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Startup Aricent Gets $60M to design Phones

Palo Alto based startup Aricent, which spun off from Flextronics and boasts of Frog Design as its component, has secured funding of $60M to design cool phones, from Bahrain-based investment fund The Family more...
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SOASTA Raises $6.4M for Testing in Cloud Computing

Mountain View based, three-year old software testing start-up company SOASTA, has raised $6.4 Million in Series B financing from Formative Ventures, Canaan Partners and The Entrepreneur’s Fund, bringing more...
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SAI Parent Company Raises Lotsa Money

Henry Blodget of Silicon Alley Insider (SAI) says that the parent company of SAI has been evaluated at a pretty decent amount and has secured a pretty decent amount of funding. Another way of saying astronomic more...
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Become.com, a Shopping site raises $8 million in 4th funding round

Mountain View based company Become.com's CEO Michael Yang said that the company was on a roll, raising its fourth round of funding - a neat sum of $8 Million for providing comparison shopping and a host more...
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Mashery raises $2 Million for sharing data

San Francisco based startup Mashery has pooled together a funding of $2 Million to urge companies to share data. Idea is to help outside developers to start using this data to come up with solutions. more...
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A VC muses: The Death of Stealth Mode

Josh Kopelman writes about the recent spate of blog posts and news items about lawyers and the current fashion of bashing them and wonders if there is a clear death of the stealth mode among startups thanks more...
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SlideShare Gets $3M From Dave McClure, Mark Cuban, Venrock

Rashmi Sinha, Jonathan Boutelle and Amita Ranjan founded SlideShare.com to share your powerpoint presentations online and is rapidly gaining a lot of attention from well-known angels and finally bagged more...
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Startup GodTube Gets $30 Million Funding

Startup GodTube was launched in summer last year in Dallas, and has since been among the fastest growing websites online...it now says it has about 2 million users a month. It got a whopping funding of more...
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TheStreet.com invests in Geezeo

The online money management tool Geezeo has given away 13% of its ownership to TheStreet.com with an option to buy it out completely at a later stage if TheStreet.com thinks so. With its "Educated Financial more...
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BuddyMedia raises money for new social network

Led by Softbank Capital, with participation from European Founders Fund, GreyCroft Partners, and angel investors including Ron Conway, who have put in about $6.5 Million into BuddyMedia which is gearing more...
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