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Muck Rack, the journalist database, raises $180M in its first outside funding

For any journalist who has ever googled their name, or for anyone else who has ever googled a journalist’s name, there is a good chance that one of the top hits will be for Muck Rack, a database

A new ‘institutional angel’ fund is an example of the UK’s continuing ability to innovate in venture

The U.K.’s Enterprise Investment Scheme has been a powerhouse for startups out of the U.K. because it allowed angel investors to invest in a very tax-efficient manner. Launched in 1994, it was desig

Brandwatch is acquired by Cision for $450M, creating a PR, marketing and social listening giant

Online consumer intelligence and social media listening platform Brandwatch has been acquired by Cision, best known for its media monitoring and media contact database services, for $450 million, in a

Nauta Capital launches fifth fund with €120M to back early-stage European B2B startups

Nauta Capital, the pan-European venture capital firm that invests in B2B technology startups at seed and Series A, is launching its fifth fund. The new vehicle has an initial close of €120 million

Silicon Valley VC 7BC Capital expands in Europe, recruits first venture partner

Silicon Valley VC 7BC Venture Capital has decided to make an incursion into Europe, recruiting its first venture partner in the U.K. Monty Munford was previously a freelance journalist, conference spe

Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats

When Shomik Dutta and Betsy Hoover first met in 2007, he was coordinating fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign and she was a deputy field direc

Brandwatch turns its war chest on acquiring market research startup Qriously

In the past few years it’s become increasingly evident that while social media was a fantastic new way to get into the minds of people and understand what they thought in order to sell them things,

Futrli raises a Series A to hone its decision-making platform for small businesses

Futrli, a cloud-based business decision-making platform aimed at small businesses, has raised a £4m Series A from e.ventures, Notion Capital and firstminute Capital. Bootstrapped to date, Futrli clai

Social intelligence platforms Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon to merge

Brandwatch — the UK-HQ’d social intelligence company that raised $65 million from European VCs Nauta Capital, Highland Europe and Partech — is to merge with another leading player in the spa

Social media monitor Brandwatch acquires content marketing platform BuzzSumo

Brandwatch, a social media monitoring company, has acquired BuzzSumo, a content marketing and influencer identification platform, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition adds an important arrow into B

Social Intelligence Startup Brandwatch Raises $33M Series C To Grow In US

Social media is officially eating Internet, and where the people go with their eyeballs, so do the brands. But the brands are – largely – all at sea, still trying to figure all this stuff

You said what? Brandwatch brings its social media monitoring search to Seesmic

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Ex-Ask Jeeves European Operations Director joins Brandwatch as COO

<img class="shot" title="MEDIA Brandwatch Appointment CEO 1" src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/20132550-40008683-199x300.jpg" alt="" width="132" height="199" />[UK] Bryan Tookey ha