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TechCrunch
September 2021

  Byju¡Çs acquires coding platform Tynker for $200 million in US expansion push
     

TechCrunch
April 2020

  TapClicks expands its marketing platform by acquiring AdStage
     

BusinessWire
August 2019

  Fairfax County Public Schools to Use the NoRedInk Writing Program in All High Schools This Fall
     

TechCrunch
August 2019

  Airship acquires A/B testing company Apptimize
     

GeekWire
August 2019

  Mobile marketing startup Airship acquires Apptimize to bolster customer experience testing
     

Reuters
August 2019

  LatAm delivery app Rappi plans to double footprint by year-end
     

Contxto
August 2019

  Rappi releases new B2B delivery service in Chile
     

BusinessWire
August 2019

  Wish Valuation Rises to More Than $11 Billion Following Series H Financing Led by General Atlantic
     

Fortune
August 2019

  ThirdLove, a Rare Tech Company Where Women Dominate
     

Fortune
July 2019

  Online Bra Destination ThirdLove Opens Concept Store in New York
     

Business Insider
July 2019

  ThirdLove is an online bra startup that launched in 2013. It is opening its first pop-up store in New York this month.
     

BusinessWire
July 2019

  PINCHO and by CHLOE. Select Thanx to Create Superior Branded Apps for Customer Loyalty and Online Ordering
     

Business Insider
July 2019

  The founder of a $1.7 billion startup walked us through the pitch decks that helped him raise $448 million
     

Cision PRWeb
July 2019

  Shyft Partners with Bellhops to Bring Modern Moving Experiences for Corporate Relocation
     

The Daily Times
June 2019

  Fintech Unicorn Brex Partners with Science Exchange to Offer Incentives for Biotechs
     

BusinessWire
June 2019

  ThirdLove Co-Founders and Co-CEOs, Heidi Zak and David Spector, Receive Prestigious EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2019 Award in Northern California
     

Crunchbase News
April 2019

  Colombian On-Demand Delivery Unicorn Rappi Raises $1B From SoftBank
     

Tech Crunch
February 2019

  ThirdLove, the direct-to-consumer lingerie startup, gets a $55M boost
     

Tech Crunch
February 2019

  WeWork just made its first acquisition of 2019, snapping up a visitor identity and behavior company Euclid
     

Marketing Dive
February 2019

  P&G buys purpose-driven feminine care marketer This Is L.
     

Tech Crunch
January 2019

  Byju buys Osmo for $120M to add blended learning to its $4B digital education business
     

Festool
January 2019

  TTS Tooltechnic Systems AG & Co. KG acquires the US company Shaper Tools
     

BusinessWire
March 2018

  The Apax Digital Fund Leads $43 Million Funding Round in Wizeline
     

GlobeNewswire
March 2018

  Candex Raises $3.5 Million To Conquer The Pain Of Enterprise Payments
     

Popsugar
February 2018

  Delayed or Canceled Flight? AirHelp Can Help You Get Compensated For Up to $700
     

BusinessWire
February 2018

  Science Exchange announces its partnership with Novaseek Research Inc.
     

TC
January 2018

  Snapchat enhances Bitmoji with 1.9 septillion avatar options
     

Forbes
January 2018

  How ThirdLove's Founder Is Changing How Women Buy Bras
     

TC
December 2017

  Meet Genies, the lifelike personalized avatars that reenact news
     

Business Insider
October 2017

  Codefights wants to help programmers get hired based on their coding skills rather than their résumés
     

TC
July 2017

  The virtual used car dealership Shift raises $38 million
     

Xconomy
June 2017

  As Big Pharma Flocks to Science Exchange, Norwest Leads $28M Funding
     

Inc
June 2017

  The Silicon Valley Investors You Need to Know in 2016
     

Foundr
June 2017

  Top Investors Share What They Love (and Hate!) About Your Startup Pitches
     

Bloomberg Technology
May 2017

  Used Car Apps Try to Prove Their Business Isn't a Lemon
     

Apple Insider
May 2017

  Tynker teaches Swift to grade-schoolers for Apple's 'Everyone Can Code' program
     

9 to 5 Mac
May 2017

  Apple partners with Tynker to create game-based Swift coding lessons for kids
     

Business Insider
April 2017

  This bra is so comfortable and fits me so well I forgot I was wearing it
     

Tech Crunch
April 2017

  How Osmo decides to make its tangible, high-tech toys
     

KQED News
April 2017

  Tech Companies Revise Employee Travel Policies in Age of Trump
     

Business Insider
April 2017

  This is one of the most practical carry-on bags you'll ever use
     

Westword
April 2017

  The Most Popular Terms, Strains and Emojis on 4/20
     

Venture Beat
April 2017

  Football legend Joe Montana invests $250,000 in Blend's Genie bots
     

Search Engine People
April 2017

  The Best A/B Testing Tools For Mobile Apps
     

Manchester Evening News
April 2017

  How to avoid getting on an overbooked flight - and what you should do if it happens
     

Florida Times Union - Jacksonville.com
April 2017

  Get interview assistance with CodeFights
     

The Wall Street Journal
April 2017

  At These Startups, HR Comes Before the Ping-Pong Tables
     

Bloomberg Technology
April 2017

  Silicon Valley's Spooked by Trump and Mexico Sees an Opportunity
     

San Francisco Chronicle
April 2017

  Border is no barrier at Wizeline
     

USA Today
March 2017

  A guide to all those weird words your teen uses
     

PC Magazine
March 2017

  Meet Baker the Salesforce of Cannabis
     

Forbes
March 2017

  When It's Time To Dump Your Career And Pursue Your Passion
     

Tech Crunch
Jan 2017

  Iris Automation raises $1.5 million to help drones sense and avoid obstacles
     

PR Newswire
Jan 2017

  FaceCake Debuts Latest Augmented Reality for Retail Platform at NRF 2017
     

Tech Crunch
January 2016

  AdStage Looks Beyond Advertising
     

PSFK
January 2016

  Code-Fight for a Job at Asana, Dropbox, or Uber
     

Silicon Valley Business Journal
January 2016

  San Jose's OneRent property management startup grows into Seattle, nabs funding.
     

Fashionista
January 2016

  Ex-Victoria secret CEO invests in Thirdlove, a startup promising better fitting bras
     

Silicon Valley Business Journal
January 2016

  Code-Fight for a Job at Asana, Dropbox, or Uber
     

Amplify
January 2016

  San Jose's OneRent property management startup grows into Seattle, nabs funding.
     

Venture Beat
September 2015

  Chobolabs raises $1.3M to put hardcore gaming on mobile
     

Business Insider
September 2015

  This startup thinks competitive programming could be more popular than college football
     

EIN News
September 2015

  Keen IO launches Keen Pro, enabling embedded analytics anywhere.
     

Venture Beat
September 2015

  Shyp launches in Chicago, the first city where it has exclusively W2 employees.
     

Gigaom
September 2015

  Hands on with Zuli's smartplug.
     

Forbes
August 2015

  How to Get Introduced to Investors
     

Tech Crunch
August 2015

  Healthy Food Delivery Startup Zesty Served $17 Million In Funding To Cater Beyond The Bay
     

Venture Beat
August 2015

  Hall of Fame NFL QB Joe Montana highlights $1.5M raise for social sports app GameOn
     

Tech Crunch
August 2015

  Custom Analytics Company Keen IO Goes Open Source With Its Data Explorer
     

Tech Crunch
August 2015

  Used Car Retailer, Shift, Raises $50 Million In Round Led By Goldman Sachs
     

Stream Daily
August 2015

  StarMaker, DanceOn partner to find music's next big thing
     

Huffington Post
August 2015

  John Shahidi: The King of Twitter and CEO of Shots
     

GISuser
June 2015

  Euclid Analytics Brings Actionable and Easy-to-Deploy In-Store Analytics to HP Campus Networking Retail Solutions
     

VentureBeat
June 2015

  How Kamcord could run away with mobile gaming videos while YouTube fights with Twitch
     

CoinDesk
June 2015

  Blend Lands $2.7M In Seed Funding Led By NEA
     

TechCrunch
June 2015

  AdStage Raises $1.5M In Debt Funding
     

TechCrunch
May 2015

  CEO Kevin Gibbon Says Shyp Still Isnt An On-Demand Company
     

TechCrunch
May 2015

  Tynker, A Startup That Teaches Kids To Code, Now Works With Robots, Drones And More
     

VentureBeat
May 2015

  Chartboost introduces new services to help mobile game developers maximize their revenue
     

iDigitalTimes
May 2015

  ShadeScout App Lets You Find Makeup Colors From Hues You Find In Real Life
     

CNN Money
May 2015

  SinglePoint Signs Distribution Agreement to Partner With Glympse(R) on Marketing Real-Time Location Platform for SMB
     

TechCrunch
April 2015

  CodeFights Scores $2.4 Million To Turn Coding Practice Into A Game
     

The Wall Street Journal
March 2015

  Kamcord, the Twitch of Mobile Gaming, Records Large User Growth
     

MarketWatch
March 2015

  StarMaker Raises Series B Led by Raine Ventures
     

The Wall Street Journal
February 2015

  NoRedInk Secures Backing to Help Teach Writing to Students
     

VentureBeat
February 2015

  Apptimize raises $4M for app deployment and testing platform
     

TechCrunch
February 2015

  Rockbot's Jukebox App Can Automatically Add Songs When You Walk Into The Room
     

brandchannel
January 2015

  CES 2015: From Robots to Beacons, the Future of Retail is at Hand -- Featuring FaceCake
     

Reuters
January 2015

  Advertisers to get a glimpse of Apple Watch promise, challenge -- Featuring TapSense
     

Symmetry50
January 2015

  The Top 100 Startups in LA -- Featuring PogoSeat
     

CB Insights
January 2015

  The 104 Most Active Seed Venture Capital Firms
     

TechCrunch
January 2015

  Zuli to be addded to Nest's "Works with Nest" program
     

The Wall Street Journal
January 2015

  From Bikes to Babies: The Internet of Things at the Consumer Electronics Show (Feat. Zuli)
     

TechCrunch
December 2014

  Shyp Partners With Banana Republic To Help Procrastinating Shoppers
     

TIME Magazine
November 2014

  The 25 Best Inventions of 2014 -- Featuring TangiblePlay (Osmo)
     

Wall Street Journal
November 2014

  GungHo and Tencent Back Mobile Gaming Community Kamcord
     

T Four
December 2014

  Telly And Telfaz 11 Team Up To Bring Online TV Entertainment Across Middle East
     

TechCrunch
November 2014

  Shift Technologies Raises $23.8 Million to Build Used Car Marketplace
     

TechCrunch
November 2014

  Thanx Gets $4.7 Million From Sequoia, Partners With Visa And MasterCard
     

PR Newswire
October 2014

  API Design Pioneer announces Apiary for Enterprise
     

TechCrunch
October 2014

  'Shots' named as 1 of 7 Celebrity-Backed Startups That Totally Nailed It
     

NY Times
October 2014

  AdStage now lets you buy and manage Twitter ads
     

The Wall Street Journal
October 2014

  Osmo raises $12 million for educational games platform
     

The Wall Street Journal
October 2014

  'Micro VC' Fund XG Ventures Applies Google Lessons to Seed Investing
     

NY Times
September 2014

  Chobolabs raises $1.3M to put hardcore gaming on mobile
     

TechCrunch
September 2014

  Shyp Launches In New York City, And Miami Is Next
     

TechCrunch
August 2014

  Rockbot Grabs Funding From Universal Music Group To Bring Its Social Jukebox To More Businesses
     

FinSMEs
August 2014

  Zuli Raises 1.65M in Seed Funding
     

Parents' Choice
August 2014

  Tynker earns Parents' Choice Gold Award.
     

The Wall Street Journal
August 2014

  AdStage Raises $6.3M to Put Digital Ad Management on Auto-Pilot
     

TechCrunch
August 2014

  Rapt Media Raises $3.1 Million For Interactive Video Advertising Platform
     

TechCrunch
July 2014

  WalmartLabs Acquires Kleiner Perkins-Backed Luvocracy, A Pinterest-Like Marketplace For Product Recommendations
     

TechCrunch
July 2014

  Shipping Startup Shyp Raises $10M Led By SherpaVentures, Plans Expansion To New York City
     

TechCrunch
July 2014

  PredictionIO Raises $2.5M For Its Open Source Machine Learning Server
     

TheNextWeb.com
May 2014

  How Pebble uses Keen IO's analytics to build a better smartwatch
     

Forbes
May 2014

  Give Your iPad The Power Of Sight... For Fun
     

NY Times
May 2014

  Painless Shipping In a Few Easy Steps
     

TechCrunch
May 2014

  OLSET Raises $1.1 Million To Personalize Your Business Travel With Big Data
     

TechCrunch
May 2014

  AirHelp Lets You Claim Money For Messed Up Flights
     

TechCrunch
May 2014

  Kamcord, The SDK That Allows You To Record Mobile Games, Raises $7.1M From TransLink Capital
     

GeekWire
April 2014

  Zillow, Glympse win Webby Awards for tech achievements
     

TechCrunch
April 2014

  Value-Focused Mobile Shopping App Wish Raises $19M From GGV And Formation 8
     

PRNewsWire.com
April 2014

  AdStage Ad Platform Announced As One of First LinkedIn Sponsored Updates API Partners
     

TechCrunch
April 2014

  Ooyala Co-Founder Launches Product Prioritization Platform Wizeline
     

NY Times
March 2014

  If you use this startup once, you will never ship a package again
     

TechCrunch
March 2014

  eShares Tackles The Headache Of Startup Valuations By Offering "409A-As-A-Service"
     

TechCrunch
March 2014

  Blend Lands $2.7M In Seed Funding Led By NEA
     

Cision PRWeb
February 2014

  Kloudless and Copy by Barracuda Now Integrated to Streamline Email Attachment Workflow
     

NY Times
February 2014

  Tynker plans launch of its teach-kids-to-code iPad app at SXSW
     

PSFK
February 2014

  ThirdLove patents computer vision technology for determining a user's size through their smartphone
     

NY Times
February 2014

  A Social Network That's Just for College Students
     

Wired
January 2014

  The Next Big Thing You Missed: A Tiny Startup's Plot to Beat Google at Big Data
     

Forbes
January 2014

  The Women Who Built Outstanding Companies (Featuring: Science Exchange)
     

AutoWeek
January 2014

  Meet the Jaguar/Land Rover smartphone (Featuring: Glympse)
     

VentureBeat
January 2014

  TapSense launches native ad marketplace to eradicate the mobile banner ad
     

TechCrunch
January 2014

  Mobile A/B Testing Startup Apptimize Raises $2.1M, Launches A Tool For Non-Developers
     

FaceCake.com
December 2013

  Startup Raises $500,000 to Add Smart Hotel Bookings to Productivity Apps
     

FaceCake.com
December 2013

  NoRedInk Is Growing At Mach Speed, 10% of The US School System Using
     

FaceCake.com
December 2013

  Shopping Goes High-Tech with FaceCake and Swivel
     

TechCrunch
October 2013

  Keen IO Raises $2.35M For Its Custom Analytics Platform
     

Data Informed
September 2013

  Euclid Data Scientist: In-Store Shopper Analytics Should Be Transparent
     

San Francisco Giants
September 2013

  Giants fans can now upgrade their in-game seating experience right from their seat
     

AdStage
September 2013

  AdStage Awarded VC's Choice Award at SF Pitch '13
     

TechCrunch
September 2013

  Kamcord Brings In-Game Screen Recording Tools To Android
     

Women2.com
September 2013

  Andrea Zurek Named as One of 7 Female Investors to Watch!
     

PRNewsWire.com
September 2013

  Vungle, Kamcord Team Up to Launch User-Generated Mobile Video Ads
     

PRNewsWire.com
September 2013

  TapSense Offers Free Consulting to Mobile Marketers Navigating Apple's New iOS 7 and iPhone 5S
     

MarketWired.com
September 2013

  Glympse Partners With Samsung to Deliver Location Sharing Right From the Wrist
     

FaceCake.com
September 2013

  Watch the E! News FaceCake segment
     

AllThingsD.com
August 2013

  With $2M From Google Ventures and Others, NoRedInk Tackles Bad Grammar
     

TechCrunch
August 2013

  Kamcord Nabs Another $1M In Seed Funding To Help Build A Community Around Mobile Game Recordings
     

TechCrunch
August 2013

  PicCollage, The Sticker-Happy Collaging App, Raises $2.3M In Seed Funding And Aims To Build Out Its Social Platform
     

TechCrunch
August 2013

  ThirdLove Raises $5.6M To Help You Find The Right Bra Size By Using Your iPhone
     

TechCrunch
August 2013

  eShares Raises $1.8 Million In Funding To Replace Paper Stock Certificates With Electronic Shares At Private Companies
     

TechCrunch
August 2013

  With Tynker's New Service, Kids Can Learn To Code At Home
     

TechCrunch
July 2013

  Location Tracking App Glympse Links With Evernote To Let Users Archive Their Trails
     

Forbes
June 2013

  Glympse Is Snapchat For Location-Sharing
     

TechCrunch
June 2013

  Hasty Plans To Take On GrubHub With Super Healthy Takeout and Delivery App In SF
     

TechCrunch
June 2013

  Chartboost Launches Groups Where Game Developers Can Trade Traffic
     

VentureBeat
June 2013

  Funding Daily: Food is for the weak
     

TechCrunch
June 2013

  Cross-Network Ad Startup AdStage Acquires Semply, Raises An Additional $100K
     

TechCrunch
June 2013

  Kamcord Now Makes Mobile Game Recordings More Interesting With Audio Commentary Tools
     

AndroidGuys.com
May 2013

  Glympse – Remarkably useful without spying or being creepy
     

AutoGo.ca
May 2013

  Glympse combines social media with navigation
     

BusinessWire
May 2013

  StarMaker Doubles Singer Base to 10 Million in Two Months
     

VentureBeat
May 2013

  On mobile devices, Everyplay faces competition from Kamcord which works in select iOS games.
     

TechCrunch
May 2013

  With Over 12M Users, Wish.com Hopes Its AdWords For Shopping Will Stick
     

Neu VC
May 2013

  XG Ventures Ranked #3 among Midas Feeder Firms
     

TechCrunch
May 2013

  Luvocracy Raises $11M From Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures And Others To Master Ecommerce And Social Recommendations
     

PEHub
May 2013

  Crocodoc Sale Provides Exit for Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Other Angels
     

TechCrunch
May 2013

  Glympse Launches Its First API To Share Location Tracking In Any App Or Platform
     

TechCrunch
April 2013

  Chartboost Is Building The Next Gaming Platform To Watch, And They’re Expanding To Europe
     

AllThingsD.com
April 2013

  Science Exchange Raises $3 Million to Help Outsource Experiments
     

TechCrunch
April 2013

  Verious Debuts An Alternative To Google Code Search With New Search And Recommendation Engine
     

AllVoices.com
April 2013

  Coolest banner ad ever: FaceCake lets you try on clothes inside the banner ad
     

TechCrunch
April 2013

  Try it out, try it on: Wearable tech
     

TechCrunch
April 2013

  Backed By $3.25 Million From NEA, 500 Startups, Felicis & Others, Tynker Launches Its Visual “Learn To Code” Platform For Children
     

The Daily Beast
April 2013

  Chelsea Clinton and More Tech Entrepreneurs
     

AllThingsD.com
April 2013

  Aardvark Founder’s Social Shopping Site Luvocracy Creates Market Around Recommendations
     

TheNextWeb.com
April 2013

  Glympse brings its location sharing to BMW and MINI vehicles alongside Audible, Rhapsody and Tun
     

Women 2.0
March 2013

  This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Andrea Zurek
     

TechCrunch
March 2013

  AdStage Launches Its Cross-Network Ad Creator, Raises $1.4M
     

TechCrunch
February 2013

  Euclid, The Google Analytics-Like Tracking Solution For Brick-And-Mortars, Raises $17.3 Million Series B
     

Startup Weekend
February 2013

  Startup Weekend: Bangalore
     

Boalt.com
February 2013

  Day 3: Geeks On A Plane India
     

Boalt.com
February 2013

  Day 2: Geeks On A Plane India
     

VentureBeat
February 2013

  Pinfluencer adds Zappos to client list, powers 250 million Pinterest impressions, and doubles revenue per pin
     

Fox News
February 2013

  PicCollage reviewed on Fox News as one of their recommended Valentine's Day apps!
     

TechCrunch
February 2013

  Crocodoc Previews Its Revamped HTML5 Document Converter For PDF, Word And PowerPoint Files
     

NY Times
February 2013

  With This Start-Up, Your Favorite Novel Never Has to End
     

TechCrunch
February 2013

  After Doubling Its User Base Over The Last 7 Months, Video Discovery Startup Telly Improves Recommendations With Social Data
     

TechCrunch
January 2013

  "In the Studio," XG Ventures' Pietro Dova Prefers to Fly Under the Radar
     

Vator News
February 2013

  Chartboost Raises $19M From Sequoia Capital
     

Women 2.0
January 2013

  XG Venture's Andrea Zurek Judging Pitch SF 2013 Start-up Competition
     

AllThingsD.com
December 2012

  Kamcord Gets Backing From Top Investors to Record Mobile Game Play
     

The Ice House
December 2012

  Geeks On A Plane - Andrea Zurek, XG Ventures
     

Dialog CRM
December 2012

  Geeks On A Plane - Dave McClure in NZ
     

New Zealand Herald
December 2013

  Geeks On A Plane Find Vibrant Entrepreneur Scene Here
     

PEHub
September 2013

  XG Ventures May Be the Best-Connected Firm You've Never Read About
     

TechCrunch
July 2012

  Deutsche Telekom Launches Mobile Component Marketplace
     

TechCrunch
June 2012

  Chartboost Poaches Clay Kellogg From Google Admob, Passes 2B Game Sessions A Month
     

TechCrunch
June 2012

  Classmates.com Parent United Online Acquires School-Focused Friend Finder SchoolFeed
     

TechCrunch
May 2012

  Rubicon Project Acquires Mobsmith To Expand Into Mobile Ads
     

PC Magazine
March 2012

  Twitter Buys Into Blogging With Posterous
     

Gentry Magazine
July 2011

  XG Venture's Andrea Zurek profiled in Gentry Magazine as Top Young Power Player to Watch
     

TechCrunch
July 2011

  Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Platform BackType
     

NY Times
July 2010

  Disney Buys Tapulous, Maker of Music Game Applications
     

TechCrunch
May 2010

  Y Combinator Closes New $8.25 Million Fund, Sequoia Is Lead Investor
     

TechCrunch
April 2010

  MyLikes Raises $630,000 Seed Round, All From Ex-Googlers
     

TechCrunch
March 2010

  Web Publishing Platform Posterous Nabs $4.4 million
     

SFLuxe
March 2010

  The Haute 100 in San Francisco
     

BusinessWeek
February 2010

  And Google Begat...
     

TechCrunch
October 2009

  Scoopler Digs Up Some Funding, New Features
     

TechCrunch
August 2009

  Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day
     

Silicon Valley Business Journal
June 2009

  40 under 40
     

Vator News
September 2008

  Ex-Googlers on angel investing
     

NY Times
December 2007

  A Post-Google Fraternity of Investors
     

TechCrunch
December 2007

  Here Comes the Google Mafia
 
   
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