A Massive $75 Million Round Streams Into Ustream. And More Is On The Way.

by admin on February 2, 2010

Streaming video site Ustream has just pulled in a massive new round of funding: $75 million. This second round was led by SoftBank , a Japanese telecom giant. Previously, the site had raised just below $13 million in funding, which came from its Series A in 2008 and its angel round in late 2007. Perhaps even crazier is that the service is saying that additional funding commitments are pending from other investors in the U.S. and Asia, so the round will likely actually be larger than the $75 million, which is all from SoftBank.

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In The Limelight: An American Entrepreneur In China Talks About Startup Culture

by admin on January 31, 2010

Calvin Chin is an American entrepreneur who lives in Shanghai. He founded Qifang , a P2P lending site for Chinese student loans. You can read more about Qifang here . He attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this last week, where China was the center of attention. We asked him to write this guest post and share his unique perspective as an American building a startup in the heart of China. [...] Continue Reading…

ClientShow Debuts Realtime Collaboration App For Creative Pitches

January 31, 2010

Last fall, TechCrunch50 startup ClientShow presented its innovative application to help creative, advertising and marketing professionals show, pitch, share and sell their work to clients more effectively through real-time collaboration and communication. Similar to a WebEx for creative professionals, ClientShow allows users to essentially create a “virtual agency” to ..Read More

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