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Startup Pudding Media takes first funding

Pudding Media has pulled in $8 Million in its first round of funding from Opus Capital. It is trying to create a way where the advertisements will be entirely determined by the conversation at hand, and more...
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Cisco Invests in SoonR

Two year old startup, SoonR, which is based in Campbell, CA has landed a Series B funding of a nice $9.5 million by a group of investors led by Cisco which is looking to bank on the convergence of mobile more...
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Benchmark Wagers on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million

VC Firm Benchmark Capital is betting heavily on Ruby on Rails with a Series A funding of startup Engine Yard. Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular Web application programming environment because it more...
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Shared database MetaWeb gets $42M funding

MetaWeb is a San Francisco based startup company that has just gotten another round of funding from Benchmark Capital and Goldman Sachs to further its open shared database to share, edit and store the more...
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Can uJogo Make Bucks with Free Online Poker?

Startup uJogo offers free online poker and they face a funny problem - if gambling is free, then how on earth do you make the losers feel they have lost something. How do you inject seriousness in something more...
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Goldman invests in semiconductor design startup Intrinsity Inc

Startup Intrinsity said that its fifth round of funding of $31.5 Million was by late-stage investors Goldman, Sachs & Co., Altitude Capital Partners and Northwater Capital Management Inc., all of New York, more...
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Efficient light company Luxim, raises $21M more

Four year old Sunnyvale company Luxim boasts that it has the most efficient light sources in the world has raised another round of funding of $21 Million from leading Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia more...
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VCs Have Flashback Syndrome

Experienced VCs have invested in lots of companies and inevitably some of those companies have failed. When a VC sees a new company that is similar to a previous investment that failed VCs tend to shy more...
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The Dreaded Lunch Invite From Your Venture Capitalist

Most of startup founders are fired in the very first year as founder CEO's and are typically replaced by a VC selected CEO. This is typically done by adding another member to the board, and then voting more...
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Etsy Raises $27 Million in Venture Capital

Etsy, the site which sells hand crafted goods has raised $27 million in series C funding as reported by Techcrunch. more...
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