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| 22.02.2026 | NuCube Energy: $13 Million Raised For Nuclear Technology | NuCube Energy announced it has secured $13 million in funding as electricity demand surges across artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and industrial reshoring sectors in the United States. The financing round was led by Arizona... |
| 06.09.2025 | ProRataAI Secures $40M, Pushing Ethical AI for Publishers | ProRataAI secures $40 million in Series B funding. This investment propels its mission. The company empowers publishers through AI. Its Gist Answers offers embeddable AI search and summarization. Gist Ads generates shared ad revenue. ProRat... |
| 05.09.2025 | ProRata raises $40M to develop AI tools for publishers
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| 23.12.2024 | Inna Braverman to Speak at Imagination In Action 2025: Architects of the Global Future at Davos World Economic Forum | Inna Braverman to Speak at Imagination In Action 2025: Architects of the Global Future at Davos World Economic Forum
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| 21.11.2024 | Accelerators vs Incubators: What Startups Need to Know | Startup founders who want to start their careers on the right foot often seek help from an accelerator or incubator.
The terms “accelerator” and “incubator” are often assumed to represent the same concept. However, there are a few key disti... |
| 20.03.2024 | Casper’s co-founder is helping launch an incubator for climate tech startups | Hundreds of climate-related startups have been founded in recent years, but for Casper co-founder Philip Krim, that’s not nearly enough.
“We need a lot more zero-to-one founders in this ecosystem,” he told TechCrunch. Relative to other indu... |
| 12.03.2024 | Abundance360 to host “Great AI Debate” Summit | Today, Abundance360 (A360), a year-round leadership program for exponential entrepreneurs and leaders, announced year-12 of its annual Abundance Summit with top investors and entrepreneurs headlining the world’s most exclusive high-end tech... |
| 08.06.2023 | Цифры стартап-студий. Бум, восторг и критика венчурных студий: "Здесь только что было полмиллиона долларов. Где они?"... | Стартапы, созданные в венчурных студиях, доходят до раунда А в 2 раза быстрее обычных. С 2018 по 2022 количество стартап-студий выросло в 3 раза – до 855 по данным Enhance Ventures. Питер Тиль, Марк Андриссен, Джефф Безос и Ричард Брэнсон д... |
| 13.02.2023 | Tuned Secures $3.5M To Grow Hearing Care Platform for Employers | About 15% of American adults have hearing troubles, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Yet, hearing care is often not covered by insurance.
Digital hearing health company Tuned is trying to ch... |
| 09.11.2022 | «И у меня на это 7 причин»: чем технохабы привлекательны для стартапов | С тех пор, как в 1950-х годах недалеко от Стэнфордского университета был создан первый технопарк, такие пространства стали инкубаторами и своеобразными ЦУПами для бесчисленных технологических стартапов по всему миру.
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| 30.12.2021 | Los Angeles’ Top Startup Incubators and Accelerators | Whether you are making medical devices or movies, if you have a promising startup chances are there’s someone out there to help.
Southern California is home to an armada of accelerators, incubators, startup studios and other programs design... |
| 09.11.2021 | Key takeaways from the SOSV Climate Tech Summit | Benjamin Joffe Contributor
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| 03.11.2021 | Who rules the world: major startup studios of the world | Who rules the world: major startup studios of the world |
| 03.11.2021 | Who rules the world: главные стартап-студии мира | Who rules the world: главные стартап-студии мира |
| 03.11.2021 | Who rules the world: главные стартап-студии мира | Who rules the world: главные стартап-студии мира |
| 19.10.2021 | CarbonCapture Raises $35 Million for Climate Change-Reducing Tech | The largest driver of global warming, carbon dioxide is at its highest level in our atmosphere than any point over the last 8,000 years. And as carmakers and politicians race to come up with solutions, one Pasadena-based firm called CarbonC... |
| 07.10.2021 | Getting Started with Startup Studios: Founders’ Stories, Principles and Motivation | Getting Started with Startup Studios: Founders’ Stories, Principles and Motivation |
| 07.10.2021 | С чего начинаются стартап-студии: истории, принципы и мотивация их основателей | С чего начинаются стартап-студии: истории, принципы и мотивация их основателей |
| 04.10.2021 | ClimateTech Updates For September 2021 | Flying over the earth's surface, 3D rendering. Elements Of This Video Furnished By Nasa.getty |
| 29.09.2021 | Мифы о работе стартап-студий | Мифы о работе стартап-студий |
| 29.09.2021 | Myths about startup studios | Myths about startup studios |
| 24.06.2021 | Startup studios: how do the "unicorn" factories work | Startup studios: how do the "unicorn" factories work |
| 24.06.2021 | Стартап-студии: как работают фабрики по производству «единорогов»? | Стартап-студии: как работают фабрики по производству «единорогов»? |
| 29.04.2021 | ClimateTech Updates For April 2021 | A staff member looks at Luke Jerram's artwork Gaia, a replica of planet Earth created using detailed ... [+] NASA imagery of the Earth's surface, as it goes on display in the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, a... |
| 01.06.2020 | Has the rooftop solar tracking market been created by Point Load Power? | It’s not a stretch to say that the world of utility-scale solar development is run by trackers. By upping a project’s capacity factor, trackers allow modules to generate more power, allowing for less modules to be used in a project and over... |
| 11.08.2019 | The venture studio is the model we need right now | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The world needs big, audacious solutions to the t... |
| 11.08.2019 | The venture studio is the model we need right now | The world needs big, audacious solutions to the thorniest problems impacting humanity. Problems like climate change, space exploration, oceanic exploration, food shortages and mass violence require government, nonprofits and private enterpr... |
| 18.07.2019 | Workday buys Trusted Key in first exit for Seattle’s Kernel Labs, and a proof point for startup studios | Amit Mital, CEO and founder of startup studio Kernel Labs. (Kernel Labs Photo)
Business cloud software giant Workday has acquired Seattle-based Trusted Key in a deal that shows how the startup studio model is gaining traction.
Founded in 20... |
| 27.11.2018 | Режущий край экономики: чему можно научиться у венчурных студий | Самые передовые практики обычно возникают на краю — там, где риски выше, где больше ограничений и т.д. В этом смысле “краем современной экономики”, её cutting edge, на мой взгляд являются венчурные студии. Однако есть ощущение, что этот фен... |
| 07.11.2018 | The cost of energy storage has stalled adoption of renewable power. Energy Vault has a solution. | Because solar and wind power are now cheaper to produce than energy from fossil fuels, the only obstacle that remains to the mass adoption of renewable power is the amount of money utilities need to spend to store the energy those systems p... |
| 24.09.2018 | JinkoSolar partners with Edisun Microgrids to develop Eagle PowerTrack™ bundle for C&I rooftop solar projects | JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (“JinkoSolar”), one of the world’s largest solar module manufacturers, and Edisun Microgrids, Inc. (Edisun), a solar technology company that develops patented, distributed solar and energy storage technologies, ... |
| 25.08.2017 | How Branch Messenger Raised $10M to Offer Employee Self-Service for Shift Workers Everywhere | The Hyde Park Angels “New Investment Series” profiles our most recent investments by examining the portfolio company and its future trajectory from two perspectives: the portfolio company’s CEO and the HPA leader who made the deal happen. T... |
| 13.06.2017 | LA offers a fertile playing field for esports investments | Minard Hamilton Contributor
Minard Hamilton, is a partner at BITKRAFT Esports Ventures, an early stage investor and incubator with offices in both Berlin and Santa Monica.
It’s 78° and sunny in Venice. The southwest swell is drawing surfers... |
| 23.11.2016 | Former Expedia exec raises cash from Idealab for stealthy startup Closer Mobile | Closer Mobile CEO and Founder Jeff Warren. (Photo via LinkedIn)
Entrepreneur and former Expedia executive Jeff Warren is embarking on a stealthy new startup project called Closer Mobile, which is said to be operating in the “on-demand servi... |
| 29.09.2016 | CodeSpark raises $4.1 million for games that teach kids how to code | A Los Angeles startup called codeSpark has raised $4.1 million in seed funding for web and mobile games that teach kids how to code, even before they know how to read and write effectively.
CodeSpark’s games were developed for kids 4 to 9 y... |
| 08.09.2015 | Today's Entrepreneur: Grant Hosford | No. 1 Mistake: Not testing carefully for who your early adopter customer will be
Today's Entrepreneur is Grant Hosford, Co-founder and CEO at codeSpark. codeSpark’s mission is to ignite curiosity about computer science and turn programming ... |
| 21.05.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 21.05.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Ignition Partners raises $200M fund to back more enterprise software startups
Ignition Partners, a enterprise-focused ventur... |
| 21.05.2015 | Idealab-backed Quick.ly raises more than $5M to reinvent mobile search | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Stealth mobile search startup Quick.ly announced ... |
| 21.05.2015 | Idealab-backed Quick.ly raises more than $5M to reinvent mobile search | Stealth mobile search startup Quick.ly announced in a public filing that it’s raised at least $5.1 million.
Backed by tech incubator Idealab — where startups like Picasa and Answers.com originated — Quick.ly claims it’s “reinventing search ... |
| 02.04.2015 | Bitcoin API Startup Gem Raises Funding Total to $3.3 Million | Californian bitcoin API developer Gem has announced an additional $1.3m in funding, raising its total to $3.3m.
The round was led by KEC Ventures, with additional contributions from First Round Capital, RRE Ventures – also an investor in 21... |
| 02.12.2014 | ChangeTip Raises $3.5 Million for Bitcoin Micropayments Service | ChangeTip
Bitcoin social tipping startup ChangeTip has announced $3.5m in seed funding, drawing support from a variety of bitcoin-focused investment funds and entrepreneurs.
The seed round was led by Pantera Capital, according to the San Fr... |
| 01.10.2014 | Watch Vator Splash LA Live Web stream 10/2 | Jessica Alba, Brian Lee, Michael Heyward, Bill Gross, Mike Jones, Scott Painter, and more
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Please stay tuned for a live stream of Vator Splash LA with Jessica Alba and Brian Lee, the co-founders of T... |
| 30.09.2014 | Hear pioneers of the LA pre-seed scene at Splash LA | Meet and listen to founders of LA's studio/incubator model - Bill Gross and Mike Jones
Can you believe that Vator Splash LA is just two days away? Have you bought your tickets yet? If not, then make sure to buy your tickets here! They go up... |
| 29.09.2014 | 10/2 Splash LA Agenda w/ Alba, Lee, Heyward, and more | Need a reason why you can't miss Splash LA on 10/2? Check out the agenda
If you haven't already registered to Vator Splash LA, you better do so quickly. The event is three days away. If you need reasons to attend, just check out the agenda.... |
| 08.09.2014 | A one-stop shop for startup ideas | IdeaMarket’s first iteration came about 17 years ago. It crashed and burned spectacularly. As outlined in an L.A. Times article published at the time, the information database company, which was spun out of entrepreneur Bill Gross’ IdeaLab ... |
| 08.09.2014 |
Bill Gross Backs Startup Idea Marketplace IdeaMarket
| Bill Gross, the founder of Pasadena's Idealab, is stepping out of the lab, and into the market--saying Monday that it has co-founded a new startup called IdeaMarket, which will let investors submit funded, high level startup ideas, let the ... |
| 05.05.2014 | UberMedia Achieves 300% Growth in 2013; Secures $8M in Additional Funding from Gordon Crawford and Blue Chip Ventures | Company’s UberAds Mobile Ad Platform Now Reaches More Than 400M Mobile Devices
PASADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 5, 2014–
UberMedia, the leader in leveraging social and location signals to drive mobile advertising results, today announce... |
| 14.03.2014 | Garrett Camp’s Expa Raises $50M To Build New Startups | Expa, a self-described “startup studio” created by StumbleUpon and Uber founder Garrett Camp, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in funding from some big names, including Virgin founder Richard Branson and HP CEO Meg Whitman.
What... |
| 17.05.2013 | A list of top LA accelerators and incubators
Retrieve Voicemail Online or By Phone | Amplify, Launchpad, MuckerLab, Idealab and Science among those churning out new startups
(Updated to reflect more up to date information for Start Engine and Curious Minds)
s I have noted before, the tech scene in Los Angeles is on the rise... |
| 16.02.2013 | The Rise Of Company Builders | Entrepreneur-turned-investor is a classic story arc in Silicon Valley but recently the plot has earned a twist. Certain operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operati... |
| 14.10.2012 | 90% Of Incubators And Accelerators Will Fail And That’s Just Fine For America And The World | Editor’s note: Peter Relan is a former programmer and Internet executive, as well as a successful serial entrepreneur, Silicon Valley executive, angel investor, and technology veteran for over 25 years. Relan founded YouWeb Incubator in 200... |
| 07.09.2012 | YouWeb incubator founder launches Q&A forum for tech entrepreneurs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Peter Relan has built up a lot of experience in his tech career and his five-plus years running the technology incubator YouWeb. He men... |
| 26.06.2012 | Comparison Buying App ShopAdvisor Targets Blogs With Newest Update | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Maynard, MA-based Evoqu has been flying somewhat under the radar, but its mobile app ShopAdvisor hasn’t exactly been doing the same. It now boasts a combined 2.5 million users... |
| 06.06.2012 | Incubators and accelerators flourish in LA | As investors look to get in on early stage LA companies, incubators and accelerators explode
As we gear up for our second Vator Splash LA (swimmin’ pools, movie stars…), we can’t help but marvel at the LA tech scene. Startups are flourishin... |
| 09.11.2011 |
Idealab Funds Mingly
| Pasadena-based Idealab has led a round into LA-spawned Mingly, a developer of software which connects Gmail with a user's social networks. Mingly said it raised $500,000 in a seed round of financing from Idealab, Allen Morgan, Alex Karelin,... |
| 09.11.2011 | Mingly Closes $500K in Seed Funding | Mingly Inc., a San francisco, CA-based creator of a web service that brings email and social networks together, has closed a $500k in seed funding.
The round was led by Pasadena-based Idealab, with participation from angel investors Allen M... |
| 08.11.2011 | Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup | Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. There are significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top V... |
| 21.09.2011 |
Idealab Backs Top10
| Pasadena-based Idealab, the startup incubator run by Bill Gross, has made another external investment in a company, funding London-based Top10. Top10 operates a service which allows users to create their own "best of" lists in a s... |
| 29.08.2011 | Solar thermal power developer Infinia raising $25M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Infinia, a manufacturer of satellite-like dishes ... |
| 09.08.2011 | GE Invests Up to $40 Million in eSolar | General Electric Co. (GE) bought a minority stake in the California-based solar company eSolar this week. As a result of the deal, Paul Browning, President and CEO of Thermal Products for GE Energy, will join eSolar’s Board of Directors.
ES... |
| 27.07.2011 | Polling Startup Gopollgo Redesigns With Realtime Analytics, Raises $325K From Idealab | Polling site Gopollgo has recently closed a $325K seed round of funding from Idealab, in addition to launching a product and site refresh with a focus on gleaning more insights from Twitter followers.
With the new wood-paneled Gopollgo site... |
| 21.07.2011 |
Idealab Backs Clean Power Technology Firm
| Pasadena-based Idealab announced today that it has invested in a developer of clean energy generation technology. The firm has invested in Cool Energy, a Boulder, Colorado based developer of Stirling engine technology, used to convert heat ... |
| 11.07.2011 | Idealab CEO: Google+ will be fastest service ever to hit 100M users (and why he may be right) | Bill Gross, the founder and CEO of the business incubator Idealab, as well as the Twitter app company Ubermedia, has high hopes for Google+.
“I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in histor... |
| 11.07.2011 | Twitter’s Biggest Rival Thinks Google Plus Could Become Fastest Growing Network in History | Bill Gross is the founder of prolific business incubator Idealab and its Twitter app builder and buyer Ubermedia; he’s wrangled with Twitter headquarters over access to the Twitter API and reportedly tried (unsuccessfully) to outbid Twitter... |
| 11.07.2011 | Idealab CEO: Google+ will be fastest service ever to hit 100M users (and why he may be right) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Bill Gross, the founder and CEO of the business incubator Idealab, as well as the Twitter app company Ubermedia, has high hopes for Goo... |
| 27.05.2011 | Ideas Matter | There is this common adage that gets thrown around in startup circles that “Ideas don’t matter, and it’s all about the execution“. In fact, you can see for yourself what Google says when you search for “It’s not the idea, it’s the execution... |
| 10.03.2011 | AdMob Founder Partners With Sequoia Capital On Next Venture: Churn Labs | In December I wrote about how some successful entrepreneurs are starting incubators in a post called The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker – “I’m hearing more and more about people who are simply setting up an office somewhere close to their mul... |
| 17.01.2011 | Perfect Market Raises $9 Million More To Boost Content Visibility, Publishers' Revenue | Perfect Market Inc. has raised another $9 million — bringing its total funding to $28 million — for technology and services to help publishers generate web traffic, and make more money off their content. Comcast Interactive Capital led the ... |
| 05.01.2011 | PostUp Buys Twitter And Facebook Application Developer EchoFon | Twitter search and advertising startup PostUp (formerly TweetUp) has bought Twitter application developer Echofon, according to a release issued today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Echofon, which used to be called TwitterFon, is us... |
| 27.10.2010 | Bill Gross on the paid-search Twitter model | Founder of eToys, Idealab and Postup ushers in the popular Google model to the Twitter ecosystem
PostUp is set to release Thursday morning a cost-per-click bidding service to a limited group of users. This bidding service allows registered ... |
| 20.09.2010 | Internet Brands to be acquired for $640M | Hellman & Friedman pay a near 50% premium, and 4x sales; Sale price could bode well for Demand's IPO
Internet Brands, a NASDAQ-listed internet media company, announced Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Hell... |
| 30.08.2010 | TweetUp Now Includes Updates From LinkedIn And Facebook; Changes Name To PostUp | Twitter search and advertising startup platform operator TweetUp has announced today that its search engine for Twitter will be expanding to include bios and updates posted to other social networks, including LinkedIn and Facebook. Because ... |
| 13.08.2010 | Revenue Development | In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., we began by building chat servers. This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and clien... |
| 22.07.2010 | Solar Startup Energy Innovations, Funded and Incubated by Idealab, Begins Production in San Diego | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Energy Innovations, a solar energy company founded by entrepreneur Bill Gross, opened the doors of its new headquarters and manufacturing facility today in the suburban San Di... |
| 24.05.2010 | TweetUp Launches “AdSense For Twitter” Product At #TCDisrupt | TweetUp, the Twitter-focused search and advertising startup that was incubated by idealab – the original Overture founders – is launching today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City.
Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross took the s... |
| 27.04.2010 | 5 things to know about Chinese startups — from former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee (video) | We were lucky enough this morning to sit down with Kai-Fu Lee, one of the most prominent figures in the Chinese internet universe. Known best and most recently for serving as the founding president of Google China, he also led R&D at Ap... |
| 27.04.2010 | 5 things to know about Chinese startups — from former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee (video) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We were lucky enough this morning to sit down with Kai-Fu Lee, one of the most prominent figures in the Chinese internet universe. Know... |
| 13.04.2010 | Is Twitter's Ad Platform TweetUp's Early Death Knell Or Starter's Pistol? | Last night, Twitter finally unveiled the details of its long-awaited ad platform, Promoted Tweets. The news, at least at first glance, couldn’t have come at a worse time for TweetUp, the ‘AdSense for Twitter‘ startup that had launched out o... |
| 11.04.2010 | Overture Founder Launches Tweetup, "Adsense For Twitter" | idealab, the incubator behind the company that invented search engine marketing as we know it today, is launching a new startup that they say is applying some of the same business mechanics to the Twitter stream. The new startup is called T... |
| 29.03.2010 | $1 million: UK's Top 10 buys .com domain for global expansion | [UK] A million dollars, baby. That’s the amount paid by UK price comparison site ‘Top 10 Broadband and Top 10 Mobile Phones‘ to purchase the Top10.com domain name from US-based investor Idealab in a cash plus equity deal. Apparently, this a... |
| 26.10.2009 | Infinia, Backed by Paul Allen and Vinod Khosla, Raises $3M For Engines of the Sun | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Infinia, the Kennewick, WA-based company developing solar-powered engines that generate electricity, has raised $3.25 million in new debt financing as it pushes through the fi... |
| 06.08.2009 | Let there be light: eSolar switches on first U.S. solar thermal tower | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The U.S. solar industry just took a great leap fo... |
| 06.08.2009 | Let there be light: eSolar switches on first U.S. solar thermal tower | The U.S. solar industry just took a great leap forward with eSolar‘s announcement that its 5-megawatt Sierra SunTower is now fully operational. Located in Lancaster, Calif., the array uses 24,000 mirrors to concentrate sunlight on two 160-f... |
| 07.05.2009 | VIDEO: Interview with Venture Tech Firm Founder on the State of the Startup Economy | In Nashville, Tennessee, Marcus Whitney, founder of venture technology firm Remarkable Wit, takes a moment to talk to us about the struggles and triumphs he’s experienced in the wonderful world of tech startups.
Marcus explains a little bit... |
| 04.03.2009 | eSolar nabs $30M licensing deal for Indian plants | eSolar has been focusing increasingly on building large-scale plants in the U.S., and shedding plans to do the same overseas. Just last week, it announced that it sold its rights to build 500 megawatts worth of solar-thermal plants to NRG E... |
| 16.10.2008 | Kaixin001: China's Apple of Social Networks | Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Alan Rutledge, who formerly worked as a developer for Idealab, the startup incubator behind Google Picasa and Yahoo Overture.
Kaixin001, the latest newcomer to the Facebook clone wars in China, ... |
| 03.03.2008 | TNS buys Web traffic analysis company Compete for $75M | Taylor Nelson Sofres, the world’s third largest market research company according to one measure, has acquired Compete, a company that tries to measure the traffic and types of people that visit certain web sites, for $75m (£37.8m).
TNS, ba... |
| 11.01.2008 | Engine Yard, a Rails application support company, gets backing from Benchmark | Engine Yard, a provider of support for the hot programming language and application framework, Ruby on Rails, has raised $3.5 million in a first round of capital from Benchmark Capital.
Ruby on Rails (or Rails, for short) has grown tremendo... |
| 19.11.2007 | 20 worst VC investments of all time | InsideCRM has a list of what it says are the twenty worst VC investments of all time. See full details here, but here’s the quick list:
Amp’d Mobile: $360 million raised, ended in bankruptcy.
Procket: $272 million, sold for $89 million.
Web... |
| 02.11.2007 | Roundup: Medio v. Google, Sprint jettisoning WiMax?, BugLabs & more | Here’s the latest action:
1. Medio’s roar turning to a squeal?
2. Sprint changing WiMax plans?
3. AOL rumored to be considering buying ad targeting network Quigo for $300 million
4. Bug Labs, for open-sourced electronic devices
5. Semantic ... |
| 22.09.2007 | Reed Sturtevant: New Force for Microsoft in Boston is Veteran of Many Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If anyone can bring a startup sensibility to a software giant like Microsoft, it’s Reed Sturtevant. The MIT dropout, who left his position as CTO at over-50 social networking ... |
| 31.03.2005 | Snap News | Snap, the newish search engine spawned by Bill Gross’ Idealab, says today that it’s about to launch a “news page featuring some clever search technology.” No more info than that, except that there’s a “legal detail” that needs to be ironed ... |
| 10.01.2005 | Yahoo releases desktop search | Everyone is in the desktop search game now, save for AOL. Yahoo officially launched Yahoo Desktop Search tonight, after announcing it in December. It’s powered by X1 Technologies, yet another search company to come out of the Idealab incuba... |
| 10.12.2004 | Friday news | A lot to chew on today. Here are some things that have caught our eye:
Bill Gross, founder of the Idealab incubator, is riding pretty high these days. He’s got a new search engine called Snap, he recently sold Picasa to Google, and yesterda... |
| 29.11.2004 | Snap: the future of transparency? | We caught up with Bill Gross earlier this month to see how his interesting new search engine is coming along. Gross unveiled Snap at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco in early October and vowed to do something we’d not seen at another... |
| 05.10.2004 | Transparency | We spent some of the day at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, listening to some of the brightest Internet minds talk about the Web as the next big platform for development. In one workshop, Seth Goldstein and Steve Steinberg of... |
| - | Idealab founder Bill Gross started selling solar energy kits in 1973 at 15 years old. Now he's leading solar tech company Heliogen | Bill Gross is best known for founding technology incubator Idealab in 1996 after starting a string of tech companies.
Today, Gross devotes virtually all of his time being the CEO of clean energy company Heliogen, which concentrates solar en... |
| - | Do Vale do Silício à Casa Branca – passando pela África | Nicholas (Nick) Haan é um cientista e empreendedor americano que morou mais de 20 anos na África, onde foi executivo da FAO e de outras organizações do Sistema ONU. Atualmente, é o Diretor de Desafios Globais da Singularity University e coo... |
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