YC Price Guide Startup Priceonomics Raises $1.5M Seed From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel

YC Price Guide Startup ...

How much should you pay for a used iPhone, TV, or bicycle? Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and more think you need to know, so they’ve invested $1.5 million into Priceonomics , a Y-Combinator winter 2012 startup. The seed round that shall be announced later today will...

TidePool Raises $1.5 Mi...

TidePool , a startup that is trying to determine consumer personality from photos, has raised $1.5 million in a seed round led by Mike Hirshland of Resolute.VC and Michael Dearing of Harrison Metal Capital. Participating investors include Jarl Mohn, Tim Draper, Peggy and Jim Davis, and...

Klout Releases New, Spe...

Klout , the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn , YouTube, Foursquare , Google+ and other social apps, has just released a new version of its API and released a number of new stats about its API usage. Klout evaluates users’ behavior with complex ranking...
Evive Launches With $2M From Angels To Help Cure Our Addiction To Bottled Water

Evive Launches With $2M...

While we all need water to survive, colleges and universities across the U.S. are betting that their students can survive without water of the bottled variety. As Bloomberg recently reported , more than 90 universities, including Brown and Harvard, are banning or restricting the sale of...

42Floors Launches ‘Sh...

42floors , the startup that launched in March out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 class, is still only providing its commercial real estate search product in the San Francisco Bay Area. 42Floors says more regions are on the way, but in the meantime, the company has found another way...

NetPlenish Raises $1.9M...

A new mobile shopping service called NetPlenish is announcing today that it has closed a round of $1.9 million in seed funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups, Gold Hill Capital, BHV Capital, TEEC Angel Fund, Ludlow Ventures and several angel investors, including its founders. The...
Clarity Launches Mobile Mentorship Service To Connect Startup Founders With Good Advice

Clarity Launches Mobile...

I often hear people say they moved to San Francisco and Silicon Valley to be in the thick of things — to open themselves up to running into a new mentor at the local coffee shop, or pitch a top venture capitalist during a chance elevator encounter. Advice websites and how-to books...
Russian VC Firm NGI Will Invest Heavily in French Startups

Russian VC Firm NGI Wil...

Russia was once known for its undying adoration for all things French back in the day, and a century and a half later you could argue that some of that spark is still hanging around. New Generation Investment, the Russian VC firm part-owned by Leonid Reiman, former Minister of...

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...
Flattr Finally Lands Big Dailymotion Deal, But Its Business Model Still Sucks

Flattr Finally Lands Bi...

Flattr , a social micro-payments platform which we’ve likened to a “ Like button with cash ” is to partner with the second biggest video site on the Web, Dailymotion . The distribution deal is targeted at Dailymotion’s key content creators in its Motionmakers...

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