Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Social Bicycles raises $1.1M to facilitate secure bike sharing in cities
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Social Media Social Bicycles has raised $1.1 million in Seed funding to grow its...
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Featured Startup Pitch: InsuranceLibrary.com wants to make researching and buying insurance a less complicated and confusing proposition for consumers
Company: InsuranceLibrary.com Website: www.insurancelibrary.com Founder: Justin Blase, Sam Melamed Headquarters: St. Paul, Minnesota Year...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Kansas City-based Leap2 finds $1.6M in funding to bring more context to mobile search
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Mobile Mobile search app Leap2 has landed $1.6 million in second round funding. The...
LevelEleven is gamifying Salesforce with the goal of increasing sales team effectiveness
A Q&A with LevelEleven co-founder and CEO Bob Marsh. The Detroit-based company was founded in 2012 as a spinoff of ePrize and just raised...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Swifto lands $2.5 million to make hiring a dog walker less stressful
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Commerce Dog walker marketplace Swifto, which calls itself ‘the Uber for dog...
Connections: Starting up the bonfires in Pittsburgh
By Audrey Russo, president and chief executive officer, Pittsburgh Technology Council This past winter, I had a chance to spend an entire evening...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Conscious Company picks up $400,000 in Seed funding for its monthly sample subscription service with a ‘natural’ focus
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Commerce Conscious Company, which offers a Birchbox-like monthly sample products box...
Augment is applying Augmented Reality to real mobile online shopping
A Q&A with Augment co-founder and CEO JF Chianetta. The Paris-based company closed a €220,000 Seed funding round in mid-April from Paris-based...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: PICT gets a $1.4M boost from an all-star list of investors for its image-based social shopping app
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Commerce AngelPad alum PICT has raised $1.4 million in Seed funding from a group of...
Gush has built a price comparison engine for tablets to make it easier for consumers to save money
A Q&A with Gush founder and CEO Julian Frachtman. The Austin, Texas–based company, which is being incubated through Jutera Labs, was founded...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: VoloMetrix lands $3.3M in new funding for its enterprise productivity platform
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Enterprise VoloMetrix, which allows businesses to utilize big data and social intel to...
OnePageCRM is focused on making actionable sales CRM work for SMBs
A Q&A with OnePageCRM founder and CEO Michael Fitzgerald. The Galway, Ireland-based company raised €575,000 in new Seed funding in late March....
