Tableau Software and Marketo Fire Up IPO Action Today

Many more to come.
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Former Yahoo Security Head Somaini Lands at Cloud Startup Box

One of three high-profile hires for the IPO-bound startup.
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Koozoo Wants to Help Us “Big Brother” Ourselves and the World Around Us

Hey, look. It’s the latest science-fiction-brought-to-life startup.
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Don’t Look Now, but Box’s Last Funding Round Just Got Bigger

Total capital raised: $312 million.
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Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe on One Million-DNA March and More (Video)

Can the personal genome company get people to keep spitting for their health?
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Lot18 Sours on Flash Sales, Lays Off 25 as It Shifts to Wine Subscriptions

The online wine seller hopes the two moves will bring it to profitability.
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BuzzFeed’s Investors Are Back for $19 Million More

BuzzFeed, the fast-growing, Facebook-friendly Web publisher, has raised another $19.3 million. The deal comes a year after the company rounded up $15.5 million in funding, and involves the same set of investors, including New Enterprise Associates, Lerer Ventures, Hearst Media, Softbank and RRE. BuzzFeed has raised more than $46 million since 2008, and says the money will go into international expansion, among other plans.

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23andMe Raises $50 Million in New Funding, Adding Yuri Milner as Investor

Personal genomics company 23andMe said it has raised more than $50 million in a new funding round, a near doubling of its investments so far. 23andMe has already raised over about $68 million since it was founded in 2006. The new financing includes Russian investor Yuri Milner, as well as existing investors Sergey Brin of Google, 23andMe CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki, New Enterprise Associates, Google Ventures and MPM Capital. The money will be used by the Mountain View, Calif., company to grow to one million customers and also to cut the price of its Personal Genome service to $99, which offers 244 reports on health and personal traits, as well as genealogy and ancestry information. That price was originally $999 and provided only 14 reports.

Braintree Raises $35 Million to Tackle PayPal’s Core Business

Another company promising to simplify the payments process for retailers has received financial backing.
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