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Little Black Bag Raises $2.75M From GRP, DCM, Chamath P., David Tisch And Others
A new addition to the spontaneous online shopping club today is startup Little Black Bag, which takes off on the Japanese shopping concept of fukubukuro, or “lucky bag sale,” where shoppers buy a mystery bag of fashion products and then trade those items with friends.
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ZestCash Raises $73 Million to Change PayDay Loans
ZestCash takes an entirely different approach to underwriting by combining Google-style machine learning techniques and data analysis, combined with traditional credit scoring. As a result, the company can offer credit to many people who historically would have been turned away.
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awe.sm Announces $4 Million Funding Led by Foundry Group and GRP Partners
Using awe.sm's tools, application developers can finally track which social media posts lead to pageviews, signups, purchases, and other business goals; and understand performance trends such as which users, social networks, or marketing campaigns had the most positive impact.
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DataSift Launches Powerful Twitter Data Analysis And Business Intelligence Platform
DataSift, a big data business intelligence and analysis platform for Twitter, is finally opening its doors today to the U.S. public. DataSift was born out of Tweetmeme and was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco a year ago. Founded by Nick Halstead, DatSift is one of two companies with rights to re-syndicate Twitter’s firehose of more than 250 million Tweets a day
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HMS Buys Healthcare Services Company HealthDataInsights For $400 Million
HDI’s technology ensures claims integrity and is capable of identifying – and recouping – improper payments for health plans and government payers. The company says it has reviewed more than $300 billion in paid claims in 2010 alone.
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Fashion Photo Sharing App, Pose Raises $3 Million
Pose, a mobile platform for real-time discovery and sharing of fashion, shopping and style, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from GRP Partners, True Ventures and Mousse Partners.
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TrueCar Raises $200M+ Gears Up For IPO
TrueCar, which publishes real-time vehicle transaction data in the US market for both new and used cars, has secured over $200 million in debt and equity financing to grow the business and explore acquisitions.
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ZestCash Raises $19 Million Round
GRP Partners and Lightspeed Lead $11M Series A, Lighthouse Provides $8M Debt Line
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TextPlus Scores $15 Million To Win At Social Messaging
TextPlus, maker of the social messaging app textPlus, is announcing a $15 million Series C round led by GRP Partners this morning.
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