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Venture Capitalists Hot About iPhone Startups

Posted on June 11, 2008

If last year saw the venture capital community chasing startups building around the Facebook platform, this year the new new thing are iPhone application makers. In addition to the $100 million iFund floated by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, other VCs are getting in on the action. We recently covered Pelagao, which raised $15 Million from iFund, Reliance Communications and T-Mobile s Venture Fund. Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital recently invested an undisclosed amount in New York City-based Pinch Media. Add a relatively unknown company, Tapulous, to this growing list that is...

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