Visual storytelling iPad app Storehouse has raised $7 million in Series A funding. “We’ve been impressed by how creative the everyday consumer is,” said Mark Kawano, the company’s CEO and a… Read more »
Viral video site Upworthy has raised $8 million in Series A funding, the company announced Monday. It plans to use the funds to hire more employees, build new tech and expand… Read more »
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has led a $5 million investment round in Henry Blodget’s website Business Insider, which lost about $3 million last year but has been increasing its audience rapidly. Read more »
Digital publishing company Say Media, which is home to brands like ReadWriteWeb and Remodelista, has raised $27 million in funding. The company will use the funding to acquire more brands and… Read more »
Pocket, the web-content-saving company formerly known as Read It Later, has raised $5 million in a Series B funding round and will use the money to expand its platform. The company… Read more »
Image-sharing site Pinterest is reportedly close to announcing a new funding round that values it at over $1 billion and includes a new social commerce investor. Read more »