Sarah Lacy is the author of “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good” and a columnist at BusinessWeek. Michael Arrington hired her to write for TechCrunch.com, but she quit shortly after the technology blog was acquired by AOL. Today it was announced that Lacy has started a new website called PandoDaily and it is backed with $2.5 million in funding. PandoDaily is a daily technology news blog and it will focus on the startup community. The website name was inspired by a colony of trees in Utah called Pando Trees.

BillGuard has raised $10 million in Series B funding. Investors in this round includes Founders Fund, Innovation Endeavours, Bessemer, IA Ventures, Saul Klein, and Joe Lonsdale. The company previously raised $3 million in Series A this past February.