Big consumer brands generate all sorts of consumer interest and expertise, but they’ve generally struggled to capitalize on these relationships to improve themselves. Lithium has been building itself into a market leader at solving this problem over the last ten years, offering white-label community sites and related products that allow brands to let users share […]
Posted on January 7th, 2012 by admin
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Yammer, the Facebook/Twitter-style online intranet for companies, is coming off of a big year, even as larger competitors like Salesforce try to compete with their own enterprise social networking products. Having generated revenues between $5 million and $10 million in 2010, Yammer more than doubled that in 2011, reaching towards $25 million according to industry sources. […]
Posted on January 6th, 2012 by admin
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Yammer, an enterprise social network and communications platform, has raised $17 million in new funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership, a new fund established by former Facebook Vice President Chamath Palihapitiya. Previous investors Charles River Ventures, Emergence Capital and U.S. Venture Partners also participated in the round. Palihapitiya will have an observer’s seat on Yammer’s […]
Posted on September 28th, 2011 by admin
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Mintigo, a company that provides big-data analysis for customer acquisition, has $9 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital, Giza Venture Capital and other private investors. Mintigo helps companies sift through data sets to find leads and potential customers. The startup’s Mintigo, customer targeting and acquisition solution is a custom engine that analyzes […]
Posted on September 24th, 2011 by admin
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10gen, a company which offers enterprises a big data database built off of MongoDB, has raised $20 million in financing, led by Sequoia Capital and with participation from 10gen’s other existing investors Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million. Similar to the way Cloudera commercializes Apache […]
Posted on September 13th, 2011 by admin
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Platfora, a startup focused on bringing businesses intelligence from big data, raised $5.7 million in Series A funding
led by Andreessen Horowitz with intelligence technology company In-Q-Tel participating. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Scott Weiss is joining the board as part of the investment. Ben Werther, founder and CEO of Platfora, explains that
Hadoop one of […]
Posted on September 8th, 2011 by admin
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Startup GoodData, which provides companies with a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform, has raised $15 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with existing investors General Catalyst Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners and Windcrest Partners also contributing to the round. This investment brings GoodData’s total funding to $28.5 million. The company has also added two new […]
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by admin
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Geo-based marketing is just getting started, and local businesses are feeling their way around how best to use service like Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, and even Twitter. It’s hard enough if you have only one store. For chains and national retailers, managing Foursquare Specials across 400 stores is a nightmare. MomentFeed is trying to bring […]
Posted on July 28th, 2011 by admin
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Most of the apps being developed for Android phones are consumer apps. Yet enterprise apps could be much more lucrative. One startup focusing on enterprise apps for Android is 3LM, a company so stealth that it’s Website is nothing more than a Google Sites landing page with nothing on it but the words “Coming Soon.” […]
Posted on October 20th, 2010 by admin
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Utah-based IT startup Adaptive Computing has raised $14 million in Series A funding led by Intel Capital with Tudor Ventures and EPIC Ventures participating in the rounds. This is Adaptive Computing’s first round of funding, after nine years of profitability, says the company. Adaptive Computing’s software, Moab, helps companies manage complex cloud computing environments. Moab […]
Posted on September 14th, 2010 by admin
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