Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Highland Capital Partners http://pulse2.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 WePay Raises $10 Million http://pulse2.com/2012/05/03/wepay-raises-10-million/ http://pulse2.com/2012/05/03/wepay-raises-10-million/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 21:14:38 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=60757 Continue reading →]]>
WePay has raised $10 million from Ignition Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and August Capital. The company launched as a way to help friends and family pool resources. Now they are offering online payment tools for merchants and non-profits.

WePay is aiming to compete against PayPal for SMBs. The advantages they have include ramp up time, fees, setup, and installation. WePay COO and co-founder Rich Aberman said WePay offers “one-stop shop tools to get anyone up and running accepting payments online, the way that they want to accept payments,” in ab interview with Betakit.

WePay charges a flat rate of 3.5% per transaction compared to PayPal’s 2.9% plus $0.30. They charge $0.50 if funds are drawn from a user’s bank account instead of a credit card. WePay is also targeting non-profits by offering a donation page creation tool. They charge the same 3.5% rate that they charge businesses. This is less than competitors like Kickstarter and First Giving.

WePay plans on using the funding to expand their team. Currently they have 40 employees. Mobile is becoming one of their core focus.

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Zoove has raised $15 million in Series D funding led by Panorama Capital. Existing investors that participated in this round include Cardinal Venture Capital, Highland Capital Partners, and Worldview Technology Partners. Zoove is the company that created StarStar Numbers, a registry of branded phone numbers such as **WEATHER and **SUZUKI.

Zoove provides StarStar Numbers for the largest wireless operators in the country. StarStar Numbers allows consumers to call the name of the brand being promoted such as **ESPN to get to its mobile app, website, coupon, etc. without the need for QR code scanning.

Zoove powers the National StarStar Registry with cooperation from the four major mobile operators in the U.S. Companies can lease branded vanity StarStar Numbers from Zoove. For consumers, there is no extra charge to call vanity StarStar Numbers. After the initial phone call, users receive a text message or voicemail to prompt them to engage further by visiting websites, download apps, etc. For an annual fee, brands pay an annual fee, which varies based on length and scarcity.

[TechCrunch]

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CampusLIVE is a web advertising company that is based in Boston, Massachusetts. CampusLIVE raised $3.1 million in funding from Highland Capital Partners, Charles River Ventures, and other angel investors. Last year CampusLIVE raised $340,000 in funding. [Xconomy]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2011/04/15/web-advertising-company-campuslive-raises-3-1-million/feed/ 0 Bamboom Labs Raises $4.5 Million In Seed Funding http://pulse2.com/2011/04/15/bamboom-labs-raises-4-5-million-in-seed-funding/ http://pulse2.com/2011/04/15/bamboom-labs-raises-4-5-million-in-seed-funding/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:28:47 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=45981 Continue reading →]]>
Bamboom Labs is a company that develops technology for watching live TV on the Internet. Bamboom Labs has raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital. Other investors include High Line Venture Partners, SV Angel, Highland Capital Partners, and First Round Capital.

Bamboom Labs is led by Chaitanya “Chet” Kanojia. Kanojia’s last start-up Navic Networks was acquired by Microsoft in 2008. Many of Bamboom’s team members include former employees at Navic, Microsoft, Andrew Corporation, and Lucent.

Bamboom Labs rents out personal antennas to customers so that they are responsible for retransmitting the copyright content from the TV to the computer. Bamboom Labs is based in Long Island City, New York.

[VentureBeat]

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2tor is an online education website that is based in New York City. The company has raised $32 million in Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Previous investors that participated in this round include Highland Capital, Redpoint, City Light, and Novak Biddle. 2tor has raised a total of $65 million. 2tor is pursuing the higher education market and is partnering with graduate programs. 2tor plans on providing a technology platform for higher graduate programs to offer classes online.

2tor’s first partner is the University of Southern California, which will use 2tor for its Masters in Teaching and Social Work classes. Next year 2tor will be launching a nursing program with Georgetown University and MBA classes at UNC-Chapel Hill. Before University of South California started using 2tor, they had 80 students in the Masters of Teaching program. Today they have 1,500 students in the program. These students are in the program from across 45 states and 28 countries. The online students all pay the same full tuition and they get the same degree. 2tor runs the course websites and provides students with a webcam. 2tor shares tuition revenue with the schools.

[TechCrunch]

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RentJuice is a real estate community website where real estate agents and brokers can view real estate data. RentJuice raised $6.2 million in Series B funding led by Highland Capital and Tim Draper of DFJ. RentJuice automates administrative tasks for real estate professionals, brokerages, and landlords. RentJuice helps brokers capitalize on predictions that 10 million new renters will enter the U.S. market in the enxt 5 years. RentJuice was founded in 2009 by CEO David Vivero and CTO Kunal Shah.

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Paper.li is a website that takes links shared on your Twitter and Facebook feeds and then converts the information into a newspaper-like website. SmallRivers SA, the company behind Paper.li has raised $2.1 million in funding from Highland Capital Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Endeavour Vision. Dan Hova of Highland and Ronald Fisher of SoftBank Capital will join the Board of Directors at SmallRivers.

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Geo-location service SCVNGR has raised $15 million in funding with a $100 million valuation. The funding in SCVNGR was led by Balderton Capital. There was also participation from Google Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. Balderton partner Barry Maloney will be joining the board of directors at SCVNGR. This round of funding puts SCVNGR’s total funding close to $20 million. Right off the bat, people believe that SCVNGR competes with Foursquare and Facebook Places. But SCVNGR has more of a focus on gaming and challenges like trivia. Local venues can customize the games on SCVNGR. [TechCrunch]

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Heartland Robotics is a company that was founded in 2008 by Rodney Brooks. Brooks was an iRobot co-founder and was the former director of MIT’s Computer Science and A.I. Lab. Heartland has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Highland Capital Partners. The Series B was joined by existing investors Charles River Ventures and Bezos Expeditions along with new investor Sigma Partners. [TMCNet]

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Pixable is a New York based company that has raised $2.5 million from Highland Capital. Pixable also has announced a public beta test of a new feature called Pixable Videos. Pixable CEO and co-founder Inaki Berengeur said that the company’s goal is to allow people to choose photos from Facebook and transform them into fun videos. The videos are going to be entertaining than slide-shows. Pixable’s first product was to allow online photos into a printed photo album. After creating the Pixable Video, you can post it on YouTube, Facebook, and blogs. [VentureBeat]

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