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Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software development and collaboration solutions, today announced the acquisition of NimblePros, a leading service provider of custom software solutions and training. The entire NimblePros team, including founders Steve and Michelle Smith, will be joining Telerik as part of its Enterprise Services Group.
Crashlytics is excited to announce that our Series A round raised $5 million with the help from VC firms like Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures. This follows our $1 million Seed Round last year from both firms and a bunch of great angels as well.
Since the launch of our crash reporting software for mobile
applications in October, we have been swamped with interest to join our
beta service. Generating great feedback from users has allowed us to
perfect the lightest weight SDK on the market (with a size of roughly
40KB) while continuing to pinpoint the direct line of code that causes
each crash. Furthermore, Crashlytics has eliminated the need for
developers to ship an app with any debug symbols, reducing user download
size by 30-50%.
Over 500 organizations are already utilizing Crashlytics and
deploying our SDK to tens of millions of devices. Every day, more and
more organizations are adding Crashlytics to their apps, and we’re
currently in use by many top applications spanning social, gaming, and
financial categories. Our goal is to continue assisting mobile app
developers by revolutionizing mobile infrastructure software and
repairing the disconnect between developers and consumers.
As per SEC filings, Embed.ly has raised $320K in seed funding. Emded.ly is the new link, replacing URLs with engaging videos, images and media. Through a suite of tools, plugins and APIs, Embedly is the source for embedding content and previewing links on the web. With Embedly, clients can target their content, implement custom advertising, and engage end-users
ROAM Data, the company behind a vast majority of the encrypted mobile card readers shipped in the past year and the leading mCommerce platform-as-a-service provider, announced today that Ingenico has invested in the company to further fuel its growth and to jointly offer its mCommerce solutions to payment service providers worldwide. With Ingenico’s cash infusion and strategic partnership, ROAM now has the backing of a billion euro company behind its innovative team of mCommerce experts to further strengthen its core competence and solutions to its customers.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced today that it has acquired Blaze Software Inc., a provider of frontend optimization (FEO) technology, in a cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to complement Akamai's market-leading site acceleration solutions with technology designed to optimize the speed at which a web page is rendered, regardless of end user device.
KnowledgeVision Systems, a leading creator of tools and services for creating online, on-demand and live multimedia presentations, has closed $2 million in Series A financing from a group of investors led by GrandBanks Capital. The company will use the funds to expand its software tool and service offerings, and to accelerate its market development activities worldwide. KnowledgeVision is already in use in many of the leading technology, healthcare, financial services, retail, professional services, and not-for-profit organizations in the world.
uTest, the leader for in-the-wild software testing, announced on their corporate blog today that they have completed a $17 million Series D round of funding. The round was led by QuestMark Partners, with full participation from all of uTest’s previous investors including Scale Venture Partners, Longworth Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital and Mesco Ltd. This latest round brings the company’s total funding to more than $37 million since its 2007 founding, and marks one of the largest investments ever made in a crowdsourcing company.
As per SEC filings, Marginize has raised $1.32M in funding. Marginize is a browser plugin that augments every page on the Web with a sidebar enabling users to see what the world is saying about the page on Twitter, Facebook and Buzz, and interact with each other through comments and check-ins.
Shareaholic, a startup in Cambridge, has raised $2M in funding. Shareaholic makes content sharing on the web faster and easier, while also making it simple for web publishers, advertisers and mainstream businesses to measure the effectiveness of their content.
With more than 2 million browser plugin installations and hundreds of thousands of publishers using Shareaholic’s content sharing tools, Shareholic reaches more than 250 million unique monthly visitors and has permission to an unparalleled amount of aggregate social data and reach to create targetable audiences for advertisers. This data drives even more quality visibility, traffic, leads and views to websites and content through real-time bidding platforms.
Investors include General Catalyst Partners, Nextview Ventures, Boston Seed/Nicole Stata, Dave McClure (500 Startups), Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot), Stephano Kim (X+1), David Cancel (Compete, Performable), Brian Shin (Visible Measures), Prof. Ed Roberts (MIT Sloan, Sohu), Roy Rodenstein (HackerAngels), Jonathan Kraft (The Kraft Group), and more.
Crashlytics, Inc. today announced it has raised $1M in Series Seed funding. Crashlytics is building the most powerful – yet
lightest-weight – crash-reporting solution to give mobile developers visibility into their apps’ performance.
When it comes to mobile application stability, developers have no real visibility into how their apps perform in customers’ hands. Some developers have built ad-hoc solutions only to find themselves overwhelmed with a vast amount of data and a sheer lack of insights. Crashlytics solves these problems, providing developers with detailed diagnostics about every issue, securely and in real-time, including the exact line number of code that the app crashed on.
Investment firms Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures led the round. Angel investors include David Chang (COO at Where, a PayPal company), Lars Albright (cofounder of Quattro, now Apple iAds), Chris Sheehan (Managing Partner at
CommonAngels), Ty Danco (Founder, eSecLending and FX Aligned), Jennifer Lum (former VP at Quattro, now Apple iAds), Roy Rodenstein (founder of Going.com and a former Director of Business Planning at AOL), Joe Caruso (Managing Partner at
Bantam Group), and others.
As reported by Mike Arrington on his Uncrunched blog, Nuance has acquired Seattle-based startup Swype for over $100M.
Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous motion across the screen keyboard, the patented technology enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods. The application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, televisions, virtual screens and more.
Yesware has raised $1M in funding from Google Ventures, Foundry Group, and other investors. Yesware, based in Cambridge, MA, is a startup that helps
September 26, 2011: As per SEC filings, PowerInbox (which is operated by ioRevolution), the open app platform for email, in Cambridge has raised an additional $640K in funding for a total of $1.74M in funding raised thus far. Back in August, there was a previous listing for PowerInbox's $1.1M in funding.
August 16, 2011: PowerInbox, the open app platform for email, today made its service available to the public after raising $1.1 Million from prominent venture capital and angel investors. The service enables users to run apps from inside their email messages. PowerInbox has raised $1.1 Million funding from Atlas Venture (Jeff Fagnan), Longworth Ventures (Jim Savage), Correlation Ventures (Trevor Kienzle), and angels Alan Phillips (where.com), Chris Lynch (Vertica), Joe Caruso (Bantam Group), Leslie Murdock (MurdockMartell), Mark Rose (SpareChange), Mike Santullo (RocketMail) and others. PowerInbox raised most of these funds through AngelList, the community of startups and investors.
July 6, 2011: SmartBear Software today announced the acquisition of Eviware, creators of soapUI and loadUI, the world’s leading testing software for Web Services. After tripling SmartBear’s business in just one year, this acquisition further accelerates SmartBear’s momentum and significantly expands its global user community of developers, QA and IT professionals.
June 9, 2011: As reported by Scott Kirsner, Apptegic in Boston has raised about $250K in angel funding from Netezza founder Jit Saxena. They are developing a set of tools to better gauge how customer are using web and SaaS applications.
April 29, 2011: According to SEC filings, OpenExchange Communications in Boston has raised $1.4M in funding. OpenExchange is the first-of-its-kind financial services intelligent meeting network. Utilizing a system of Outlook-integrated calendars, schedules, directories and our own HD virtual desktop meeting capabilities, OpenExchange facilitates live and virtual meetings between financial services constituents and executives.
April 15, 2011: As per SEC filings, Yesware has raised $913,000 in funding. Yesware is a tech company, whose first product is called Yesware Email.
January 7, 2011: Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, announced it has completed its acquisition of Dimdim for approximately $31 million in cash, net of cash acquired.
January 7, 2011: According to SEC filings, dynaTrace in Waltham, Massachusetts has raised $4M in funding. dynaTrace is an application performance management (APM) provider.
January 5, 2011: KnowledgeVision Systems, a leading creator of tools and services for creating online, on-demand and live multimedia presentations, has closed $2 million in Series A financing from a group of investors led by GrandBanks Capital. The company will use the funds to expand its software tool and service offerings, and to accelerate its market development activities worldwide. KnowledgeVision is already in use in many of the leading technology, healthcare, financial services, retail, professional services, and not-for-profit organizations in the world.