John Greathouse, a general partner at Rincon Venture Partners and peHUB guest columnist, weighs in on the “Series A crunch” and offers some practical strategies startups can use to increase their odds of surviving the crunch.

RingRevenue has raised an additional $3.25 million in growth capital led by existing investors GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners. RingRevenue is a developer of call marketing automation solutions.

Digital marketing technology company DataPop has raised $7 million in Series B funding. MK Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors Rincon Venture Partners, IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures and Accelerator Ventures. PRESS RELEASE By delivering on the real promise of internet advertising, DataPop, a fast growing digital marketing technology company, has raised $7MM [...]

Burstly has acquired TestFlight and the start-ups are joining forces to launch TestFlight Live. TestFlight Live is a real-time dashboard that highlights actions and revenue for iOS apps. Burstly’s backers include SoftBank Capital, Founder Collective, Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners. PRESS RELEASE We are excited to announce that Burstly has acquired TestFlight, and we [...]

Los Angeles-based SteelHouse has raised $6.3 million from venture investors Greycroft Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Lighthouse Venture Group, Baroda Ventures and SV Angel. The company makes a behavioral ecommerce platform, which provides shoppers different offers based on their buying behavior.

The widely watched battle between Jeopardy-playing supercomputer Watson and two of the game show’s human champions this week directed national attention to the otherwise relatively obscure corner of the programming world known as natural language processing. But while the limelight was fixed mostly on Watson’s creator, IBM, it’s clear Big Blue isn’t the only one [...]

Marketing company RingRevenue has rased $4 million in venture capital financing, bringing its total financing to $7.5 million. Los Angeles-based GRP Partners and Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Rincon Venture Partners led the latest round, which will be used to bolster its customer development and support teams. Santa Barbara, Calif.-based RingRevenue develops call performance marketing technology, as well as tracking and analytics technology for advertising campaigns.