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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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Infographic – Small Business and Social Media
Angel Investment Network’s Weekly Twitter Roundup
- Y Combinator shrinks its startup program: https://ow.ly/fOq1E
- India sets up seaside Startup Village to nurture start-ups: https://ow.ly/fOoBY
- Infographic – Everything you need to know about Dragons’ Den in one excellent stat attack: https://ow.ly/fOvaR
- Australian venture capital needs a new story: https://ow.ly/fQ2yH
- Early-stage funding by venture capital firms rises in India: https://ow.ly/fQ3rs
- Video – 500 Startups Founder, Dave McClure, on The Indian Startup Space, Emerging Markets & Entrepreneurship: https://ow.ly/fRY8r
- How India’s angel investors are lifting its startup community to new heights: https://ow.ly/fTX3e
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:
- A 4-step guide to finding the right VC: https://ow.ly/fLIt9
- 11 Tips For Raising Capital For A Business: https://ow.ly/fOREq https://ow.ly/i/1cEu3
- How to Speak the Language of Venture Capital: https://ow.ly/fQ35R
- Should you bootstrap your business or seek funding? https://ow.ly/fU2zo
- These Numbers Show Just How Hard It Is For Startups To Find Money Right Now: https://ow.ly/fU2GY
Marketing & Social Media:
- 6 Steps to a Small Business Social Media Strategy: https://ow.ly/fLI9o
- 5 Insider Tips for a Better Social Media Strategy: https://ow.ly/fLJ2w
- 3 Social Media Marketing Strategies to Increase ROI: https://ow.ly/fOjSI
- 10 Steps to Creating a Killer Facebook Ad Campaign: https://ow.ly/fOiPW
- Infographic – 23 tips for creating content that Google loves: https://ow.ly/fUjt9
Start-Up & Entrepreneurship:
- How to Evaluate Your Startup Idea: https://ow.ly/fOpA4
- The Four Questions Startup Founders Should Ask To Figure Out Their Product Strategy: https://ow.ly/fOqm9
- How the Midwest Is Becoming an Entrepreneurial Hotspot: https://ow.ly/fOtDo
- Sydney A Haven For Startups. The city has been ranked 12th in the world for having the right ecosystem for start-ups: https://ow.ly/fOqW3
- Top five staff characteristics needed in your start-up: https://ow.ly/fOrs7
- Tech City in East London bags a £50m makeover as part of a plan to turn the area into a world leading tech hub: https://ow.ly/fTWKT
- 7 Stocking Stuffers for the Entrepreneur: https://ow.ly/fTZmF
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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
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Infographic – 23 tips for creating content that Google loves
500 Startups Founder, Dave McClure, on The Indian Startup Space, Emerging Markets and Entrepreneurship
Angel Investment Network’s Weekly Twitter Roundup
- Swedish venture capital activity lowest since 2007: https://ow.ly/fztQh
- Australia’s start-up scene fuels surge in VC activity: https://ow.ly/fC0EI
- Crowdfunding platforms are poised to make fools out of a generation of amateur investors, triggering waves of lawsuits: https://ow.ly/fCbEf
- Angel investor Bill Payne on people, products and pivots: https://ow.ly/fDEZm
- Announcing the 2012 Venture Capital 100: https://ow.ly/fFUsb
Business Plans & Pitching:
- Hook Investors With a Concise Plan: https://ow.ly/fDFxs
- Video – The perfect elevator pitch and the skills you need to leave a lasting impression on venture funders: https://ow.ly/fzA5I
- Do a Ton of Homework Before Writing a Business Plan: https://ow.ly/fCb0e
- Video – Creating Your Perfect Elevator Pitch: https://ow.ly/fC0hL
- Infographic – How To Craft A Killer Startup Investor Pitch: https://ow.ly/fH2Wj
Fund Raising:
- How Accelerators Help Start-ups Get Funding: https://ow.ly/fzt2M
- Want Venture Capital Funding? Here’s How: https://ow.ly/fzzOi
- How can your small business stand out to a potential investor? https://ow.ly/fDEPV
- VC Blogs You Should Follow (and Why): https://ow.ly/fFUi2
- List of the Most Active VCs in Healthcare & Life Science: https://ow.ly/fFZCU
Marketing & Social Media:
- 16 Social Media & Blogging Stats of 2012: https://ow.ly/fzudR
- What Is A Social Media Strategy? https://ow.ly/fDECW
- How to Do Social Media Right – 5 Tips: https://ow.ly/fDFjD
Start-Up & Entrepreneurship:
- Got a Start-up Idea? Find Out If It Will Work: https://ow.ly/fzt6g
- The Top 7 #Startup Tweets of the Week: https://ow.ly/fztgE
- Bangalore Ranks 19th Among Startup Ecosystems Globally: https://ow.ly/fztvT
- Startup viability – stress testing your idea: https://ow.ly/fC8P7
- Couldn’t agree more with this startup quote from Steve Jobs: https://ow.ly/fDGG4
- 10 Proven Methods That Successful Startups Live By: https://ow.ly/fDGnk
- Startups Are The New Frenzy In The Middle East: https://ow.ly/fDHxv
- Six Tips for Navigating Your Startup Through the First Two Years:https://ow.ly/fFVUi
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