The Creators of PerkyJerky – Beef Jerky with caffeine in it – Raise $2.3M Source: Regulatory Filing More: Company Website WestView Capital Partners has filed its intent to raise a $430M 3rd fund. Source: Regulatory Filing Atlanta-based GetOne raised a seed round of $515K for their digital loyalty rewards startup Continue Reading
7 Startup Funding Headlines I Didn’t Have Time to Write Today
Judge and Prepare to Be Judged
Much of the feel good media coverage of startups today is so superficial and manufactured it can hardly be called news. Investigative journalism covering tech startups is extremely rare, and when it does happen it’s written in a snarky fashion full of speculation, rather than research and data. That’s why Continue Reading
April 2013 Startup Index: 1,183 Companies – 71% Are Growing
Through the startups indexes I’ve been creating in the past month I’ve developed a database of over 1,000 companies with dozens of signals each. This list includes ALL the startups in my database, across all the portfolios that have been indexed so far, ranked by momentum. Of the 1,183 startups Continue Reading
Ken Lerer’s NowThis Media Raises $4.8M
According to a regularly filing NowThis Media has raised $4M in additional funding. The company previously raised $5M under the name DailyPlanet Nework in April 2012 and its founder Ken Lerer is famously the cofounder and former Chairman of Huffington Post. The company runs the social news site NowThis News, Continue Reading
Metromile Raises $10M More for Per-Mile Car Insurance
Metromile revealed in a regulatory filing yesterday that they have raised $10M in a round of funding. They previously raised $4M in December 2012 from New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures, First Round Capital and others. The service offers the first ever pay-per-mile car insurance which does exactly what is says Continue Reading