Startups

RingRevenue Dials Up $3.25M to Expand Its Call Marketing Automation

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by Matt Gallagher, Red Herring RingRevenue, a provider of call marketing automation solutions that uses analytics to identify which callers offer the most promising leads, recently landed $3.25 million in funding in a round led by existing investors GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners. The company will use the new funding to grow its team … [Read more...]

Costanoa Venture Capital Unveils $100M Fund for Cloud and Big Data

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Costanoa Venture Capital, the latest engagement from storied Sutter Hill Ventures investor Greg Sands, announced its recently raised $100 million fund together with its first 10 investments. The fund will focus on early stage startups with investments of $500,000 to $3 million, specifically targeting applied big data, social and mobile … [Read more...]

2012 Top 100 Global Winners Announced

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After surveying more than a thousand of the leading private companies from North America, Europe, and Asia, Red Herring announced the winners of the prestigious Red Herring Global Top 100 award for 2012. A mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs, the award highlights some of the most innovative and … [Read more...]

Red Herring Announces Top 100 Global Short List

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The Red Herring editorial team selected the Finalists for the 2012 Red Herring 100 Global Award. This group of companies is the short list for the Top 100 award. They are the most innovative and promising companies from a pool of thousands from across North America, Europe and Asia. The Finalists are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative … [Read more...]

RainStor Nabs $12M for Compressed Databases

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RainStor, the provider of a specialized database that enables wide scalability through extreme compression techniques, has raised $12 million in a Series C round led by Credit Suisse and Rogers Venture Partners. Existing investors Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, Storm Ventures and the Dow Chemical Company also participated. Spun out of … [Read more...]

Braintree Raises $35M to Take On Paypal

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Striving to provide a developer friendly platform for mobile payments, Braintree has raised $35 million in Series B financing to give Paypal a run for its money. The funding was led by New Enterprise Associates, with existing investors Accel Partners, RRE Ventures and Greycroft also participating. The round brings the startup's total funding to … [Read more...]

SimpliVity Scores $25M to Ramp “Data Center in a Box

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by Matt Gallagher, Red Herring Barely a month after its launch, SimpliVity has raised a $25 million investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to help propel its “data center in a box” technology to market. Existing investors Accel Partners and Charles River Ventures also contributed. Living up to its name, SimpliVity strives to … [Read more...]

Kabbage Harvests $30M in Series C for Small Cash Advances

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Kabbage, which provides fast liquidity to online merchants, has raised $30 million in Series C financing in a round led by Thomvest Ventures, the venture capital arm of Peter Thomson, director of Thomson Reuters. Previous investors, including UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Mohr Davidow Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Warren Stephens and David Bonderman … [Read more...]

Square Closes $200 M Round, Processes Over $8 B in Annual Payments

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Square, the mobile payments startup that turns any smartphone into a credit card machine, has raised an astonishing $200 million Series D financing round. AllThingsD, which first broke news of the investment, has pegged the value of the company at $3.25 billion. The round includes contributions from Citi Ventures, Rizvi Traverse Management, and … [Read more...]

Red Herring Asia Presenting Companies

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The list is up.  Come visit us in Hong Kong on September 10-12 and enjoy presentations from the 2012 Top 100 Asia contenders. … [Read more...]