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iNovia invests in YC startup vidyard, along with other top Valley VCs

iNovia invests in YC startup vidyard, along with other top Valley VCs

vidyard is making headlines for its $1.65m investment, by SoftTech VC, youtube co-founder Jawed Karim, YCombinator, iNovia Capital Andreessen Horowitz and other investors. vidyard provides a professional video hosting service, for companies who use video to communicate about their products, but basically don’t want them to click on the video and get lost on the [...]

Startup finance workshop with Mark MacLeod and Startupifier

Startupifier is inviting the startup community to its first startup academy workshops, and they’ve got Mark MacLeod (@startupcfo) as the first presenter. from the RSVP page: The SaaS math workshop will go over and help you answer these questions: What SaaS metrics do you need to be tracking? How much you should be charging your [...]

Mediagrif Technologies buys LesPac from YellowMedia for $72.5m

YellowMedia announced today the sale of small ads site LesPac to Montreal media company Mediagrif, for $72.5m. The sale comes 2 weeks after the company announced a 2.8 billion $ loss, and heavy debts plaguing the company, as it faces problems to transform itself to an online media play. The CFO resigned, and the heavy [...]

vuru validates investment ideas

vuru was presented today at FounderFuel demo day as a breakthrough in the finance world, much alike expedia or airbnb revolutionnized their respective industries by giving back the control to final customers. With a simple and easy-to-use page for each stock, vuru lets self-directed investors reach a qualified decision. Assumptions can be tweaked, and compared [...]

[Upcoming] Traders & Hackers meetup at Notman House

Notman House welcomes today at 6pm the first meetup for the new niche group traders & hackers, which aims to gather everyone who is interested in building financial applications, mainly for stock markets . As the event name suggests, this is mainly designed for business-oriented entrepreneurs, and programmers, but if you are a designer, or [...]