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Gowalla On The iPad. Why? (Screenshots)

There is obviously a lot of excitement around the iPad. Kleiner Perkins is doubling its iFund to launch more companies around the new device. And everyone from existing iPhone app developers and media companies is rushing to create iPad versions of their apps. As the screenshots leaked to us below show, you [...]

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Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Former EA, Yahoo Marketing Vet Mitali Pattnaik Appointed GM Of PlayFirst

We haven’t heard much from PlayFirst since we covered the San Francisco-based casual gaming startup’s last funding round back in December 2007, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t moving for the venture-backed company.
Earlier this year, the startup inked a major deal with Big Fish Games and today it has announced that social game industry executive [...]

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Mon, February 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

VC Leaderboard: Top 25 Most Active Dealmakers Of 2009

Which venture capitalists funded the most companies last year? We went through our funding data in CrunchBase to come up with the Dealmaker Rankings below. The most active VC was Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which invested in 57 deals throughout the year by our count, followed by Kleiner Perkins (49), New Enterprise Associates (47) [...]

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Fri, January 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments