Venture Capital
#BeetCast Replay: Andre Swanston: Angels Saved My Start-up as VC’s Shut the Door
He had a successful exit when his start-up Tru Optik was sold to data giant Transunion last year. But it was tough sledding, building an advanced media data business five years ago. Now a super-hot sector, Andre was ahead of his time. While he made early progress with product development and industry partnerships, funded from a few […]
AOL is Expanding TechCrunch’s Global Footprint as CrunchBase Gets Overhall
LAS VEGAS – The global emergence of entrepreneurship and the start-up sensibility is powering the global expansion of TechCrunch, explains Ned Desmond, COO of TechCrunch and head of AOL’s tech publishing group, in this interview with Beet.TV at last week at CES. Desmond says that AOL is relaunching CrunchBase, the online resource for companies and […]
Simulmedia Raises $25 Million in New Venture Round
Simulmedia, a New York based, video advertising technology platform, has raised $25 million in a D venture round, the company announced today. In June at Cannes Lions, we interviewed founder and CEO Dave Morgan about the company. We have republished that interview here. For more on today’s news, please read this article by Peter Kafka […]
Social Video App Maker Magisto Raises $13 Million in C Round (archive video)
Magisto, an Israel-based start up which as found wide success with its App that allows users to easily edit videos and images, has raised a $13 million C venture round from Qualcomm and Scandisk, it was reported today. The app has been downloaded some 13 million times, TechCrunch reports. Last year in Tel Aviv, we […]
TubeMogul Raises $10 Million Round to Expand in Asia
TubeMogul, the Emeryville, California video ad technology company, has raised $10 million additional C round of funding, lead by Singapore-based SingTel Innov8, the corporate venture capital arm of the SingTel Group, the company announced today. Earlier this year we interviewed TubeMogul CEO and founder Brett Wilson about the company and its opportunities for growth around […]
Wochit Raises $4.75M from Redpoint, Cedar Fund and Greycroft
Wochit, the video news company that aims to “produce ever-fresh, studio-quality news video content about any topic as it happens,” has just closed a $4.75 million series A venture capital round from Redpoint Ventures, Cedar Fund and Greycroft Partners. Beet.TV is republishing this video interview with Co-Founder and CEO Dror Ginzberg filmed in February at our studio in […]