SALT LAKE CITY — Instructure™ (www.instructure.com) announced Canvas K-12™, a new learning management platform that co-enrolls parents with their students in schools, makes state standards tracking painless and provides actionable analytics to teachers and administrators. More than a dozen K-12 …

The huge success of online shopping and advertising—led by giants like Amazon and Google—is in no small part thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pages and what you click on. Startup Prism Skylabs offers brick-and-mortar businesses the …

Both Mike Jones and Peter Pham have had their entrepreneurial ups and downs.   Evidently, the downs haven’t dampened their ambition. Just two months after officially launching Science, an L.A.-based “technology studio” founded by Jones, Pham, and three of their …

Early last summer we wrote about Backplane, a mysterious startup with impressive backers and some major star power behind it: one of its cofounders, Troy Carter, is Lady Gaga’s manager. And Lady Gaga herself has a significant stake in the …

Review by Eric Eldon of TechCrunch   I made heavy use of Ness‘s restaurant-finding iOS app during a recent trip through the East Coast, because lots of places are still sadly short on Yelp reviews, and I wanted a quick …

Sharecare, an interactive health and wellness social platform providing people with access to expert-developed answers, information and programs to live their healthiest life, today announced that it has secured $14 million growth equity financing led by Galen Partners along with …

Amplify, a recently launched LA-based startup accelerator is announcing its first set of startups today. As we reported in December, the accelerator, which is being managed by Paul Bricault and Richard Wolpert, will be incubating and investing in companies at …

What do you do when a new industry, which serves the same customers as you do, suddenly appears and starts to grow astronomically? In the case of Los Angeles-based SkuLoop (www.skuloop.com), what you do is you shift your focus to …

In March of last year, DailyWorth, the personal finance daily email and community for women, raised an $850K seed round led by Robin Hood Ventures, with investors like Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, Social Leverage, 500 Startups, Venture51, Investors’ Circle, Joanne Wilson, …

CX (free to $19.99 per month) is a cloud-based syncing and storage back-up solution, similar to the well-known Dropbox, that gives you access to your files from virtually any Internet-connected device. CX offers free downloadable software that works seamlessly on …

DALLAS — Mozido, (www.mozido.com), the global cloud payment network that provides access for every mobile phone to the financial ecosystem, today announced that Richard (Rick) Braddock has joined the Company as Chairman of the Board.   "We are thrilled to …

Another startup accelerator is debuting in LA today—Amplify. With the backing of some well-known Hollywood and Silicon Valley names, the Venice Beach-based incubator is launching a $4.5 million incubator and fund. Investors include Mark Burnett (Apprentice, Survivor), Brian Grazer, Jarl …

Serial entrepreneur Mike Jones has led and help found a number of companies. As CEO of Userplane, AOL acquired the company in 2006. After leaving AOL, Jones started Tsavo Media, which was acquired by Cyberplex for $75 million. And in …

Forbes Travel Guide is debuting Startle.com, a new online travel planning site for luxury travel. Launching in 72 U.S. markets and 5 international markets (Hong Kong, Macau, Beijing, Singapore, and the Dominican Republic), Startle uniquely combines content from Forbes Travel …

Back in July, a new cloud computing and productivity platform called CX.com raised $5 million from Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital, bringing the startup’s total funding to $10 million. This is pretty impressive considering the company largely has …

WASHINGTON — EverFi, the leading education technology company, has certified over four million students across its technology learning platforms.   "EverFi set out to build a game-changing education network built on data and next-generation content," said EverFi Chief Executive Officer …

Dan Morrison understands the power of face time. While traveling through India in 2006, he met a woman who said her earthquake-ravaged community needed a well but didn’t have the $5,000 required to build it. Back home in Washington, D.C., …

Appia, a startup that powers a white-label content and commerce platform for everyone and anyone who needs a mobile app store, has partnered with Vodafone India to launch a new mobile app store for the carrier’s 145 million subscribers in …

Xfire, which operates a social service used by 19 million gamers, has raised $4 million in fresh funding from Intel Capital and unnamed angel investors.   As a result of the capital injection, Xfire is severing the ties with Titan …

Social Q&A site Sharecare.com, created by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and TV’s Dr. Mehmet Oz, is partnering with Healthline Networks, a provider of intelligent health information services. Healthline currently powers the health platforms at Yahoo Health, AARP, Aetna, United Health …

ATLANTA, GA — Sharecare announced today that it has partnered with the Emmy award-winning, nationally syndicated "The Dr. Oz Show" and Weight Watchers to power Dr. Oz's Transformation Nation: Million Dollar You, an unprecedented online health challenge. Launched today on …

Unveiling VentureWire’s FASTech 50: Most Innovative Start-Ups   The search for the most innovative venture-backed technology start-ups is over!   Over the past few months, the VentureWire editorial team analyzed hundreds of start-ups in the Dow Jones VentureSource database, and …

A new search start-up, Ness, is aiming to provide much more personalized search results than what exists on sites from Google to Yelp.   The mobile app, launching Thursday, recommends restaurants based on the interests of people with similar tastes. …

Appia, a startup that powers a white-label content and commerce platform for everyone and anyone who needs a mobile app store, has passed an important milestone—the company is now seeing 1 million downloads per day (that’s up from 500,000 a …

Diversion, a Los Angeles-based social gaming studio backed by Shawn Fanning and Michael Eisner – who are billed as ‘founding advisors’ – has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, Hearst Corporation and Eisner’s …

CX, a cloud storage and SaaS data file management system, has raised $5 million in new funding from Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $10 million. CX, which has flown under the …

PixelFish, the online video advertising solution for small businesses, announced today that it has closed a $4 million series B round of funding. The round was led by early-stage venture firm Bullpen Capital, with contributions from returning investors FLOODGATE and …

David Ronick started coaching Amanda Steinberg three years ago. Earlier this year she raised $850,000 from a group including Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt's TomorrowVentures.   When I met Amanda Steinberg through a mutual friend in July of 2008, DailyWorth …

Only two months after buying Social Gaming Network (SGN), MindJolt, the game distribution company led by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe, is churning out its first mobile social game today with the launch of SGN’s Mini Café. As …

SAN FRANCISCO, CA– Prosper.com, a social lending marketplace that brings together creditworthy borrowers with individual and institutional investors, today announced that it has raised over $17 million in funding from new investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Crosslink Capital. Existing investors …

Soon after Apple started its music-centric social network Ping last year, Steven P. Jobs reached out to Lady Gaga and her business manager, Troy Carter, for feedback.   At the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Lady Gaga peppered Mr. Jobs, …

SAN FRANCISCO — When people had only one or two computers, file sharing wasn’t a big worry.   Now, gaining access to personal files is a chore for people who own an arsenal of computers, smartphones and tablets.   The …

Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has joined D.C.-based EverFi Inc. as a member of its advisory board and will lead the company’s national cities education campaign.   EverFi runs online, interactive courses and certifies students in a number of life …

With Apple clamping down on incentivized downloads, white-label mobile app platform Appia (formerly PocketGear) has launched a new performance based advertising network for app developers to increase app downloads and only pay for results.   In case you aren’t familiar, …

It was only this past December that local business guide Backyard launched, backed by a few big-name early-stage investors. Now, less than five months later, they’re exiting and providing a nice, quick return for those investors.   PixelFish, a creator …

TomorrowVentures, the investment firm founded by Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt has partnered with Digital October, a Moscow, Russia-based tech startup incubator.   According to local reports (via Quintura blog), Schmidt’s investment vehicle will team up with Digital …

NEW YORK — It was a scene straight out of the 1990s: A web start-up, flush with nearly $1 million in new investor cash, threw a party at a downtown bar to toast that success. But here’s the 2011 twist …

MindJolt, the game distribution company that was acquired by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe last year, has made two significant acquisitions in the gaming space today— game developer Social Gaming Network (SGN) and game network Hallpass Media. The …

Washington D.C.-based startup EverFi has acquired Outside The Classroom, the provider of the largest online alcohol prevention course AlcoholEdu. Founded in 2000, Outside The Classroom’s online curriculum focuses on alcohol prevention in America’s youth. Its online products, AlcoholEdu for College and AlcoholEdu for …

Durham, NC – Appia, the world’s largest open app marketplace, today announces that it has secured a $10 million investment from Venrock. Appia will use the new capital to accelerate product development of its open app marketplace and launch app …

Two of TomorrowVentures' portfolio companies were included in the The Wall Street Journal's second annual ranking of the top 50 venture-capital-backed companies.   Durham-based Appia, the world's largest open app marketplace and white label storefront platform, was ranked #15.    San Francisco-based …

  Opera is launching a designated, web-based mobile app store today, called the Opera Mobile Store. The store will be a featured Speed Dial link in the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers.   The Opera Mobile Store is actually …

  DailyWorth, the personal finance daily email and community for women, has raised $850,000 in funding led by Robin Hood Ventures with TomorrowVentures, Howard Lindzon’s Social Leverage, 500 Startups, Venture51, Investors’ Circle, Joanne Wilson, David Cohen, Scott Becker, and Carol …

CENTENNIAL, Colo.–Intern Inc., a career-driven social networking community that connects, enhances, and empowers today’s students to become tomorrow’s leaders, today launched the Ultimate Internship featuring an extraordinary opportunity to become an intern to chairman and CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt.   Starting …

CIQUAL, an Edinburgh, Scotland based leader in mobile broadband customer service solutions has closed its latest investment round with significant funding from multiple parties across the globe. Investors including Tomorrow Ventures, a Palo Alto-based fund, and One97 Communications Limited, a …

Atlanta-based Twitpay, the leading provider of social media payment technology, has secured growth funding from TomorrowVentures and CompuCredit Holdings Corporation. Twitpay was founded in 2008 and offers a platform-as-a-service into three core markets: nonprofit organizations looking to raise funds directly …

  Washington, D.C. – February 2, 2011 – EverFi Inc., a provider of the leading education technology platform, today announced its expansion as a broader education company by unveiling that it will move into critical new curriculum areas beginning with …

NEW YORK – The Associated Press is broadening its range of video services as part of a long-term global digital transformation strategy, announcing today the transition of its hosted online video operation in the United States to a digital platform …

  Amid increasing controversy about Web surfers’ privacy, a Chicago company has designed a solution to help companies manage their site visitors’ data and control how third-party advertisers track those users’ behavior.   Now that advertisers can buy access to …

  Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook and the chief digital organizer for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, knows a thing or two about building online communities. Now he is applying his expertise to a new venture called Jumo, which …

  The Genworth Foundation announced today a three-year commitment to strengthen financial education in more than 300 high schools across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The announcement, made at Henrico County’s Hermitage High School, included Lieutenant Governor William “Bill” Bolling and …

Less than a week after its global launch, MiniTycoon Casino by Social Gaming Network ("SGN"), is now the number one mobile social game on the iPhone ahead of the real social games including Empire City, TapZoo, Restaurant Story and Farmville. …

When Dan Morrison saw women in rural India hauling water for miles, he committed to personally raising $5,000 to build a well. That philanthropic effort turned into Citizen Effect, a website Morrison launched last year to help others complete similar …

PocketGear, Inc., the world's largest open app store and mobile content marketplace, today announced the addition of three new experienced leaders to the company's executive team. The new hires are Ken Hayes, Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development, …

Washington D.C.-based startup EverFi has just raised $11 million in Series A funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation fromTomorrowVentures and independent investors including Michael Chasen, the CEO of Blackboard.     For more Information on EverFi, please see …

BrightTag™ digital media’s first Data Rights Management Platform for marketers and publishers, today announced it has closed its Series “A” financing round. TomorrowVentures and New World Ventures led the round, which also included participation from Epic Ventures and the I2A …

PocketGear, operator of a mobile application store, today announced it has raised a second round of funding for $15 million. The funds will be used to continue product development, increase its sales and marketing team and expand globally, according to …

New York-based mobile technology start-up company DOTGO today announced that mobile industry pioneer Patrick McQuown has joined the company as CEO. In his new position, McQuown will be responsible for leading the growth of DOTGO's revolutionary mobile business.   For …

New Silicon Valley venture capital fund to launch in three regions     U.S. Department of State April 27, 2010 Fact Sheet Silicon Valley Partnership: The Innovators Fund The Department of State has entered in a non-exclusive partnership with The …

OAF Silicon Valley Recap TomorrowVentures attends the inaugural OAF Silicon Valley.  As usual, six hand selected startups presented to a room full of angels.  Rather than give a detailed description of the evening, here are some blog posts and tweets from the …

Fund raise includes new investors TomorrowVentures and CompuCredit along with all existing Prosper investors Prosper.com, the world’s largest peer-to-peer lending marketplace with nearly one million members and over 32,000 funded loans totaling over $194 million, today announced that it has …

Reuters and News Distribution Network team-up to provide revenue sharing opportunity for online news industry New York, February 2, 2010 – Reuters and News Distribution Network (NDN) today announced a video solution for newspaper, magazine, and radio outlets, which is …

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