U.S. Online Reputation Management Firm Reputation.com Acquires U.K.’s Reputation 24/7 To Expand Internationally — Will Invest “Millions” In U.K. Operation

reputation.comRedwood City-based online reputation management company Reputation.com has announced it’s acquired Liverpool, U.K.-based Reputation 24/7 to bolster its international business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Reputation 24/7 has been rebranded Reputation.com (U.K.) and will sell Reputation.com’s suite of consumer and business online reputation management offerings to European customers.

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Y Combinator Backs Its First Non-Profit, Watsi; Paul Graham Says He’s “Never Been So Excited” To Invest

Screen shot 2013-01-25 at 12.43.27 PMBack in August, we wrote about the launch of a startup non-profit organization called Watsi, which offers anyone and everyone the opportunity to fund “low-cost, high impact treatment” for those who lack access to necessary care. Again, considering the fact that there are more than one billion people who are unable to afford adequate medical services (or don’t have access to them), Watsi’s mission has enormous (global) implications. And, honestly, it’s a pleasure to see a startup tackling such a big problem, in spite of the fact that it’s inherently complex, thorny and nearly impossible to solve.

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Semetric Scores $4.7M To Turn Up The Volume On Musicmetric, Its Big Data Analytics Service

symetric bbc appMore money for big data analytics — and a sign that, as the space matures, we will see more segmentation of what kinds of big data is getting analysed. Semetric, the UK/LA-based company behind the music data tracking service Musicmetric, has today announced £3 million ($4.7 million) in new investment, which it says that it will use to further expand its music service, as well as other big data products specifically for the entertainment industry. New investor Imperial Innovations Group and existing backer Pentech Ventures both participated. Semetric has raised $7.4 million since being founded in 2008.

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Fresh From Its $54M Raise, Infusionsoft Acquires GroSocial, The “Buddy Media For SMBs,” To Expand Into Social Marketing

Screen shot 2013-01-22 at 3.52.37 AMUp until recently, as far as sales and marketing platforms go, Infusionsoft has been a fairly well-kept secret. Yet, two weeks ago, the company landed $54 million in series C financing from Goldman Sachs, bringing its total funding to $71 million. With this new infusion of capital, the makers of a growing, SaaS sales and marketing automation platform for small businesses are now on track for a potential IPO in the next few years. In his interview with Alex Williams, Infusionsoft CEO Clate Mask said that the team is building “a big, independent company that we hope will be around for decades to come … we want to be the Intuit for the sales and marketing business of a company.”

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With $4.1M In New Funding, MasteryConnect Wants To Give Teachers A Better Way To Track Student Progress

Screen shot 2013-01-20 at 12.59.37 PMOne of the most important roles that technology can play in transforming education revolves around data. Whether that’s by implementing APIs to make student data more transportable (a la Clever and LearnSprout) or creating integrated, cloud-based analytics platforms that give educators more insight into student performance through realtime metrics, finding better ways to make data more accessible can solve some of the biggest problems that are crippling our educational system.

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SurveyMonkey CEO Talks About Why His Company Won’t IPO After Raising $794M And Reveals Other Big-Name Investors

money“We could go public,” SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg says, “but the cost of going public — of running a public company — outweighs the benefits.” As the founder of LAUNCH Media, which he took public before selling to Yahoo! (where he stayed for six years), Goldberg is familiar with the IPO process and isn’t in any hurry to repeat it.

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NewHive Lets You Hack Together Any Media Into A Website Collage. 10M Views Let It Raise Funding

NewHive Wonke LogoInstagram for websites? Not exactly. NewHive is more like a cross between MS Paint, Photoshop, and Tumblr. But NewHive’s not just a collage site-making tool. It has a community that’s logged 10 million views of NewHive creations, and that attracted investors. SV Angel, CrunchFund, and some angels just backed its seed so NewHive can build a social media consumption network around self-expression.

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Keek Raises $18M, Adds 6M Users In 30 Days And Looks To Expand Mobile Video Sharing Further Internationally

keek-screenKeek, the Toronto-based social video sharing startup that emphasizes communication over entertainment through bite-sized 36-second smartphone movie clips, today announced an $18 million funding round, led by AGF Investments, Pinetree Capital and Plazacorp Ventures, along with Cranson Capital. The new money comes after Keek added $7 million in new funding just a few short months ago in October, and is designed to help the network keep pace with that it describes as explosive growth.

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Streamweaver Nabs $1.3M From Former Facebook Chief & Others To Bring The Split-Screen Experience To Mobile Video

Screen shot 2013-01-11 at 4.48.25 AMAs Peter Csathy wrote recently, mobile video does indeed present a huge market opportunity, but it’s one that few (if any) startups have gotten right, and it’s a much harder nut to crack than many seem to realize. Streamweaver, a Nashville-based startup that launched back in September, hopes to stand out from the crowd by making the whole mobile video experience more social and collaborative. For Streamweaver, that means allowing friends to not only record mobile video simultaneously along or with friends, but view recorded content in a single, split-screen video as well.

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Causes Acquires Votizen To Democratize Democracy

Causes + Votizen PowerActivism platform Causes has just acquired political advocacy startup Votizen. With Causes’ massive 186 million-strong user base and Votizen’s tools, together they’ll break down barriers to civic engagement to allow anyone to influence elections. Negotiated by mutual investor Sean Parker, the deal gives people a way to turn out votes for candidates who support the Causes they’re passionate about.

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