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News You Can Use: Investors Get Personal with BloomReach
Investors are taking things personally. Venture capitalists invested $56 million in a Series D funding round into BloomReach, a Mountain, View, Calif.-based cloud personalization platform company. Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Salesforce Ventures participated in the funding round.
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Looker Closes $48M Round
When Kleiner Perkins was conducting its due diligence for the deal it came across an employee at one of Looker's clients that threatened to quit if Looker was discontinued.
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Screen Scraping Becomes an Industry After $13M Buy-In
A major investment by prominent VCs in a Web-based “data extraction” firm shows there may truly be just one way to get at some of the world’s most critical data.
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Gainsight Rakes in Another $50M
Redwood City, Calif.-based Gainsight just got another $50 million to help companies deliver on its concept of customer success. Executives told CMSWire the company plans to use the money for research and development, as well as engineering investments. It will also invest into its Pulse community, specifically its annual Pulse conference,
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Spectrum Equity Bets $49M on Email Marketer Litmus
Some say the days of "batch and blast" digital marketing tactics are done. Some sing the praises of inbound marketing. Others hail the power of personalization. No matter what you believe, email never leaves the equation — and investors still want in. Spectrum Equity gave Cambridge, Mass.
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Apttus Gets Another $108M to Grow
JMP Securities Analysts Patrick Walravens and Peter Lowry predicted Salesforce will realize 100 percent revenue growth from its partner Apttus this year. Now Salesforce itself is helping to make that prediction come true. Salesforce Ventures, Salesforce's investment arm, is taking part in another funding round today for San Mateo,
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In a Summer of MarTech Investment, Tenaya Bets Big on Kahuna
Is it beginner's luck or a sign of things to come? A venture capital firm made one of its biggest initial investments today — and the reward goes to a Palo Alto mobile marketing automation provider. Tenaya Capital of Woodside, Calif.
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Unify Square Gets $4M for Skype for Business
Unify Square, a startup that helps businesses implement Skype for Business, secured another $4 million in funding in a round led by Microsoft. This brings the total of an extended Series B round that started in February to $12.2 million.
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Firm Gets $9M to Secure the IoT
Bastille, an Atlanta-based startup that's billing itself as the first cybersecurity company focusing specifically on the Internet of Things, just landed $9 million in Series A funding.
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Salesforce Arms Apttus with $41M
When it comes to venture investments, Salesforce backs its allies. Case in point: The San Francisco-based cloud software company today led a $41 million investment round for Apttus, which makes Quote-to-Cash software on the Salesforce1 platform. The latest investment followed first-round funding of $37 million in September 2013 that
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London Firm Bets Money on the Internet of Things
Gartner expects the Internet of Things (IoT) will be driven by small entrepreneurs rather than big tech companies. And that means funding for those entrepreneurs is going to be crucial.
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Crowdfunding Celebrates a Lively 2013, Could You Benefit in 2014?
The premier crowdfunding site Kickstarter is promoting a video showcase of some of the successful projects that came to fruition in 2013.
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Twitch's $20 Million Investment Shows the Opportunities In Gaming Tech
Twitch TV was created to cast live footage of PC and video games across the web.
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Smartwatch Roundup: Galaxy Gear Could Lack Juice as Google Prepares Its Own Watch
Whatever it looks like, and whatever tech is inside it, Samsung looks like getting a march on most rivals with its smartwatch. But early hints suggest the combination of screen, radios and apps make for a battery hog, while Google has acquired quietly to develop its own product.
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