established Seattle-area tech companies were landing capital from far and near....
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“Pre-IPO” Acquia Lands Another $30M, Sees Sales Topping $56M
Curt Woodward With so much focus on the rise of mobile devices, apps, and networks, it can be easy to forget that there’s still life left in the good old website, that basic element of the original...
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Latest Venture Funding Deepens Independa’s Ties with LG Electronics
Bruce V. Bigelow Independa, the San Diego startup developing Web-based services for the elderly, says today it has closed its Series A financing at $5 million. In a telephone interview this afternoon,...
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TechStars Grad Ovuline Gets $1.4M for Pregnancy-Tracking Software
Curt Woodward Alex Baron is a pretty hard-core technical guy: Advanced degrees in computer science and statistics, expertise in machine learning, experience in the finance world and high-tech...
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SD Software Group Looks for New Direction with Leader’s Departure
Bruce V. Bigelow Bob Slapin says he was on the board of the San Diego Software Industry Council in 2000, after the dot-com bubble broke, and Internet companies were suddenly in dire straits. “We had...
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Backupify Rolls Out Gmail Tool, Wants to Build Data Protection Layer for the Web
Gregory T. Huang Three pearls of wisdom from Backupify CEO Rob May, right off the bat: 1. “Successful companies often look like bad ideas at the beginning.” 2. “The company that solves the ‘big data’...
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