Mar 14, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Secret, the anonymous social sharing app popular among the Silicon Valley and tech industry crowd, officially announced today it has raised $8.6 million in outside investment. The round included participation from Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian of Initialized...
Mar 14, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
East-West Digital News iBuildApp, a California-based startup with Russian roots, has raised $525,000 from Eugene Miller and Constantine Filin to further develop its mobile app building technology and expand internationally. The iBuildApp platform allows anyone to...
Mar 13, 2014 | News, North America
TechCrunch Cupcake Digital, the New York-based developer with a large portfolio of brand-name children’s mobile applications, has acquired competitor zuuka, best known as the maker of the iStoryTime library app, which offers over 200 children’s e-books. Both companies...
Mar 11, 2014 | News, North America
BOSTON, March 11 (Reuters) – Blackstone Group, the world’s biggest alternative asset manager, said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy most of cybersecurity firm Accuvant Inc from investment firm Sverica International. Blackstone will own about 80 percent of...
Mar 10, 2014 | News, North America
March 10 (Reuters) – Mediterranean style restaurant chain Zoe’s Kitchen filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $80.5 million in an initial public offering. The Birmingham, Alabama-based company is backed by private equity firm Brentwood Associates....
Mar 10, 2014 | News, North America
NEW YORK, March 10 (Reuters) – Private equity firm Warburg Pincus is looking to sell education software maker iParadigms and has tapped Evercore Partners Inc to assist with the effort, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. IParadigms, based in Oakland,...
