Venture Capital Update

Washington, D.C. - newBrandAnalytics, the leading provider of social business intelligence solutions through its flagship product Social Guest Satisfaction™ has raised $26 M of series B funding from New Enterprise Associates, Revolution Ventures, The Entrepreneur’s Fund, and angel investors Barry Sternlicht, Neil Shah, and Ted Leonsis.

The new funding will be used to accelerate for marketing strategies and for building new products which provides social business analysis.

San Francisco, California - MinoMonsters, a startup funded through Y Combinator and a developer of social game where players collect and battle pet monsters has raised $1 million of seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and other SV angels like Yuri Milner, Alexis Ohanian and Raymond Tonsing with backing by General Catalyst Partners and Ignition Partners.

The funding will be used to fuel the development of its flagship product the MinoMonster which is set to be launched this coming Dec. 6.

San Francisco, California - Enflick, a the developer of free text messaging app called TextNow and Instant Messaging App Ping Chat has raised $1 M of seed funding from new VC firm Freestyle Capital and prominent VC firm Menlo Ventures. The startup also was backed up by Lady Gaga’s talent manager Troy Carter and Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun.

The new funding will be used for future product development with focus in mobile apps for iPhones and other smart phones.

Mountain View, California - Appcelerator, a provider of open source platform for building and managing rich Web, Desktop and Mobile applications has raised $15 M of series C funding from Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital and Red Hat. The funding was also backed up by Sierra Ventures, Storm Ventures and eBay.

The new funding will be used to expand its market reach in Europe and Asia and continue to develop more mobile platform apps and support its flagship mobile development platform Titanium.

Appcelerator also announced that they are the largest 3rd party mobile developer for Apple and Android.

San Francisco, California - Visual.ly, a startup developer of infographic platform that connects readers and publishers has raised $2M of seed funding from Crosslink Capital, SoftTech VC, 500 Start Ups and Kapor Capital and also backed up by individual investors.

The funding will be used for building development teams and hiring additional data visualization specialists.

Campbell, California - BlueStacks, a developer of mobile apps that run in multi platform such as in Android and Windows has raised $6.4 M of series B funding from two giant microchip makers AMD and Citrix Systems. The funding was also backed up by top angel investor Andreessen Horowitz and other VC firms such as Ignition Partners, Radar Partners and Redpoint Ventures,

The new funding will be used to support its future apps and its currently in "alpha" mode app player for windows and also the funding will also be utilized for the creation of free downloadable mobile and web apps and also a cloud based server apps.

Boulder, Colorado - ReportGrid, a Software-as-a-Service web analytics application has raised $750,000 of seed funding from Launch Capital and angel investors. The angel investment were participated by David Cohen, Walt Winshall, Doug Derwin, and Ed Roman.

ReportGrid is designed to provide an alternative web analytics solution that is cloud-scalable database and with a visualized engine. The funding will be used to enhance the web analytic apps and for the development of web-based SaaS in the future.

New York, New York - Enterproid, a developer of out of the box office applications for android has raised $11M of Series A Funding from Comcast Ventures with the participation of Google Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.

The new funding will be used for technology and engineering advancements, expansion of product reach to global market and venturing into partnerships with other companies around the world.

Toronto, Canada - mDialog, a Video as a Service (VaaS) solution for advertisers and publishers that provides real-time video streaming to mobile devices has raised $5 million of series A funding from BlackBerry Partners Fund.

The funding will be used to expand its services and venture to other platforms like iPad and iPhone as well to Android and other mobile OS platforms.

Cambridge, Massachusetts - BetterLesson, a startup founded by a group of teachers from Atlanta and Boston public schools to connect educators and help them create, organize, and share their curricula has raised $1.6 million of series A funding from venture capital firms and angel investors.

The investors include top venture capital firms Highland Capital Partners, General Catalyst, New Markets Ventures, and NewSchools Venture Fund and angel investors Steve Kaufer of Trip Advisor, Matt Greenfield, and Shawn and Jennifer Carolan.

The new funding will be used to add more employees and expand its platform for better user experience.