Quixey raises US $ 3.8 million, for functional search engine for your applications

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Quixey, on the basis of the Palo Alto startup that builds functional search engine for your applications, today announced that it closed the US $ 3.8 million series a funding round. Investment venture partners led the WI Harper group and the United States, with the participation of Webb investment network, along with subsequent investments, Eric Schmidt innovation. Series round adds to Quixey $ 400 K, grew in April from innovation endeavours to attract investment to $ 4.2 million.

We've all heard (and maybe even prototyping) quip "there is an app for that." It's really excellent quality of the Mobile revolution: there really is an app for just about everything you can think of, from call taxis for managing schedule scan for cancer or heart murmors skin. But it's also overwhelming, and find the application you want is not easy. There are a lot of noise and a lot of flawed approaches to app engine.

Quixey entered the game with the intent to build a new type of search, molded specifically for the unique features of the search for these everywhere, but sometimes elusive apps. Their decision came up with "functional search", which not only scans the major App stores, but blogging crawls, review sites, forums and social media sites to create a truly comprehensive picture of what the application can be done through reviews, Word of mouth and demos.

Quixey for search engine enables the user to enter queries like "baseball report and get a list of applications that provide only that (which they can then filter by platform). And the best part search Zarins Windows and Mac apps, iGoogle, extensions, and much more. It's not just the iOS and Android.

Although the Quixey seemingly to compete with the likes of Chomp and other, startup also has added value offers in the nutritional status of the search for other App stores, search engines and Web sites — just like Google — to facilitate the diffusion of its search engine for third-party sites throughout the Internet.

So it comes as no surprise then that Eric Schmidt innovation Ventures invests in search a great application. Attraction of external information and data from blogs, review sites and beyond, really adds an additional level of depth search applications (especially in being independent of the platform), as well as nutrition search through Web sites gives Quixey the ability to scale and be mixed with the very place it scans. Startup will use its new investment to continue achieving partnership with App stores and other app a great third party resources, and teammate Quixey, there are more than 25 potential partnerships in the pipeline. More partners, the more effective it becomes search engine.

This is an interesting new approach this "functional search, and from my experience so far, works as advertised. Chimes to let us know what you think. More about Quixey here.

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NFC mobile advertising startup Tapit raises seed funding

Tapit is a new mobile advertising startup, founded in March 2011, that facilitates the sharing and delivery offer NFC-enabled phone by simply clicking anywhere Tapit, you can find the logo.

The company is currently raises seed round of financing from Sydney angels in record time – just 22 days from the field until the round was signed to. This is the quickest investment to date for Angels, Sydney, not-for-profit membership Organization for Angels, which usually invests in Sydney-based startups.

NFC (near field communication), short-range wireless technology, is often associated with mobile payments and mobile wallets these days, as a new way to enable the purchase to the cash. But this is just one of many cases of possible uses for technology that can also support things like file sharing and media between devices, advertising, ticketless deals and much more. It can even be used to perform an action in a NTT DOCOMO TAP "follow" offer, which allows two Twitter users to each other simply by clicking the phone.

The idea is to use the Tapit NFC for use in marketing campaigns, working with agencies, brands, handset manufacturers and carriers. Marketing services include mobile commerce, coupon distribution, ticket sales, surveys and reviews, content delivery, contests and social community (e.g. tap here to "like" us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter).

The company is already involved in several campaigns this year – one for a group of radio Nova Australian radio network billboard JCDecaux and another for Australia's channel 10 TV show "LATVIA" and the third with NFC-based sales in shopping malls.

Says director Jamie Kaninghèm Tapit, speed, which was closed in this round is the approval group Tapit, and business models that we have created around our unique NFC technology. All whom we meet likes the idea of Tapit, it is addictive.

NFC, indeed, will step up from the now ubiquitous barcode scanning technology, which involves the use of Smartphone applications to scan QR codes via camera phone. Unfortunately the NFC usually requires accompanying chip, built into the phone itself. Due to this requirement, it is now back, a limited number of supported phones.

Nevertheless, analysts bullish on NFC in the future, with ABI, predicting 35 million phones to 2012, and Frost & Sullivan, assessment of about 868 million by the year 2015.

Tapit conditions in seed investment were not disclosed, but the Fund normally invests sidecar Angels Sydney between $ 100 K-$ 500 K in its portfolio companies.

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Vizibility raises $ 1. 3 M, makes you look good when people Google you

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Vizibility, a provider of personal branding platform for individuals and companies, today announced that it raised $ 1.3 million people in more than $ 1 million for seed funding.

Enterprise Group Launchpad Boston led round and was joined by additional investors from Angels Boston Harbor, New York Angels and Angels tie, as well as a number of independent investors from North-East and Europe. Previous backers also participated in the round.

Vizibility was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Manhattan, New York.

The company offers online identity management platform for individuals and companies, which allows them to the priest and share their online identities, including personalized Google search results, professional profiles, contact information, and much more.

SearchMe's buttons, links, and QR codes can be shared and posted on websites, blogs, business cards, marketing materials and whatnot. Its services are distributed primarily in the form of an integrated function of social networking sites, including job search, online reputation management and Executive profile hubs as well as dating sites.

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DoughMain raises $ 5 million for Gamified financial education platform for kids

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DoughMain, launch, which brings together family coordination and financial education in simple, real and gamified platform, has announced that it raised $ 5 million seed funding for a number of private Angel investors. Round of funding is used to support the production and release of DoughMain.com, as well as contribute to the development of DoughMain in mobile applications.

But what exactly is DoughMain all about? DoughMain President and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Damato said that run goal is simple: she wants to give families across the country, a simple solution that allows them to coordinate the activities of households and, in doing so, expose their children to important financial management skills.

DoughMain assaults the household, offering users an integrated family services as a chore calendar Tracker and benefits (or compensation) instrument, as well as three initial age relevant gaming sites to make American families operate like clockwork and give children a fun and useful tool to help them learn (in a sense, age-appropriate) retain, use and dispose of the money.

Launch of the so-called "family coordination platform allows parents to customize DoughMain platform so that it acts as a secure, personalized micro network for his family. Within this network, family members can view each of their own responsibility, that efforts should continue to be provided, for example, as well as the whole family. (Presumably so that they can error their younger brothers and sisters until they fulfil their responsibilities and learn how to balance their checkbooks.)

Parents can control the amount of information you can gain access to their children, whether it is possible to create calendar entries or to show that a particular chore was completed. Because the platform are updated in real time, parents can reward them obedient children to achieve them, with "DoughPoints", run the virtual currency, or by enhancing their benefits through a rigid, the American currency. specify that the chore is complete. Because the information is updated in real time, parents may

At the top of their family coordination platform for startup offers options for financial education, which is neatly integrated with worries and financial experience that their children to navigate within the interaction with the platform. Platform offers developed teacher content through secure gaming platforms like TheFunVault.com, a Flash game that teaches basic money management lessons for children aged 5-9, or SandDollarCity.com, a multiplayer virtual world where children aged 8-12 to manage the family candy stops, or, finally, the IRuleMoney.com, a site that as the financial content and contests for teens.

It is planned that the mobile version of DoughMain will be released in September that would allow families to stay in touch and coordinate on-the-go. For more check DoughMain homes here.

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Tinypay .me raises $ 1 million, moving its headquarters to San Francisco

Tinypay.me trading platform, which emerged from 2010's Le Web Conference as a sort of Twitter for e-commerce, just raised $ 1 million from Aksoy Internet businesses. Money will be used, inter alia, to relocate the headquarters of the company from the Netherlands in the heart of Silicon Valley: San Francisco.

Tinypay .me bills itself as the easiest way to sell things online, because all you have to do to start selling to fill in one form. The whole process takes just 60 seconds, the company said.

To use Tinypay.me, fill out a form, notify your friends on Facebook and Twitter and receive payments via PayPal. The service supports both physical and digital goods and creates a page that can be embedded in websites. Account is not required to use the service, as everything is done by e-mail.

Says founder and Executive Director Melvin Tercan team moves in Silicon Valley, because "our mission is to conquer the world, and there's no better place to start than here." Chairman Taner Aksoy Aksoy Internet enterprises, Turkish-based investment firm, also said that he thinks "will hit Tinypay.me worldwide."

Adds Tercan, Tinypay.me chose Aksoy Internet businesses "because" have more than 10 years of experience with building Sahibinden.com, largest classified site in Turkey.

"They can help us with great experiences and tips for the company's growth," he said.

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AliveCor transforms mobile devices in low cost heart raises $ 3 million.

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AliveCor, developer of the low-budget electrocardiograms (ECG) recorder that works in conjunction with a variety of mobile platforms (including iPhone, iPad and Android devices), delivered $ 3 million in series A financing, the company announced this morning.

Funding round was led by Barril & company along with Qualcomm, through its venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures, and the Oklahoma Foundation for life sciences.

AliveCor the size of a credit card wireless device can make iOS and Android smartphones and tablets in low cost heart monitors, which can be used by patients and doctors and other medical professionals in clinical conditions. Watch the video below for a demo version of the iPhone.

Notice that the device is not for sale, but-AliveCor products have not yet been cleared as a medical device in the United States. It is also unclear exactly how much it will cost but earlier coverage of Wall Street Journal mentioned a price of $ 100.

The company said that it now will use the capital to complete the clinical studies are currently in the center of Oklahoma University of medical sciences, to carry out the necessary regulatory approvals and equipment for the commercial launch of its recording an ECG.

AliveCor has developed a device that will transform any Smartphone in Recorder quality clinical electrocardiogram (ECG).

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Phone Radiation measuring App Maker raises $ 1.5 million Tawkon

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Tawkon, an Israeli startup that offers mobile apps to measure cellular radiation, provided initial funding of $ 1.5 million.

Capital injections from thetime, an investment company owned by Ilan Shiloah, Chairman, McCann Erickson of Israel and Nir Tarlovsky Tzvika and Barinboim. Other supporters include management consulting company TASC, Don Perrin (one of the first investors in Zipcar) and Yossi Sandler, an early investor in Yedda (which was acquired by AOL).

Tawkon's offers mobile apps for Android phones, BlackBerry handsets and iOS platforms, while the iPhone app only works on jailbroken devices.

You see, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has become quite clear that the application of radiation measurement that phone not Tawkon welcome to the official App Store, instead of clicking Start do it for free (again, for jailbroken iPhones) via Cydia.

In March this year, the Tawkon sent a letter to jobs in hopes of getting approval for distributing applications via the Apple App Store, only to get this answer from the man, the legend:

No interest.

Sent from my iPhone

Well, at least his disinterest not too spooked investors.

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Desktop Virtualization Company raises $ 10 m from Wanova Lake Greylock and other

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Wanova, a provider of turnkey cloud desktop management raises $ 10 million in series b financing from Carmel Ventures, Greylock Partners and Opus capital. This brings the company's total funding to $ 23 million.

Wanova distributed provides solutions for desktop virtualization to centralize the management of the desktop infrastructure while optimizing the user experience and provides full support for offline use. Wanova Mirage flagship product combines centralized image management PC ability to run images on YOUR PC that allows a company to reduce desktop total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve operations.

With Mirage, PC images, including personalization options, run on the PC, allowing users to take advantage of the native PC performance, including the ability to run multimedia applications and work when you are disconnected from the network.

Wanova actually just scored a big win in the world of IP, declaring it the first United States patent on its interlocking technology, which provides a layered, single image Office PC on your network, local execution images on your PC and optimize synchronization between local and Central images.

The new funds will be utilized towards the establishment of a global sales, support groups and product development.

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6fusion raises $ 7 million for a cloud infrastructure management software

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6fusion, a provider of infrastructure management software and cloud services, this morning announced that it raised $ 7 million in series b round of financing led by Grotech ventures.

Previous Baker Intersouth partners also participated in the round.

The company provides a platform for managing end-to-end cloud to global pressure, making clouds, both public and private companies paid utilities pay for use.

6fusion been developed an algorithm called a cube dimension, the distribution of workload, which he said standardizes the quantitative assessment of supply and demand for computing resources.

The company's management platform in UC6 cloud federates private data center and cloud operators of third party, providing a single console to enable organizations to manage and optimize the meter, hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Lawson DeVries Grotech ventures joins 6fusion's Board.

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Drchrono raises $ 650 K of Yuri Milner; Starts the patient check-in App for iPad

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Drchrono, a startup that simplifies the professional lives of doctors by using electronic medical records and much more than the iPad, has raised another $ 650 000 in seed funding from founder of DST, Yuri Milner and General catalyst. In July the company raised seed funding of $ 675.000 General catalyst, Charles River Ventures, 500 startups, creator of Gmail and FriendFeed co-founder Google senior engineer Matt Cutts, Paul Buchheit and Fund launch.

As we wrote in the past, the drchrono in the iPad app allows physicians to meet patient to dictate notes through audio, take photos, write prescriptions and send them in drugstores, enable reminders, clinical notes, access to laboratory results and, most importantly the input of electronic health records.

Now it looks drchrono to disrupt another part of the medical office experience, providing a new iPad application, called OnPatient, which replaces the patient check-in process. So as soon as you enter the medical office, you usually give the Clipboard with a number of forms to fill in the waiting room, including General information, history, privacy, and much more.

Now doctors offices can provide users with Drchrono free iPad application instead of from the Clipboard. The patient enables patients to complete family history, demographic information and insurance; Take a photo and sign a consent form HIPAA with a digital signature. With the application, you can only fill out the form, and they are recorded in this interface, so that patients will not be able to switch to other applications or access information from other patients.

And to facilitate the lives of doctors, the application integrates with drchrono in the medical record interface, so the medical staff should not enter all the data of the patient. On subsequent visits, patients should not duplicate forms — they only needed to review their information and make any necessary changes on the iPad.

This is just another way in which the drchrono facilitates the lives of doctors and their staff. As you might have heard, the Obama administration is currently incentives for physicians to start their medical records online. drchrono was approved for the training of doctors to get $ 44 million in incentives when they use the software as a platform for electronic medical records. In fact, drchrono is the first native of EMC on the iPad must be given for constructive use under stimulation.

Michael Nusimow, co-founder and CEO of drchrono, tells us that the company sweetened the deal for many doctors and now refuses to fee structure for its EMC platform (freemium model is drchrono). And he reiterated the company's goal: for each doctor in the country will use drchrono for medical records and data entry.

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Mobile App Opinionaided Q&A raises $ 4.3 million from SoftBank and other

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Q&A mobile services Opinionaided was raised to $ 4.3 million in financing led by SoftBank capital and BlueRun Ventures, General catalyst, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mark Wachen, Jonah Goodhart, Karl Jacob, ENIAC and Vince Monical participation. This brings the company's total funding to $ 5.3 million.

Opinionaided free app allows users to get the iOS tips and opinions on the fly. Within the app, users can type a question, determine the category (i.e., relationships, politics) and submit it to other users of the Opinionaided answer. You can also post your questions on Facebook and Twitter. Once ignored, fellow Opinionaided users can comment on the issue and the application will calculate the percentage of users who responded positively or negatively. From there, users can respond to comments or create a new issue for colleagues to vote for.

Today, Opinionaided in users 125 million answers to consumers since the start of last year. As we reported in June, the application has an average of 73 replies to the question. And users spend almost 3 hour app per month.

Startup also announces new version of its app, includes the new iOS user interface that allows users to send questions via SMS, Twitter and Facebook.

Localmind also offers mobile Q&A.

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Empire Avenue raises $ 1.2 million to transform social influence in virtual stock market

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Edmonton-based Empire Avenue, the stock market for social impact, announced today that it raised $ 1.2 million in series a seed funding. Round headed VC San Francisco firm, Crosslink Capital, iNovia capital, TriplePoint capital (which are incubated Empire Avenue in Silicon Valley), as well as BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka dogah and Greg Zeschuk, among others.

According to launch press release "instead of buying a fancy zeppelin or, say, full of diamonds clad singing shark", the team plans to use the new infusion of capital to ramp up hiring and expand its platform, with an emphasis on increased sales of virtual goods and currency. This is all well and good, but we were all in the tech community really pulling for singing sharks. Or at least the monkey Butlers. (There is always a serie b).

Empire Avenue, which started in early 2010, is the so-called "social stock market", where users to assume the role of companies and their product cost is determined by the level of your online activities and networks, one creates during daily webernets surfings. Essentially run wants to encourage Web users to jump start their own personal brands and maximize the results from the interaction of social networks (and have a little fun while doing it).

Like Klout with the added advantage of buying and selling virtual shares personal brand real, living people, Cork Empire Avenue in a range of sites, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Flickr to show users the importance of their impact and reach on popular social networks.

Users can also include the value of their Web contributions to actual revenue through advertising platform used at the start to deliver relevant and targeted ads, while buying and selling virtual shares in any other user is free. Very stylish.

To the personal account user: impact of tens is equivalent to the price of shares of the individual in the Empire, which is based on the extent to which brand is traded on the site of helminthes in the course of the day, as well as to user their own blogs, websites, networks, social media, etc.

Shareholders can make an assessment of these interactions, the vote for the quality of the contributions that affect the cost of inventories, while shareholders are also rewarded with virtual currency for successful investments.

In addition to scoring some new investment loot, the Canadian startup also announced today the addition of Foursquare and Instagram as sources for further metrics used to calculate the user impact and value of stocks. Not to mention the fact that it now has users in more than 190 countries.

This is an awesome service, so take it for a test drive and let us know what you think.

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KidZui launches ZUI.com, the Internet experience for children raises $ 2 million

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Exclusive- KidZui, San Diego, California-based startup that offers Web browser for kids debuted its latest product, a site called ZUI.com, which enables children to search for and study more than 5 million parent approved Web sites, YouTube videos, games, and whatnot.

In addition young company announced that it received an additional $ 2 million in financing from VC firms mission ventures, Maveron, emergence capital, and Scholastic Corporation, a major publisher and distributor of children's books and provider of educational technology and e-commerce.

KidZui resins ZUI.com as "search and investigation of the engine for children from 3 to 12 years, children learn, parents and teachers approve Web sites, videos, pictures and games, as well as to share their experiences with their parents or other family members through Facebook.

Available content all over the place, and the site should look pretty good on the browser of your mobile device as well.

"The only possible ZUI.com, through our terms and conditions of the proposed search Justin Bieber is just a few clicks from Mozart," explains Cliff BORO, CEO and founder of KidZui.

The site is free of charge for parents and their children and by advertising brand. And just to be clear, this extension KidZui browser without replacement.

KidZui is drawn to children and only allows them to move some mandated areas of the Web browser.

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NoSQL option, financing! Couchbase raises $ 14 million

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NoSQL option Couchbase company database that you created earlier this year through the merger of CouchOne (co-founder of the creator of CouchDB) and Membase (founded by key developers for memcached), scored 14 million in series c round of funding.

Funding round was led by ignition partners with participation from existing backers Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and North Bridge venture partners.

In addition, the company said Couchbase also booked an additional $ 1 million for investments of strategic clients and partners.

Couchbase offers solutions database for building Web and mobile applications. Just last week, the company issued Couchbase Server 2.0, the distributed management system targeted at the database and the first release of an integrated product of the company after the merger.

Couchbase said that he will use new funding to accelerate delivery of NoSQL option database technology, the company's growth in the market of enterprises and enhanced at the international level.

Funding round brings the company's total capital raised to $ 30 million.

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MediaCore softswitch raises seed funding, launches Platform for small and medium-sized businesses create their own YouTube

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Launch officially public today a new venture called MediaCore softswitch, brought to you by Damien Tanner and Stuart Bowness, the first of which was in charge of the pusher, a solution that adds realtime tech applications, which was funded by Heroku guys, among other things, back in June.

Tanner and Bowness run MediaCore softswitch to provide any old small businesses with the ability to implement their own YouTube that allows an organization to control the experience from end-to-end. In other words MediaCore softswitch is a video publishing platform for SaaS (complete with mobile applications), provides the ability to create and control their own video site to any user or organization. And it's all about appearance.

How it works clients download content in infrastructure cloud-based platform and let the video play through MediaCore player, which, among other things, automatically detects the browser that the user connects to so that they don't have to worry about the differences between Flash and HTML5. Player sorts it for you, using HTML5, when possible.

Visitors can view video collection through a cool interactive guide and platform allows owners to easily organize their videos by categories and tags and automatically sorts content by relevance and popularity. Users can add logos, backgrounds, and play with the CSS to customize the look of the site. In addition, you can add your own domain, take advantage of podcasting and quite a few excellent service. In view of the fact that the establishment of a fully equipped video platform is no easy feat MediaCore offers a solution pretty cool white label that looks good and doesn't require much technical know-how.

MediaCore softswitch currently offers 15 days free trial, and after, plans start at $ 99 per month. These plans include custom domains, white label, custom branding, automated coding, introduces social video, etc., But the best part is that Android and iOS apps come with each account you manage to look pretty damn good too. Coming next? According to Tanner and Bowness is a private video profiles and paywalls.

To get the platform is off and running, the start is in the process of closing a seed round of angel funding from the Andrew Wilkinson, founder and CEO of MetaLab and Jessie Ma Gawker Media. While the founders refused to give specifics, round, probably hundreds of thousands. (United States Dollars, that is.)

When I asked them that inspiration for MediaCore softswitch, they told me that there are other video platforms are stacked with engineers and often pay little attention to the design, which leads to crappy interfaces and a number of failed user interfaces. Thus after the launch of the open source version of MediaCore softswitch for one year, they are bringing their SaaS platform for the market, in an attempt to lead you to design and make it easy to use.

Beta platform already attracted over 1100 companies, including the University of London, Mentor Graphics, TechVibes, Indiana University and a number of Fortune 500 companies. As a guess from its first customers and scalable cloud storage product aimed at the SMB, but the founders told me that during the year, they will be launching a number of personal plans, which will be offered below the current price of $ 99 per month.

MediaCore softswitch is also planning to start a Tumblr theme store in the near future that will allow users to buy themes and settings of their sites, all works through the API (a la Tumblr).

In General when paywalls roll and proper iPad interface falls MediaCore softswitch is probably going to be essentially video version OnSwipe. It is a good thing? You tell us.

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peerTransfer raises $ 7.5 million from Accel, and Sparks, Maveron for simple payment solution for students

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peerTransfer, simple payment solution for foreign students, today announced that it closed a $ 7.5 million funding round. Investment led by Spark capital, Accel Partners, Maveron and Boston starting capital.

The new infusion of capital adds to $ 1.1 million in seed funding to launch raised back in October last year, bringing total investment to just north of $ 8.6 million. Startup plans to use his last round to increase recruitment and development of its infrastructure, as it continues to cooperate with colleges and universities across the country to simplify international education payments.

Founded in 2009, peerTransfer is designed for foreign students in an attempt to provide a simple and secure payment method for quickly and safely make learning (and other education-related) payments. Startup aims to save foreign students, money transfer, eliminating the high fees and offering discount rates. The value proposition for educational institutions, on the other hand, is peerTransfer in the solution captures the ID information for students at the time of payment to the school knew that full payment is received and contains the information needed to send immediately student accounts.

Launch currently cooperates with 30 institutions including the University of Auburn, Georgia State University, University of Miami, Reed College, Wellesley College, and Western Kentucky University in order to streamline processing, with students some of the world of the mind and the ability to save thousands of dollars during their education international payments.

The best part is that peerTransfer is free for educational institutions and requires not engineering or coding knowledge to implement the decision of the institutions. As foreign students in the United States will lose more than $ 1 billion a year from bad exchange rates and bank charges, according to the peerTransfer founder and CEO of Iker Marcaide run looks complete transactions to ensure a greater volume of purchases and take advantage of more favourable exchange rates.

Crawl involves the removal of intermediate fees in order to save money and at the same time, work to reduce administrative overhead costs by ensuring accurate delivery and placement of funds in the student accounts.

This is an innovative, if not a bit dicey business model: this company does not charge students or school any money for their services and share the savings instead of students through their ability to take advantage of a more favourable exchange rates.

Music to the ears of foreign students to be sure. More details about peerTransfer visit their homes here.

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SinglePlatform raises $ 3. 3 m to help local businesses create online storefronts

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SinglePlatform, a startup that helps local businesses create Web sites in minutes, had raised $ 3.25 million funding led by DFJ Gotham Ventures from the new world ventures, first round capital and enterprises of the RCF. This investment brings the company a total funding of 4.45 million.

SinglePlatform works like a ' one-stop ' platform for local businesses to manage their Internet presence, allowing them to integrate their Web sites, Twitter, Facebook and more easily. Local businesses can also publish their events, events, menus, photos and more. In addition the website creation tool SinglePlatform automatically creates a mobile optimized site.

Another bonus for using SinglePlatform is that businesses can publish their lists publisher network, which includes 11 000 mobile applications, 34 000 hotels, 620 universities, data providers and travel expenses and food specific destination sites.

As more local businesses to be present, the Internet and on mobile phones, easy to use, offering both SinglePlatform be sure to be popular. Currently, thousands of restaurants through hundreds of markets using SinglePlatform to manage their digital presence.

This is actually a market where Google also tries to get the business. The search giant has actively encouraged the company to create mobile and Web site to create a digital presence.

About 89% of consumers researched restaurant online before dining there, but only a small percentage of Web sites have a modern restaurant information. Restaurants recognize that they need.

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6Scan raises funding, provides protection to "automatic" Web site

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6Scan, a building comes with automatic detection and remediation of security protection suite Web-site of the company today announced that it raised an undisclosed amount of capital from YL Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests primarly in Israel and Europe.

I said that the round was your typical series a size, and that the company graduated from the Venturegeeks, an Israeli Y Combinator clone, where it received its initial funding in April 2011.

Product companies are still unreleased, but from what I gathered 6Scan will offer a tool that basically functions as a white-hat hacker sites for known and unknown threats, that is also capable of automatically plug security holes while it's on it.

The product was designed specifically for owners of the Web site without the knowledge of the technical or safety and will be priced at $ 10 per month.

YL Ventures, managing partner Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf joined 6Scan Board of Directors.

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Social game developer Kixeye raises $ 18 million, adds Zynga co-founder Andrew Trader to its Board

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Back in April, a developer of games, casual collective rebranded as Kixeye and launched a new real-time strategy game, titled battle pirates. Since launch, it was hard work at improving some of the new capital to expand his team and implement additional headers. Officially it happened to pass this morning as the company announced that it has closed $ 18 million Series c round of financing, bringing the total investment to $ 23.5 million.

The new round led by Jafco Ventures, were from returning investors Trinity Ventures and enterprise partners. The increase, Jafco managing partner Joe Horowitz is the signing of the Council of its launch and will be merged into — big symbolic feather in the CAP for Kixeye — Zynga co-founder Andrew Trader, aka "a. t."

According to Kixeye CEO will Harbin run hit his achievement over the past 8 months, which has become profitable and positive cash flow. So when you add a trader's Board of Directors, Kixeye hopes to use Zynga's Executive Vice President of sales and business development experience (especially in the scale Zynga in the largest player in the social gaming) to help continue its recent growth.

With regard to the trader, he said that he saw Kixeye emerge as one of the leading innovators in social gaming space, especially for hardcore gamers. "Gamers want a big game, not re-skinned versions of the same," said a. t. "I am pleased to be part of this company and I look forward to helping them continue their successful trajectory." And speaking of skins and cloning, both things that Kixeye became extremely conscious, given that the launch last week accused funded competitor Kabam, copying its successful backyard monsters and skins for the beta launch Kabam in the Edgeworld.

As Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat, while charges skins have become commonplace in the rapidly growing (and competitive) social games space but Kixeye thought that "especially egregious" in this instance. "This is not only offensive to us," Harbin told VentureBeat. "It's very bad for this space. We are fighting an uphill battle to create hardcore games on Facebook. More clones for these games, the more they can sour cream consumers in the market ".

And that more charges of stealing (and hides), also known as Zynga (and hence, a.t.), who was accused of stealing source code for Farmville, for example.

Thus players social gaming, everyone is looking for ways to distinguish their brands and their names from the competition. In the case of Kixeye, Harbin said that the company plans to use some of its new funding to start a new, aggressive release cycle, which will include some new approaches to social games.

"Next year we will be releasing one major title for the quarter, since our future war Commander RTAS," said the Director. "We're also going to create games for Facebook, which nobody had seen before, including dynamic MMORPG, racing game and, hopefully, titles that really push the envelope". And Harbin has every reason to want to take these genres in Facebook, as racing, action, and the hidden objects are genres that have multiple names on Facebook at the moment.

And the company is growing at a rate that justifies his new quest: over the past 18 months, Kixeye has grown its group from 3 to 60, and passed with little presence on Facebook to more than 5 million monthly active users. Part of the reason that Kixeye was so firmly defending backyard monsters is that the game was really what put Kixeye on the map, as it is currently averaging more than 1 million active users per day.

So as a developer of games of San Francisco goes ahead with a WAD of cash in his pocket, you can probably expect run continue to focus on creating a Facebook titles for the hardcore gamer, trying to make a more interesting and challenging games, older and more mature audience. And I would expect that occurs after the top engineering talent will be part of these efforts.

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Deck raises $ 19 million to connect main street businesses with capital

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On deck capital, a platform that connects to the small business capital was raised 19 million dollars of its own in a series c funding round. Run raised $ 15 million in January from SAP Ventures and the recently added another four million dollars from SF Capital Group, a firm of private investment on new emerging issues. Within the framework of the new funding Capital Group President SF Neil Wolfson will be joining on the deck of the Board of Directors. Wolfson joined David Hartwig, Managing Director of SAP that is subscribed to the Council after the investment firm. On deck was raised a total of $ 38 million from investors including the venture partners, first round capital path, better business, RCF enterprises and rural enterprises.

On deck was on a good run recently, as it added two senior leaders for its sales and business development teams, made an appearance at the Forum of the Clinton global initiative in Chicago, has doubled its growth month to acquire customers (up to 4000 customers) and credit applications in 2011 and is now a small business with more than 125 million dollars in capital (average loan size of $ 30 K). You can read our original coverage on deck here.

Created in 2006, the deck uses a combination of aggregation and electronic payment technology to bring an alternative form of assessing the health of small businesses in an attempt to attract capital for small and medium-sized enterprises. While TechCrunch and other technology publications regularly cover the startups raise large rounds of venture capital firms and Angel investors (ahem, like this one), the truth is that there are a huge number of small businesses in the United States, who could not raise money from powerful venture firms.

Avenue to capital for many family shops on main street traditionally apply for a bank loan. Thus not only enterprises that do not have access to venture capital, but he is also a market that has been covered by these traditional bank loans.

On deck considers that individual enterprise the main street of the fundamental problem is not a loan and capital one (as it so often diagnosed) but instead is a matter of time and technology. What does it mean? Small and medium-sized businesses often cannot afford (or lack of experience) to complete a lengthy loan packages, and, on the other hand, banks do not want to allow (the truth inordinately) cost of underwriting of sub $ 250 K, financing of space — not to mention those who, for $ 100 K for which the process is even more tedious.

As a result, banks are forced to rely largely on personal credit score business owner in the assessment of the application for the loan, which is often highly inaccurate reflection of the business. Thus, on deck solves this problem by using the software, which investigates the number of data points, including how many clients business, cash flow, sales and recorded complaints — all in an attempt to find out whether the business is strong enough to repay the loan.

So instead of going to a personal credit score business owner, the company offers what it calls "on the deck of the rating", which is not a business loan is intended to provide creditors with effective measure the creditworthiness of small businesses. Score on deck was developed in partnership with Equifax.

Because the launch platform allows enterprises to create trade profiles, which associates a sources of electronic data, including online banking, accounting and trade processing (and aggregates social, tax and industry data), banks and lenders can facilitate access to the complete financial profile (SMB). Is the rescues of creditors from the hassle of data collection, or relying on personal credit scores for credit assessment.

In view of the fact that currently 5 million enterprises, which have 25 employees or less — a segment of the United States economy is based on 40 per cent of its work — on deck provides an extremely valuable service to facilitate underwriting of these enterprises, and the new infusion of capital to ensure that the launch continues to bring disruptive technologies is not enough (and tangible) market segment.

For more check on the deck of the House here.

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