Accel Leads $52.5M Roun...
Code 42 Software , a Minnesota-based online backup company for consumers, businesses and the enterprise, has raised $52.5 million in funding led by Accel Partners with participation from Split Rock Partners. This is the first major investment from Accel’s recently announced Big...
Triangle Startup Factor...
It’s a good day for accelerators. Earlier today we covered a nifty virtual startup accelerator called StartupPlays , which has partnered with veteran entrepreneurs and mentors to convert their experience into targeted, actionable guides to help startups build their businesses. The...
CloudFlare Builds ‘St...
Whatever position you may take on SOPA, or on whether or not sites should black out against SOPA (Yes it has come to this), the issue has reached a boiling point today with sites like Wikipedia and Reddit pledging to blackout on Wednesday in order to further raise awareness of the...
Can Technology Transfor...
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Prerna Gupta, who is CEO of Khush (now part of Smule ), whose music apps, like Songify and LaDiDa , have been used to create over 125 million songs worldwide. You can follow her @prernagupta . As technology continues its march toward...Online Marketplace For ...
FarFetch, and online marketplace for independent fashion boutiques, has raised $18 million in funding from Index Ventures, eVenture Capital Partners and existing investor Advent Venture Partners. This brings FarFetch’s total funding to $24 million. Launched in 2008, Farfetch.com is...Attention Future Media ...
One of the best jobs in media just opened up : running TechCrunch’s business and AOL’s other technology properties ( Engadget , Joystiq , and The Unofficial Apple Weblog ). AOL is hiring a COO to lead all of its technology properties, which collectively reach 30 million...
Vuzix: SMART Glasses Ex...
The story about Vuzix’s new AR/holographic enabled concept glasses broke last week, but I had a chance to catch up with Clark Dever from Vuzix (with my rouge TechCrunch ghetto cam) for a brief video explanation and demo of the technology. The short of it is that it involves some...Live At CES: 50 Cent Ta...
You can view our interview with 50 Cent live at CES today at Noon Pacific/3pm Eastern. Why Fiddy and why at CES? Because the musician is now moving into electronics, following Dr. Dre with his Beats line and, in another sense, the ease with which smaller companies (and individuals) can...