The company already hit profitability before announcing Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) An alternative to traditional mobile game ad networks, Chartboost has raised $19 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital with participation from previous investors TransLink Capital and SK Telecom. The company was already [...]
Posts Tagged "Series A"
ChartBooast CEO And Co-Founder Maria Alegre Raises $19M Series A Funding From Sequoia Capital
January 8, 2013 – 11:30 am
StudyBlue CEO And Co-Founder Becky Splitt Raises $9M Series A Funding
January 4, 2013 – 11:28 am
What “Series A Crunch”? Edutech startup StudyBlue raises $9 million Series A funding in Wisconsin. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Edutech startup StudyBlue helps college and high school students study online and on their phone. The Madison, Wisconsin-based company, co-founded by CEO Becky Splitt, has raised $9 million in Series A funding [...]
The Series A Crunch: Should Female Founders Worry?
December 11, 2012 – 7:00 am
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 [...]
CEO And Co-Founder Pilar Manchón Raises $5M For Indisys
December 3, 2012 – 9:00 am
Spanish dialogues systems startup Indisys raises $5 million Series A. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Spanish entrepreneur Pilar Manchón co-founded Indisys (Intelligent Dialogue Systems). She raised $5 million in Series A funding from Intel Capital and Inveready Group recently to go international with their natural language and dialog management products. “With Intel [...]
“Airbnb For Coworking” Loosecubes Raises $7.8M Series A
June 6, 2012 – 7:00 am
Loosecubes, a workspace sharing site based in Brooklyn, raises Series A in venture funding. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A peer-to-peer workspace sharing platform Loosecubes announced closing a $7.8 million round of Series A financing, bringing its total funding to $9 million. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates and Revolution [...]
Ms. Sankar Goes To Washington
April 5, 2012 – 1:04 pm
On practicing her startup pitch and meeting the Vice President of the United States. By Pooja Sankar (Founder & CEO, Piazza) At first I thought it was a phishing scam. I received an email with an image attachment inviting me to meet the Vice President and his wife Dr. Jill Biden at a reception at [...]
Five Lessons Learned From Raising Series A For My Startup
January 10, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne) It’s been an amazing journey to get AboutOne where it is today. Through the process of developing an award winning app and raising an over-subscribed Series A with lead investors Golden Seeds, I’ve navigated quite a few hurdles and learned many lessons while juggling my roles as tech [...]
Pooja Sankar Raises $6M For Her EduTech Startup Piazza
January 6, 2012 – 8:06 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Piazza Founder and CEO Pooja Sankar blogged on Women 2.0 a few months ago: “As a teenager, I never went outside alone, spoke to a boy other than my brother, or wore jeans or a short skirt.” The former Facebook engineer went to an all-girls high school [...]
Founder Lesley Eccles of FanDuel on Raising Series A
November 14, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Simone Brummelhuis (Founder, TheNextWomen) Lesley Eccles, Founder of FanDuel, is in a good mood. The company has just raised a series A funding due to its success in the market. Time for an update and interview with Lesley: Simone Brummelhuis: So, what’s the update on the company? Lesley Eccles: We are transforming the fantasy [...]
Founding CEO Barbara Fox of Avaxia Biologics Raises $2.2M
November 11, 2011 – 4:30 am
By Lori Valigra (Correspondent, Mass High Tech) Avaxia Biologics Inc., a Lexington-based developer of oral antibody drugs for the gastrointestinal tract, completed its first close of $2.2 million of a Series A financing led by angel investors, its CEO and founder Barbara Fox told Mass High Tech. Of the total, $1.2 million was convertible debt, [...]
