25May

Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M

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Exec, a mobile app that instantly gets people to do your errands, has raised $3.3 million, according to an SEC filing. The company’s co-founder Justin Kan, who is also behind Justin.tv, Twitch.tv and SocialCam, is getting back to us on who invested in this round.

What’s Exec? It’s kind of comparable to TaskRabbit, because you can call on people to run your errands from an app. But Exec doesn’t require a bidding process and it calls up ‘Execs,’ or people to do your tasks, instantaneously. It also has a flat rate of $25 an hour. Exec covers all sorts of errands — deliveries, chores, cleaning, even art. One ‘Exec,’ who cleaned my house once, has also coached YC founders on their pitches for Demo Day. Seriously.

The filing only shows Exec’s team on it, so it’s hard to tell who the firms or angels in the round are. Again, like we said, Kan’s getting back to us within the hour, so hopefully we’ll have an update then.



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20May

Penn raises $2M for Haiti

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17May

Gap raises profit outlook, shares rise

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A woman walks past the Gap flagship store in San Francisco(Reuters) – Gap Inc raised its yearly profit forecast, prompted by first-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street estimates and rising sales, and its shares rose 8 percent after hours. For the full year, Gap estimated earnings of $1.78 to $1.83 a share, above the $1.75 to $1.80 it forecast in February. “It’s important to remain measured in our outlook given that our biggest selling seasons are still ahead of us,” said Chief Financial Officer Sabrina Simmons. Given the first quarter beat, “the current forecast does appear to be conservative,” said Betty Chen, an analyst with Wedbush Securities. …


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17May

Gap raises profit expectations, shares rise

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A woman walks past the Gap flagship store in San Francisco(Reuters) – Gap Inc raised its yearly profit forecast, prompted by first-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street estimates and rising sales, sending its shares up 8 percent in extended trading. For the full year, Gap estimates earning $1.78 to $1.83 a share, above the $1.75 to $1.80 it had forecast in February. “It’s important to remain measured in our outlook given that our biggest selling seasons are still ahead of us,” said Chief Financial Officer Sabrina Simmons. …


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10May

Mixpanel Raises $10.25M Led By Andreessen Horowitz, Now Provides Analytics For Viddy And Path

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Y Combinator-backed analytics startup Mixpanel can now add Andreessen Horowitz to an already-impressive list of investors.

Mixpanel previously raised $1.75 million from Sequoia Capital, Square COO Keith Rabois, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, and Bebo co-founder Michael Birch. Now Andreessen Horowitz has led a $10.25 million Series A, with participation from Levchin, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, and Yammer CEO David Sacks. (Co-founder Suhail Doshi says Mixpanel chose Andreessen Horowitz over other firms, including Sequoia, which did not have pro rata in the deal.) Andreessen Horowitz’s Peter Levine is joining the company’s board.

“We’ve watched Suhail and his team at Mixpanel transform the company from an innovative startup to one that delivers the most advanced solution we’ve seen for mobile and web analytics,” Levine says in the press release.

Doshi has pitched Mixpanel as an affordable, innovative alternative to old-school analytics companies like Omniture. Back in February, he told me that Mixpanel was tracking 4 billion actions for its customers each month. Less than three months later, Doshi says that number is now more than 7 billion. A lot of that growth has been on the mobile side. In fact, Doshi claims that aside from Instagram, most of the high-profile, hit smartphone apps use Mixpanel. Two new customers include Path and Viddy — and since Socialcam was already a customer, that means Mixpanel is serving the two big apps duking it out for dominance of mobile video sharing.

The next big update to the product will involve making Mixpanel data more actionable, Doshi says — so, for example, instead of just helping gaming companies identify which players are “whales” (i.e., the biggest spenders), it will also help them figure out what to do with that knowledge. Doshi also says he wants to start spending a lot more aggressively on recruiting employees. That’s a normal part of the plan when a company raises money, but Doshi lays out a particularly ambitious vision.

“Not only do we want to spoil our current employees, but we think we can out-compete Google and Facebook in terms of making it an awesome place to work,” he says.



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