Boston and Israel-based Perfecto Mobile, the makers of a testing and monitoring platform for mobile apps and websites, is today announcing it has secured $15 million in a Series C round of financing.
MoPub, the Accel-backed mobile advertising startup founded by ex-AdMob and Google employees, is today announcing a $12 million round of Series B funding, which the company says will be used for hiring and international expansion, putting folks on the ground in Europe, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region.
The round was led by Jafco Ventures and saw participation from existing inv
Samba Mobile, a UK startup founded in 2010 which incentivises ad-watching by offering free 3G mobile broadband for desktop PC, laptop and tablet users in exchange for watching video adverts, has raised just shy of £1m — £929,000 — in equity capital in its second round of angel investment.
Investors include David Wheldon, formerly an ad director at Coca Cola, ex Tempus Board Member and
Native apps are stealing the show when it comes to usage and functionality on mobile devices these days, but a lot of companies continue to hold out hope that more open HTML5-based mobile web services will ultimately win the day. In the meantime, those who can straddle the two worlds beautifully and effectively may end up the winners.
One example comes in the form of Everything.me, a slick mobile
Today iZettle, one of the several Square-like mobile payments companies in Europe, announced that it was expanding its Series B round of €25 million and adding American Express as its newest investor. iZettle and AmEx are not disclosing the value of the new investment. It is joining Greylock, Northzone, MasterCard, SEB Private Equity in the round, which was originally €25 million ($31.4 million).
SAP has kicked off a new partner program for mobile software developers to engage on the vendor’s mobile platform, in particular those building business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) mobile applications.
The Mobile Apps Partner program offers developers looking to make a business out of packaged mobile apps a series of tools, resources, benefits and a sales outlet through the SA
Truphone, a UK-based mobile network that lets its users make free or low-cost calls to other mobile devices, has today announced a surprise, large funding injection of £75 million ($118 million) from a group of investors led by Roman Abramovich, the wealthy Russian owner of Chelsea Football Club, among other things.
Freespee, the European mobile click-to-call advertising and analytics startup, has raised a new round of funding: €3.3 million (approx. $4.3m) led by pan-European early-stage investor Sunstone Capital.
Enterprise mobile startup DoubleDutch has raised $4 million in Series B funding, in a new round led by Floodgate, with participation from Bullpen Capital and Lightbank. The funding will see Floodgate’s Mike Maples Jr.
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