Joshua Baer had an excellent post on Mashable today with tips on how to raise money on AngelList. An excerpt is below, but you can read the rest of the post here. AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. I’ve personally raised $1 million from AngelList for my startup, and have helped dozens of other startups raise $3 million more. I’ve referred more than 20 startups to [...]

Kimbia, Inc. announced it raised more than $4 million in a Series 2 round of funding led by S3 Ventures to expand industry adoption of its Web-based fundraising and event management software. Kimbia’s innovative platform is designed to power the next generation of online fundraisers, event organizers and social advocates. Kimbia donation and registration forms are fully customizable through a Web-based control panel and are deployable anywhere on the Web via fully-secure form widgets — [...]

TabbedOut, the secure and innovative way to pay your bar or restaurant tab with a smartphone, today announced that the company has secured $2.05 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) in a Series A round of venture funding. The funding, which follows a $750,000 angel round, brings the company’s financing to $2.8 million in total. The round will be used to extend lighthouse markets onto a national stage, continue to build out [...]

uControl, which launched 5 years ago at DEMO, announced the addition of two new vice presidents and the final $3.9M of a $9M investment round, with none of that money coming from venture or institutional investors. The company exemplifies what startups and entrepreneurship are really all about. They started with a market and an idea, and they’ve been iterating the company focus over time to find solid product-market fit. It’s the sign of solid management, [...]

Normally you’re out pitching the VC’s. Well during SXSW we’ve got a little party for you where the VC’s will be pitching you. Our friend Larry Chiang, who wrote What They Don’t Teach You at Business School (and writes a BusinessWeek column with the same name) is throwing a Reverse VC Pitch party downtown on March 14th. This isn’t an official SXSW event, so you don’t even need a badge to attend. This will be [...]