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People Search Engine Ark Raises $4.2 Million In Seed Round
Ark is a people search engine launched at Y Combinator Demo Day that has raised $4.2 million in a seed round of funding. Ark crawls Facebook, RenRen, LinkedIn, and Twitter to find out as much data as possible. The founders at Ark got the idea for the startup when they found out that 30% of searches are for people.
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Y Combinator Now Letting Participants Apply Even Without An Idea
Technology incubator company is trying something completely different for people that are interested in applying for their startup boot camp. They are going to have a separate application for people that don’t have an idea yet. Now nothing is holding you back from becoming part of a startup. If you apply for this class batch and you seem like a good found, you will be accepted without an idea and then you can come up with one.
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“YouTube For Businesses” Service Vidyard Raises $1.65 Million
Vidyard is a company that is considered a “YouTube for Businesses.” The company has raised $1.65 million from SoftTech VC, Jawed Karim (YouTube co-founder), Y Combinator, SV Angel, iNovia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Paul Buchheit, Vivi Nevo, David Nizkad, Dennis Kavelman, and several others.
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ZeroCater Raises $1.5 Million To Help You Plan Office Lunches
MemSQL Raises $2.1 Million From Multiple Investors
MemSQL has raised $2.1 million in seed funding from First Round Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Start Fund, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Ashton Kutcher, Paul Bucheit, Sam Altman, Guy Oseary, and several others. MemSQL will be using the funding to move into a new office in downtown San Francisco. MemSQL is an in-memory database system that is 30 times faster than relational databases. MemSQL focuses on online transaction processing.
Rumor: Airbnb In The Process Of Raising Over $100 Million
Airbnb is close to raising over $100 million based on a valuation of over $1 billion. This round is being lead by Andreessen Horowitz. Participation is expected from DST. Airbnb’s last round of funding was about $7.2 million and included Sequoia Capital, Greylock, SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher, and Youniversity Ventures. Airbnb launched out of Y Combinator.
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Inporia Raises $1.25 Million From NEA, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Others
Inporia is a stealth e-commerce start-up company that has raised $1.25 million in funding. Inporia was founded by Ryan Junee, who is known for co-founding Omnisio (acquired by Google) and works as an advisor at 500 Startups. The investors in this round include New Enterprise Associates, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Clearstone Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Ignition Partners, Southern Cross Venture Partners, and Start Fund. [TechCrunch]
Grubwithus Raises $1.6 Million To Encourage Dinner Dates
Grubwithus is a social dining service where you pick a restaurant in a city that you like and buy a ticket for a meal at a set price. To really make the service work, other people have to buy a meal at the same place and you can coordinate a time to meet at the restaurant.
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Google Acquires Customer Feedback Company TalkBin
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has acquired TalkBin. TalkBin started less than 5 months ago. TalkBin was incubated at Y Combinator and was acquired on the same day as another Y Combinator company called Wufoo. TalkBin’s platform allows customers to give feedback immediately to local businesses. TalkBin has Android and iOS applications. TalkBin was founded in December 2010 by Qasar Younis, Sunny Dhillon, and Michael Ma. TalkBin will be shut down temporarily, but will be reopened again in the near future. [TechCrunch]
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SwipeGood Raises $500,000 From Several Angel Investors
SwipeGood is a Y Combinator company that has raised $500,000 from several investors, including Bebo co-founder Michael Birch. They have also received funding from The Start Fund, Y Combinator, Ron Bouganim, MR Rangaswami, and Frederik Fleck. After enrolling your credit card with SwipeGood, every purchase will be rounded up to the nearest dollar and that remaining amount will be donated to charity. So if you buy $7.60 worth of goods from a grocery store, you will be charged $8 instead and the remaining $0.40 will be given to charity. This extra change can add up and make an impact with charities. [TechCrunch]