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10gen CTO Eliot Horowitz on the Rise of MongoDB, Partnering with Red Hat, and...
Mr. Horowitz Earlier this week, 10gen, the promising AlleyCorp startup launched by DoubleClick cofounder Dwight Merriman, announced a new partnership with an eye toward helping developers who work with...
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Dwolla Prepares to Launch a New York City Office By Poaching Aviary’s Alex Taub
Mr. Taub Dang, looks like we missed a couple prime candidate from our spring Poachables list. Alex Taub, head of business development and partnerships at Aviary--and a familiar face to anyone in the...
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Startup News: Dev Bootcamp, Incubator Deadlines, Closet Monsters From TV and...
Stacy London of What Not to Wear has a new startup called Style For Hire. (Source: Phil Plait via Wikipedia) SHUTTER. Luminance is not your average photography conference. Instead of focusing on the...
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Behance Lands $6.5M From USV and Others, Gets Ready to Scale
Behance CEO Scott Belsky (scottbelsky.com) After years of bootstrapping, online portfolio platform Behance is taking on outside funding to the tune of $6.5 million, TechCrunch says. Union Square...
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Naveen Selvadurai’s Next Project Explores the Quantified Self
Not pictured: Fitbit and Withings scale. (via @Naveen) Don't call it a startup--at least not yet--but Foursquare cofounder Naveen Selvadurai dropped some hints about an upcoming personal project at an...
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Digital Publishing Startup Wattpad Raises $17.3M Series B For Social Reading
Old school, meet new school. (flickr.com/friarsbalsam) Just last week, the publishing industry got the Wall Street Journal treatment for having sidestepped the disruptive effects of digital privacy....
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Codecademy Programs Its Way to a $10M Series B
(Photo: www.successstories.co.in/) Some may tsk-tsk the "learn to code" meme, but that hasn't deterred New York-based Codecademy from sticking to its vision of teaching all of us to code. Today,...
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Union Square Ventures Hires Two New Bright Young Minds As Analysts
Mr. Watson, left, and Mr. Pease (Photo: Twitter/bwats and USV.com) Union Square Ventures just capped a nine-month search for fresh blood, announcing not one, but two new investment analysts this...
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Booting Up: Doing Deals at the End of the World
JPMorgan Chase agreed to acquire the online coupon site Bloomspot for $35 million. Good to seek synergies in case the world doesn't end. [Bloomberg] Another precautionary measure: Seven months after...
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Rumored $150 M. Deal Should Make Holidays Happy for NYC Startup Behance
Behance, the New York-based design-oriented community with more than 1 million members, is getting something in the neighborhood of $150 million to be acquired by Adobe Systems, a "well placed source"...
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Foursquare Dodges a Potential Down Round, Grabs $41M In Loans and Convertible...
(Photo: Sound Ctrl) Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about Foursquare, the New York-based check-in and recommendations app that was the breakout darling of SXSW 2009. Former Square COO Keith Rabois...
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Union Square Ventures, Other Investors Pump $5M Into Bitcoin Startup Coinbase
"Vires in Numeris" lol (Photo: Flickr/Zach Copley) Fred Wilson has just broken his two-year, no-investment streak. The Wall Street Journal reports Union Square Ventures is leading a $5 million round in...
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Fred Wilson Denies PrivCo Report Union Square Ventures Made $253M Off Tumblr...
(Via http://castielmalotovedlucifer.tumblr.com/, God knows the original source) Order us up a dish of crow, because we might get a few more angels out of this Tumblr deal than we initially suspected....
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