Peixe Urbano adquire site de delivery O Entregador. Mais uma notícia quentinha e interessante que acabo de receber. O Peixe Urbano, site que ajuda as pessoas a conhecer os melhores estabelecimentos de cada cidade, está ampliando sua área de atuação para além do setor de compras coletivas. Semanas após anunciar a compra do serviço de reservas online Zuppa e das operações do site de compras coletivas Groupalia na América Latina, a empresa anuncia a aquisição d’O Entregador, site focado no segmento de delivery para restaurantes. “A nossa missão é ajudar as pessoas a explorar o que tem de melhor em cada cidade e ajudar as empresas locais a desenvolverem os seus negócios.
O modelo de compras coletivas faz exatamente isso, porém, acreditamos que existem também outras plataformas que se encaixam neste mesmo conceito e que permitem aproximar o mundo online do off-line”, afirma Julio Vasconcellos, Sócio-Fundador e CEO do Peixe Urbano. “O Entregador traz benefícios importantes, tanto para os consumidores, como para os restaurantes. Google+ UPPNA lança MallGuide, app que auxilia usuário em shopping centers e lojas e oferece ofertas exclusivas. Recebi e compartilho outra notícia interessante, em uma área que parece que está esquentando.
Mandic recebe R$ 100 milhões da Riverwood, compra a Tecla e anuncia expansão agressiva. Riverwood Capital, grupo de investimento global voltado a empresas de tecnologia e serviços, anuncia hoje o plano de investimento de R$ 100 milhões para os próximos três anos, o que inclui a aquisição parcial e integração das operações da MANDIC SA (“MANDIC”) e TECLA INTERNET (“Tecla”) e agressivo plano de expansão.
A operação visa criar a companhia líder em soluções de software como serviço (SaaS) e infraestrutura como serviço (IaaS) de cloud computing do Brasil para o mercado corporativo e de pequenas e médias empresas. Ningo recebe aporte de anjos. O Ningo, startup de e-commerce que já havíamos apresentado aqui, recebido mentoria e investimento da Aceleradora, subsídio de Finep e CNPq e ficado como finalista regional do Desafio Brasil, acaba de fechar um novo aporte junto a um grupo de investidores anjo.
Sediada na CIETEC, incubadora tecnológica da USP, a empresa tenta melhorar três etapas críticas do processo de compra online: a comparação de preços, o abandono de carrinho e problemas no pagamento. “O consumidor quase sempre encontra o que quer comprar com preços baixos, mas em lojas diferentes e que não se comunicam entre si. O Ningo permite que ele feche toda sua compra no nosso site, e nós ativamos as lojas que entregam os produtos sem acréscimo nos preços”, explica o CEO Paulo Vieira. Cassio Spina, um dos investidores do grupo, conta que o novo aporte irá cobrir custos de marketing e de integração com milhares de novas lojas.
Depois de O Entregador, outro participante do Startup Farm recebe investimento: Wabbers. Contrariando a maioria, André Paraense, Gustavo Marquini, Vinícius Santini e Vitor Hugo Almeida, que criaram a Wabbers, aplicativo para soluções de trânsito, estão em negociações há 6 meses e agora podem anunciar o investimento realizado pela Inova Venture Participações (IVP). Por meio do processamento de informações sobre condições de trânsito de diferentes fontes e bancos de dados, o Wabbers gera as melhores rotas em tempo real. O aplicativo também permite ao usuário aproveitar melhor seu tempo ocioso parado no trânsito por meio de ferramentas de produtividade. Allan Mobley, Leandro Morais e Vítor Velden, d’O Entregador também conseguiram superar o obstáculo do investimento e receberam aporte de capital do Peixe Urbano. Redpoint eVentures e IG Expansión investem em comércio social de moda.
Em 3 de fevereiro, fomos os primeiros a publicar a notícia de que Redpoint e eVentures estavam se juntando para abrir operação no Brasil. Agora, somos os primeiros a noticiar o primeiro investimento feito por eles, realizado em conjunto com os hermanos do IG Expansión. Duas das empresas de investimentos que vêm ganhando destaque no cenário de startups de Internet no Brasil, a IG Expansión e a Redpoint eVentures, decidiram se unir para apoiar outro modelo inovador de negócios no varejo de moda: a Sophie & Juliete, social commerce fashion que irá associar o tradicional modelo de venda direta com uma plataforma on-line para gerenciar e fechar as encomendas de acessórios fashion. Instituição mineira já encaminhou oito empresas que receberam recursos do Sebraetec. Empresas com faturamento de até R$ 3,6 milhões por ano podem contar com recursos do programa Sebraetec para investimento em soluções voltadas à inovação e eficiência.
O objetivo dessa linha de financiamento é ampliar a competitividade de micro e pequenas empresas. Aceco TI Receives Investment from Global Growth Investor General Atlantic. (General Atlantic) March 27, 2012 – Aceco TI, the leading company focused on design and maintenance of data centers in Brazil and Latin America, today announced that General Atlantic LLC (“GA”), a global growth equity firm, has made an investment in Aceco TI for a minority stake in the company. This partnership will provide capital and strategic advice for Aceco TI as it continues to grow in Brazil and Latin America.
VC-backed CromoUp Launches Site in Brazil (em português) (Valor Econômico) March 26, 2012 – CromoUp, a new online site that allows users to buy and trade virtual packages of stickers and content from celebrities, will launch this week.
Fisgo Recebe Investimento de R$ 2,5mi de Fundo da Confrapar. O Fisgo.com é um site de busca de imóveis e veículos que filtra todas as ofertas disponíveis nestes segmentos. Lançado em Agosto de 2010 pelos especialistas em soluções de busca Hélio Lemos, Frederico Alves e Eduardo Rodrigues, o Fisgo.com possui mais de 1 milhão de ofertas de carros e mais de 2 milhões de imóveis. Recentemente, o site fechou uma parceria com a Confrapar e recebeu um investimento de seu fundo NascenTI de R$ 2,5 milhões para uma participação minoritária, e que pode chegar a R$ 7 milhões em até quatro anos.
Sean Parker And Shawn Fanning Open New Social Video Startup Airtime For Business. A few weeks ago at SXSW, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning briefly mentioned — during a talk about another company they co-founded, Napster — that they were working on a new social video startup called Airtime.
Now it looks like the company is gearing up for launch. Airtime now has a website and a Facebook sign-up button for early access. HTML5 With ‘Zero Knowledge Of Coding’: DIY Flash Site Builder Wix Launches HTML5 Version. Wix.com made its name with a platform that business owners and regular Joes could use to build Flash-enabled websites.
Now, as a sign of the times, the company is launching a new service to let people do the same with HTML5. This is a significant boost to HTML5, which lets people create sites that work across both PC and mobile browsers, because Wix already has a track record in attracting users to its offerings. Parse, The Mobile Back-End Startup, Comes Out Of Beta With 10,000 Developers Aboard. Going After SMBs, Mobile Website Maker DudaMobile Raises $6M Series B.
DudaMobile, a company which helps convert existing websites into mobile-optimized versions, has just raised $6 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by Pitango Venture Capital, an Israeli-based VC firm which has investments in fring, Shaker, VideoSurf, Pageonce, Boxee and others. The startup, which began life as a white label offering before making its self-serve platform available to businesses last year, says it plans to use the additional funding to expand its engineering and marketing teams, with a special focus on targeting its products towards the SMB market. As a part of the new round, Pitango’s Eitan Bek will join DudaMobile’s board of directors. Previously, DudaMobile had raised funding from other investors, including board chairman Oren Zeev, StubHub founder Jeff Flhur and Audible.com CEO Don Katz. With Another $1.5M, Appboy Launches App Management Platform, Hootsuite CEO Joins Board. App developers want to make kick ass applications that users want to download, and — let me go out on a limb here — they also want to make money.
Monetizing apps can be tough, but with a more complete picture of how their users are interacting with their app, the opportunities to bring in more revenue become clearer — as does the way to better user experiences. Back in November, we covered Appboy, a startup on a mission to enable app developers to expand, engage, and better understand their user base — and, in turn, make more money. The New York City-based startup had just closed a $1 million round of seed funding, led by Blumberg Capital, with participation from Metamorphic Ventures, Accelerator Ventures, Bullpen Capital and T5 Capital. CloudLock Raises $8.7M To Help Secure Enterprise Data In The Public Cloud. CloudLock, the software company that aims to secure enterprise cloud data, has raised $8.7 million in Series B funding from Ascent Venture Partners and Cedar Fund.
Freemium Game Dev Addmired Rebrands As Machine Zone, Lands $8M From Menlo Ventures. Oh, how times have changed for Addmired team.
The Y Combinator startup first debuted in 2008 with an Hot or Not-esque social network plugin, but eventually found their footing after pivoting to become a developer of freemium multiplayer mobile games like iMob and its recently released sequel. Now they’re looking to do a bit of rebranding by renaming themselves Machine Zone, and to celebrate, they’ve also announced that they have raised a cool $8 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures.
Sojern Raises $7.5 Million For Its Push Into Travel Tech And Targeted Travel Ads. The travel industry is one vertical that seems to be seeing a lot of disruption at the moment — ranging from social media startups changing how we plan and book our journeys, to those who are re-examining how companies in the business are going to make money in the future.
One of the startups working in the latter space, Sojern, today announced that it has raised a round of $7.5 million. This round, Sojern’s third, was led by new investor Industry Ventures, with existing investors Focus Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Trident Capital all also participating. Sojern started four years ago with a business focused around advertising on boarding cards.
Apsalar Lets You Customize Your Mobile App For Users Based On Their Behavior. Apsalar, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics startup, is giving developers more precision in how they target their users.
The company is launching something called “Advanced User Segments” today. In plain English, that means that developers can change the way their app works or send targeted promotions to consumers based on how valuable or engaged they are in the app. An app maker can target users based on how much they spend, their location, their lifetime value, their engagement level, whether they use iOS or Android, or custom events like whether they got past Level 5 or opened a shopping chart. So for example, a developer could send notifications or show ads for their new game to a user who has spent more than $5 and stopped coming back to the original game. Or they could target a user who was thinking of buying a virtual item with a discount on the good. Mobile App Directory Appolicious Debuts Advertising Platform. Social mobile app directory Appolicious is getting into the advertising game today, launching a bidded keyword engine for its app directory, and those the startup powers for Best Buy or Samsung.
As you may know, Appolicious offers mobile and web app directories where users can search for apps that are organized into more than 1,200 categories, such as “Preschool Early Reading” and “Travel Destinations.” Campalyst Raises Seed Round To Measure Social Media ROI. Social media analytics startup Campalyst is celebrating its first birthday today, and its big present is a new seed round (of undisclosed size) from Amsterdam-based venture capital firm HENQ. The company was co-founded by former business school classmates Jevgenijs Kazanins and Dalia Lasaite, plus Estonian developers Juhan Aasaru and Sander Muru, as part of Garage48, a European boot camp where startups are created in the course of a weekend.
During last year’s beta testing period, Kazanins says more than 250 marketing agencies and brands signed up to use the product. Campalyst closed the beta period in January and started converting those sign-ups into paying customers. “Campalyst differs from other vendors in the social analytics space by focusing on measuring and maximizing monetary ROI, i.e. sales and conversions generated via social media,” Kazanins says. That seems to be a big theme this year — or heck, this month. S Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator Demo Day. 65 startups showed off today at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, and we covered all 39 that were ready for the public. After talking to VCs and tech moguls, the TechCrunch teamed huddled up and picked these 10 companies as the best. They’re disrupting commerce, evolving how we communicate, and making our phones even more powerful.
Check out our coverage of session one, two, three, four, and five to choose your own favorites, but here’s a cheat sheet to the startups we think are going to remodel big industries [change the world], or at least make a ton of money. Carsabi: An evolved search engine for buying used cars. Carsabi aggressively crawls every online car sale listing it can find, from classifieds to dealers. Pair : A private social network for couples first covered by TechCrunch last week, Pair lets two people create a private timeline where they share photos, videos, sketches, activities and more. Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others.
Mobile web and ad optimization startup AppStack has just closed a $1.5 million seed round from Google Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures, 500 Startups, Gary Vaynerchuk, Don Dodge, Foresight Ventures and Punchbowl founder Matt Douglas. SpotlessCity Will Pick Up Your Soiled, Dirty Laundry. SpotlessCity launched in January and is just now building up steam to disrupt the entire “going to the laundry” industry. Built by Sonny Bajwa and his Brooklyn team, the site allows you to find a dry cleaner and request a pick-up. Bingo, bango, and your clothes are clean. God forbid you should go for a walk of an evening to drop off your unmentionables, but let’s not get into that here.
Have Fear Of Missing Out? timeRAZOR Connects You With Nearby Events. TimeRAZOR, the D.C. -area startup which raised $3.4 million pre-launch to build a better events finder, has arrived today on mobile. Subscription Manager MediaPass Raises $1.75M. Songza App Review: Pandora And Spotify Better Watch Their Backs. Notey, A Super Simple Way To Share Sensitive Notes. Hitting 20M App Downloads, Azumio Releases Sleep Time To Measure Your Zs (From Your iPhone) Dating App Yoke Hooks You Up Based On Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and Facebook Data. Zynga Prices $515M Secondary Offering At $12 Per Share.
Developers Are Divided Over Adobe’s Plan to Take Revenue Share For Higher-End Flash Games. Confirmed: Canadian VC Firm OMERS Ventures Takes $20M Stake In HootSuite At $200M Valuation. Circl.es: Meet The Latest Dating Site That Uses Facebook To Help You Find Love. Google-Backed Kibits Lets You Share With Real-World Micro-Networks, Raises $1M. Snapguide Makes It Super Easy To Make And Share How-To Guides On iOS. Amazon And The NIH Team Up To Put Human Genome In The Cloud. Millennial Media Shares Pop 100 Percent In Early Trading; Valued At Nearly $2 Billion. FirstMark Capital Leads $7.5M Round In Social Shopping Startup Sneakpeeq.
Mobile Taxi Network Hailo Raises $17M From Accel And Atomico To Take On Uber In The U.S. Unroll.me Combines Your Favorite Email Subscriptions Into One, Lets You Kill The Rest. Gifts From VIPs: Quarterly Grabs $1.25M From Collaborative Fund And True Ventures. Fitocracy Finally Exits Private Beta, Celebrates With A New iOS App. Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others. Amid UDID Uncertainty, AppRedeem Creates New ID Scheme, Groupon Adopts. Amen. Plukka Founder Joanne Ooi On Merging Manufacturing And Group Buying. TechCrunch.