Ramot Tel Aviv University Ltd secured USD17 million in funding for its Technology Innovation Momentum Fund, which will invest in breakthrough technologies in various industries.
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Bitcoin fever spreads to Silicon Valley - FT
According to Financial Times, the Bitcoin fever has caught on to Silicon Valley with digital currency companies getting venture capital financing in their early rounds.
PingTune's music-focused messaging app raises USD1.6 million
New music-focused messaging app for the iPhone PingTune was able to raise GBP1 million or USD1.6 million from seed investors Rupert Hambro of JO Hambro and serial entrepreneur Dominic Perks.
Colorado software startup Elihuu raises USD30,000 from students turned venture capitalists
Online software platform Elihuu secured USD30,000 in funding from Deming Center Venture Fund (DCVF), a group of University of Colorado boulder graduate students, for the development and expansion of the company's product.
Colorado's Atoms Toy Maker closes USD2.6 million seed round to bring toys to life
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Colorado-based Seamless Toy Company raised USD2.6 million in a seed round to build a system that allows kids to bring toys to life using science.
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The Indian Angel Network, the country's oldest and largest angel investor network, is hunting for investment opportunities in the UK and Singapore. IAN expects to announce its first UK deal during the first half of 2014, while it will begin its Singapore operations in the latter half of next year.
Prompt.ly, a startup that provides a mobile-based SaaS platform for "The Invisible Economy" of service providers has received USD 1.5 million in seed funds from Facebook's Ethan Beard, Subtraction Capital and other investors.
CEPT Systems GmbH, a Vienna, Austria-based text processing technology startup raises a total of EUR 1.5 million in seed funding. Backers of this round includes Reventon B.V and Zirngast GmbH (AT).
Multichannel, a US and Hong Kong-based full-automated ad management startup secures USD 3 million in seed funding. The platform is designed to be fully automated so that companies could focus on their ad campaigns instead of focusing on their dashboard.
Niche, a startup that helps connects brands with social media celebrities has announced that it has successfully raised USD 550k in funding and at the same time, have finally opened their website to the public.
Sift successfully raises USD 2 million in seed funding for its personalized shopping app and at the same time, releases its iPhone app. Funding is led by DN Capital and from its previous investors.
Texas-based browser security company Quarri raised USD2.35 million in its first funding round today to improve its products, expand internationally, and add more people to its workforce.
Wevorce has announced that it has received USD1.7 million in new seed funding from investors such as Foundation Capital and Sam Altman. This brings the startup's total funding, which launched out of Y Combinator last March 2013, to USD2 million.
The Hunt, an online community where you can track down items you covet, raised USD5.5 million in its first round of institutional funding to create an iPhone app for the site.
