Former PayPal CEO of Intuit raises $ 25 m for "new generation" financial consultant

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Personal capital came out of stealth mode today on the "create a new model for financial services" and announced that he raised only 25 million dollars of venture funding. The funding includes a series a round led by institutional venture partners and series b round led by Venrock with NVS, also investing again.

The company is not quite ready to launch yet, how can you say with sparse website, but said that he would soon be debuting Advisor that provides custom investment management, banking and personal finance services built around each customer a unique and complete financial situation.

Personal capital manages private investor and former PayPal and Intuit's chief exec Bill Harris (CEO), EverBank co-founder and former Fidelity Investments personal trust company President, Rob Foregger (Chief Strategy Officer) and former E-loan CIO Jay Shah (CIO).

The company is based in Redwood City, California.

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Former members of Expedia raise $ 8 million for the trip search launch Hopper

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Hopper, Montreal, Canada at the start, had raised $ 8 million in new funding from Atlas venture and previous Backer Brightspark Ventures, to try to ' reinvent travel search '.

Hopper is still in stealth mode, but if you want to learn more about what they cook, check out this Boston.com profile or this article from Boston's Xconomy.

Really Hopper plans to open new Office in Boston, where he plans to double its engineering team within the next year.

The company builds on the merits of the "journey of discovery" engine for consumers, allowing people to know the directions and products using only keywords such as "the best beaches in Europe".

The launch was conceived by Sebastian Rejnvillâ, Chief Engineer Frederick Lalonde, the Director-General and Chief of product Joost Ouwerkerk. The last two were Expedia Lalonde, who purchased the previous company Newtrade technologies back in 2002.

Hopper was originally founded in 2007 and previously raised $ 2 million in 2008, the company's total funding to $ 10 million today.

Jeff Fagnan, partner at Atlas venture, will join the Hopper, the Board of Directors.

Hopper is developing a search engine for travel planning. Funded by Brightspark Ventures, the company was founded in 2007. Hopper's offices are located in the renovated Paul ...

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