Ronny Conway closed his early-stage fund targeted at relieving the Series A crunch for startups. The size of the fund was $51 million, TechCrunch reported citing a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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US-based angel investor Gary Vaynerchuk launches $25M seed fund
US-based angel investor and Wine Library TV founder Gary Vaynernuck partnered with RSE Ventures cofounder Matt Higgins to launch a $25 million seed fund called Vayner RSE which they might be used to start a new brand of wine.
Social marketing startup Little Bird nabs $1.7M in new funding
Oregon Angel Fund led the $1.7 million round "Series Seed" round for Marshall Kirkpatrick's social marketing startup Little Bird, bringing the company's total funds raised to date to $2.7 million, TechCrunch reported.
France allows startups to raise $1.4M in crowdfunding, syndicate campaigns
France has become friendlier with young firms as it substantially raises the limits of Kickstarter-like crowdfunding and equity crowdfunding campaigns of French startups to $1.4 million respectively each year, TechCrunch reported.
UrbanSitter raises $15M in Series B round to link US parents with qualified nannies
San Francisco, US-based online nanny marketplace UrbanSitter raised $15 million in Series B funding to expand its marketing efforts and continue connecting US families with qualified nannies.
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Wells Fargo & Co is now making its way back to the subprime mortgage market, potentially bringing fears that US lenders will be making the same mistakes that prompted the financial crisis, Reuters reported.
Apple will be offering a no-contract iPhone 5s for $1,169 when it debuts its first store in Latin America, marking the most expensive price for its iPhones, Bloomberg reported.
Smart bathroom scale maker PICOOC is raising $20 million for its second institutional funding round. The company makes the smart body scale brand Latin, TechNode reported.
Rakuten said it will purchase messaging application Viber for $900 million, marking the latest and largest acquisition of the biggest internet company in Japan, TechCrunch reported.
Peter Hamilton, the Chief Executive Officer of HasOffers, has told Facebook that they deserve a second chance after they were removed as a partner for not adhering to the social media firm's data collection and sharing rules, VentureBeat reported.
After the lockup agreements expire tomorrow, Twitter Inc's insiders will have a first chance to sell their stock. The company's shares have more than doubled since its IPO last year, Bloomberg reported.
Rackspace Hosting Inc's Co-Founder Graham Weston flew to San Francisco to meet with investors and reassure them about the state of the company after its CEO announced his abrupt retirement, Bloomberg reported.
Yevvo, the iPhone app developed by Israeli firm Yevvo Entertainment Inc, gives a platform for selfie stars to share live videos of themselves to a virtual audience, the Venture Capital Dispatch reported.
Biotech companies are in a rush to go public partly due to the sky-high valuations now experienced by many biotech firms that have gone public in the past few years, the Venture Capital Dispatch reported.
