Developer tools are hot, and Portland-based Factor.io is the latest to raise funding on a mission help developers streamline their processes, in this case by automating the deployment of code.… Read Full Article
San Francisco based startup Plae has raised $1,272,099 from undisclosed investors according to a regulatory filing. According to the website they are “launching Summer 2013”. Their Twitter account @goplae describes the… Read Full Article
The Palo Alto based startup Palantir Technologies has been in the press quite a bit lately as it denies any relation to revelations about the extent of NSA surveillance of Americans.… Read Full Article
According to a regulatory filing Gary Little, Gary Morgenthaler and Rebecca Lynn are raising a new $150M fund in the name ArrowTech Ventures. Between the three of them they sit… Read Full Article
This post is an excerpt from last weekend’s Mattermark Weekly newsletter. We send it out each weekend featuring startups on the rise. Subscribe here. I was happily surprised to see… Read Full Article
This week Mattermark collected 236,362 data points and added 6,705 companies.We are letting more folks into the free 30 day trial. Get on the list here. In This Issue 10 Hot Pre-Series A… Read Full Article
Curious what our weekly newsletter is like? Check out what we sent out last Sunday, and subscribe if you’d like to receive this in your inbox once a week on… Read Full Article
Welcome Mattermark readers, I’m thrilled to be writing to you today for the first time. This newsletter aims to give you a weekly rundown of interesting events, data, and insights… Read Full Article
According to a regulatory filing Boulder-based startup SpotRight has raised $2,870,889. The company previously raised $1M in funding in July 2012 from Grotech Ventures, Access Venture Partners and FFP Holdings,… Read Full Article
In a regulatory filing Project Decor revealed they have raised $5M in venture capital, which includes investment from Launch Capital. The company was founded in September 2011, and previously raised… Read Full Article
It’s all over the news, Yahoo! is in talks to acquire Tumblr. The popular blogging platform, which was founded in New York in 2007, has just a few months of… Read Full Article
Every day dozens of companies file their funding rounds with the SEC, but often these stories go uncovered by the mainstream tech press until they receive a pitch. These filings… Read Full Article
Past performance does not guarantee future results for startups, venture capitalists, accelerator programs, the media, individual founders, or any other part of the startup ecosystem. On the mission to see… Read Full Article
500 Startups announced the non-stealth participants in their current batch today in a TechCrunch article, and while they’ve kindly put them in alphabetical order… you probably know by now that’s… Read Full Article
This is the Startup Index series, an ongoing effort to measure the momentum of startup companies using external signals. It is calculated based on weighted factors such as web traffic,… Read Full Article
One great source for stories about private companies in the U.S. are the SEC filings of REG D forms. These forms are filed by companies who have completed or are… Read Full Article
In a regulatory filing today it was revealed that InkTank Storage, the creators of Ceph, have raised $13.4 million in venture funding to continue building their support and services business… Read Full Article
Loki Studios, makers of the location-aware mobile game Geomon, has been acquired by Yahoo! according to an announcement on their website. The company was cofounded by Ivan Lee, Chris Meill,… Read Full Article
I get a lot of feedback asking why the monthly startup momentum index doesn’t include revenue as a signal. There are two reasons, and the first is that most startups… Read Full Article
In an email sent to users today Clipboard, a service similar to Pinterest for organizing links and bookmarks across the web, the company announced they have been acquired by Saleforce… Read Full Article
Last week I published the April index of startups ranked by momentum. But scrolling through hundreds of rows isn’t much fun when all you really want to find the diamonds… Read Full Article
It seems the day I take the protective case off my phone is the same day I spill a cup of coffee on it, and adding a case to my… Read Full Article
As someone who loves (and misses) playing the piano, I was excited to see a regulatory filing showing that Playground Sessions has raised $682,275 to continue building the piano lessons… Read Full Article
A lawsuit has been filed by Think Computer Corporation – the firm lead by Aaron Greenspan, who has a history of suing Facebook in the past – in the Northen… Read Full Article