Evernote Raises $70M At...
It’s official . To transition from a startup into a late-stage company that aims to be around for 100 years, Evernote today confirms it’s raised a $70 million Series D round of funding at a $1 billion valuation. Meritech Capital and CBC Capital were chosen to lead the round...One Year On Passion Cap...
Although it’s a year this week since Passion Capital appeared on the tech scene in London, it feels like they have been around a lot longer. It was in July 2009 I sat on the sun-kissed roof of what became known as their White Bear Yard base in London’s Clerkenwell, having had...
Vungle Hustles Its Way ...
Vungle , a new company that wants to help mobile developers market their apps through video “trailers,” has just raised an enormous $2 million seed round from the who’s who of Silicon Valley. The round includes Google Ventures , AOL Ventures [Disclosure: TechCrunch is...Next-Generation Publish...
YC company Hyperink, a next-generation digital book publishing platform, is debuting a new service which helps bloggers create short books from their existing content. As we’ve reported in the past , Hyperink wants to disrupt the book publishing world. The startup’s digital...Kiip Extends Developer ...
For game developers who thought about applying for the $100,000 Build Fund from rewards network Kiip but didn’t get around to it yet — good news! The deadline has been extended from today until May 30. And for those of you who weren’t planning to apply, well, the company is...Socialcam Nabs Angel Fu...
The race to be the “Instagram for video” is hotter than ever, and Socialcam , the app that spun out of video sharing pioneer Justin.tv last year and was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2012 class , is hustling hard for the lead. The company has raised seed funding from a...Square Now Processing $...
Payments platform Square has released a number of new stats today, as well as good news for merchants using its mobile payments app to accept credit cards. According to a Bloomberg report, Square is now processing $5 billion in annual payments (or around $416 million in payments per...Google’s Latest TV Ad...
Do you hate how things ended between you and your ex and are you still trying to get him/her back? Google apparently knows what that feels like and wants you to use Chrome to set things right. Or at least, that’s what it looks like judging from Google’s latest TV commercial...With 7B Photos, Flickr ...
Yahoo’s photos sharing site, Flickr, has been steadily redesigning a number of components of its platform over the past few months, including editing (courtesy of Aviary), photo views and more. And today, Flickr, which says it is home to more than 7 billion photos, is debuting a...