Month: September 2012

Angel Investment Network’s Weekly Twitter Roundup

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Read anything interesting? Feel free to add links to any articles or resources you’d like to share with the angel community.

Or are you looking to raise funding?  Send me a summary of your project at mike@angelinvestmentnetwork.co.uk and we’ll try to help.

 

Angel Investment Network’s Weekly Funding Roundup

Here’s a roundup of some of the recent seed-stage and angel deals from around the world:  

  • SeatGeek, the ticketing startup that launched at TechCrunch50 three years ago, has raised $1.65 million in new funding
  • Wallaby, a cloud-based wallet that will optimize loyalty rewards, points, airline miles, etc, has closed $1.1 million seed funding
  • Insight Guru Inc., the company behind the investor information website, Trefis.com, has raised $1.4 million funding
  • Monogram, an app that is like your own personal shopper on the iPad, has raised $840,000 in seed funding led by Quest Venture Partners
  • Ticket Cake, an event management technology startup, has raised a round of seed funding led by seed stage investment fund VegasTechFund
  • Polish online learning platform Langloo raised 130,000 Euros from media group Polskapresse
  • PlusN, a provider of carrier aggregation software solutions for increasing capacity in mobile data networks, has raised $600k seed funding
  • Arctico, who is developing presealed, purified ice that cools drinks more efficiently than traditional ice cubes, closes $255K seed funding
  • i7 Networks, a Bangalore-based company focusing on bandwidth traffic management, analytics, monitoring & shaping, lands $250K angel funding
  • DemystData, a company that helps FIs tap into the power of data, lands Series A investment led by Accion and Arbor Partners Asia
  • Gurgaon-based startup Clues Network, which runs the horizontal e-commerce marketplace ShopClues, has raised $4 million Series A funding
  • WikiCell, which develops edible forms of food and beverage packaging, has closed $10 million Series A funding
  • PastBook, a way to capture and relive important moments of your life that were shared on a variety of social networks, lands $250K funding
  • NorseCorp, a provider of Internet security intelligence and payments solutions, has completed a $3.5 million financing round
  • Intact Vascular, a developer of medical devices for minimally invasive peripheral vascular procedures, lands $15.5M Series A financing
  • MorningCroissant, the French marketplace for short-term accommodation rentals, has just raised €400K funding
  • Hallway, a social learning network that enables student-to-student collaboration, has raised seed funding
  • Routehappy, which is building a ‘Flight Experience Search Engine’, just raised $1.5 million in seed funding
  • Ooomf, which gives app developers that extra push to get over a few major hurdles, gets $500,000 seed funding led by Real Ventures
  • Irish smart energy technology company, Endeco Technologies, raises €1.6M funding to support international expansion
  • Korrio, startup that offers websites to help grownups organize youth sports leagues, has raised $4.6M funding

To get regular updates, come follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/angel__network or register for our blog at https://www.angelinvestmentnetwork.netwp-login.php?action=register.

Have you managed to raise capital for your company?  We always love to hear from entrepreneurs who manage to get funded.

Or are you looking to raise funding?  Send me a summary of your project at mike@angelinvestmentnetwork.co.uk and we’ll try to help.

 

Angel Investment Network’s Weekly Twitter Roundup

Angel Investment News:  

  • Last year at the GROW Conference Cory Smith performed a rap titled Takin’ VC Money (Money Cash IPOs) and it was a hit: https://ow.ly/de1ad 
  • Cork-based syndicate announces €1m investment in five Irish start-ups: https://ow.ly/deaZN 
  • This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations: https://ow.ly/dhATs 
  • Top Indian investors want $1B govt-sponsored fund of fund to anchor domestic early-stage VC funds: https://ow.ly/djk4r 
  • Gabriel Weinberg’s takeaways from three years of angel investing: https://ow.ly/djlW0 

Business Plans & Pitching:

Fund Raising:

Marketing & Social Media:

Start-Up & Entrepreneurship:

To stay updated, come follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/angel__network or register for our blog at https://www.angelinvestmentnetwork.netwp-login.php?action=register.

Read anything interesting? Feel free to add links to any articles or resources you’d like to share with the angel community.

Or are you looking to raise funding?  Send me a summary of your project at mike@angelinvestmentnetwork.co.uk and we’ll try to help.

 

Infographic – SEO top priority for B2B and B2C marketers

SEO, and how to measure its effectiveness, are top concerns for marketers, according to Webmarketing123’s new “State of Digital Marketing 2012 Report.” The survey, which drew on responses from more than 500 B2B and B2C marketers, found growing interest in social media from B2B companies, but ongoing frustrations with how exactly to gauge the impact of these online efforts.

Source: https://www.dmnews.com/infographic-seo-top-priority-for-b2b-and-b2c-marketers/article/257030/.

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