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Lightpost Digital Lands New Funding For Online Marketing Services

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The company is a spinout of Deal Current, and was founded in 2015. The company focuses on website development, SEO, Facebook ads, and review monitoring. The funding came from Canal Partners and DWP Investments. READ MORE>>.

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DivShot Acquired By Google

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Los Angeles-based Divshot , which had offered up hosting of static web pages for web developers, has been acquired by Google , and will join Gogole's Firebase software development team. Divshot says it will shut down all of its products and services as of Monday, December 14th, 2015.

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Zesty Reinvents Itself With New Cash for Automated Web Tech

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Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. Thus, he naturally viewed Twilio's toolsets as rudimentary and easy to copy - easy for him and his world-class team of VoIP engineers, but not so easy for the average developer. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial.