Remember Chamillionaire? He's no longer ridin' dirty, that's for sure.

Mark Suster announced yesterday that the Grammy-winning rap artist is the newest EIR at Upfront Ventures. We predict a guest post on TechCrunch and a name change to "Chabillionaire" in his near future.

A fellow data geek over at Zillabyte impressed us with this time-lapse map of venture funding in San Francisco, powered by the CrunchBase API.

Zillabyte's map bears an uncanny resemblance to a map of San Francisco's housing prices we caught on Medium this weekend. The median price for a one bedroom rental in SOMA, the heart of SF's tech scene, comes out to a lofty $3400/month. Yikes.

Tired of hearing about Silicon Valley? Accelerators from Lincoln, Nebraska, and Ramallah, Palestine are two of the latest to join the CrunchBase Venture Program.


See the full list of new additions to the Venture Program.


Don't forget to apply for Startup Battlefield at this year's TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. Applications are open through March 1st.
 
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DriverUp

$50M / Series A

DriverUp is an online marketplace built exclusively for automotive financing. Founded in 2012, DriverUp is using the new funding to launch and scale its financing marketplace for individual accredited investors.

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GuideSpark

$22M / Series C

GuideSpark helps HR organizations deliver communications and training solutions by turning paper-based employee communications into mobile, interactive content and video. Founded in 2008, GuideSpark has raised $42 million to date and will use the new round to hire more staff and further develop its product.

Menlo Park CA · Enterprise Software

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Mack Weldon

$4.0M / Series A

Mack Weldon is a basics brand for men that offers socks, underwear and undershirts. Launched in 2012, Mack Weldon sees 6,000 orders coming in each month and will put the latest funding toward marketing and building out its website and app.

New York NY · Consumer Internet · Fashion · E-Commerce

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CleanEquity Monaco 2015
March 5, 2015 - March 6, 2015
8:00am - 6:00pm
Musée Océanographique de Monaco
Avenue Saint-Martin, 98000 Monaco
, Monaco
CleanEquity Monaco is the world’s leading emerging cleantech conference, hosted annually by Innovator Capital and the Principality of Monaco
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Featured Acquisitions
Meritage Pharma Meritage Pharma acquired by Shire for $70M
Netchemia Netchemia acquired by PeopleAdmin
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nCino ($29M / Series C)
Metamarkets ($15M / Series B)
Shopwings (12M EUR / Series A)
Visio Financial Services ($6.7M / Series B)
Citymaps ($6.0M / Venture)
Q4 Web Systems ($5.0M / Venture)
LocoMotive Labs ($4.0M / Series A)
RtTech Software ($3.0M / Series A)
Knowmail ($1.2M / Seed)
Calixar (1.0M EUR / Series B)
FamilyID ($850K / Seed)
+147 More Funding Rounds
 
Acquisitions
 
Flexus Biosciences acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb
Heptares Therapeutics acquired by Sosei
The Newark Group acquired by Caraustar Industries
+19 More Acquisitions
 
 
 
Since the last CrunchBase Daily
161 Fundings Added   $269MIn Fundings Captured   24 Acquisitions Recorded   3,313 Profiles Updated
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