Based in Seattle, Washington, Julep is a company that sells nail polish, bath products, skin products, and makeup online. The company has raised $10.3 million in their latest round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Julep also sells a subscription service where users can receive a box containing a curated selection of Julep goodies.
The outstanding national student loan debt is high in America at over $1 trillion. Around $864 billion of that amount is backed by the federal government. A majority of these loans have an interest rate that is higher than 6%. Formerly known as Binksty, Tuition.io wants to help college students by help with student loans.
Virool is a video advertising platform that has raised a $6.62 million seed round of funding including Thomvest Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, #DominateFund, FundersClub, and other investors. Virool will be using the funding to expand the adoption of their platform. Virool went from 200 users to 30,000 since they launched in March 2012.
Fab.com is a flash sales site that has raised $105 million in a new round of funding. Fab.com CEO Jason Goldberg confirmed the news. This puts Fab.com at a pre-money valuation of around $600 million.
Pop star Lady Gaga has launched a new social network that looks similar to Pinterest called LittleMonsters.com. Users can vote for photos and videos posted to the website in a way that is similar to Reddit. Users of the website can create Gaga-related content and chat with other “Little Monsters.” The website was created by Backplane and input from Lady Gaga. The startup was founded by Gaga’s manager Troy Carter, Backplane CEO Matt Michelsen, former Google designer Joey Primiani, and former Palantir director of ops Alex Moore. Backplane is known for designing websites for big brands like Nike and Major League Baseball. People can sign up using with their Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Socialcam is an iPhone app that spun off of video sharing website Justin.tv last year as part of Y Combinators winter 2012 class. Socialcam has raised seed funding from 46 well known angel investors. Socialcam’s fiercest competitor is Viddy. They have been fighting back and forth as the top Photo & Video app recently. Socialcam has reportedly surpassed the 20 million user mark. Below is a list of all of the investors involved as compiled by TechCrunch.
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Social media website Votizen encourages people to like-minded voters to get together and influence elections. Votizen has raised $750,000 from investors that include Sean Parker, Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, A-Grade Investments, and Troy Carter. Votizen’s total funding is now at $2.25 million.
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Scan is a QR code application company that has raised over $1.7 million in funding from Menlo Ventures, Google Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Start Fund, Social + Capital Partnership, Transmedia Capital, Ludlow Ventures, and angel investors Ariel Poler, Naval Ravikant, Jim Pallotta, and Troy Carter. Scan is based in Provo, Utah.
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