Month: December 2012

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: 

  • Restore Medical, which provides a modular tray and method for reprocessing sterile surgical instruments, has landed $2.5M seed funding
  • EatAds, a marketplace to exchange out-of-home advertising space between outdoor media owners and media buyers, has raised seed funding
  • Consmr, a review and recommendation startup focused on everyday products, raises $565,000 seed funding led by Lerer Ventures
  • Udemy, the leading online education marketplace, had completed a $12 million Series B financing round
  • Avelas Biosciences, a developer of cancer diagnostic devices, lands $7.65M Series A financing from Avalon Ventures
  • Flocations, a travel discovery site aimed at short haul weekend travelers, has raised a SGD 0.7M seed round led by TNF Ventures
  • Apptentive, a startup that helps mobile app developers get in-app feedback from customers, has raised $1.2M seed funding
  • Sandglaz, a task management web app that helps you organise all your tasks for home & business, lands $500,000 seed funding
  • MadRat Games, which offers online and mobile Indian language learning game called – Aksharit, has raised undisclosed amount in funding
  • Testive, who has developed a new line of test-preparation products, has raised $500,000 seed funding
  • Burpple, a mobile app that seeks to connect food lovers around the world, has received $500,000 in seed funding
  • Burpple, a mobile app that seeks to connect food lovers around the world, has received $500,000 in seed funding
  • Speek, a service that takes the hassles out of setting up conference calls, receives $1.2M seed funding
  • Owlin, a real-time news analysis and notification company, has secured $250K funding from NoRo Venture Capital
  • Bubblepath Inc which operates the subscription billing site Chargebee, has raised $350,000 angel funding
  • Maximojo, which provides cloud-based distribution & revenue management solutions for hotels, lands angel funding
  • Hover Inc., a company bringing advanced computer vision and 3D mapping technology to the marketplace, has secured $3.1M seed funding
  • Koozoo, a platform that allows people to see and share live views of places they care about, closes $2.5M seed funding
  • NatureBox, a healthy snack subscription service, has closed $2M seed funding co-led by General Catalyst Partners & Redpoint Ventures
  • Seed&Spark, a solution for independent films to fund, produce & distribute films using the power of the crowd, lands seed funding

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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: 

Business Plans & Pitching:

  • Look Beyond VCs: Tips to Pitch Strategic Investors: https://ow.ly/fLJIt 
  • 8 Essential Questions Your Elevator Pitch Should Answer: https://ow.ly/fTYjn

Fund Raising:

Marketing & Social Media:

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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:

  • Printio.ru, a Moscow-based startup offering personalized printing services, has raised $700,000 from a total of 18 business angels
  • Wello, an online marketplace that uses two-way video chat to bring personal trainers to you, has closed $1 million seed round 
  • Pingup, a startup that lets consumers text businesses, has raised $4M funding from venture capital firm Avalon Ventures
  • TranscribeMe, an innovator in the voice-to‐text transcription space, has closed NZD 1.2 million from angel investors
  • Footfall123, specialists in loyalty marketing technology, has received £1.7 million in Series A funding
  • Red Tricycle, an online city guide for parents with things to see, eat, do and buy with your kids, lands $1.5M Series A funding
  • Perch, a hands-free video communication app, which uses ambient video technology to help families stay connected, lands angel funding
  • Prediki, an Austrian startup that specializes in developing predictions and forward-looking analysis, has landed $650,000 seed funding
  • Cinemagram, an app that creates animated “cines” and lets users apply effects to clips before animating, lands $8.5M Series A funding
  • Voice and messaging applications provider Plivo has closed $1.75M seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery, Qualcomm & SV Angel
  • TrueLens, providers of customer intelligence product Socialgraphics, has raised a $1.2M funding round led by Google Ventures
  • WhistleTalk, a social recruiting platform that makes referral hiring easy for employees & hiring managers, wins $400,000 angel funding
  • Cloud-based video screening tool Kira Talent has raised seed funding from Relay Ventures with participation from over 10 angel investors
  • Fitness Interactive Experience, a health and fitness game developer, has raised seed funding from BVM Capital
  • SmartThings, which offers a system that connects everyday physical objects to a cloud-based control center, closes $3M seed funding
  • Guitar Hero co-creator Green Throttle Gaming has raised $6M Series A funding for the development and launch of its Android controller
  • Clarity, the startup that connects experts with advice seekers for one-on-one calls, lands a $1.6M seed investment
  • Promoboxx, a brand-to-retailer marketing platform that allows brands to launch co-branded online campaigns, lands $1.375M seed funding
  • OneSpot, which transforms your content into powerful and profitable content ads, has raised a $1.5M round of funding
  • ABPathfinder, which helps therapists of children with autism to create therapy plans via specialized software, closes $400,000 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:  

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 – Everything you need to know about Dragons’ Den in one excellent stat attack

From Oriental dipping sauces to a car parking space lettings agency, from a sausage manufacturing company to ice cream for dogs – the most recent series (can you believe it was the tenth?) of Dragons’ Den has continued to show that where there’s tat, there’s brass.

Or so the Dragons – Hilary Devey, Duncan Bannatyne. Deborah Meaden, Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones – hope, anyway.

Freshly updated to reflect all of the investments made right up to the wire of last night’s final episode, our lovely infographic has all the DD stats you could ever hope for.

Wonder how much each Dragon is worth? We got that in pic and word from, scroll down for a look.

Need, need, need to know exactly how much dosh the rich ones have ploughed into their top combined investments? Well, we wouldn’t tease you like that without following up, that’s below too.

Have a passing interest in the most successful companies that have gone on to thrive after missing out on the Dragons’ dollars? You should know by now which direction we’re going to point you in…

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/dragons-den-2012-infographic-everything-1470843