...be retweeted on Twitter than facts. The lack of effective monitoring of misinformation on Twitter and Facebook has reduced social media users’ trust in the platforms. Puck is a US-based...

...he says. “We have a whole team who are just searching through Twitter or other social sites to find out what people are saying if we change pricing, or whether...

...in using AI to source deals if it can identify outliers, for example, although he questions whether models trained on this can be called AI. “If a company’s Twitter mentions...

...to be confused with the microblogging service formerly known as Twitter. X was launched in 2010 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Alphabet’s predecessor and now subsidiary, Google....

...targets drew closer, and the year the social media landscape transformed before our eyes as Twitter rebranded as X and Meta launched Threads. These were the GCV stories that attracted...

Photo courtesy of the Atlanta Hawks via Twitter The biggest carmakers or telecoms companies on earth almost all of have a venture capital arm, but look down the list of...

...the second most WhatsApp users in the world and is in the top four markets for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But now SoftBank, which had turbocharged the Latin American startup...

Photo courtesy of Twitter Enterprise software producer Atlassian has appointed Peter Lenke head of strategic investment arm Atlassian Ventures, he revealed yesterday. Lenke comes to the unit after more than...

...values, as has Elon Musk’s more than halving of Twitter’s valuation. Investors are increasingly sceptical of the tech sector — as this FT article demonstrates — and will have little...

...Twitter, going to happy hours, and making it clear what your CVC stands for and what it invests in,” says Sullivan. The venturing unit focuses on technologies that improve employee...

...Twitter. Côte d’Ivoire-based social impact vehicle Janngo Capital Startup Fund has reached a €34m ($36m) first close after raising cash from LPs including media groups Muller Medien and Hubert Burda...

...corporates you may have forgot used to run CVC funds. Twitter Let’s start with a company that’s been in the news recently. Twitter Ventures came out the gate with a...

...trading next week. “I’m sorry,” he said in a Twitter thread. “That’s the biggest thing. I fucked up, and should have done better.” What does it mean? FTX’s investors The...

...media platform Twitter, according to TechCrunch. The U.S. and Czech-based Alter, previously known as Facemoji, has built a platform that helps game and app developers to put avatar systems into...

...America, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter, according to news provider Forbes. France-based Shift4Good closed its first fund at more than €100m after backing by carmaker Renault among others. And they are...

...are replaced by those who will cut costs. Innovation departments can be primed for cutting unless shareholders and business units call for their retention. Already, Stripe, Twitter and others are...

Image courtesy of Alter. M&A Internet technology group Alphabet’s Google subsidiary has paid $100m to acquire Alter, the US-based metaverse avatar developer backed by social media platform Twitter, TechCrunch has...

...put such a large corporate venture capital investment in the take-private of Twitter is in contrast with Twitter’s own CVC activity while as a public company. Twitter has been an...

...through Twitter or TikTok, says Radhakrishnan. “The concept of a musician, say, tokenising ownership in their songs and giving a fan a blockchain-based token that could allow them to have...

...a senior contracts manager for internet technology provider Google and served another year at social media platform Twitter under the same job position. Formed in 2016, M12 focuses on technology...

...Ventures); FF Venture Capital (co-lead), Alley Robotics Ventures (co-lead) TwitterScan Web3 decentralised social identification platform IT US Seed 4.56 26/09/2022 KuCoin (KuCoin Ventures), Huobi Group (Huobi Ventures), Gate Labs, Antalpha...

...own funds based on their reputations. For this reason, individual venture capitalists will proactively use social media platforms such as Twitter to gather likes and coverage to promote themselves, sometimes...

...and go-to-market assistance in addition to linking them up to MongoDB customers and matching them with executives who can act as mentors. Photo of Suraj Patel courtesy of Twitter/Bow Capital....

...marketing-themed annual conference dubbed GV Comms Summit. Before joining GV, Olson led consumer and platform communications for social network operator Twitter for nearly two years, having previously held a similar...

...Coinfeeds launched an app that allows users to monitor social media platforms popular in the web3 space – including Twitter, Discord and Telegram – and generate insights on specific web3...

...via Twitter rather than a press release or press coverage. It remains in stealth mode but its website says it will focus on expanding the healthy human lifespan by a...

...company for up to $240m dependent on undisclosed variables, BlockFi CEO Zac Prince revealed in a Twitter post on Friday. It had previously supplied a $250m facility the week before....

...its Vision Funds booked a paper loss of more than $27bn in the past fiscal year. Photo of Michel Combes courtesy of Twitter. Photo of Alex Clavel courtesy of LinkedIn....

...coming, and legendary entrepreneur Elon Musk shared his “bad feeling about the economy” on Twitter. Monetary tightening, geopolitical instability and inflation rearing its ugly head are likely to have an...

...spent eight years at India-based venture capital firm Helion Ventures from 2008, most recently as a vice-president and part of its mobility team. Photo of Dhruv Kapoor courtesy of Twitter....

...commercialisation and business mentoring teams. US-based venture capital firm Hannah Grey has closed an oversubscribed fund backed by social media platform operator Twitter, equity management software provider Carta and investment...

...E round that hauled in $502m in April last year from investors including social media platforms Twitter and Snap and internet group Tencent. ShareChat also holds India’s third-largest media funding...

Media has been historically among the most dynamic sectors in the modern world. Just over 100 years ago, the sector was dominated largely by publishers of newspapers, magazines and books....

...and Sendo, an ecommerce platform based in Vietnam. The unit was an early investor in social media firm Twitter, and has also realised exits from website management tool Pocket and...

...funds managed by investors like Idinvest Partners, Nio Capital, Sofinnova Partners and Ecomobility Ventures. TotalEnergies’ chief executive, Patrick Pouyanné, announced on Twitter yesterday that the company would be joining Israel-based...

...the unit create a PR and marketing-themed annual conference dubbed GV Comms Summit. Before joining GV, Olson led consumer and platform communications for social network operator Twitter for nearly two...

...Twitter rather than through a traditional press release – but its website notes that it will aim to increase the healthy human lifespan by a decade. The company has three...

...minerals facing increasing demand, but where supply is limited by geopolitical or mining considerations. Ed Conway in a Twitter thread on how synthetic graphite is much better for fast charging,...

...Twitter she added: “I will continue to invest and support the best founders in the crypto ecosystem, but also excited to spend time exploring some side projects.”   Photo of...

...Bitcoin payment app developer OpenNode completed a $20m series A round on Tuesday that included social media company Twitter. The round was led by Kingsway Capital at a $220m valuation...

...and telemetry data,” a strategic investor explained. The mission of ad companies is to know everything they can about their consumers, just like Facebook, Twitter and Google know everything about...

...Social media network Twitter has made a minority investment of undisclosed size in US-based digital advertising services provider Aleph Group in October 2021, it revealed yesterday. Aleph already partners the...

...edible straw producer Wisefood. Delivery Hero’s chief executive Niklas Oestberg said of the latest sale in a Twitter post: “We remain very bullish but we have always been committed to...

...an announcement on Twitter, Coinbase said: “The [BRD] team brings deep expertise in self-custody for crypto wallets, which will help Wallet enable more people to safely and securely access the...

...microblogging platform operator Twitter. VC firm MaC Venture Capital led the round, which was also backed by VC fund Backstage Capital.   M&A Medical products group Johnson & Johnson has...

...15th Rock Ventures, Pacifico Investments and existing investor SOSV, and the company also named hardware accelerator Hax as an earlier backer. Microblogging platform developer Twitter has taken part in a...

...time at SBIA, Nishar said on Twitter: “36 investments: eight initial public offerings, two mergers and acquisitions and two SPACs to date. What an amazing six years! “Thanks to [SoftBank...

...new role, ClearSky said on LinkedIn: “He will be based in Silicon Valley and will help to extend our [US] west coast presence.” Photo of Asif Giga courtesy of Twitter....

...Venture Partners and, according to Reuters, microblogging platform developer Twitter, at a $2.1bn valuation. ShareChat owns an eponymous social network with 180 million monthly active users as well as a...

...the unit hired executive venture partner Daniel Lynch and entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) Mojca Skoberne to beef up its life sciences team. Photo of Crystal Huang and Sangeen Zeb courtesy of Twitter....

In today’s world, IT innovation goes beyond the sector itself, with significant spill over into virtually all other sectors of the world economy, each of which is undergoing digitisation to...

US-based venture capital firm Female Founders Fund has closed its third investment fund at $57m with backing from social networking platform Twitter and internet and technology group Alphabet, TechCrunch reported...

...individuals within these firms are developing their own personal brands through Twitter, Medium, Substack and other outlets. I have found the CVC landscape to be more opaque, where many investment...

...did you do prior to CVC or in your spare time? Before GV, I studied computer science at New York University and worked as an associate product manager at Twitter....

US-based venture capital firm Ulu Ventures has raised $138m for its third fund from investors including social media firm Twitter and Motley Fool Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of financial...

Ulu Ventures, a US-based venture capital firm, has raised $138m for its third fund from investors including University of Rochester and Grinnell College. Social media firm Twitter and Motley Fool...

...accelerator.   M&A Social media company Twitter paid an undisclosed amount yesterday to acquire Scroll, a US-based digital content publisher backed by electronics producer Samsung and media companies Bertelsmann, Gannett,...

...a $40m pre-series E round in September 2020 backed by social network Twitter, India Quotient, Lightspeed Ventures, SAIF Partners, Pawan Munjal and Ajay Shridhar Shriram at a $650m valuation. Twitter,...

India-based multilingual social networking service ShareChat secured $502m in series E funding today from investors including social media operator Snap and microblogging platform Twitter. Investment firm Tiger Global Management led...

...the two directors of Reinvent alongside Michael Thompson as CEO, were among the first three investors in social network Facebook and early investors in Twitter and Airbnb. As Pincus was...

...2019, Bottlepay has built a digital payment system that enables users to send government-issued currencies and the Bitcoin cryptocurrency on social media platforms including Discord, Reddit and Twitter. The funding...

...Mark Pincus, the two directors of Reinvent alongside Michael Thompson as CEO, were among the first three investors in social network Facebook and early investors in Twitter and Airbnb. As...

...as a principal in October 2017 after spending 14 months as an associate product manager at social media company Twitter where she concentrated on improving user experience. Burns said: “I...

...out its Hadoop Engineering team into a startup funded by venture capital firm Benchmark before its eventual listing and then acquisition by Cloudera. Photo of Steve Mitzenmacher courtesy of Twitter....

...on the role of chief innovation officer and to begin working with faculty, staff and students to formalise the technology-transfer process at our esteemed university.” – Image courtesy of Twitter...

...$5m series A round the year before. Kaizen Platform’s $800,000 seed round took place in 2013 and featured Gree Ventures, GMO VenturePartners and internet company CyberAgent. Image courtesy of Twitter....

...October 2017 after spending 14 months as an associate product manager at social media company Twitter where she concentrated on improving user experience. Having begun her career as a developer...

India-based multilingual social network operator ShareChat has raised $40m in a pre-series E round from investors including microblogging service Twitter, TechCrunch has reported. India Quotient, Lightspeed Ventures, Saif Partners and...

...or Twitter. Environmental, social and governance investing – it matters now more than ever Companies like BP were already rightly being looked to for our response and our strategy to...

...is accessible through online streaming platforms such as DirecTV Now, Hulu, YouTube TV, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and Amazon, and through more than half of smart televisions in the US....

...as Facebook’s Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp services, allowing users to post GIFs without leaving the app. Giphy is also used by other services, such as social media platform Twitter and...

...Digits was co-founded by Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, who co-founded crash-reporting tool developer Crashlytics in 2011 and who both subsequently moved into executive roles at social network Twitter. Verrili...

...a root cause of climate change – such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. What drives the continued use of the DCF amongst cleantech VCs and impact investors is the myth...

...network is accessible through online streaming platforms such as DirecTV Now, Hulu, YouTube TV, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and Amazon, and through more than half of smart televisions in the...

...data to businesses including Microsoft, Samsung, Snap, Twitter and Uber in order to inform marketing and business intelligence decisions, generating more than $150m in revenue in 2019 between them. The...

...round, which was filled out by growth capital unit Green Shores Capital and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Founded in 2015, Gyana has built a software development framework in which data...

...analyses content across social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well as other services such as messaging tool Slack and video streaming platform YouTube. It is...

...raised about $190m in equity funding and $105m in debt financing from investors including social media company Twitter, over-the-top media company Chernin Group, IVP, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GGV...

...in April 2018, and has been a board member of social media service Twitter since 2017. Pichette’s appointment to OSI had come at the same time as that of chief...

...develop “truthtech”, or fake media detection tools, they might lag behind cross-platform disinformation campaigns on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Kelly concluded: “Since it is a...

...came in the wake of the departure of Tyson Ventures head Reese Schroeder, who has joined another corporate venturing unit, Allstate Strategic Ventures. Photo of Tom Mastrobuoni courtesy of Twitter....

...VC division called Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi which oversees a $40m fund formed by MDI Ventures and telecoms firm Singapore Telecommunications’ Singtel Innov8 subsidiary. Photo of Setyanto Hantoro courtesy of Twitter....

...of Trivedi from SoftBank Vision Fund follows those of former managing partner Praveen Akkiraju and investment director Sean (Xiangyu) Liu in recent months. Photo of Vinay Trivedi courtesy of Twitter....

...fad of the 2010s. Twitter will survive, subject to regulation as a public utility. Social media will be a fad Investors say ‘no’ to politics, ‘yes’ to religion We live...

...Pande said Agarwala’s experience will help it understand startups that combine computer science technology with healthcare and biopharmaceuticals. Regarding her appointment, Agarwala said on Twitter: “[I am] thrilled to be...

...build a world-class portfolio. I am up for the challenges of learning a new industry and building a strong internal network at Allstate.” Photo of Reese Schroeder courtesy of Twitter....

...Pascucci retains board seats at identity verification technology provider ID.me – also a USAA portfolio company – and energy advisory firm CX Energy. Photo of Victor Pascucci courtesy of Twitter....

...business builders on the heels of them launching more than a hundred new hyper-growth businesses into the market is an extremely exciting opportunity.” Photo of Nathalie Gaveau courtesy of Twitter....

...platforms Facebook and Twitter. It is compatible with more than 60 titles and allows existing communities to operate their own tournaments on any scale. Intel Capital managing director Arun Chetty...

...and found the same results – they doubled the number of women in their Engineering department after publishing ambitious goals. Twitter and Linked have taken similar public accountability measures. How...

...2018 round led by JJDC and backed by New York Life Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, R7 Partners and Carrot founder David Utley. Photo of Busy Burr courtesy of Twitter....

...Twitter had to deal with the highest influx of misinformation spread by bots, such activity was in fact markedly higher on image sharing service Instagram. Howard, who had analysed 40...

...broadcasting. At Samsung Next, Dirik will join Europe-based colleagues including Nick Migam in Berlin and Mario Branciforti and Christina Bechhold Russ in London. Photo of İskender Dirik courtesy of Twitter....

...$565m into the vehicle. Grant Allen and Varun Jain – both previously recognised by GCV – were hired by SE Ventures last month. Photo of Steve Agirman courtesy of Twitter....

...DG Incubation, a corporate venture capital subsidiary of internet company Digital Garage. Eda spent nearly a decade at the unit and his portfolio companies included Twitter, Path, Beautylish, Betaworks, Blockstream...

...Web Summit showcase under investors including Chris Murphy, Kezia Wright and Stuart Doane. (Disclosure: Global Corporate Venturing is a moderator at the summit.) Photo of Declan Kelly courtesy of Twitter....

...Other deals for Singtel were executed in the cybersecurity and enterprise sectors, and included Bitsight, Bitglass, Countertack, Synack, Fireglass, Shape Security and Qubole. Photo of Tiffine Wang courtesy of Twitter....

...from whom I learned. I wish the EZ team continued success and look forward to helping them in the small ways I can.” Photo of Shriram Bhashyam courtesy of Twitter....

India-based social networking platform ShareChat has received $100m in series D capital from a consortium led by social media firm Twitter, TechCrunch reported yesterday. TrustBridge Partners, Shunwei Capital, Lightspeed Venture...

...log-analysis technology provider Logz.io in recent weeks. Vazquez will help Next47 identify startups disrupting established sectors including industry, infrastructure, manufacturing, construction and agriculture. Photo of Adiari Vazquez courtesy of Twitter....

...lunch time to help manage their time more effectively. The company’s customers include ride hailing service Lyft, workflow software provider Asana, social networking platform Twitter, customer messaging app developer Intercom...

...News, which broadcasts general news stories. The network is accessible through online streaming platforms such as DirecTV Now, Hulu, YouTube TV, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and Amazon, and through smart...

India-based social networking app developer ShareChat is set to raise $100m in a funding round led by social media platform Twitter with a commitment of more than $50m, the Economic...

...a platform that is partnered with more than 50% of the companies in the Fortune 100, and which counts in excess of 450 measurable media partners including Twitter, Snap and...

Fabula AI, a UK-based news forgery detection software creator spun out of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), was acquired yesterday by social media network Twitter for an undisclosed sum. Founded...

...software that is used by more than 4,000 companies including payment services firm Visa, professional social network LinkedIn and social media platform Twitter, to find and hire new staff. The...

...analytics platform Euclid Analytics in recent months. It launched an accelerator called WeWork Labs last month to invest $1m in 10 foodtech startups. Photo of Rohit Dave courtesy of Twitter....

...with partners including gaming systems Xbox and Playstation. Jessica Verrilli left social media company Twitter to return to GV, an early-stage investment subsidiary of Alphabet. In October 2015, Verrilli returned...

...such as DirecTV Now, Hulu, YouTube TV, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and Amazon, and through more than half of smart televisions in the US. The company also operates CheddarU, a...

...former PhD student at UCL whose work focused on fake social media accounts, including the uncovering of a botnet responsible for controlling 350,000 Twitter accounts. UCL Technology Fund is co-managed...

Social media platform Twitter has purchased Highly, a US-based online text highlighting software developer backed by media group Bloomberg, for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2014, Highly has built a...

...York Times, Smilovitz had spent three years at digital advertising agency Rosetta, initially as an account executive before shifting to various consultant positions. Photo of Jacob Smilovitz courtesy of Twitter....

...Aleph and Hillsven, after Aleph had led a $10m series A round the previous year, investing alongside Hillsven, UpWest Labs and Evan Williams, the co-founder of social media platform Twitter....

...million views per month through social media platforms like Snapchat, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter and Instagram. It will use the funding to support international expansion and the formation of more branded-content...

...as social media platforms such as Facebook Messenger and Twitter. The software also collates customer data to help customer service agents respond to requests. The capital will help Kustomer expand...

...Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, for more than three years since 2014. He was involved in investments in Kaleo Software, Fusebill and Vidyard. Photo of Narbe Alexandrian courtesy of Twitter....

...that important work for people across America, and I’m thrilled for this next chapter and excited to hand the torch to Souheil.” Photo of Alexa von Tobel courtesy of Twitter....

...user behaviour and engage with consumers more efficiently. Amplitude said the product is used by more than 26,000 clients including software producer Microsoft and social media operator Twitter. It will...

...Parkwalk on behalf of the university, offering alumni and other private investors a route to back Oxford spinouts with tax benefits. – Feature image courtesy of Animal Dynamics via Twitter....

...corporate websites, news sites and public online platforms such as Twitter, and analyses it to help businesses get a clearer strategic view of their sector. The data is then visualised...

...its own platform and streaming channel, and third-party services such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. The funding will support the company’s expansion from food into other leisure areas, such as...

...data technology to a wide range of app developers and mobile device producers including Apple, Uber, Twitter, Microsoft and Samsung. Jeff Glueck, Foursquare’s CEO, said the series F capital is...

...innovation centre and Brian’s extensive investment experience, network and business oversight will add significantly to the continued success and future of Abingworth.” Photo of Brian Gallagher, Jr courtesy of Twitter....

...chief executive is Dong-Su Kim, formerly a general manager at Samsung Ventures America, a corporate venturing subsidiary of consumer electronics manufacturer Samsung. – Photo of Taejoon Park courtesy of Twitter....

...company Twitter to return to GV. Verrilli first joined Twitter in 2009, rising through the ranks to become director of corporate development and strategy in 2014. She then joined GV,...

...as head of the company in the subsequent two or three years, but Son decided he would stay on for five to 10 years and Arora said on Twitter that...

...some of the valley’s top entrepreneurial figures, including Facebook founder Marck Zuckerberg, Tesla founder Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Saijou said: “I believe Japan has been getting much...

...Google, Bluefin Labs, later sold to Twitter, Everyday Health, now listed publicly, MediaVast, later sold to Getty Images and Tremor Video, which is also public. Goldberg joined Time Warner in...

...online video creation platform that enables brands and advertisers to collaborate with creatives on video material for distribution on social media channels such as Twitter or Snapchat. The additional capital...

...In 2011 for his manifesto, What Happened to the Future, investor Peter Thiel drily noted: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters [Twitter’s messaging limitation at the time].” Inside...

...a “significant” amount in Germany-based corporate-backed online music-streaming platform SoundCloud. SoundCloud, whose investors include social media company Twitter, did not disclose details of the deal, but Raine and Temasek reportedly...

...Networks, event promoter Live Nation Entertainment, social media company Twitter, Causeway Media Partners and Aurum Partners for VenueNext across two rounds. China-based cloud services provider Alauda closed a round of...

...Verrilli ventures back to GV Jessica Verrilli, who originally left Twitter for GV in 2015, has made the same move two and a half years later to take a general...

...October 2015, Verrilli returned to social media company Twitter less than six months after leaving to join GV. She left Twitter again in December 2017, having initially joined the company...

...when Abe met and talked with some of the valley’s top entrepreneurial figures, including Facebook founder Marck Zuckerberg, Tesla founder Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. In a public...

...Point72 Asset Management. Capital One participated through its Capital One Growth Ventures subsidiary. Founded in 2012 by engineers who once worked for social media company Twitter, Fauna has developed a...

...Amazon, Twitter and Facebook as well as the majority of smart televisions in the US. The funding precedes Cheddar’s launch of Cheddar Big News, a channel that will cover national...

...churn by charging an upfront fee, according to Costolo, formerly CEO of social media company Twitter, but he concluded that its vision of an encouragement-based fitness platform was ultimately unviable....

...has managed to develop a breakthrough solution. “Its partnerships with Kamet Ventures has given the company access to industry expertise and data, bringing a competitive advantage”. – Image courtesy of Twitter....

...as an associate at Evercore, after her economics degree from Harvard University, stood her in good stead before her operating roles on the west coast at both Google and Twitter....

...followers – to international celebrities. WhoSay’s offering includes vetting and casting, campaign strategy, content production and distribution across social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram. The...

...Twitter and cross-device advertising platform Drawbridge. SCPharmaceuticals, a US-based subcutaneous drug developer backed by pharmaceutical companies Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Lundbeck, raised $89.6m in an IPO. The offering consisted of...

...more than $325m in 54 companies before leaving earlier this year. Her exits include Maker Studios (sold to Disney), Bluefin Labs (sold to Twitter), Admeld (sold to Google), Playspan (sold to...

...to customers. Navdy told one user on social media platform Twitter last week that it was in the midst of a reorganisation, but did not elaborate further. Navdy had secured...

...in organic baby food developer Yooji, dessert maker Michel et Augustin, fresh food vending machine supplier Farmers Fridge and VC fund AccelFoods. – Photo courtesy of Kona Deep via Twitter....

...private equity firms Compound Ventures, Bregal Sagemount and Lightview Capital. He has also worked in risk management for investment management firm BlackRock. – Picture of Christina Heggie courtesy of Twitter....

...Mitsui Financial Group, invested an undisclosed amount in US-based mobile payment technology provider Stripe, which provides technology that helps online merchants and service providers, including Twitter, Kickstarter, Shopify, Salesforce and...

...interactive advertising analytics tools for businesses to track the real-time, ad-hoc performance of their marketing campaigns. Its clients include Oath, social media company Twitter and cross-device advertising platform Drawbridge. Metamarket...

...in 2012 by engineers who formerly worked at social media company Twitter, Fauna has developed a big data platform called FaunaDB that enables businesses to harness modern cloud-based programs without...

...by ex-Twitter employees in 2012. Apttus accepts $55m in series E Salesforce Ventures, an investor in Apttus since its 2013 series A round, once again took part in the cloud...

...it. What is even more remarkable is Elon Musk’s handling of Twitter. He has more than 10.3 million followers. Leveraging the power of twitter Musk goes way beyond what most...

...of mass focus on a handful of key areas – social, mobile, machine learning and so on. Some of these movements result in massively outsized companies – Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter,...

...marketing company at about $1.5bn. SoundCloud gets rescued with $170m investment Raine Group and Temasek have reportedly acquired a majority stake in beleaguered, Twitter and Chernin Group-backed music streaming platform...

...at $700m in June 2016 when Twitter’s corporate venturing arm, Twitter Ventures, invested $70m. Raine and Temasek’s investment was made a part of a restructuring effort that will involve Kerry...

...raise more funding. Raine and Temasek near majority stake in SoundCloud Twitter-backed music streaming service SoundCloud is reportedly in advanced talks to sell a majority stake to the two to...

...Kreos Capital and Davidson Technology in March this year. Twitter, which had previously explored an acquisition of SoundCloud, invested $70m in the company in June 2016 through its Twitter Ventures...

...executives directly aware of the development told LiveMint, and in the last 24 hours he has confirmed the reports of his departure through his Twitter account. Although a reason for...

...the number of companies tagged “Startup” and “Legal” (427). Or watch the tweets fly back and forth on Twitter about the latest greatest startup an industry observer saw at a...

...will still advise startups on the side – but I am putting writing first, rather than squeezing it in on the sides.” – Photo of Jake Knapp courtesy of Twitter...

...Adify, later sold to Cox, AdMeld, later sold to Google, Bluefin Labs, later sold to Twitter, Everyday Health, now listed publicly, MediaVast, later sold to Getty Images and Tremor Video,...

...their social media presence on services such as Twitter and Instagram. Entrepreneurs funded by the scheme will also benefit from go-to-market assistance and the opportunity to participate in co-marketing initiatives....

...than at the University of Manchester. “I am incredibly excited to work with the fantastic team at UMI3 to support its continued growth and success.” – Image courtesy of Twitter...

...about its $1.2bn of investments in 63 private companies, including Twitter and GrubHub since 2009, noting annualised weighted returns of 34.8%. The fund had previously only provided a list of...

...space. Diaine told VentureBeat: “After feeling that my work had been validated internally and externally, I was ready for my next adventure.” – Photo of Pascale Diaine courtesy of Twitter...

...sold to Twitter, Everyday Health, which is public, MediaVast, later sold to Getty Images and Tremor Video, which is also public. Prior to joining Time Warner, Goldberg worked as a...

...investments include Visible World, acquired by Comcast, Adify, later sold to Cox, AdMeld, later sold to Google, Bluefin Labs, later sold to Twitter, Everyday Health, which is public on the...

...build-and-buy decisions”, Zilis noted in her landscape of the sector. She said deals in the space included Nervana by Intel, Magic Pony by Twitter, Turi by Apple, Metamind by Salesforce,...

...as video streaming service YouTube, ephemeral photo sharing platform Snapchat, microblogging platform Twitter, photo sharing service Instagram and social media site Facebook. The company’s users include a large array of...

...released in September this year and is currently nestling in the top 10 most popular free iPhone apps. Life on Air had previously developed Meerkat, the Twitter livestreaming app that...

...widespread adoption of social media platforms such as Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. Investing in innovation According to Cambridge Associates, U.S. venture capital investments have performed better than private equity and...

...network Twitter, videocamera producer GoPro and wear-ables manufacturer FitBit – and still have several billion dollars left to invest elsewhere. The fund even outstrips SoftBank itself, which has a market...

...the parent company’s venturing units, GV (formerly known as Google Ventures). The company said on Twitter: “Though our name has changed, our goal remains the same: to make returns-driven investments...

...2012, Epoxy has developed tools that help video creators distribute their content and engage with their audiences across YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Vine. The company had signed up approximately...

...VenueNext enters series B arena Twitter, Live Nation and Aruba-based VenueNext has added $15m to its coffers in a series B round led by Causeway Media Partners in order to...

...network technology provider Aruba Networks (since acquired by enterprise IT company Hewlett Packard Enterprise), live events promoter Live Nation Entertainment and Twitter Ventures, the investment subsidiary of social network Twitter....

...Fund is not in the business of taking board seats. April Underwood, a former Twitter executive who joined Slack to form its partnership strategy, told Fortune: “We want to help...

...yesterday. Stripe provides technology that helps online merchants and service providers including Twitter, Kickstarter, Shopify, Salesforce.com and Lyft accept and process payments. The funding was provided as Stripe launched commercially...

...serenades SoundCloud Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud, which was reported to be talking to Twitter about a sale until the social media company withdrew from negotiations in...

Germany-based music streaming platform SoundCloud, backed by social media company Twitter, is discussing an acquisition with music streaming service Spotify, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The acquisition would help Spotify...

...to Octopus, director at Entrepreneur First and co-founder of fund-of-funds Isomer Capital, had been an angel investor in machine learning technology developer Magic Pony, which Twitter acquired for $150m. Given...

...social news app the company has seemingly run out of money, and content curators have complained on Twitter that they have not been paid. Mode had raised more than $220m...

...advert on LinkedIn and Twitter. But retaining top talent is helped by its structure. He added: “Sure, incentives [Bertelsmann’s shadow equity scheme] makes a difference to attract and get good...

...to BDMI as a principal in 2008. Jessica Verrilli returned to social media company Twitter less than six months after leaving to join Google Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of...

...such as Facebook, Google, PayPal, Twitter, Salesforce, Airbnb and Uber. These companies first proved their products in local ecosystems, then scaled the US market, and eventually transcended borders. They can...

...experience in the medical sector, Vidra’s experience with Google and AOL, two businesses with large search engines, will likely be of relevance. – Photo of Eze Vidra courtesy of Twitter...

...estate platform Trulia; and Gigi Pritzker and Michael Pucker, owners of the Hyatt Hotels chain. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of internet technology conglomerate Alphabet, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey and...

...2012, Hey had developed an automatic journal app called Heyday as well as Stolen, a trading platform for Twitter profiles that was later relaunched as a celebrity-based trading game called...

...like Facebook and Twitter were established while rivals like WhatsApp and Snapchat were growing quickly. Collab+Line’s target areas include media, the internet of things (IoT), e-commerce, communications and social networks,...

...The company most recently raised $2.5m in an October 2015 series A round that included Global Founders Capital, Catamaran Ventures and Biz Stone, co-founder of social network Twitter. Lookup had...

...Capital. Social media company Twitter invested $70m in Germany-based music streaming platform SoundCloud through its Twitter Ventures unit, according to Recode. Twitter made the investment as part of a series...

...month. In June 2015, Fortune magazine reported that Jessica Verrilli was leaving microblogging platform Twitter for GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) as a partner. Verrilli was director of corporate...

...Twitter favours Magic Pony Technology Imperial College London’s Create Lab celebrates an exit as Twitter acquires machine learning systems developer Magic Pony Technology. Casting a light on the university venturing...

UK-based machine learning startup Magic Pony Technology’s acquisition by social network Twitter has given cause for cheer for the ecosystem supporting university graduates. Terms of the acquisition have not been...

...years, but Son decided recently he would stay on for five to 10 years and Arora said on Twitter that development had led to his departure. However, the Wall Street...

...likes of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter making its service unnecessary. Samsung to take pride in Joyent acquisition Intel, Liberty Global and Telefónica are set to exit cloud infrastructure company Joyent,...

...provides a service that gives users insights on themselves and their friends using data gleaned from social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Howeverm features introduced by those networks have...

Social media company Twitter has invested $70m in Germany-based music streaming platform SoundCloud through its Twitter Ventures unit, Recode reported yesterday. Twitter made the investment as part of a series...

...on social media platforms like Twitter in real time, sourcing data that can inform it about developing trends or stories. China-based online fruit and vegetable retailer Benlai Life closed $117m...

...Twitter, and cloud computing company Salesforce. Amazon’s cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently working with Ionic to integrate the technology in its platform. Ionic has now secured...

...for the second cohort of their digital health incubator. Twitter puts $10m into Betaworks venture Twitter is investing ‘at least $10m’ in the latest fund to be raised by Betaworks,...

...and gained some Twitter stock through the former deal. Investing directly in Betaworks’ latest fund would help give Twitter an inside track on any other strategically promising additions. Other notable...

...to Visa), Turbine (sold to Warner Bros), Kosmix (sold to Walmart), ScanScout (sold to Tremor Video), Admeld (sold to Google), Bluefin Labs (sold to Twitter), Maker Studios (sold to Disney)...

...Noam Gottesman and Nicolas Berggruen. Founded in 2009, Dataminr’s technology studies content posted on social media platforms like Twitter in real time, sourcing data that can inform it about developing...

...where he served as a director. Prior to joining PYI in 2015, he advised Microsoft Retail on its strategy in Greater China. – Photo of Paul Ark courtesy of Twitter...

...Founded in 2012, Medium operates a blogging platform that in effect exists in the middle ground between microblogging platforms like Twitter and longer-form sites like WordPress. Earlier this month, Medium...

...healthy to have discussions around opportunities and challenges in the innovation economy. So let us consider this the start of a dialogue. Follow the conversation on Twitter at @SVB_Financial and...

...which were VC-backed startups themselves, such as Twitter and Workday, started their own venture arms in 2015.  While there are many great examples of corporate venture capital groups, there are...

...financing in December 2015, according to Crunchbase. Although the regulatory filing does not name Qualcomm Ventures and Cruise is not listed on its website, the unit’s official Twitter account acknowledged...

...a host of corporate investors, including wireless technology maker Qualcomm, Twitter Ventures, Telefónica Ventures and Access Industries. Notably, Cyanogen was the first company to receive funding from Twitter Ventures. Cyanogen...

...Media Fund. Founded in 2010, Crowdynews has built a platform that supplies social media content from services including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Vimeo to news media organisations. The funding...

...degree between 2007 and 2010, Milstein also provided consulting with a number of startups, including Twitter, Metaweb, and Boing Boing, advising on content strategy, community management and product development. Before...

...Trion Worlds, Visible World and YieldMo. Previous investments include Adify, later sold to Cox, AdMeld, later sold to Google, Bluefin Labs, later sold to Twitter, Everyday Health, which is public,...

...a blog post on Medium, and hinted that he may move from London, citing the distance between his and his wife’s families. – Photo of Eze Vidra courtesy of Twitter...

...services such as Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook, posting content at optimal times to increase visibility. The capital will support the further development of SocialFlow’s offering as it adds...

...and moved production to a 12,000 square foot culinary facility. Din previously received funding from Evan Williams, co-founder of social network Twitter and blogging platform Medium, and Hass Hassan, the...

...very good at being superficial. And make sure your communications are consistent across all media – website, LinkedIn, Twitter, press and so on. If your website says you sell bananas, but...

...for establishing Swire’s biotech and cleantech corporate venturing activity, is moving to Swire subsidiary Cathay Pacific. Verrilli exits Google Ventures to return to Twitter Jessica Verrilli has left Google Ventures...

Jessica Verrilli has returned to social media company Twitter less than six months after leaving to join Google Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of internet and technology conglomerate Alphabet. Verrilli...

...Union Square Ventures also participated. Amino has also named Box Group as a backer in its announcement on Twitter. Amino operates a range of 41 smartphone apps that each offer...

...It, helps users place direct securities orders quickly and securely using an app, website or Twitter account. Shots, a US-based ‘selfie’ app developer backed by Major League Baseball Ventures, the...

...of startups,’ has not disclosed precise plans post-SVB, Tech.eu reports she intends to keep working with early-stage companies, connecting them with VC investors and corporates. – Photo courtesy of Twitter...

...Freshplum (exited to TellApart/Twitter), Namo Media (exited to Twitter), Parse (exited to Facebook), Astrid (exited to Yahoo!), Milk (exited to Google), and PrimaTable (exited to HotelTonight). This is a pretty...

...MessageMe (acq by Yahoo) Makani Power (acq by Google X) Milk Studios (acq by Google) Mitro (acq by Twitter) Miso (acq by Dijit) Namo Media (acq by Twitter) Nest Labs...

...investors include GGV Capital and SV Angel. The company has reportedly been in talks for an acquisition with diversified internet companies Google and Yahoo, as well as social network Twitter....

...for 15 years. Jessica Verrilli joined Google Ventures as a partner. She previously worked at social media network Twitter as director of corporate development and strategy. Leena Rao joined Google Ventures...

...his contribution to building out Google Ventures in Europe and wish him all the best as he embarks on the next chapter.” – Photo of Peter Read courtesy of Twitter...

...printing; OpenBionics, a robotics company working on 3D printed hands for amputees; and Pundit, an audio platform that enables Twitter users to host question and answer sessions. The final two...

...buyer. IMS’s current commercial partners include social networks LinkedIn and Twitter, music streaming service Spotify and local services discovery platform Foursquare. The company also signed an agreement in January to...

...sells $9m series A ticket The venue management company has received $9m from investors including Twitter, Live Nation and Aruba Networks. Indix builds funding base with $15m The product database...

...Networks, live events promoter Live Nation Entertainment and Twitter Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of social network Twitter, were joined in the round by venture capital firm Causeway Media Partners...

...to leverage the connections of digital media-focused VC firm Raine and Obvious, which is headed by Twitter and Medium founder Evan Williams, as it grows. Gregg Brockway, Maker’s chief executive,...

...it looks to invest big in fintech innovation.   People Verrilli makes jump from Twitter to Google Jessica Verrilli, who was instrumental in Twitter’s acquisitions of Vine and Periscope among...

...time at Twitter, including its acquisitions of online video platform Vine and video streaming app Periscope. Verrilli joined Twitter in 2009 from venture capital firm Venrock, where she worked as...

...NeoSurgical. Twitter gives clue to Niche acquisition price Twitter revealed in its earnings report that it spent a combined $86.6m to acquire William Morris Endeavor-backed Niche and Periscope earlier this...

...enables real-time content monitoring, centralised policy management and archiving. It can be integrated with more than 72 platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype and Salesforce. The funding will be used...

...and Formation8 and executives from Cisco, Twitter, Eventbrite, Yahoo, PayPal, Dropbox, and Box all joined the round. The company is offering genetic testing kits at $249, a fraction of the...

...The round was led by investment firm Premji Invest and included internet portal Tencent, semiconductor technology producer Qualcomm, microblogging platform Twitter, telecommunications companies Telefónica and Smartfren Telecom, and conglomerate Access...

...The round was led by investment firm Premji Invest and included internet portal Tencent, semiconductor technology producer Qualcomm, microblogging platform Twitter, telecommunications companies Telefónica and Smartfren Telecom, and conglomerate Access...

Social media network Twitter has revealed it paid a combined $86.6m for US-based Niche, which connects social media celebrities with brands, and live streaming app Periscope, Re/code reported on Monday....

Meerkat, the US-based creator of a video livestreaming tool for social networking site Twitter, has reportedly raised $14m in a series B found that included several corporate investors. Meerkat has...

...C Hearst and SoftBank both returned for Swirl’s $18m series C round and were joined by Twitter’s newly formed corporate venturing unit. Google services $50m series E for Freshdesk The...

...media network Twitter. Hearst Ventures, SoftBank Capital and Twitter Ventures were joined by venture capital firm Longworth Venture Partners and additional, unnamed strategic investors. Swirl operates an in-store mobile marketing...

...experience management platform that spans external social networks like Facebook or Twitter, as well as companies’ own websites, blogs, and communities. Get Satisfaction had raised approximately $21m in venture funding,...

...the richest person in Russia, attributing his wealth to his investments in Facebook, Twitter, and the Mail.ru Group. Thereafter, several other Russian business oligarchs formed their own corporate funds, such as DST....

...internet of things company Sigfox, and it also backed the $80m series C round for operating system company Cyanogen, also backed by Twitter Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and Rupert Murdoch, as well as...

...the second quarter of 2015, it looks like we are in for another amazing ride. For additional survey data, please visit: www.svb.com/ieo   And you can follow the conversation on Twitter...

...months. The second factor is that, in contrast to some big-name startups such as Snapchat or Twitter, Slack is drawing revenue relatively early. The Slack app was launched just over...

...to $2.6bn. Cyanogen closes $80m corporate-backed series C Tencent, Qualcomm, Twitter, Telefónica, Smartfren, Access Industries and existing backer Tencent all took part in a round that boosted Cyanogen’s overall funding...

...to better understand what content will resonate with various, and often niche, audiences across different platforms like Facebook, Google, Reddit, Twitter, Yahoo, etc. “They need to think of content through...

...Tencent, wireless technology maker Qualcomm, Twitter Ventures and Telefónica Ventures, the respective corporate venturing units of microblogging platform Twitter and telecommunications firm Telefónica, telecoms company Smartfren Telecom and conglomerate Access...

...Twitter, film recommendation service Frograms and game developer A-33. Internet portal Daum and instant messaging service Kakao merged in October 2014 in a transaction worth $9.4bn and in the process...

...associate at Metellus, a venture capital firm based in Zürich, London and San Diego. Email: boris.battistini@metellus.ch Twitter:  @bbattistini. Martin Haemmig is an adjunct professor at CeTIM at UniBW Munich and Leiden University. Email: martinhaemmig@cetim.org...

...per year in exhange for equity stakes. Sandwich launched in 2009 with a third-party Twitter app, but pivoted the same year after producing a video for payment processing service Square,...

...because of two factors. The first is that, similarly to the likes of LinkedIn and Twitter and in contrast to ‘Facebook killers’ that have come and gone, it offers a...

...UpWest Labs and angel investors including Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter. HoneyBook’s platform enables professionals to collaborate on the events planning process, from booking to collecting payments, through a...

...pivot according to the results and find a new way forward. In the world of digital business, companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google are adept at using real-time data to...

...venture capitalist and backer of Twitter, has described Intellectual Ventures’ alleged practice of offering protection from lawsuits a “mafia-style shakedown”. The tide is beginning to turn, however. The US Supreme...

...programmatic marketing. Its clients include media company News Corp and financial news publication Financial Times, as well as social media network Twitter and professional networking site LinkedIn. AOL’s corporate venturing...

...Wells Fargo. Shasta Ventures co-led the round, and the firms were joined by Ev Williams, the co-founder of longform content platform Medium and former CEO of social media network Twitter....

...of pens for touchscreens, has been bought by Microsoft for $200m. Twitter finds Niche for acquisition Facilitating brand partnerships with social media celebrities, Niche raised approximately $3m. GSK acquires GlycoVaxyn...

US-based Niche, which enabled brands to establish partnerships with social media celebrities, has been acquired by Twitter for up to $50m, Techcrunch reported yesterday. Niche raised $2.5m in a May...

...$175m IPO last month at a valuation of $1.67bn. Hootsuite offers companies a unified dashboard from which to manage their social media profiles on platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+,...

...and lifestyle. The company has also put significant editorial effort into content for other platforms such as social media networks Twitter, Facebook and Vine in order to reach audiences. Mashable...

...and share deal. DNA Electronics buys NanoMR for $24m Dow Chemical exited the diagnostic testing company, which had raised $24m in total, through the acquisition. ZipDial answers Twitter call Twitter...

Microblogging platform Twitter confirmed today that it has agreed to acquire India-based mobile marketing company ZipDial, providing an exit to investors including internet holding company Times Internet. Twitter did not...

US-based social network Twitter is in talks to acquire India-based mobile marketing startup ZipDial for $30m to $40m, granting an exit to internet company Times Internet, Techcrunch reported yesterday. ZipDial...

...Ionic produces software which is able to protect sensitive data on corporate networks, the cloud and mobile devices. Its clients include social networks Facebook and Twitter, and cloud computing company...

...company acquired patents for the purpose of pressuring companies into paying licensing fees, while Chris Sacca, former Google employee turned venture capitalist and backer of Twitter, has described IV’s alleged...

...country’s demographics are promising even if the government has temporarily banned access to some media websites, such as Google and Twitter. Half of Turkey’s population is under the age of 30...

...real consumers. As each theory is tested, the business should pivot according to the results and find a new way forward. In the world of digital business, companies like Twitter, Facebook and...

...in June 2014 from a range of angel investors. Connect aggregates data from a user’s phonebook and email contacts as well as social networks Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Foursquare...

...32.49% to 39.99%. The transaction valued the company at $1.5bn. Responding to the move on his Twitter account, the independent-minded entrepreneur referred to Mail.ru Group as a “trash holding.” The...

...year “had been around the question of trust”. Deals In the year to the end of August there have been a number of large exits in the media sector. Twitter, a...

...and when a seed investment is made.”  Blue Cross will look to benefit from relationships with start-ups that have ideas that could be integrated into the insurance industry.  Image courtesy https://twitter.com/BCBSIL...

...have become interested in: influencer marketing. Large audiences have been captured on new media platforms like Twitter, YouTube and Instagram by influencers, who have shot to internet fame through their...

...notable deals in the adtech space this year include the acquisition of Apprupt by Opera Mediaworks, and Twitter’s $50m purchase of Namo Media, as well as the huge $48m series...

...a partner. Rose is also founder of internet companies Digg and Revision3 and an active angel investor, investing as an individual in internet companies including Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook. –...

...managed to attract a firm that has made early investments in a lot of social media and mobile app successes, including Twitter, Tumblr and Kickstarter. Figure 1 is looking to...

...which has over four million users, uses algorithms to curate trending news stories and mines the most popular news topics and categories from Twitter. Following the investment, SmartNews plans to...

...users faster mobile web access than any browser or native app. The company also gives brands a single-solution card strategy for Twitter, Google, Pinterest and hundreds of other popular apps....

Microblogging platform Twitter acquired US-based cloud service company Mitro Labs on Friday for an undisclosed amount, providing an exit to backers including Google Ventures. Mitro is the creator of a...

...Japan-based telecommunications company Softbank. Poptip helps brands analyse data sourced from Twitter, conduct polls and send out target messages on social media. Kelsey Falter, founder of Poptip, said: “Our work...

...other private investors including Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and hedge fund manager Jim Palotta. The investment is being advised by Morgan Stanley. Neither Fancy nor Morgan Stanley have commented upon...

...unit, described as similar to Google Ventures, will be overseen by Twitter’s previous CFO, Mike Gupta, in his new role as senior vice president of strategic investments. Gupta joined Twitter...

...Cloud software company VMWare, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Triangle Peak Partners and True Ventures also participated, taking the company’s total investment to $86m. Google, Twitter, Salesforce and AT&T and 18,000...

...The 2007 edition of SXSW allowed Twitter to gain early traction and buzz, while the 2009 edition saw the launch of Foursquare. Geneva Castellanos said: “In five years I hope...

Microblogging platform Twitter has acquired US-based advertising technology company Namo Media, the companies revealed in blog posts yesterday and on Wednesday, enabling Google Ventures to exit. Although the price has...

...Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Sierra Ventures invested alongside SIG China. News of the funding emerged at the same time as reports that microblogging company Twitter is reportedly considering an...

...raised $60m at a $700m valuation. However, the talks collapsed after Twitter allowed an exclusive negotiation period to expire. SoundCloud and Twitter are closely linked. According to data collected by...

...the social media scene is Askem, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram, allowing users to upload photos accompanied with a polling facility. A plug-in also gives networking...

...Capital typically invests as part of series A and seed funding rounds. It is best known for leading early financing rounds for Twitter, Tumblr, OMGPOP and Adap.tv. – Photo of...

...as Tumblr, Foursquare, Twitter and Upworthy. It is currently managing four funds worth a total of $1.5bn, with its latest fund being the largest at $450m. Melas-Kyriazi’s focus at Spark...

TorqBak, which helps businesses target potential customers on Twitter, has secured £150,000 in funding from Mercia Fund Management, a UK-based venture capital fund working with British businesses that offer proven...

...One of our recent proud moments comes from social media company SecondSync – which came through the SetSquared centre in Bristol – after it was acquired by Twitter. They specifically...

...based on technology developed by the now defunct MobClix, the assets of which were acquired by Blackstone earlier this year. Axonix wants to challenge Google, Twitter and Facebook in gathering...

...first free app is used by 35,000 small business owners and brings together the latest data from sources including Facebook, Twitter, Living Social, Yelp, Groupon, Google+, Instagram and Foursquare. It...

...the demand by marketers for content explodes with the growth of the social, mobile and video platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, an integrated technology platform must become a...

...to develop digital credentials. Teknically built on friendship Wilfrid Laurier University startup Teknically picks up award at Canadian Business Model Competition. Twitter in sync with SetSquared startup Broadcast TV and...

UK-based SecondSync, a company that uses Twitter to provide social analytics for the broadcast and advertising industries, has been acquired by Twitter for an undisclosed amount. SecondSync was a member...

...its flotation, Imperial Innovations spin-outs have attracted more than £430m in external funding, outstripping peers such as Oxford’s £340m since 2000 and UCL’s £370m since 2001. Picture source: Susan Searle/Twitter ...

...they create them, while saving to a personal profile. Users also have the option to then share their creations socially via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Evernote – among other features....

...Owned and operated by Chinese internet company Sina Corporation, Weibo runs an online service similar to Twitter’s, also utilising a 140-character limit and allowing users to re-post or hashtag their...

...filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, an investment in early-stage startups through American Express Ventures, a Financial Innovation Lab and a Twitter campaign titled #ServeSomeGood. American Express Ventures is the company’s strategic investment...

...sharing. For example, Pinterest generates 4x more revenue per click than Twitter and 27% more per click than Facebook. Notably, Rakuten is an investor in Pinterest. ViSenze derives revenues by...

...Betawork investments operate. The Betaworks story comes full circle as portfolio company executives are in some cases now investors in betaworks, such as Twitter. The last time that betaworks raised...

...Mopub, a mobile ads exchange platform, by Twitter just before its initial public offering. What are the main trends you are seeing in Publicis-relevant sectors? Programmatic buying and selling through...

...On the company’s Twitter page, @Medium, the profile strapline reads: ‘Everyone’s stories and ideas’. The number of Medium Twitter followers at the time of writing was 404,000. As more budding...

...Morley has alleged that Square’s founders, Twitter chairman and co-founder Jack Dorsey and James McKelvey, froze Morley out from the business. The complaint reads: “The business now known as Square...

...Networks in April 2012.  From studios in New York and Washington DC, the digital news business produces over 50 daily video updates for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Vine, YouTube, Android...

...platform. Netcall’s customers will be able to manage, monitor and optimize customer engagement through social channels (such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn), blogs and other publicly available social and...

...ever become commercially viable? The big ad-venture Today university spending is big business – $400bn a year is spent on US universities; that’s more than Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft...

...corporate customers including Twitter, Facebook and Bloomburg to monitor trends and information. Private equity firm Insight Venture partners led the round with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, IA...

...Social networks Social network Twitter raised $1.82bn when it floated on the New York Stock Exchange, with a valuation of $14.2bn. Incorporated in 2007, one of Twitter’s investors was reported...

...of the year has been that of social network Twitter, but generally there has been a robust pipeline of deals coming to the public markets, as well as cash-rich trade...

...Wadhwa’s articles on Twitter especially). Without that female input, a company’s board will ultimately find it harder to relate to a whole half of their potential audience, who can have...

...feature.   Twitter feed at @GUniVenturing   And check out the website for ongoing news and we’ll be converting to paid-for subscription from next month so for a special early-bird...

...Indeed, the mobile advertising technology company MoPub, acquired by social networking service Twitter for an estimated $350m in an all-stock deal seen as a sweetener to Twitter’s IPO, has been...

...and a net loss of $79.4m. For the six months ended June 30, 2013, Twitter had revenues of $253.6m and a net loss of $69.3m. Twitter was incorporated in 2007....

...and manage multiple social-media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pantip. Intouch sees the investment as strategic so that it can use the company’s expertise in social media and...

...is being acquired by US-based social networking service Twitter for an estimated price of $350m in Twitter stock. Previously, MoPub raised $12m in its series B round in September 2012,...

...distribution chain caused by the emergence of US-based search engine Google and US-based social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and other new participants in the sector. Many senior media executives interviewed for this report stressed...

...media businesses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The verdict appears to be, from those in the sector, that these changes have not been as destabilising as first thought. While sectors like music, newspapers and...

...locally stored photos, or those shared on social services like Twitter or Instagram. Depending on a publisher’s preference, they can provide an upload tool on their website, encourage users to...

Tame, a search engine for Twitter spun-out from the Humboldt University of Berlin, has re-launched its Twitter-management platform ahead of emergence from its open beta. The platform, spun out from...

...officer, said: “Millions of people use EdgeCast every day – when they use Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Hulu, or any other of the thousands of sites we accelerate worldwide.” Jim Tybur of...

...social-based threats before they have the opportunity to inflict serious damage.” Mark Levine, managing director, Core Capital, said: “Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are just a few of the great social...

...users to collate memories of travels with a few clicks of a mouse. Esplorio intergrates with Facebook, Twitter, Google and other social networks to pull information posted by the user...

...investor for internet software start-ups, and David Sacks, founder and chief executive officer of Yammer. In an earlier funding round, Intercom raised $1m from investors including Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder....

...remaining $2.7m. Urturn provides its users with templates to customise photos, pull in music and video clips, and then share them on Urturn itself, as well as Facebook and Twitter....

...who co-founded social network Twitter. It seems easy to imagine Square becoming the ubiquitous tool for mobile payments, and winning Starbucks as a client and investor seems to make this...

...about $14.77 per share. The latest acquisition follows Alibaba’s 18% stake in Sina Corp’s microblogging service Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, which was announced last month. The stake was acquired...

...were not disclosed. Wefollow, founded by Jeff Hodsdon and Kevin Rose (pictured) when they were still at social news discovery service Digg, started as a Twitter directory in 2009. The...

...answer EWDN’s inquiry on the matter. A leading IT fund at the global scale, DST has stakes in Facebook, Groupon, Spotify, Twitter, Zalando and Zynga. One of its main backers...

...be a source of eyecatching deals, with social messaging service Twitter reportedly brokering a deal for mutual fund manager BlackRock to buy up to $80m of shares from its employees...

...I think you’re seeing that today with traditional broadcasters that have embraced Twitter, have embraced YouTube, have embraced Facebook. “And at the same time as you look at some of...

...fiercely challenged western market leadership, or observe how Twitter has recently started to copy various features from Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website. Moreover, it is worth observing that recent research...

...Fortune said. At DST, Tamas invested in Alibaba, Airbnb, Facebook, Groupon, Spotify and Twitter and worked on flotation of Mail.Ru Group, a Russia-based internet company backed by media group Naspers....

...reported that social messaging service Twitter was brokering a deal with mutual fund manager BlackRock to buy up to $80m of shares from its employees at a $9bn valuation. And...

Social messaging service Twitter has acquired Time Warner-backed Bluefin Labs for between $50m and $100m, and nearer the latter according to news provider New York Times. In January last year,...

...a Saudi Arabian prince, invested $300m in Twitter, following Russian venture firm Digital Sky Technologies (DST) reportedly investing $400m in Twitter in August as part of an $800m funding round....

...backers of the A round were venture firm Baseline Ventures, former partners at venture firms Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, and executives from technology companies Dropbox, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter....

...Twitter, backed by DST, Mail.ru and JP Morgan Violin Memory, backed by Toshiba and Juniper Square, backed by Visa, Starbucks Xoom, backed by SVB Financial Group Dropbox, backed by Goldman...

...unit pointed to eight key exits, a quarter of which were to the search engine: Stamped (which sold to Yahoo!), Dasient (Twitter), Hipster (AOL), BufferBox (Google), PrimaTable (Hotel Tonight), Zencoder...

...December 2012  Registration Opens: 6:30 pm Location:  Dublin – Ireland Guest Speaker: Prof Ken Morse Registration by invitation only:  To apply for an invitation click here. Event twitter: health_XL For further event information visit: http://bit.ly/SQRWvI...

...company he founded, Twitter, to comment on the latest wisdom Schultz has bestowed on him. The move marks a slight change in Schultz’s relationship with start-ups. He has long been...

...Milner and, through him and Mail.ru, Naspers also indirectly owns chunks of some of America’s most successful start-ups, including social network Facebook, discount coupon provider Groupon, and messaging service Twitter....

...without informing the user; weibo (Chinese twitter) is used as a battleground for name-calling and rumor-mongering; lawsuits and arrests are common competitive escalations.  This is too dangerous a “playground” for...

...Jobster. Goldberg is also an investor in e-commerce analystics company RJ Metrics, which raised $1.2m in January, and prior investments include TweetDeck, which was sold to social messaging service Twitter....

...Places, Foursquare, Twitter, Instagram and Gowalla and to date there are $48bn loyalty points in circulation. Daniel Farrar, CEO of Switchfly, said: “Switchfly’s technology platform has undertaken a strategic evolution,...

...a co-founder of social media company Twitter, tweeted on Monday morning: “Square acquires 80/20, one of the best design agencies in the world, and with it, an office in SoHo....

...is a start-up which is looking to wrestle back the control over the internet social media platforms, foremost of which is Twitter, have taken of live television events. Of course...

...Citi Ventures. The firm previously announced one tranche of the funding whilst simultaneously unveiling its partnership with Starbucks, which invested $25m in Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s company. The Calif.-based firm...

...month than the 82 deals in August last year, although in that month deal values reached $3.3bn, with the value then boosted by social network Twitter’s $800m round and daily...

...angel portfolio includes an early deal in social network Twitter. Similarly ambitious at the early stage have been the actions of Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica. Its Wayra unit has made...

...horseman, social messaging company Twitter, has yet to have its IPO and fund managers are privately betting Facebook will buy it before a listing if the list company’s stock price...

...AirBnB in July 2011, investing $400m in social messaging company Twitter in August 2011, as well as backing medical services company ZocDoc in September 2011, Sweden-based credit company Klarna’s $155m...

Twitter app developer HootSuite has acquired rival social media platform Seesmic. No details on the deal have been disclosed, but the price will be dependent on how many Seesmic users...

...including; Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow, Trialpay CEO Alex Rampell, Twitter vice president of corporate strategy Elad Gil, shopping engine Milo founder Jack Abraham, Tumblr president John Maloney,  and Maria...

...really wanted to be an investor in the company.” Bubble’s social media platform allows users in India, Japan, and Indonesia to communicate Twitter-style but with voice clips rather than text....

...Amazon, social messaging service Twitter founder Evan Williams and education technology peer Blackboard’s CEO, Michael Chasen.  EverFi had previously raised $11m in September 2010. EverFi has certified more than 4 million...

...that 50 companies were deployed in Vodafone through the scouting and investing activities, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Starent, Pontis, Byte Mobile, Amobee and Mobile Iron, and its investment portfolio consists...

...founder of social network Twitter. Starbucks chief Howard Schultz will be joining Square’s board in a sign of how seriously Starbucks is taking the investment. He personally signed off the...

...venture funding total stands at $166m. The company, created by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, secured a $100m investment during a Series C round last year led by venture...

...cites sources familiar with the deal. Square, created by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, last year secured a $100m investment led by venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,...

...Jobster. Jason is also an investor in e-commerce analystics company RJ Metrics, which raised $1.2m in January, and prior investments include TweetDeck, which was sold to social messaging service Twitter....

...all signed agreements with Coursera to put their courses on-line for free. The company was also endorsed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who said on Twitter: "Terrific progress getting college...

Microsoft has quietly opened a corporate venturing unit for its search engine Bing. The Bing Fund has set up a website and Twitter account, and has a general manager Rahul...

...more examples of this approach to growing IP-based businesses. Looking ahead John Doerr recently asked his Twitter followers how they would fix the patent system and whether they favoured banning...

...Twitter. Karim Faris, a partner at Google Ventures, said: “We are in a unique position to see the threat of botnet attacks on a truly global scale, and it is...

...(Facebook including Facebook Pages, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Instagram and others coming soon) and allows you to view the aggregated sum through a calendar interface, and provides full search, export...

...becomes yesterday. SocialSafe is an application for PC/Mac that downloads all of your social network data (Facebook including Facebook Pages, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Instagram and others coming soon) and...

...return, US companies, such as messaging service Twitter, has copied ideas from Chinese peers. Haemmig’s research, based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource, said between 2006 and 2010, 183 VC-backed...

...forum for its citizens as potentially offered by Facebook, short-message service Twitter and their peers – as evidence by their use by dissidents in the Arab spring last year. Microsoft’s...

...its competitors. In its regulatory filing, Facebook said: "We face significant competition in almost every aspect of our business, including from companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Twitter, which offer...

...skateboarder Rob Dyrdek, soccer star Gerard Pique, Skull Candy chairman Jeff Kear, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, ShoeDazzle founder Brian Lee and Omniture founder Josh James have all invested or partnered...

...ended. l TwitterFeed acquired by Bitty. l TweetDeck acquired by Twitter. l GroupMe acquired by Skype. l Troika Ventures achieved a 10-times exit within three years. It sold its shares...

...Ventures. The social media management company was founded in 2008 and it is also backed by venture firm Blumberg Capital. Yesterday Hootsuite acquired Twitter application Termtter, which followed its acquisitions...

...Voice, is looking at returning to his VoIP roots, according to an update on Twitter, spotted by news provider TechCrunch. Google Ventures last year invested $3m in an incubator set...

...the future." The capital injection came as Luminate launched an image app store featuring 11 applications including apps that links websites including Wikipedia, Twitter and film streaming site Netflix.  ...

...every market participant though. Paul Kedrosky, a venture investor and entrepreneur who runs the Infectious Greed blog, said in reaction to the statistics on Twitter: "Every tech cycle ends the...

...is such that even Salesforce at just over a decade old and with explosive revenue growth is regarded as an incumbent to be disrupted. Last month, communications company Twitter’s cofounder,...

...service. Dasient is the sixth web startup to be acquired by Twitter in as many months, a group that also includes online security company Whisper Systems. Twitter’s acquisition strategy appears...

...networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The revenue in the latest round will be used to ensure Socialware’s range of services  keep up with the evolution of social...

...to Twitter, Facebook and other information, while they watch television programmes, also allowing them to buy products they see on television.  Sky is also bringing out a Zeebox-powered Sky app...

...Its population size, internet penetration growth rate, mobile user behaviour, and the popularity of Facebook and Twitter – all these points convinced CyberAgent Ventures to set up a base in Indonesia."...

...the end of the day. This column first appeared on Cheng’s blog, Thinking About Thinking. You can follow Cheng on Twitter @larryvc Box:  US venture capital remains insular, based on...

...day. One year ago, there were approximately 150,000 registered Twitter apps. Now, there are more than one million that connect to Twitter. And our team has grown from 250 people...

...overall funding at $15.75m. Founded in 2007, Puppet Labs produces automation software for use by system administrators in bringing cloud computing to businesses, and numbers Zynga, Twitter, Citrix and Disney...

..."Kobo provides one of the world’s most communal eBook reading experiences with its innovative integration of social media such as Facebook and Twitter; while Rakuten offers Kobo unparalleled opportunities to...

...invest in entrepreneurs. JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs both announced funds of more than $1bn to back internet-enabled start-ups, such as Facebook and Twitter, and the sector itself has been attractive...

...social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. Soundtracking currently has nearly one million users. The 2.0 version of Soundtracking was released last month boasting new features, but Schematics...

...to technology magazine Wired. John Doerr, a partner at KPCB and a member of Google’s board of directors has since retweeted the article on his Twitter feed. Nest Labs confirmed...

...a users mobile with information from social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. TechCrunch has reported that EveryMe is set to be released as an app in November....

...PR companies to archive, track, monitor, and analyze Twitter data. The TwapperKeeper  deal follows previous acquisitions of SwiftApp (now HootSuite for Android), and TwitterBar (now HootBar), Less than one year...

...huge shifts in media con-sumption patterns and consumer behaviour, as demonstrated by the success of companies like Facebook, Playdom and Twitter. The next 10 years will also see highly innovative...

...subsequently diversified into Ameba Now, a microblogging website competing with Twitter, and an English version known as Ameba Pico, which is available as an app on social networking site Facebook....

...Ten finalists will pitch to an invitation-only audience at Sibos on September 21, 2001 in Toronto. Apply by August 14, 2011 on http://www.innotribestartup.com/.   Facebook: http://bit.ly/qeVOoR LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/rrhTo2 Twitter: http://bit.ly/qBMLe5...

...complete, Twitter would have raised $760m since it was founded five years ago, All Things Digital said.  DST is backed by Chinese internet firm Tencent. Twitter, in its blog statement...

...by social network Twitter. The two backers are coming into a funding round which is expected to land Twitter an $8bn valuation, according to news provider All Things Digital. The...

...an interesting new play. But ultimately, will the next Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Groupon come out of their portfolio? No. It is another Intel Ventures waiting to happen – a reconnaissance...

...in social messaging service Twitter for an enterprise valuation of about $4bn from its $1.2bn Digital Growth corporate venturing fund. Twitter co-founder and executive chairman Jack Dorsey also founded Square....

...to provide an undisclosed sum to peer Twitpay, which provides software to help non-profit organisations raise funds over Twitter, social gaming developers offer virtual currency and retailers with electronic commerce....

UberMedia, a US-based social messaging company based on the Twitter platform, has raised $5.6m from Germany-based media group Hubert Burda Media’s corporate venturing unit, DLD Ventures. DLD Ventures, formerly known...

...companies, reportedly including social messaging group Twitter, and Goldman Sachs arranged for its non-US clients to invest $1bn in social network Facebook’s private placement. As news provider Blogging Stocks said,...

...news site Motley Fool suggested valuations for discount coupon provider Groupon and a handful of social media companies that investors can’t get enough of these days — Facebook, Twitter, Zynga,...

140 Proof, a US-based advertising platform for social networks Twitter and Facebook, has raised $2.5m in its series B round from a consortium led by BlueRun Ventures, a venture capital...

...in social messaging service Twitter for an enterprise valuation of about $4bn from its $1.2bn Digital Growth corporate venturing fund. Twitter co-founder and executive chairman Jack Dorsey also founded Square....

...Promotes Innovation in High Growth Entrepreneurship"; and "Social Entrepreneurship, Can We Own It?". To find out more about this year’s We Own It Summit: Website: www.weownitsummit.org Twitter: @weownitsummit Facebook  LinkedIn...

...best Tweet when audiences are most receptive. SocialFlow has also finalized a partnership with Twitter to use Twitter’s firehose data for analytics within the SocialFlow platform.  "The global adoption of...

...then bought up around $400m worth of shares, from Twitter co-founder Ev[an] Williams, early Twitter [venture capital firm] investors Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures and some Twitter employees. The...

...Quid, reports that her research firmuses an increase in internet trafficas a sign of customer trac-tion at an internet start-up. Similarly, Quid tracks Twitter traffic about a start-up to gauge...

...on Twitter, to name their favourite innovations. The responses were diverse, and if there is little consensus as to what innovation actually is, how can we organise ourselves to deliver...

...to its investor consortium alongside CompuCredit, which spun off its micro-payments units in the UK and US in mid-2009. Twitpay’s software helps non-profit organisations raise funds over Twitter, social gaming...

...backers of Groupon’s latest round. News provider Business Insider said in previous deals Morgan Stanley had invested in social messaging company Twitter’s series D round, while Fidelity and T Rowe...

...well as small stakes in some of the US’s fastestgrowing social media companies, such as Groupon and Facebook. If these companies, or peers such as Twitter or LinkedIn, decide to...

...everywhere as each attempts to "own the user". This is getting serious: Facebook for friends, LinkedIn for professional contacts, Amazon for purchases, Twitter for breaking news, Gmail for email. Except...

...has lent to about half of US VC-backed start-ups, such as social messaging company Twitter, has investments in 437 VC funds and more than 500 VC firms as clients. However,...