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Appia ranked #15 on WSJ’s Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies

The Wall Street Journal has selected Appia from a pool of more than 10,000 startups to be recognized as one of the 50 most promising venture-backed companies in the U.S. Appia is ranked #15 among the 50 most promising startups

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White-Label App Marketplace Platform Appia Raises $10M At $100M Valuation

White-label mobile app platform Appia (formerlyPocketGear), is announcing that it has secured $10 million in new funding from Venrock. According to sources familiar with the matter, the startup was valued at $100 million in the round. This latest investment brings Appia’s total funding to $30 million. Dev Khare, Vice President at Venrock, has joined the [...]

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Opera Launches Appia-Powered Mobile App Store To The Public

The Opera Mobile Store is actually powered by Appia (formerly PocketGear), which recently shifted its business model to providing white label mobile app stores for providers. For now, Opera will offers both free and paid applications for a variety of mobile platforms and devices, including Java, Symbian, BlackBerry and Android operating systems .<Read>

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Appia secures $10 million from Venrock in latest funding round

White label mobile app platform Appia has announced it picked up $10 million from Venrock in its latest round of investment, bringing the company's total funding to date to $28.5 million. <Read>

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Appia raises $10m from Venrock for its white-label app stores

Appia has announced a $10 million funding round from VC firm Venrock, which it says will be used to beef up its product development and launch more white-label app stores around the world. <Read>

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App marketplace Appia lands $10M Venrock investment

Venture capital firm Venrock has completed a $10 million investment in white-label mobile app storefront solutions provider Appia, which will earmark the funding to accelerate product development and roll out new app stores across the globe. In tandem with the financing, Venrock Vice President Dev Khare will join the Appia board of directors.<Read>

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Appia Secures $10 Million Investment from Venrock

Appia is thrilled to announce that we are now “A Venrock Company,” having secured $10MM from one of the oldest and most prestigious Venture Firms in the world – the VC behind Apple, Intel, DoubleClick and over 120 other companies believes in Appia and our Open App Marketplace strategy.

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Money Flows To Mobile Startups: Appia, Apperian, Bubble Motion, And Others

It may not be $41 million, but there are still serious funds flowing into the mobile sector at the moment, and the companies taking advantage of the loosened purse strings are all over the map in terms of what they’re doing to get investors’ attention. Today the white-label app store operator Appia, and the voice-based [...]

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Got Apps? Appia Raises $10 Million for Even More App Stores

Appia, formerly known as PocketGear, has raised $10 million in venture capital from Venrock. With the close of the round, the Durham, N.C.-based company now has investments from each of the major wireless OS-makers — well, sort of. Here’s how it could argue the case: Venrock is venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, which [...]

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App Store Smarts, Not Apps, May Be the Better Investment

Appia, a white-label mobile application marketplace, announced $10 million in funding from Venrock on Wedneday. This third round brings the total funding for Appia, which recently re-branded with a new name, to $28.5 million. In addition to the third round of funding, Dev Khare, VP at Venrock, is joining Appia’s board of directors. Prior investors [...]

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