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Quirky Raises $6 Million For Social Product Development Platform

Quirky, a social network for product development, has raised $6 million in Series A funding
 led by RRE Ventures, with Village Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital and a small group of angel investors participating in the round. Prior to the closing of this round, Quirky had raised $1.6 million in seed capital from friends [...]

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Wed, April 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

BoomStartup Gives Utah Its Own Startup Incubator

While California and New York tend to get the most attention as technology hubs, other states are quietly hosting their own vibrant communities around technology and innovation. Utah is one of these states. Utah is home to tech giants Omniture (which was acquired by Adobe for $1.8 billion), Novell, Symantec. And today, Utah is getting [...]

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Wed, March 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

First Round, Betaworks, And Angels Back Up Backupify With $900K

You backup the data on your computer. Why not backup your data on the Web? That’s the basic premise of Backupify, a startup based in Louisville, Kentucky that backs up all your data on services like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, and YouTube.
Backupify, which was launched last June, just closed a $900,000 [...]

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Tue, February 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments