Daily deals site 1SaleADay raised a massive capital injection (tens of millions of dollars) from Optima Ventures.
Andreessen Horowitz has selected its fourth general partner: Scott Weiss, who co-founded and ran IronPort, provider of messaging security appliances, until their acquisition by Cisco for $830 million.
Bump.com, a sort of social network based on your car's license plate (not the app for sharing contact information), raised more than $1 million in its second round of funding.
Three big pieces of Facebook news: 1) The company acquired group messaging service Beluga. 2) The site’s commenting plugin for third-party sites received an upgrade. 3) The company decided to dole out user contact information (phone numbers, addresses) to third-party developers, no holds barred. Wait, what?
Veteran venture capital firm Greylock Partners expanded its current fund, Greylock XIII, to $1 billion. Greylock XIII originally closed at $575 million in November 2009
Agony-less flight search service Hipmunk added a new, obvious component to its site: hotel search.
Mobile Q&A app Opinionaided raised $1 million in an over-subscribed round of seed funding from General Catalyst, SoftBank Capital, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, along with several angels.
Electronic health records service Practice Fusion announced that former Palantir CFO Jason Portnoy is joining the team as the new Chief Financial Officer.
Recent media court jester Charlie Sheen now has a Twitter account, @charliesheen, if you're into that sort of thing.
yaM Labs, provider of tools to make meetings more efficient, has raised $500K from Foresight Ventures.
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Greylock partners with entrepreneurs to help them build market-leading businesses. Over the past 45 years the firm has worked with hundreds of companies, 150 of which have gone on to IPOs and 100 of which have gone on to profitable M&A events. Such companies include Ascend Communications, CheckFree, CipherTrust, Constant Contact, Continental Cable, Decru, Data Domain, DoubleClick, Farecast, Internet Security Systems, Ikanos, Legato, Media Metrix, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Openwave, Open Market, OutlookSoft, Polyserve, Red Hat, RightNow Technologies, Success Factors, Sun Edison, Tellabs, Trilogy and Wily Technology. Current Greylock portfolio companies include Cloudera, Data Robotics, Facebook, Imperva, LinkedIn, Palo Alto Networks, Pandora, Picarro, Redfin, Workday and ZipCar. For more information about Greylock Partners, visit our Web site (www.greylock.com) or blog (www.greylockvc.com) or follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/greylock) or Twitter (@GreylockVC).
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Practice Fusion provides a free, web-based EMR system to physicians. With medical charting, scheduling, e-prescribing (eRx), lab integrations, referral letters, Meaningful Use certification, unlimited support and a Personal Health Record for patients, Practice Fusion's EMR the complex needs of today's healthcare providers and disrupts the health IT status quo. Practice Fusion is the fastest growing Electronic Medical Record community in the country with more than 150,000 users serving 40 million patients. The company closed a $23 million Series B round of financing led by Founders Fund in 2011. For more information about Practice Fusion, please visit www.practicefusion.com
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Events.com is a mobile-first, socially-focused suite of cloud-based applications that provides an ideal solution for event organizers and event goers alike. Organizers benefit from a dashboard that features the necessary tools to manage, market and monetize their events—including detailed analytics, robust reporting with actionable insights, integrated marketing and outreach tools, enhanced payment options, and comprehensive functionality to create interactive communities and affinity around their brands. Event goers get access and inspiration via the Events.com site—a place to explore experiences based on interests, discover aggregated social content and share the experiences that matter most to them.
Planning an event? Create and manage your event on Events.com by clicking here.
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Thumb, formerly known as Opinionaided, is an addictive free app that allows consumers to use their iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android device to give and receive advice and opinions in real-time. Based in New York City, the company provides one of the most addictive experiences on mobile. Users can also experience Thumb at http://thumb-it.com.
"A user can post a question and receive a deluge of responses instantly, in real-time.” - Vator
"It is not like the myriad of questions and answers apps and websites that have popped in the last year requiring you to carefully craft content out of fear of being rejected or ridiculed (*cough* Quora *cough*). It’s simple, and I love simple." - IntoMobile
"... Angry Birds-like addictive quality to the application. The app works fast.” - Portfolio
Features:
- Get opinions & advice fast from tons of people
- Vote & comment on questions to help others
- Review responses instantly in results
- Meet people who like the same stuff as you
Download Thumb for free from the iTunes App Store or Android Market:
Download from the iTunes App Store: http://thumb-it.com/itunes
Or get it on your Android device: http://thumb-it.com/android
