Recovering from Hurricane Sandy is no small feat as most of Lower Manhattan is still in the dark without power. I talked with a couple of people working in startups who had to find a place to get back work. But the most difficult part was probably to set aside the devastation and get the businesses back on track.
Cheers, the app and social network built around giving users the chance to celebrate the good things in their lives, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by MindFund and including Charles River Ventures, Trinity Ventures, AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and others.
CapLinked, a startup offering online workspaces for managing business deals, says that it has raised $1.6 million in Series A funding.
The funding comes from FF Angel (the seed-stage fund operated by Founders Fund), Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund managing partner Peter Thiel, former Bertelsmann executive Andrej Henkler, and Alexsis de Raadt-St.
Founder Collective, a seed-stage investment fund, has rasied $70 million for a new fund (Founder Collective II), according to a blog post from the firm.
Human Demand, a mobile ad startup which launched last summer targeting the long tail of app developers, has since expanded its focus to brands, and is today announcing having raised an additional $900,000 in new funding.
15Five, a startup that offers a cloud-based platform for employees to provide weekly feedback about their progress — and for CEOs and other managers to be able to read all of it quickly, is today announcing that it has raised its first VC money, a seed round of $1 million from a list of investors including Richmond Global, 500 Startups, Yammer Founder David Sacks, USTREAM founder John Ham, J
Philadelphia-based Perceptual Networks has raised $1 million in funding from an impressive group of VCs and angels, including First Round Capital, Bullpen Capital, Max Levchin, Steve Chen, Michael Birch Rackspace founder Richard Yoo, Demand Media founder Shawn Colo Joshua Schachter (founder of Tasty Labs and Delicious), Alexis Ohanian (founder of Reddit), James Hong (founder of HotOrNot), Philip K
Gigwalk, a mobile app that allows users to get assigned basic “gigs” or jobs from companies via their location, has raised $6 Million in Series A venture funding from August Capital with existing investors Greylock, Harrison Metal, SoftTech VC, Founder Collective, and AdMob founder Omar Hamoui participating.
Gigwalk, which launched last year, basically allows companies to tap into a mobile workfor
Inktank has raised $1 million in the form of a convertible note from Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth to further services play for Ceph — an open source, next generation distributed storage technology.
Inktank is led by Dreamhost Co-Founder Sage Weil, who formed the company after developing Ceph over the past several years, starting with his work at the University of Caliornia at Santa Cr
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