Bluebox Raises $9.5M From Andreessen Horowitz & Others For A Stealthy, Disruptive Mobile Security Solution | Babysitting 2.0: credit-card payments and online bookings | Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M | Enterprises to cloud: Ready or not, here we come | After Seed Labs, Cvent Snags CrowdCompass For $10M To Double Down On Mobile Event Apps

Bluebox Raises $9.5M From Andreessen Horowitz & Others For A Stealthy, Disruptive Mobile Security Solution

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San Francisco-based enterprise startup Bluebox has raised $9.5 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, which saw participation from SV Angel, Sun co-founder and early Google investor Andy�Bechtolsheim, Google board member and early investor Ram Shriram, and former CEO of SPI Dynamics (acquired by HP in 2007) Brian Cohen.�Bechtolsheim and Scott Weiss, general partner at�Andreessen Horowitz, have now joined Bluebox’s board as a result of the funding.
The company is still operating somewhat stealthily…ok very�stealthily -�as of yesterday, for example, the homepage was just a giant blue background with no text. Although the Bluebox team is not talking about the specifics of th[...]
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Babysitting 2.0: credit-card payments and online bookings

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For young, urban smartphone owners, there are few areas of life�that haven’t been changed by the mobile and Internet revolutions. We can book restaurant reservations through OpenTable, take a cab without swiping a credit card on Uber, or crash at someone’s house in a foreign city through AirBnB. Life has moved�online, and commerce is moving with it.
So when 30-year old Erica Zidel started looking for babysitters for her three-year old son around 2009, the young mom was�frustrated. Accustomed to booking things and paying for them online, she found the babysitter search process incredibly�archaic�by comparison. Zidel found herself calling friends and neighbors, looking at Craigslis[...]
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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

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Startup Bright has already built a popular job board. CEO Steve Goodman says that over the past 18 months, Bright.com has attracted 8.6 million job seekers who have posted 2.8 million resumes. However, that was just stage one of the company’s plans ? in Goodman’s words, it was “the largest scientific resume trial in the history of the industry.” Now Bright has collected a lot of data about what works and what doesn’t in the job search, and it’s ready to put those findings to use[...]
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Enterprises to cloud: Ready or not, here we come

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The number of diehards who resist the notion of running business apps in the cloud is dwindling. More than a third of end users polled recently feel that the cloud is safe for mission-critical applications, according to new research.
The 2012 Future of Cloud Survey, sponsored by North Bridge Venture Partners, shows acceptance of cloud computing for important business workloads is growing ? the overall percentage of respondents feeling comfortable with this notion was actually 50 percent, but that figure included tech vendors as well as end users and since most vendors have a vested interest in cloud computing, that may skew the numbers. According to last year?s survey, in which North Bridge[...]
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After Seed Labs, Cvent Snags CrowdCompass For $10M To Double Down On Mobile Event Apps

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It’s been an active seven days for Cvent, one of the largest event management companies in the world you’ve never heard of. The company, which offers web-based software for online event registration, management and more, has been on a mission to go beyond B2B services. Since raising $136 million last year, Cvent has re-focused on more consumer-facing event solutions, especially on mobile. As part of this new direction, Cvent made its first-ever acquisition last week, scooping up Austin-based event app developer Seed Labs for $4.2 million.
Given its new consumer aspirations, venture backing and strong recent growth, we said last week that “it wouldn’t be surprising to[...]
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