Laura Hazard Owen
Sep 12, 2011 9:40 AM
Wattpad, an online writing community that lets users share and collaborate on stories across platforms including mobile apps, has closed a $3.5 million first round of funding led by Union Square Ventures.
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Laura Hazard Owen
May 19, 2011 5:15 AM
What are venture capital firms looking for in mobile startups? Think emotional value and rethink the economics of content, Albert Wenger, a partner in Union Square Ventures, told Ernie Sander, executive editor of paidContent. Mobile Phone as Personal Identity: “The only thing more stable than most people’s phone number is…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 5, 2010 7:15 PM
AdaptiveBlue, the developer behind the entertainment “check-in” app GetGlue, has raised $6 million in a round of funding led by Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Investments, with RRE Ventures and Union Square Ventures also participating.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 29, 2010 6:00 PM
Foursquare, the extremely hot mobile check-in service, has finally raised a new round of funding. Since at least March, venture capital firms (and large internet companies) have been courting Foursquare, which has been growing very rapidly; at one point, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) was said to have offered as much as…
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Rafat Ali
Sep 4, 2009 4:15 PM
Foursquare, the hot iPhone social app that allows you to broadcast your location to your friends, is almost done raising its seed round of $1.35 million, according to a SEC document just filed. The new money is from, who else, Union Square Ventures, which is also an investor in Twitter.…
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Joseph Weisenthal
May 29, 2008 12:28 PM
Pinch Media, a newly launched startup offering iPhone developer tools, has raised an unspecified seed round from from Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital and angels including Dave Morgan, Jerry Neumann, Mike Yavonditte, and Sharkey Goldstein Capital. NYC-based Pinch has launched an analytics service designed to give developers a better…
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