First Round Capital recently organized their first NYC Startup Trek, in part to commemorate the opening of their New York office this quarter and also explore the city’s incubator and co-working spaces. Partners from the early stage venture capital firm, which has already made investments in over a dozen NY-based companies, set out to meet with [...]
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Mochi Media Makes a Splash on Forbes.com
July 29, 2008 – 12:23 pm
It’s not often that you see a startup featured in a publication like Forbes more than once a year at best. Well, one of our clients, Mochi Media, was featured twice within three days last week. Mary Jane Irwin, a gaming reporter at Forbes.com, wrote two fantastic stories about Mochi Media, the first being a [...]
Mochi Media closes $10 million in funding
June 20, 2008 – 12:05 pm
Congrats to our client – and downstairs neighbor – Mochi Media for raising a $10 million Series B round of funding led by Shasta Ventures, with help from original investor Accel Partners. The news was announced yesterday and got wide pickup in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNet, Gamasutra among others. Mochi is doing some impressive things and [...]
Happy Enterprise RSS Day of Action!
April 24, 2008 – 9:52 am
We here at LaunchSquad are huge fans of RSS. Most of us use it personally to keep up on our daily news and reading, and we also use it as a company to keep up on coverage and intelligence for our clients, as well as sharing information internally and externally. Having a constantly updated stream [...]
NewsGator, Free-ness and Attention Data
January 24, 2008 – 6:34 pm
In case you missed it, some great news for you RSS fans out there – and for all those who are but don’t quite know it yet: our client NewsGator recently announced that it is offering all of its award-winning desktop RSS readers NetNewsWire (Mac) and FeedDemon (PC), as well as a suite of mobile [...]