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- YouSendIt Raises $15 Million Series D
- iPad Reader Pulse Teams Up With Posterous To Make You A News Aggregator
| YouSendIt Raises $15 Million Series D | Top |
| File sharing service YouSendIt has closed a $15 million Series D funding round led by Adams Street Partners, with existing investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners, and Alloy Ventures also participating. Robin Murray, a partner at Adams Street, will become an observer for the company’s board of directors. YouSendIt’s core product allows users to easily send and receive files and folders as large as 2 gigabytes in size (rather than send the file itself via email, you send a link to the file that is hosted on YouSendIt’s servers). The service continues to grow, with 300,000 new registered users a month, and CTO Ranjith Kumaran says that the company is doing well at monetizing its freemium products: the site has over 215,000 paid users, all of whom are subscribed to plans that run $9.99 per month and higher. Kumaran also says that the company is seeing success in the enterprise, which YouSendIt has worked toward with features like Outlook integration and various certifications. The company is looking at using some of the money for acquisitions, in addition to using it to boost growth and market share. YouSendIt previously raised a $14 million Series C round in July 2008, and has raised over $53 million to date. The company recently named former Netflix VP of Finance Renee Budig as CFO. CrunchBase Information YouSendIt Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| iPad Reader Pulse Teams Up With Posterous To Make You A News Aggregator | Top |
| Alphonso Labs ‘ Pulse app for the iPad provides a beautiful way to read your favorite feeds. Unfortunately, compared to the newer entry Flipboard , it’s not very socially personalized. An update tonight hopes to change that. Pulse is teaming up with Posterous to create a simple way for users to create their own “Pulses.” What this means is that they can with one tap add any article to their own Pulse — thus making any user an aggregator of news. Posterous comes in because each of these Pulse items are transfered to a free blog which is automatically created for you. “ This blog will post the articles you have picked, hence enabling you to share this even with friends who don’t have Pulse ,” Alphonso Labs co-founder Akshay Kothari says. But if your friends are using Pulse, there will be an easy way for them to subscribe to your Pulses, simply by searching for their name or username. But the most interesting aspect of all of this may be the aggregator Alphonso Labs has created to show off the best of these Pulses: Pulsememe . It’s sort of like Techmeme (though it covers all news, not just tech news), but it relies on these Posterous-powered Pulse blogs to aggregate what’s hot. In a way, it’s actually more like Delicious or Google Reader shared items. Pulsememe also features a sidebar list of top editors to show off who is discovering the most interesting content. The service is pretty bare-bones at the moment — but there’s also no one really using it outside of Alphonso Labs employees. If a lot of people get into this idea of using the Pulse app as their own aggregation tool, this could be an interesting way to discover news. Posterous, meanwhile, continues to come up with interesting ways to get people to create blogs on their network. Last week, Pulse launched its app on the Android platform . The app also works on the iPhone and iPod touch — though this aggregator tool is only on the iPad app for the time being. You can find the Pulse app here . It’s $3.99. CrunchBase Information Alphonso Labs Posterous iPad Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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