E-commerce startup Zulily smashed analyst estimates with its initial public offering, with shares soaring 88 percent in its debut.
Zulily’s shares opened this morning at $39, above the IPO price of $22. The Seattle-based company raised $253 million at a valuation of $2.6 billion and has almost doubled to just over $5 billion.
When we were children, most teachers taught to the middle — if you picked up concepts too slowly or quickly, you fell by the wayside.
These days, a new “personalized learning” trend has emerged that offers teachers a better way to adapt the learning materials to each student in their classroom. Personalized learning is already big business — a startup called Knewton announced today that it has generating significant revenues in the space and recently became profitable.
Tiene base en Vitoria, cuenta con menos de 50 empleados y es una de las promesas del sector de las energías limpias. La firma alavesa Optimitive acaba de cerrar una ronda de inversión en la que ha participado la aceleradora Surge y fondos de GGM Venture Capital por un importe de 1,4 millones de dólares.
If you only focus on the multi-billion dollar valuations of young companies like Pinterest, Uber and Snapchat, you might assume 2013 has been a very good year for tech startups. In reality, it has been more of a bittersweet year.
VMware’s $1.26 billion acquisition of networking startup Nicira might still be on the minds of investors who like to sell technology into big companies. Now we’ve learned that Viptela, a secretive startup working on related but different technology, has picked up a hefty $33 million from Sequoia Capital.
The deal came about two months ago, Ramesh Prabagaran, Viptela’s vice president of products, told VentureBeat in a phone interview. (Note: the company spells its name vIPtela.)
Telefónica mantiene su actividad de inversión en empresas tecnológicas a través de Telefónica Digital. La operadora española ha participado en una ronda de financiación de 100 millones de dólares (unos 73 millones de euros) realizada por la empresa estadounidense de intercambio de archivos Box, considerada como uno de los rivales de DropBox. La valoración que se ha hecho de Box ha rondado los 2.000 millones de dólares (unos 1.462 millones de euros).
Like moths to a flame, kids gravitate toward iPad and iPhone games. But for parents that want their children to still be exposed to real-world toys, a new startup called ZowPow is offering a way that they can do both.
The company makes plush toys that can control gameplay.
One of their very first toys is a tiny plane that can control up-and-down movement for a paired game called “Tiny Plane,” which is published by EA’s Chillingo.
The game controller they built has built-in sensors and accelerometers that can tell which direction the plane is facing, so that the plane in the game mimics its movement through Bluetooth LE (see the video below).
Business analytics company SumAllis announcing that it has raised $4 million in new funding from existing investors Battery Ventures and Wellington Partners, as well as an additional $1 million in debt from Silicon Valley Bank.
The company allows customers to connect a wide range of services, including social networks like Facebook and Twitter, email marketing tools like MailChimp and Constant Contact, payment providers like Amazon Payments and PayPal, and ad platforms like Bing Ads and Google AdWords. Businesses can then view and analyze all of that data from a single interface.
Acabamos de iniciar el último mes del año, y como primer lunes de cada mes, no podía faltar nuestro resumen de las inversiones más importantes que se han producido en startups en nuestro país. Si nos hemos dejado alguna, no dudéis en indicárnosla como comentario, que rápidamente la añadiremos a la lista.
Does anyone dispute that 2013 has been the year of the tech company? LinkedIn has surged over 100%. Twitter and Zulily popped more than 70% and 80% respectively on the day of their recent IPOs. Even Facebook’s stock, once completely out of favor, has doubled in value over the past six months.
