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Feb
02

Blast From The Past #38: Cella Dwellas – Perfect Match

Things have been mad quiet this week. Partially because I haven’t come across anything I consider good enough to put up on here, and partially because I’ve just signed up to Netflix, and realised there are shit loads of terrible B Movies I haven’t seen yet. Anyway, I’m sure normal service will be resumed soon, …

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Jan
27

Conceptboard receives funding from HighTech Gruenderfonds, Seedfonds

Conceptboard, a virtual whiteboard startup, which was in the news recently with their G+ Hangout feature, just announced that’ve raised “a 6-figure funding round” from two German investors. Details of the investment have not been shared publicly, but TechCrunch has learned that it was around 500.000 euros. It’s the startups series A round, and was …

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Jan
26

Online video marketer Clipkit raises funding from T-Venture, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft

Exclusive – Yet another funding round for a Berlin-based tech startup. T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom’s venture arm, and IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft have co-invested in privately-held online video syndication and marketing company Clipkit. The size of the round was not disclosed, but we’re told that it was a “mid-seven-digit euros” figure. With the new capital, Clipkit intends to …

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Jan
24

Fantasy Shopper becomes one of Europe’s hottest startups with $3.3m from Accel and NEA

Fantasy Shopper is a social shopping game where players discover and share the latest fashion from real-world online and offline retailers. It’s gained a lot of traction since it’s launch last October, especially amongst women and we’ve heard on the grapevine that it was piquing the interest of investors for some months since emerging from …

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Jan
23

Maker of taxi-ordering app myTaxi raises €10 million from Daimler, Lars Hinrichs

Intelligent Apps, the Hamburg, Germany-based startup behind popular taxi ordering smartphone application myTaxi, has raised 10 million euros in growth funding from car2go, a subsidiary of Daimler, Germany’s third largest carmaker. XING and Hackfwd founder Lars Hinrichs also participated in the financing round, as did previous backers T-Venture (Deutsche Telekom) and KfW Bankengruppe. According to …

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Jan
12

StrikeAd strikes £2m second round from DFJ Esprit to expand

StrikeAd, a London and New York based mobile advertising startup, has secured a £2m second round investment from VCs DFJ Esprit expand further internationally. The investment follows a first round finance from Germany-based venture capital firm eValue announced in February 2011. It recently announced a move into the Japanese market in conjunction with mediba Inc., …

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Jan
06

Free Facebook cards from Moo are going like very hot cakes

Some 24 hours after we broke the news that Facebook had engaged Moo to be the sole creator of its new ‘social’ business cards service we have some exclusive numbers on what that deal is translating into. The promotion of 200,000 free packs of 50 cards is on a first come, first served basis. However …

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Jan
03

Blippar raises seed funding from Qualcomm for mobile augmented reality technology

Blippar, the UK startup behind an eponymous mobile image recognition and augmented reality platform, has landed seed funding – the size of the investment was not disclosed – from Qualcomm Ventures. The startup, which is based in London, says the seed funding serves as a springboard for a bigger Series A funding round it expects …

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