Uber clearly does not subscribe to the ‘mo money ‘mo problems theory. The company has raised another $1.6 billion dollars, this time in a convertible debt round from Goldman Sachs according to… Read more »
Snapchat rang in the new year with $485.6 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing published December 31. The funding came from 23 investors, unnamed in the filing but… Read more »
In what may be a private company money-raising record, Uber is reportedly raising yet another round. You may be asking yourself — wait, didn’t they just raise $1.2 billion? Yes, that was… Read more »
Ello has raised $5.5 million in a round led by Colorado’s Foundry Group. The social networking site’s rapid viral growth moved up the timeline on its fundraising efforts, since it needed the… Read more »
Building hardware is hard. So is raising venture capital. So which of the two big crowdfunding sites offer an entrepreneur the best chance at both? Read more »
The latest blockbuster Kickstarter project is an unlikely one: an open source computer science education kit with Raspberry Pi. This one is targeted at kids, and it’s finding fans. Read more »
When you’re looking to crowdfund your latest project, does it matter who you list with? Two Silicon Valley workers scraped the data to compare Indiegogo and Kickstarter, but results are mixed. Read more »
As more MVNOs populate the mobile landscape, it’s becoming harder for one virtual operator to distinguish itself from another. GIV is separating itself from the pack by focusing on charitable giving. Read more »
The political campaign market is being disrupted by mobile democracy platforms that integrate the mobile web, SMS, and big data to connect citizens with candidates and causes. In the 2008 election,… Read more »
The type of fund-raising known as crowdfunding has the potential to be a very highgrowth field: In the past two years it’s grown from a $33 million market to a $128 million market1… Read more »