The startup world is chattering about the increasingly narrow path from angel to VC funding. How will the crunch affect women-led companies? By Jessica Stillman (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Whether you respond to them with concerned hand-wringing or something like Darwinian glee, here are the facts. # Deals 2009 2010 2011 2012 YTD Seed/Angel 472 [...]
Posts Tagged "Seed Funding"
Daily Lunchtime Dating Site Coffee Meets Bagel Raises $600k Seed Funding, Investors Include Match.com Co-Founder
September 26, 2012 – 1:09 pm
Three sisters are co-founders of Coffee Meets Bagel, raise funding. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Arum Kang, founder and CEO of Coffee Meets Bagel has an ambitious goal for the dating website she started with her two sisters. Her daily dating deal site introduces you to one match every day at noon. [...]
Wantworthy, Co-Founded By CEO Lauren McDevitt, Raises $1M Seed Funding
August 10, 2012 – 11:00 am
NYC-based Wantworthy graduates from TechStars, raises seed funding to accelerate product development. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Wantworthy announced raising $1M in seed funding, led by RRE Ventures, Google Ventures, Quotidian Ventures, and several NYC-area angels also participated. 2011 NYC TechStars graduate Wantworthy aims to help you keep track of everything you [...]
Toronto-Based ShopLocket, Co-Founded By Katherine Hague, Raises $1M Seed Funding For E-Commerce Disruption
August 1, 2012 – 3:57 pm
The $1M seed round for ShopLocket includes participation from Peter Thiel’s Fund Valar Ventures. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Three months after launching, ShopLocket raised $1M in seed funding from Rho Canada Ventures, Valar Ventures, BDC Capital, Relay Ventures, Extreme Venture Partners and private investors. Co-founder and CEO Katherine Hague aims to [...]
2012 PITCH Startup Competition Finalist Kismet Announces Funding, New Features For SXSW
March 9, 2012 – 5:00 am
PITCH Competition finalist secures seed funding. By Michelle Norgan (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Kismet) I’m excited to announce that Kismet, featured last month as a finalist of the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition, has raised our seed round with investments from Triple Point Ventures, NEA, and an incredible list of angels including Shiva Rajaraman [...]
Buyosphere CEO Tara Hunt Shares Lessons In Seed Funding
January 17, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Jen Consalvo (Co-Founder & COO, Tech Cocktail) Editor’s mote: This article is courtesy of Tech Cocktail, which offers tech startup events, news and resources across the country. Buyosphere CEO Tara Hunt will be pitching live on February 14, 2012 at Women 2.0 PITCH Conference – get your ticket now! After launching last year, Buyosphere, [...]
Tara Hunt’s Buyosphere Raises $325K In Seed Funding After Pivot
January 8, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Jolie O’Dell (Writer, VentureBeat) Buyosphere is web celebrity Tara Hunt‘s greatest gamble, and after some shaky months, it might be starting to pay off. Following a successful rebranding effort, the team has just closed an oversubscribed seed round of funding — $325,000, to be exact. The funding will be aimed squarely at new user [...]
What Startups And Where Venture Capitalists Have Funded In 2011
December 29, 2011 – 10:00 am
By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest) Venture capital funding hasn’t hit the peaks of early 2000 but is going strong, particularly in Silicon Valley and for software companies. Analysis of venture funding from a variety of data sources revealed some interesting facts about last quarter’s deal flow. Last quarter, venture capital firms invested $6.95 billion [...]
Gina Bianchini Launches Mightybell with $2.1M in Funding
September 9, 2011 – 1:01 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Mightybell launched today from Ning cofounder and former CEO Gina Bianchini. This is her second startup. She raised a $2.1 million in seed funding last year from Floodgate and First Round Capital. ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick notes Mightybell offers “a clean Content Management System, an iPhone app and [...]
Nancy MacIntyre’s Mobile Startup Fingerprint Raises $1.4M
September 9, 2011 – 12:37 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Fingerprint today announced raising $1.4 million in seed funding from K2MediaLabs, THQ, Reed Elsevier Ventures, and Suffolk Ventures. Fingerprint creates mobile education for children. Fingerprint was founded by CEO Nancy MacIntyre, and Kevin Wendle and Daniel Klaus of K2Media Labs. Nancy blogs about the startup process, from [...]
