New Funding Puts Domo’s Value at $310 Million

A lot of people betting a lot of money on Josh James.
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Josh James’s Domo Raises $60 Million Series B From GGV, Greylock, Others

A list of investors that reads like a who’s who among venture capital.
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TaskRabbit Hires Google’s Brown-Philpot in a Renewed Management Expansion (Video)

Can a seasoned Silicon Valley exec deliver for the marketplace for personal projects and services?
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Motion-Control Start-Up Leap Nabs $30 Million in Funding, Partners With Asus

The little motion-sensor device gets a big chunk of change.
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Asana Raises $28M to Reunite With Peter Thiel

Productivity toolmaker Asana said today it had raised $28 million led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. Asana’s team and investors are a bit of a Facebook reunion, including its co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein and various employees, early investor Thiel, and early employees Adam D’Angelo and Matt Cohler via Benchmark Capital.

TaskRabbit Takes Another $13M, With Founders Fund Leading the Round

With this latest round, TaskRabbit is establishing itself as the best-funded company in the space it helped create — with a total of $38 million raised to date.
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Practice Fusion, Emerging Power in Health Records, Lands $34 Million

President Obama’s health care reform may be under attack (the Affordable Care Act was just upheld in the Supreme Court), but the shift to electronic medical records is still happening.
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Peter Thiel Launches Mithril Capital, a New $402M Growth-Stage Investment Firm

Peter Thiel is reallocating some resources — both people and money — to create a new growth-stage venture capital firm called Mithril Capital Management.
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Why the Rumored Microsoft Deal for Yammer Rings True

Is this how David Sacks plans to celebrate his birthday?
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L.A. Stories: HipSwap Tries to Take the Creepy out of Craigslist (Video)

The mobile app-heavy service allows anyone with stuff, including boutique merchants with quirky stuff to move, to quickly snap photos of items, price them and then — presumably — sell.
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