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Confirmed: Chris Dixon Becomes Seventh Investing GP at Andreessen Horowitz

Chris Dixon will indeed be the latest VC to join Andreessen Horowitz, as I had reported earlier was likely, starting in January. Dixon is a lively and interesting choice for the high-profile Silicon...

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Associated Content Founder Beatty to Helm TechStars Boulder Program

Luke Beatty, the founder of Associated Content, has been named managing director of TechStars’ Boulder, Colo., program. Beatty, who had been an entrepreneur in residence at the start-up accelerator,...

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VCs Still Chasing Web Companies, but With Less Cash

Venture investors still have a healthy appetite for early-stage consumer Internet companies, but those startups are having a harder time raising follow-on financing. Overall the amount invested in...

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Small Is Beautiful: Greycroft Partners Raises $175 Million in Third Fund

Greycroft Partners has closed a $175 million fund, its third since it began investing in consumer Internet and media companies in mid-2000. In a press release, the New York- and Los Angeles-based...

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Poshmark Stitches Up $12 Million in Funding for Its iPhone Thrift Store

Poshmark has raised $12 million in a second round of funding, making it one of the latest used-clothing marketplaces launched over the past couple of years to raise significant funding. The company’s...

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Green Throttle Games Raises $6 Million to Turn Phones Into Game Consoles

Green Throttle Games, which is attempting to turn Android phones into videogame consoles that connect to the TV, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding. Trinity Ventures led the round with...

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Prioritizing Growth Over Profits, One Kings Lane Raises $50 Million in Capital

One Kings Lane, which sells home decor at a steep discount online, just raised its most significant round of capital yet. The $50 million round brings the company’s total raised to date to $117...

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Khosla Ventures Brings In Condoleezza Rice's Firm for Strategic Role

In yet another instance of a Silicon Valley venture firm bringing in big government guns to class up the place, Khosla Ventures said that it had signed the international consulting firm run by former...

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Kamcord Gets Backing From Top Investors to Record Mobile Game Play

Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and Tencent are just three of the investors backing a small San Francisco start-up called Kamcord, which is enabling gamers to record their play on mobile and share...

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Expedia Invests in Room 77's Big $30 Million Round

A number of high-profile names in the travel industry are betting on Room 77, a three-year-old start-up in the hotel-booking business. Today, the company is announcing its third funding round, totaling...

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Education Start-Up Focused on Making Flashcards Mobile Raises $9 Million

StudyBlue, which has more than 2.5 million students using its free apps to create flashcards and quizzes, has raised $9 million in a first round. Great Oaks Venture Capital led the round, with...

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Chartboost Secures $19M From Sequoia to Help Mobile Games Attract More Players

Chartboost, which has developed technology that enables developers to promote each other’s games inside of their apps, has raised $19 million in capital. Sequoia Capital led the round, and existing...

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Ribbit Capital Raises $100 Million With the Goal of Modernizing Money

Ribbit Capital is a new Silicon Valley fund focused on making investments in anything to do with money — from lending to tax preparation to mobile payments. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is officially...

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Greg McAdoo Exits Sequoia Capital

Longtime Sequoia Capital venture capitalist Greg McAdoo will be leaving the Silicon Valley firm. McAdoo, who will stay aboard for a few more months to smooth the transition, has made a number of...

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Go West, Young Geek: Chris Dixon on Why He Became a Silicon Valley VC at...

In mid-November, longtime entrepreneur, active angel investor, iconoclastic blogger and hardcore New Yorker Chris Dixon told the tech world something it least expected — that he had taken a job as a...

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Payvment Pulls the Plug on Facebook Commerce

Payvment announced today that is shutting down its Facebook commerce platform and handing over its customers to a competitor. In a letter on its website, Payvment said that it and its companion site,...

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Pluto Media Raises $500K to Build Apps That Make Learning Fun

Pluto Media, an education company focused on building apps for tablets, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from Rob Hutter of Learn Capital, Jennifer Carolan of NewSchools Venture Fund and angel...

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Sift Raises More Funding to Help Turn Your Inbox Into a Personalized Shopping...

Sift has raised $540,000 in funding to turn the deluge of offers sent to consumers via email into a shopping app for the iPad. The Burlingame, Calif.-based company, which was incubated by the Tandem...

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Warby Parker Competitor Rivet & Sway Raises $2 Million More

Rivet & Sway, which sells prescription glasses online to women at $199 a pair, has raised $2 million in capital. The lead investor was Mousse Partners, with its existing investors Baseline Ventures...

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Rover.com Fetches $7 Million for Its Dog-Sitting Service

Rover.com, the dog-kenneling alternative, has raised $7 million in a second-round funding. The Seattle-based company said the Foundry Group led the round, with existing investor Madrona Venture Group...

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