Sunday December 22, 2024

Looker Raises Another $30M For Its New Approach To Business Intelligence

 Looker, a business intelligence startup co-founded by early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps Lloyd Tabb, has raised another $30 million in Series B funding, money that co-founder and CEO Frank Bien says will be used to invest in growing the company’s technology organically — not by acquisition. “We’re a tech company and will continue […]

OrderWithMe Raises Another $28M To Help Small Businesses Procure Like Big Ones

 OrderWithMe, a startup based out of Las Vegas that has built a platform for small businesses to come together to effectively act like big ones to source, order and pay for supplies and components – has raised another $28 million in funding. The company says the money will be used to build out its operations to new […]

Microsoft Fires Another Set Of Employees, Continuing Its Announced Layoff Strategy

 Microsoft took an axe to another slice of its employees today, cutting around 3,000 jobs according to Mary Jo Foley. TechCrunch heard through a separate source that the layoffs were imminent, but was not able to confirm their size. The company released a short statement indicating that it has nearly wrapped “all [of] the 18,000 […]

Berlin’s Orderbird, A Tablet-Based Sales Platform, Orders Up Another $10M

 Companies like Square, Groupon, PayPal and Amazon are all vying to be the primary tech partner for merchants at the point of sale in the U.S., and as more companies replace their legacy equipment with low-cost tablets, the race is heating up elsewhere, too. Orderbird, a startup out of Berlin, is today announcing a further […]

15Five Picks Up Another $2.2M To Improve How Work Teams Talk To Each Other

 15Five, a startup that has built a platform to encourage employees and managers to give feedback to each other, is today announcing a new round of funding: it has raised $2.2 million in a “Seed 2″ round. As with its first round in January 2013, 15Five has again attracted the attention of a host of interesting […]

In Year 3 Of Stealth Mode, Enterprise Security Startup vArmour Raises Another $36M

 vArmour, a security startup that has been in stealth mode for the past three years, is today announcing not one but two more rounds of funding as it finally gears up for a launch later this year. The startup, based out of Mountain View, has raised $36 million in Series B and Series C rounds. […]

Another Screen Shot Of The Upcoming Windows Start Menu Leaks

 Another week, another leak. Today we have a new, purported screenshot of the upcoming return of the Start Menu to Windows. Read More Tweet This Post

NewVoiceMedia Raises Another $50M For Its Cloud-Based Contact Centers

 NewVoiceMedia, a UK-based provider of cloud-based contact solutions, is today announcing that it has raised another $50 million, funding that it will use to continue to build out its business in America and Asia in competition with the likes of Inside Sales, LiveOps, inContact, carriers, and a number of regional providers. With a long list like that, […]

Algolia Raises Another $1.2 Million For Its Real-Time Search API

 French startup Algolia raised $1.2 million as an extension of the company’s existing seed round to turbocharge your website’s search engine. It brings the total funding of the startup to $2.8 million. The round extension was led by Storm Ventures, with angels coming from Box, Eventbrite, Google, Microsoft and Stripe. Chrisoph Janz of Point Nine […]

As Square Struggles, European Payments Rival iZettle Takes Another $55.5M In Funding

 As mobile payment startup Square faces reports that it’s delaying an IPO amid growth problems and other pressures, iZettle, the Swedish mobile payments company that has been referred to as the Square of Europe, has raised another €40 million ($55.5 million). In an interview, CEO and founder Jacob de Geer said the funding will be used to continue […]