Andrea and Matt Johnson wanted a single Website to conveniently store and display all of the photos and videos of their three kids, along with notes on the crazy things they’ve uttered. However, they couldn’t find one that met their needs....
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ThisLife has facial recognition technology that can be used on the photos you upload.
ThisLife Raises $2.75 Million to Bring Family Photos, Videos Together
Charles Schwab-Backed Web Startup Pearl Raises $25 Million
Charles Schwab, the founder of the brokerage company that bears his name, is among a group of investors providing $25 million in funding to Pearl.com, a website where users pay to pose questions to professionals. Schwab is joined in the...
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Codecademy co-founder Zach Sims said the site is considering building a career-matching service.
Codecademy Raises $10M, Sees Job Service as Part of Its Future
Codecademy, a free website that has taught computer programming to 5 million users, also wants to find them jobs. The New York-based startup, which announced today it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Index Ventures, is...
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There's no shortage of athleticism on Ooyala's team, which includes (left to right) Sean Knapp, Bismarck Lepe, Jay Fulcher and Belsasar Lepe.
Ooyala Raises $35 Million as It Picks Up the Pace in Digital Video
(Updated to correct amount raised by Ooyala in sixth paragraph.) If the migration of old media to the Internet is more of a marathon than a sprint, then the management team at Ooyala Inc. has the legs for it. Sean...
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Indonesian staff wear 'Angry Birds' masks to promote the Angry Birds official Facebook launch at a mall in Jakarta in February.
Felicis Ventures Raises $70 Million to Find and Fund Next ‘Angry Birds’
Felicis Ventures, the “super angel” fund founded by early-Google employee Aydin Senkut, has closed a $70 million round of funding that will be used to invest in technology startups including those in the mobile, health and education industries. In the...
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Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, speaks at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco in October 2011.
LendingClub Brings Another Morgan Stanley Bigwig on Board
LendingClub, the peer-to-peer Internet lender, has landed another Morgan Stanley heavyweight as part of its push to go from niche to mainstream. The company said today that Mary Meeker, the former Morgan Stanley technology analyst turned venture capitalist, is...
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The startup Donuts Inc. has raised more than $100 million to purchase and operate domain extensions.
Donuts Raises More Than $100M to Operate New Web Domains
A group of investors has bet more than $100 million on Donuts, a startup that’s aiming to make a lot of dough from the expansion of Web domain names beyond .net, .org and .com. The Bellevue, Washington-based company has applied...
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Dave Morin of Path spoke during the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York last year.
E-Mail From Path’s Dave Morin? You’ve Got Money
Last year, Dom Leca received an unexpected message. The French software developer was contacted by an investor from San Francisco who was eager to share his cash and ideas to improve Leca’s e-mail application, Sparrow. “I didn’t know Dave at...
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Charlie Cheever is co-founder of Quora, which just raised a $50 million round of financing.
Quora Taps Thiel and Facebook Connections to Raise $50 Million
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, was the lead investor in a $50 million round of financing for Quora, said Charlie Cheever, the company’s co-founder. Thiel, an early investor in Facebook and Zynga, was joined by Benchmark...
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The Alchemist Accelerator program will focus on providing enterprise startups strong mentorship.
Stanford Instructor to Launch Accelerator for Enterprise Startups
Amid all the entrepreneurs striving to make the next Facebook, a new accelerator program is launching to help startups become the next Box or Yammer. Starting in July, the venture capital-backed Alchemist Accelerator program will help 12 teams whose mission...
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