Thursday, January 24, 2013
Ignition Scales Back Fund Size, Partners
Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners is making some big--very big--changes to its structure, according to reports Thursday evening, and plans to raise a $150M fund with only three senior p (More info...)
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ValueAppeal Lands Nearly $6.5M
Seattle-based ValueAppeal, which operates an online site to help homeowners appeal their property tax assessments, has just raised $6.49M in new funding. According to a regulatory filing, the funding (More info...)
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Hark Snags Bing Homepage Manager For Product Development Head
Seattle-based Hark, the online site which lets people find and share sound bites from movies and other sources, said today that it has snagged the former head of Bing's homepage efforts as its new Dir (More info...)
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ReliOn Gets Strategic Investment From Cummins
Spokane-based ReliOn, which is developing high reliability, fuel cell generators for backup power, has scored a strategic funding from industrial products firm Cummins Inc.. Size of the investment was (More info...)
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Amazon.com Buys Kindle Text-to-Speech Provider
Amazon.com has acquired IVONA Software, the software developer behind its Kindle "Text-to-Speech", "Voice Guide" and "Explore by Touch" technology, the company said today. Financial terms of the acqui (More info...)
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