AppBoy
AppBoy, a platform for developers to expand, engage and understand their user base, has raised $1 million in seed funding.
The major investor was Blumberg Capital with participation from Accelerator Ventures, T5 Capital, Metamorphic Ventures and Bullpen Capital.
The funding has been used to expand their team to seven. Bill Magnuson and Jon Hyman, two new technical Continue reading
HouseTrip
HouseTrip, Europe’s largest holiday apartment booking website, has raised $17 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Balderton Capital.
The company raised $2.7 million from Index Ventures in April this year. They now re-launched their website with an increased appeal for its holiday apartments renting. The best thing for those looking to get a rented space when on a holiday is that they do not need to negotiate with the homeowner. HouseTrip does that for you, all the way. Continue reading
YCharts
YCharts is a resource that gives you comprehensive information about the history, investments, growth of companies you might want to invest in. News is that YCharts has raised $3.25 million in Series B funding led by Morningstar, an investment research company.
Other investors were Hyde Park Angels, I2A and others. They have previously invested in YCharts. After the current funding, the total funding for YCharts has reached $4.75 million. Continue reading
MinoMonsters
MinoMonsters, a controlling-monsters battle game for iPhone, has raised a total of $1 million in seed funding during 2011.
Surprisingly, the founders of MinoMonsters are teenagers. They have got Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Y Combinator, Ignition Partners, General Catalyst, Raymond Tonsing and Alexis Ohanian investing in their creation. Continue reading
Spotzot
Spotzot, a deal search and targeting platform for brands and merchants to reach customers, has raised $2.2 million in Series A funding. The investors were Cervin Ventures, Inventures Capital Partners and TiE-Silicon Valley Angels.
Spotzot creates a powerful resource for measuring and comparing campaign performance. They help generate higher click-through from algorithms that rank, tag, select and organize high-value retail in-store and online offers. Continue reading
Flow
Flow, a platform for real-time app development, has raised $3 million in seed funding. It is a real-time data PaaS (platform as a service) platform which serves both app developers, and enterprises and consumers.
Flow is the brainchild of Alterman. He has been behind many diverse entrepreneurial platforms namely Kickapps (acquired by Kit digit), Triton Network Systems, SkyCross, MeshNetworks (acquired by Motorola), TeraNex and more. His creations have been in diverse industries. Flow is the newest project of Alterman. Continue reading
Any.Do
Any.DO, a tool to organize, capture and sync all the things you need to do, raised $1 million in angel funding from Innovation Endeavors, Blumberg Capital, Palantir, Genesis Partners, Felicis Ventures and Brian Koo. Erick Tseng, head of mobile products at Facebook and Elad Gil, Director of Corporate Strategy at Twitter were the advisors. Continue reading
MADS
MADS, a technology and solutions provide for digital advertising business, has raised €1 million in Series B round of funding. The funding was led by OTM Investments.
The company will use the funding to expand its business beyond mobile ad serving and to set up its offices in Germany, U.K., Spain, France and Italy mainly to support their clients in these countries in their local languages. Continue reading
Discovr
Discovr, the interactive tool for discovering music and apps, has raised $1.1 million. The seed round was led by Australia’s Yuuwa Capital.
The company announced that it has also passed one million downloads. More good news is that Discovr has announced the release of its Discovr Music app for Apple desktops. It is available for $5 from Mac App Stores.
Discovr is a number one iPad music app in 12 countries including Australia and Japan. It is in the top three music app in 30 countries including U.K. and the U.S.
The company provides an interactive map of the music world and app. A user can click on the song they know and Discovr suggests multiple other songs similar to the one you know. Click on any of the suggested songs and Discovr gives you more choices similar to the one you click. This can go on and on.
It also displays connections between bands and artists in a graphical web so that you can discover music you are most likely to love.
Discovr uses the same structure with apps too. You can easily discover more apps similar to the ones you use. The discovery never stops.
There’s more! Along with the discovery of music and apps, you can also view band info and other information about the music and apps just with a few quick taps. Discovr makes it easy to choose music and apps that are useful for you because it knows what kind of music you are listening to and what apps you are using.
Filter Squad, the company behind the Discovr apps, is currently building Android versions of its Discovr apps after its success with over 1 million downloads across iOS devices.
Chart.io
Chart.io, the San Francisco based company that helps businesses analyze and track their critical data, has raised $3.15 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Avalon Ventures with Bullpen Capital chipping in.
Add earlier fundings and the total grows to $4.38 million to date.
Chart.io helps you explore the business data that is stored in your company databases. Since to most employees, this data can be hard to decipher and deal with, Chart.io has built a platform that allows both technical and non-technical users to easily ask questions about their data in real time.
Because there was a scarcity of affordable and effective solutions in the business intelligence industry, Chart.io decided to enter into the market with easy-to-use solutions, intuitive analytics and competitive pricing. In the words of Chart.io they are ‘re-imagining business analytics from the ground-up and offer every enterprise a beautiful, simple-to-use and powerful platform to understand their critical data.’
Connecting Chart.io to your data is quite simple. They set up a very secure ssh tunnel to one of their servers that allows them to connect back to your database. The servers are fully locked and hardened so that your data is completely secure.
Chart.io does not store a copy of your data and as the data does not stay in the servers of Chart.io, but travels to and from the servers, your data stays safe.
With Chart.io, you can see your business from every angle. Its customized reports can easily be shared and embedded anywhere on the web.
The pricing for the service starts from $85 per month to $485 per month.