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Keas Uses Social Pressure and Teamwork to Improve Employee Health

Liz Gannes in Social on December 20, 2011 at 8:06 am PT

Keas, a long-evolving online health site, now sells access to its Web-based social game to companies, including large concerns like Pfizer and Bechtel. Employees create Keas accounts where they form teams and compete to complete simple goals, like eating more vegetables and exercising more. Keas has now raised $6.5 million in Series B funding, led by Atlas Venture and Ignition Partners.

Social Search Start-Up Topsy Nabs Cisco Exec as CEO

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 6, 2011 at 11:48 am PT

The social search start-up has hired Duncan Greatwood, the founder who sold PostPath to Cisco Sytems in 2008.

MasterCard Makes Its First Mobile Payments Investment in mFoundry

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 30, 2011 at 9:03 pm PT

MasterCard has made a strategic investment in seven-year-old mobile banking start-up mFoundry.

Cloudera Lands $40 Million From Ignition, Accel Launches $100 Million Big Data Fund

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 8, 2011 at 5:03 am PT

As Hadoop World gets underway in New York today, Cloudera, the start-up company that is putting on the event, has landed a big new investor.

Seven Questions for Splunk CEO Godfrey Sullivan

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 19, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Machines of every kind — from Web servers to thermostats — generate data that can be useful in ways that are hard to imagine until you start looking at it. Software start-up Splunk makes that process easy.

API Marketplace Mashape Raises Funding

Liz Gannes in News on September 6, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

Mashape, an up-and-coming marketplace for APIs, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding — which, given some of the names backing it, seems like a pretty small amount.

Security Start-Up Bromium Debuts With $9.2 Million in Funding

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 22, 2011 at 10:50 am PT

Founded by two Xensource veterans, security start-up Bromium aims to protect all those smartphones and tablets that people buy and expect to be able to use at the office. Investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and Lightspeed Ventures suggest it may be on to something.

Swype Grabs More Funding, Looks to Trace Path Into New Areas

Ina Fried in Mobile on March 31, 2011 at 11:52 am PT

Swype, best known for its fast means of entering text on a smartphone, is also proving adept at raising cash. The Seattle-based shop has landed $3.5 million from Ignition Partners and expects to sign several other deals in the coming weeks, CEO Mike McSherry told Mobilized.

Defying the Twitter Ecosystem Curse, Topsy Rakes in $15M More

Liz Gannes in Social on March 10, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Topsy Labs, the real-time search engine, has raised $15 million in Series C funding from BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund, Scott Banister and Western Technology Investments. This brings the company to about $30 million in total funding since it was founded in 2006.

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DailyBooth Raises $6M for Self-Portraits

Liz Gannes in Social on March 8, 2011 at 11:23 pm PT

DailyBooth, the photo-sharing site popular with young folks, has raised $6 million in a round led by Ignition Partners and including Sequoia Capital. The service counts 14 million photos shared, much of them self-portraits. One way DailyBooth is different from other photo-sharing apps is its users tend to use front-facing cameras when available (the better to frame and capture themselves with), as they will be on the forthcoming iPad.

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