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FILTER RESULTS ►Social Photo Startup Chute Raises $7 Million
Photo collection startup Chute raised a $7 million round of venture funding, the company announced Tuesday. The round was led by Foundry Group; existing investors Freestyle Capital and US Venture Partners also participated. Chute lets companies grab photos from social networks and incorporate the visuals into their websites and apps. Show More Summary
Photo aggregation platform Chute gets $7M from Foundry Group, launches real-time ad product
mBrands and publishers continue to seek out new ways to maximize their online engagement with consumers. One of more effective strategies has been around user generated photographs, with brands encouraging consumers to check in share photos while attending events, or to submit and share tagged photos as part of promotional contests. Show More Summary
Chute Raises $7M To Help Publishers And Brands Manage Visual Content, Announces Its First Ad Product
Chute, a startup that offers tools for collecting and displaying photos, has raised $7 million in Series A Funding. The round was led by Foundry Group, with participation from existing investors Freestyle Capital and US Venture Partners. Chute previously raised a $2.7 million seed round led by Freestyle.
Chute raises $7M led by Foundry Group, unveils Ads, a platform adding real-time media into banners
Chute, a media-sharing startup, is launching a new product on Tuesday called Chute Ads. This service is designed to allow brands to serve interactive ads enabling viewers to interject their... Keep reading ?
ATG Founders Aim To Turn Company-Building Into A Science With Their New ‘Venture Foundry' Redstar
Jeet Singh and Joe Chung have already had a nice exit, taking their enterprise software company Art Technology Group public (it was acquired by Oracle for $1 billion back in 2010). Now they're hoping to turn the act of building successful...Show More Summary
The Power of A Great CEO Coach
Our Foundry Group CEO list lit up this morning with a question about CEO coaches and whether they were helpful. My quick response was: I think a great CEO coach can be awesome and not-great CEO coach can be very detrimental. Jerry Colonna is the best CEO coach I’ve ever met or worked with. There are others that [...]Show More Summary
Harmonix receives more financial backing; three new games in pipeline
Harmonix, the developer of the Rock Band and Dance Central franchises (and creator of Guitar Hero), has received investment from venture capital firm The Foundry Group. The VC previously backed Zynga and Sifteo."Last fall, Alex Rigopulos and his partner Eran Egozy showed me the three new games they were working on. Show More Summary
Spanning Gets $6M In Funding For Its Backup Tech, And It's Not From Google
Spanning Cloud Apps has raised $6 million, in part from The Foundry Group but primarily from an undisclosed strategic investor. One thing is for sure, Google is not the one investing. That is if Spanning CEO and Founder Charlie WoodShow More Summary
You Love API’s? Here is something for you Boulder / Denver
If you are involved in tech and entrepreneurship, there are two upcoming events that you can’t miss, called APIs & IPAs. The events, hosted by Singly, SendGrid and FullContact (all Foundry Group portfolio companies), are on March 27th at Rock Bottom Brewery in Denver and March 28th at Bitter Bar in Boulder. APIs & IPAs is a tech community happy hour, [...]
Bootstrapping with Brad Feld
Tom and Tony of tastytrade talk with Brad about Foundry Group, Techstars and Bootstrapping… Related articles Startup Life Interview With Sandy Grason The Kentucky Thesis How Is Your Q1 Going? ” Feld Thoughts Feld Thoughts
5 things you need to do now if your Q1 is going poorly
Guest Post This is a guest post by Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group. Now that we are in March, you should have a pretty good view of how your Q1 is likely to end up. If you are a …
Fitness And Health Tracker Fitbit Is Raising $30M At A $300M-Plus Valuation
Fitness technology and hardware startup Fitbit is raising north of $30 million in growth capital at a $300 million-plus valuation, according to multiple sources. The company last raised $12 million in January 2012 from Foundry Group, True Ventures, SoftTech VC and Felicis Ventures.
Brad Feld Needs to Grasp The Concept of Clean URLs
Im a huge fan of Brad Feld. Brad is the managing director at Foundry Group who lives in Boulder, Colorado. He is a really nice guy and has really helped to drastically improve and grow the startup community in Boulder, Colorado. Brad has long since had a popular blog where he discussed technology, his investments [...]
Google Is Holding Closed Door Meetings With Developers To Talk About Apps For Google Glass (GOOG)
Google recently held two closed-door hackathons for a group of developers to work on Google Glass. We first heard about it over on Mashable. Google called these events the Glass Foundry, which took place in New York City and San Francisco earlier this month. Show More Summary
Searching For A Better Way To Make Airline Reservations
I travel constantly – at least 50% of the time and sometimes as much as 75% of the time. My partners at Foundry Group all travel a lot – think 100,000 miles per year for each of this.. We committed to this when we started Foundry Group as our strategy was to invest across the [...] The post Searching For A Better Way To Make Airline Reservations appeared first on Feld Thoughts.
Rover Raises $7 Million for Doggie-Style Airbnb
Rover, an online social network for finding a dog sitter, has fetched some extra cash. TechCrunch reports that the company has raised $7 million in series B funding from the Foundry Group, with participation from existing investor Madrona...Show More Summary
Investing in and Joining the Board of Rover.com
Woof! We just announced Foundry Group’s investment in Rover.com this morning. We led a $7m financing in the leader in digital dog boarding that connects dog owners with approved, reviewed, and insured sitters. Rover.com is part of our marketplace theme, which now includes investments in SideTour and PivotDesk. I’m psyched to be joining the board, working with my [...]Show More Summary
Rover.com Fetches $7 Million for Its Dog-Sitting Service
Rover.com, the dog-kenneling alternative, has raised $7 million in a second-round funding. The Seattle-based company said the Foundry Group led the round, with existing investor Madrona Venture Group also participating. Rover, which has raised more than $10 million to date, helps connect dog owners with potential sitters online. Show More Summary
Pet Boarding And ‘Dogbnb’ Startup Rover Raises $7M To Take On DogVacay
Rover, a Seattle-based startup that provides a 'Airbnb' for dog sitting, has raised $7 million in Series B funding led by Foundry Group with existing investor Madrona Venture Group participating. This brings the company's total funding to over $10 million.
Airbnb for dogs Rover.com raises $7m led by The Foundry Group, rolls out Animoto-powered video service
Digital dog-boarding service Rover.com has raised $7 million in series B led by the Foundry Group along with existing investors. The company says that it intends to use the service... Keep reading ?
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