Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4bea0127-95fa-45e4-a14f-0572a6477511&Preview=1 Date 8/15/2012 Company Name Educreations Mailing Address 843 W. Washington Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Company Description Educreations is a global community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don’t. We’re on a mission to democratize learning by extending the reach of great teaching. Website http://www.educreations.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Educreations Secures $2,200,000 New Round”
Category: San Francisco
MyHealthTeams Obtains $1,750,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4fb2d9a7-0dc6-4299-b79c-241da008a8c4&Preview=1 Date 8/15/2012 Company Name MyHealthTeams Mailing Address 201 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description MyHealthTeams develops social / local networks for communities of people living with or caring for those living with chronic health conditions (breast cancer, diabetes and others). We believe that when you or a loved one … Continue reading “MyHealthTeams Obtains $1,750,000 Seed Financing Round”
YottaMark Obtains $24,000,000 Series D Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=93b093a3-c14f-4d3e-b064-33c0ddc0c385&Preview=1 Date 8/15/2012 Company Name YottaMark Mailing Address 1400 Bridge Parkway Redwood City, CA 94065 Company Description The YottaMark Authentication Platform detects and deters counterfeiting, diversion and fraud and allows manufacturers, brand protection personnel, law enforcement officials – even consumers – to authenticate individual products anytime, anywhere. Real time intelligence provides brand … Continue reading “YottaMark Obtains $24,000,000 Series D Financing Round”
HealthLoop Obtains Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=371b7608-351a-4fb9-b02c-8c6bcb82d19c&Preview=1 Date 8/15/2012 Company Name HealthLoop Mailing Address NASA Ames Research Park Building 20 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Company Description HealthLoop Inc., a San Francisco-based company that helps physicians track patient health. Website http://www.healthloop.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A … Continue reading “HealthLoop Obtains Seed Round”
ParStream Receives $5,600,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d4c4c146-1616-4a32-ac60-e7be5fc63fb2&Preview=1 Date 8/15/2012 Company Name ParStream Mailing Address 530 Lytton Avenue 2nd Floor Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description ParsStream’s vision is to revolutionize the database market to enable real time big data analytics applications. To achieve this ParStream is performing fundamental research and driving innovation in database technology. The results allow … Continue reading “ParStream Receives $5,600,000 Series A Financing”
Chug Secures $224,528 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3129d942-27f0-433c-9836-e81d00e28136&Preview=1 Date 8/15/2012 Company Name Chug Mailing Address Pier 38 San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description The company is said to be working on an online car buying service. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $224,528 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A … Continue reading “Chug Secures $224,528 New Financing”
Ask Ziggy Secures $5,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9bc3ffa4-86d7-42d1-ace4-edcbb2e50437&Preview=1 Date 8/15/2012 Company Name Ask Ziggy Mailing Address Undisclosed Sacramento, CA 94200 Company Description Ask Ziggy is the Windows Phone answer to Siri. It’s a virtual voice-powered assistant that can change feet to yards, offer you stock quotes, and answer life’s most difficult questions. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Ask Ziggy Secures $5,000,000 New Round”
Gantto Helps Managers Chart a Way Around Project Delays
Say you’re making pasta with fresh marinara sauce for dinner. “It’s not uncommon to see a young, new cook spend 10 minutes chopping the vegetables and then 10 minutes cooking the sauce,” say Chris Carlson. “Then they put on the pot of water, and that takes 10 minutes just to boil. And then they add … Continue reading “Gantto Helps Managers Chart a Way Around Project Delays”
Remove the Cap on Social Security
I am apolitical by nature. The entire process of electing representatives, from city councils to Presidents, leaves me cold. Blame my extraordinary microeconomics professor H. Scott Bierman who was at Carleton College then but now is the President at Beloit College. He helped me crystallize a handful of tangential thoughts about our system into a … Continue reading “Remove the Cap on Social Security”
Aravo Solutions Receives $3,868,500 Series D Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=09faa454-8d9a-4ccb-a02b-17ec0df4891e&Preview=1 Date 8/14/2012 Company Name Aravo Solutions Mailing Address 400 Montgomery Street 13th Fl San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description Aravo Solutions reduces supply costs for Global 2000 organizations by providing visibility and control over the entire range of supply management business processes from defining commodity strategy and enabling suppliers through managing … Continue reading “Aravo Solutions Receives $3,868,500 Series D Financing”
Capnia Garners $5,017,396 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e5f9dae1-ea67-4e85-8998-aa693818ce54&Preview=1 Date 8/14/2012 Company Name Capnia Mailing Address 2445 Faber Place Palo Alto, CA 94303 Company Description CAPNIA is a private company developing novel therapeutic products using its proprietary medical gas delivery system. Website http://www.capnia.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $5,017,396 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC … Continue reading “Capnia Garners $5,017,396 New Funding Round”
Raydiance Receives $20,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4623919b-32de-4d32-97cf-aef03f5f1793&Preview=1 Date 8/14/2012 Company Name Raydiance Mailing Address 2199 S. McDowell Blvd Petaluma, CA 94954 Company Description UltraShort Pulse lasers have compelling capabilities that can deliver major benefits to hundreds of lucrative markets. The problem is that that technology is impractical. It’s too expensive. It requires highly trained Ph.D.’s to operate. And … Continue reading “Raydiance Receives $20,000,000 New Funding”
Visicon Inspection Technologies Receives $1,101,855 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=41cc47d4-66b8-4874-960f-c263b3358939&Preview=1 Date 8/14/2012 Company Name Visicon Inspection Technologies Mailing Address 871 Latour Court Napa, CA 94558 Company Description Visicon is excited to present to you the first significant advance in the inspection industry in decades. The Visicon team, looking beyond the inspection industry for the best technology has to offer, saw an … Continue reading “Visicon Inspection Technologies Receives $1,101,855 New Financing”
RichRelevance Obtains $8,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=84903247-f4f4-4b37-a8da-cfc94b2d1e83&Preview=1 Date 8/14/2012 Company Name RichRelevance Mailing Address 275 Battery St. San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description RichRelevance powers next-generation merchandising and personalized recommendations on eCommerce sites. The company’s product outperforms collaborative filtering solutions through use of more than fifteen recommendation types combined with transparent messaging, continuous optimization, and merchandiser controls. Website … Continue reading “RichRelevance Obtains $8,000,000 New Funding Round”
App.net Receives $800,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=05d226b8-6836-4c91-9581-f0f4d11a7655&Preview=1 Date 8/14/2012 Company Name App.net Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description App.net offers a new mobile app distribution and monetization platform for iOS and Android. App.net is built by an experienced team of mobile app developers who built a product to solve their own needs. Website http://www.app.net Transaction … Continue reading “App.net Receives $800,000 New Funding”
TwilioCon 2012
The second annual TwilioCon 2012 brings together over 1,000 members of Twilio’s fast-growing community: software developers, entrepreneurs, system integrators, and independent software vendors. Discover what these technology, product and business decision-makers have in common: they’re building next generation communications solutions using Twilio, with incredible results. You can find all the details about TwilioCon at TwilioCon.com. … Continue reading “TwilioCon 2012”
Relypsa Gets Another $50M for Drug to Fight Excess Potassium
Relypsa has soaked up a whole lot more venture capital to push its lead drug candidate through the later stages of clinical trials. The Santa Clara, CA-based biotech company has raised $49.7 million out of a financing round that could be worth as much as $80 million over time, according to a filing with the … Continue reading “Relypsa Gets Another $50M for Drug to Fight Excess Potassium”
WIMA NFC USA
From the conference website: WIMA is the worlds leading exhibition and conference enabling business and innovation exclusively for the NFC Ecosystem with events in both the US and Monaco. Following the success of the inaugural 2011 US event in San Francisco, WIMA is back with more ready for market solutions, building on innovation and enabling … Continue reading “WIMA NFC USA”
The Bar Is Rising in Casual & Social Games, Says GSN’s Davin Miyoshi
If you only followed Zynga’s stock price, you might think the entire business of games on Facebook was in free-fall. But many of the big developers of social and casual games are doing just fine, according to Davin Miyoshi, vice president of social games at GSN, which operates a major game studio in downtown San … Continue reading “The Bar Is Rising in Casual & Social Games, Says GSN’s Davin Miyoshi”
Brace Yourself: Biotech IPOs Are Beating Tech’s Big Names
The average American on the street has a Facebook account, an opinion about Facebook, heard about the Facebook initial public offering, and knows it collapsed. That same person doesn’t see how their life connects with biotech, probably can’t name a single biotech company, and certainly hasn’t heard of any members of the biotech IPO class … Continue reading “Brace Yourself: Biotech IPOs Are Beating Tech’s Big Names”
Relypsa Obtains $49,677,652 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c7354838-8a0b-4cce-97c4-102a8f75b65d&Preview=1 Date 8/13/2012 Company Name Relypsa Mailing Address 5301 Patrick Henry Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description Relypsa, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company leading the discovery and development of new non-absorbed polymeric drugs for important applications in renal and cardiovascular disease. Website http://www.relypsa.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $49,677,652 Transaction … Continue reading “Relypsa Obtains $49,677,652 New Financing Round”
Double Fine Productions Obtains $3,336,372 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=49bb8080-c2af-4bd7-97cd-f11f0bb83a3e&Preview=1 Date 8/13/2012 Company Name Double Fine Productions Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Double Fine Productions is an award-winning, independent game development studio founded in 2000 by games industry veteran Tim Schafer. Located in San Francisco’s South of Market district, Double Fine is committed to making high-quality games … Continue reading “Double Fine Productions Obtains $3,336,372 New Funding Round”
Waiting for the Speakularity
In late 2010, the Nieman Journalism Lab surveyed reporters for their predictions about what 2011 would bring for the future of journalism. My favorite prediction came from Matt Thompson, an editorial product manager at National Public Radio and a widely respected evangelist for digital journalism. (I happened to meet Thompson in person around the same … Continue reading “Waiting for the Speakularity”
Genentech Gets FDA OK of Lucentis for Diabetic Eye Disease
Genentech been losing market share to a tough new competitor in the field of macular degeneration, but now it has a new avenue for growth with its successful eye drug ranibizumab (Lucentis). Genentech, the South San Francisco-based unit of Roche, said today it has gotten clearance to start selling the drug as a treatment for … Continue reading “Genentech Gets FDA OK of Lucentis for Diabetic Eye Disease”
Keen Obtains $925,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7cb0102a-a66a-4f69-b2cc-25af8e37d194&Preview=1 Date 8/10/2012 Company Name Keen Mailing Address 1611 Borel Pl San Mateo, CA 94402 Company Description We love print. The smell of the press room, the rhythmic sound of sheets coming out of the feeder, and the warm feeling when that tough solid finally gets consistent. We love to watch that … Continue reading “Keen Obtains $925,000 New Funding”
eCullet Obtains $2,508,833 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2a6d2375-7968-40fe-abc5-573856f69fef&Preview=1 Date 8/10/2012 Company Name eCullet Mailing Address 600 Hansen Way Palo Alto, CA 94304 Company Description eCullet is a technology-based glass processing company with corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California. We are a technology developer and glass processor. Our emphasis is to utilize our proprietary state-of-the-art technology and processing systems to … Continue reading “eCullet Obtains $2,508,833 New Funding Round”
Game Discovery
From the event registration page: Game Discovery, presented by Mobile Games SF, is THE networking event in the Bay Area to show you how to get your games discovered on mobile platforms. By offering high-level keynotes and discussions, as well as networking with other mobile and social game developers and game executives, Game Discovery enables … Continue reading “Game Discovery”
Hacking Design
This is part of the “Designers and Geeks” series at Kicksend. From the event registration page: Presented by Wells Riley of Kicksend. Designers earn a living making digital products beautiful and easy to use, but there’s a dirty little secret. Design isn’t only about how something looks, but how it works, who uses it, and … Continue reading “Hacking Design”
Big Data and APIs Hackathon
From the event registration site: “AngelHack Events and the Data Week Conference would like to invite you to the first ever Big Data and APIs Hackathon. This will be one of the first hackathons to allow you to build upon existing code, thus allowing teams to win prizes for integrating Big Data Tools, like New Relic, into their current … Continue reading “Big Data and APIs Hackathon”
Xconomy Forum: Reinventing Biotech’s Business Model, San Francisco Style
Biotech companies used to think about how to build enduring companies with soup-to-nuts operations that had everything under one corporate flag, from research to development to manufacturing to marketing. Those models increasingly look like relics. Investors have grown weary of the long timelines, big bucks, and high risk that come with building such organizations. Stung … Continue reading “Xconomy Forum: Reinventing Biotech’s Business Model, San Francisco Style”
TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition
From the event announcement: On October 4 and 11, 10 companies (20 in total) will be selected to pitch online to Sramana Mitra, one of Silicon Valley’s top strategists. Each 5-minute pitch will be followed by a 5-minute strategic analysis by Sramana. Following the pitches during each online roundtable event, Sramana Mitra and Dan Raju, … Continue reading “TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition”
TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition
From the event announcement: On October 4 and 11, 10 companies (20 in total) will be selected to pitch online to Sramana Mitra, one of Silicon Valley’s top strategists. Each 5-minute pitch will be followed by a 5-minute strategic analysis by Sramana. Following the pitches during each online roundtable event, Sramana Mitra and Dan Raju, … Continue reading “TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition”
The Event Event: A Photo Gallery
We went “meta” in San Francisco this Tuesday, staging an event that was all about—you guessed it—events. The “Event Event” featured an on-stage conversation with all three founders of San Francisco-based Eventbrite—Kevin Hartz, Julia Hartz, and Renaud Visage—along with Eventbrite board member and former Ticketmaster CEO Sean Moriarty. The gathering attracted a capacity crowd to … Continue reading “The Event Event: A Photo Gallery”
Nodality Snags Pfizer Deal to Improve Autoimmune R&D, Diagnostics
South San Francisco-based Nodality has spent five years honing an enabling technology for personalized medicine, which could help patients avoid wasteful treatments and improve the success rate in new drug R&D. Now it has persuaded New York-based Pfizer (NYSE: [[ticker:PFE]]), the world’s biggest drugmaker, to buy into its vision. Nodality, which raised $15 million of … Continue reading “Nodality Snags Pfizer Deal to Improve Autoimmune R&D, Diagnostics”
Join Risa Stack, Tony Coles & More for ‘Reinventing Biotech’
Back in the old days, biotech companies used to dream about becoming a “FIBCO,” as in, “fully integrated biopharmaceutical company.” Entrepreneurs sought to raise lots of venture capital and invest it in everything from research to development to marketing and manufacturing. Most companies failed, but the industry’s first-generation success stories—Amgen, Genentech, Biogen, Genzyme—set a powerful … Continue reading “Join Risa Stack, Tony Coles & More for ‘Reinventing Biotech’”
Breakthrough Obtains $900,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=16a97368-72ae-42b5-afad-615bfbfad031&Preview=1 Date 8/9/2012 Company Name Breakthrough Mailing Address 234 Marshall St Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description Breakthrough connects people with mental health providers anywhere, anytime for high-quality online counseling and psychiatric care. Website http://www.breakthrough.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $900,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes The funding’s use is apparent, … Continue reading “Breakthrough Obtains $900,000 Seed Funding”
PLUMgrid Receives $10,700,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d61915e8-6d8d-4243-8efe-808f069545bd&Preview=1 Date 8/9/2012 Company Name PLUMgrid Mailing Address 440 N Wolfe Road Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description PLUMgrid is the future of networking. We’re a team with great, innovative ideas and are truly passionate about making them happen for our customers. Our leaders are top-notch technologists and business strategists. We’re trailblazers. Website … Continue reading “PLUMgrid Receives $10,700,000 Series A Funding Round”
One Jackson Lands New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f6fe5138-38dd-4bb3-bb5e-e732a44b9c66&Preview=1 Date 8/9/2012 Company Name One Jackson Mailing Address 555 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description We believe in raising creative, original kids who love great design (as much as we do!). We want our kids to know the designer and story behind what they wear (and look and feel … Continue reading “One Jackson Lands New Financing”
Square Obtains $25,000,000 Series D Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1f78d651-cb49-412b-80fc-f47ee1905e6a&Preview=1 Date 8/9/2012 Company Name Square Mailing Address 901 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94101 Company Description The company operates as a mobile payment service company. Website http://www.squareup.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $25,000,000 Transaction Round Series D Proceeds Purposes Square will process Starbucks U.S. credit and debit card transactions, which … Continue reading “Square Obtains $25,000,000 Series D Financing Round”
Upstart Lands New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9d3e4f9c-b205-4ce3-abc0-f5572905360f&Preview=1 Date 8/9/2012 Company Name Upstart Mailing Address P.O. Box 61203 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Upstart aims to help you with the most important part of pursuing your dreams – taking the first step. It may be as simple as applying for an internship, relocating to another city, or spending … Continue reading “Upstart Lands New Round”
DEY Storage Systems Receives $3,000,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c54f1915-f66e-45af-aa2d-65926bc22fd1&Preview=1 Date 8/9/2012 Company Name DEY Storage Systems Mailing Address 215 South B Street San Mateo, CA 94401 Company Description DEY Storage Systems, Inc., provides innovative software-delivered storage solutions. Our software virtualizes storage by unbundling storage management from the physical layer, enabling customers to design and operate dynamic storage platforms supporting their … Continue reading “DEY Storage Systems Receives $3,000,000 Seed Financing”
Starbucks and Square: This One’s About the Bankers
Updated 1:40 pm Pacific, see below Starbucks surprised the retail and tech worlds today with news that it will start using mobile-payments startup Square to process credit- and debit-card payments at U.S. coffee shops. And while a lot of the initial reaction has focused on the gee-whiz features possible with Square’s consumer smartphone app, the fundamental … Continue reading “Starbucks and Square: This One’s About the Bankers”
CardioDx Wins Medicare OK of Molecular Test for Heart Disease
CardioDx has spent three years marketing a new genetic test that can tell when a patient’s chest pain is a sign of serious heart disease, or no big cause for alarm. It still has a long way to go before becoming part of mainstream medicine, but now the company has taken a big step ahead … Continue reading “CardioDx Wins Medicare OK of Molecular Test for Heart Disease”
Xconomist of the Week Christina Lampe-Onnerud Talks Cleantech
It’s been less than a year since Boston-Power, a lithium-ion battery maker, announced it had raised a whopping $125 million Series F funding round from Beijing-based GSR Ventures—and was moving most of its operations to China to chase down the electric vehicle market in that country. It’s seeing the first big payoff from that decision. … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week Christina Lampe-Onnerud Talks Cleantech”
Inneractive Receives $3,500,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=679ce66d-e805-4ae3-b6a0-e0993929c0b7&Preview=1 Date 8/8/2012 Company Name Inneractive Mailing Address 300 South Ellsworth Avenue San Mateo, CA 94401 Company Description Inneractive is the industry’s leading mobile app monetization exchange with over 120 ad providers integrated and available in a one line SDK. With full transparency of real time optimization, developers can monitor how inneractive … Continue reading “Inneractive Receives $3,500,000 New Funding Round”
Sorbent Therapeutics Secures $18,056,217 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=728fd2af-607f-4714-9ce2-fe49b1851fc1&Preview=1 Date 8/8/2012 Company Name Sorbent Therapeutics Mailing Address 710 Lakeway Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Sorbent Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of adaptable non-absorbed polymeric drugs to satisfy unmet clinical needs in large markets such as End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Chronic … Continue reading “Sorbent Therapeutics Secures $18,056,217 New Funding Round”
PURE Storage Garners $40,000,000 Series D Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=380a3e1f-8ae0-4023-847c-91cb52760392&Preview=1 Date 8/8/2012 Company Name PURE Storage Mailing Address 650 Castro St. Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Pure Storage is leveraging flash to change the performance and cost dynamics of enterprise storage. Website http://www.purestorage.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $40,000,000 Transaction Round Series D Proceeds Purposes Pure Storage said it … Continue reading “PURE Storage Garners $40,000,000 Series D Financing”
See You Tonight in San Francisco at Xconomy’s Event Event
Today’s the day I’ve been telling you about for a couple of months now: It’s your chance to catch Eventbrite co-founders Kevin Hartz, Julia Hartz, and Renaud Visage, along with Eventbrite board member (and former Ticketmaster CEO) Sean Moriarty, in conversation with yours truly at the Greenstart cleantech accelerator in downtown San Francisco. The theme tonight … Continue reading “See You Tonight in San Francisco at Xconomy’s Event Event”
Steve Blank: How to Build a Great Company, Step by Step
Join Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur-turned-educator Steve Blank in a lively discussion with Dan’l Lewin of Microsoft. This program, organized by the Commonwealth Club, will introduce best practices, lessons and tips that have swept the startup world, offering a wealth of proven advice and information for entrepreneurs of all stripes. Hear about a tested and proven … Continue reading “Steve Blank: How to Build a Great Company, Step by Step”
More Cash for DocuSign: Google Ventures Now an Investor
DocuSign has raked in even more investment cash to help expand its electronic signature business. Today, the company says Google Ventures has contributed about $8 million to the company’s Series D financing, bringing that round of investment to a whopping $55.7 million. Total cash invested in the company now tops $120 million. DocuSign got its … Continue reading “More Cash for DocuSign: Google Ventures Now an Investor”