Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fb5c0ce1-d9b1-4c5e-853b-59b0760428f4&Preview=1 Date 3/25/2011 Company Name AssureRX Health Mailing Address 7264 Columbia Road Mason, OH 45039 Company Description Cincinnati-based AssureRx Health, Inc. is a personalized medicine company which specializes in pharmacogenetics and is dedicated to helping physicians determine the right drug at the right dose for individual patients suffering from medical conditions. Website … Continue reading “AssureRX Health Secures $11,000,000 Series B Funding”
Tag: Sequoia Capital
$41M for Color’s Photo App
Palo Alto, CA, startup Color, founded by Lala.com creator Bill Nguyen, has raised $41 million in venture financing from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank for a new photo-sharing app for the Apple iPhone and Android phones. The Web has been ablaze with chatter over the startup and the size of the round since … Continue reading “$41M for Color’s Photo App”
Inkling Lands New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b3e28c53-2ea0-478e-9d6d-6a8294f3dc63&Preview=1 Date 3/23/2011 Company Name Inkling Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Inkling was founded in late 2009 to tackle the challenges of interactive publishing. Inkling’s partnerships with major publishers like Cengage Learning, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, and Wolters Kluwer will yield next-generation interactive titles that replace traditional … Continue reading “Inkling Lands New Funding Round”
Color Secures $41,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ba44677c-46a6-4bbc-854e-d26688715368&Preview=1 Date 3/23/2011 Company Name Color Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Simultaneously use multiple iPhones and Androids to capture photos, videos, and conversations into a group album. There’s no attaching, uploading, or friending to do. Website http://www.color.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $41,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Color Secures $41,000,000 New Financing”
HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan on M&A Strategy, Lessons from PTC and Groove, and Boston as the “Next Madison Avenue”
They are the “Mad Men” of the future—the guys (and gals here in the 21st century) at marketing-tech companies like HubSpot, Constant Contact, DataXu, BzzAgent, Demandware, and Performable. I’m not a big fan of the show, so I won’t take the analogy much further. But perhaps Brian Halligan, the co-founder and CEO of Cambridge, MA-based … Continue reading “HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan on M&A Strategy, Lessons from PTC and Groove, and Boston as the “Next Madison Avenue””
Google Funds HubSpot, AdGrok Emerges from Beta, Steve Blank Calls for “E-Schools,” & More Bay Area BizTech News
Our infotech coverage at Xconomy San Francisco was on the thin side last week, mainly because I spent the week in Boston organizing and emceeing Xconomy’s annual mobile technology conference, Mobile Madness. Here’s the brief rundown: —Three Bay Area organizations—Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce.com—led a large Series D financing round for Cambridge, MA-based HubSpot, … Continue reading “Google Funds HubSpot, AdGrok Emerges from Beta, Steve Blank Calls for “E-Schools,” & More Bay Area BizTech News”
Kahoots Bought By RentJuice, Skyhook Enlists Sony, MassChallenge Adds $1M from MA, & More Boston-Area Deals News
We saw headlines of partnerships for Web and software companies, startup financings, and venture firms getting ready to raise bigger funds. —Boston-based mobile software maker Skyhook Wireless nabbed a deal with Sony to get its location-finding technology into Sony’s “NGP” handheld gaming system, expected to roll out in late 2011. Financial terms of the agreement … Continue reading “Kahoots Bought By RentJuice, Skyhook Enlists Sony, MassChallenge Adds $1M from MA, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
DailyBooth Lands $6,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e40b10dc-ff99-404a-9c89-edad92349cb4&Preview=1 Date 3/9/2011 Company Name DailyBooth Mailing Address 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd Westchester, CA 90045 Company Description Provides photo-blogging services. Website http://www.dailybooth.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $6,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes The new financing will accelerate the expansion of DailyBooth’s distribution and audience acquisition efforts, as well as … Continue reading “DailyBooth Lands $6,000,000 Series A Financing”
Flite Lands $12,000,000 Series C Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=316753e1-dfe2-4e27-b655-f35f5e50175a&Preview=1 Date 3/9/2011 Company Name Flite Mailing Address 706 Mission St. Fifth Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description Flite is a cloud-based ad platform that enables marketers to deliver ads people love. Our platform allows advertisers, agencies, and publishers to create, serve, and measure ads that are as dynamic as the … Continue reading “Flite Lands $12,000,000 Series C Round”
Google Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Lead $32M Financing Round for HubSpot
[Updated 2:00 pm ET with additional perspective from the investors] Three Bay Area organizations are behind a big $32 million investment in Cambridge, MA-based marketing software company HubSpot. The Series D financing round, announced today, was led by Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce.com, with Hubspot’s existing investors General Catalyst, Matrix Partners, and Scale Venture … Continue reading “Google Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Lead $32M Financing Round for HubSpot”
HubSpot Secures $32,000,000 Series D Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d8b4688b-55d2-4cfd-ae8a-9f22906708ca&Preview=1 Date 3/8/2011 Company Name HubSpot Mailing Address One Broadway 5th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description HubSpot is an Internet marketing software platform that enables your company to get more leads from your website by driving more prospects to your website and converting more of them into leads. HubSpot software tracks … Continue reading “HubSpot Secures $32,000,000 Series D Funding”
Teradata Combines Aster Data with its San Diego Labs in $263M Deal
Ohio-based Teradata (NYSE: [[ticker:TDC]]) says it’s buying Aster Data Systems of San Carlos, CA, in a $263 million deal that combines Aster Data’s breakthrough technology in a hot area of massively parallel processing architecture with its conventional relational database technology. Aster Data will remain in Silicon Valley, and will be folded into Teradata Labs, the … Continue reading “Teradata Combines Aster Data with its San Diego Labs in $263M Deal”
Thrutu Reinvents the Phone Call, Letting Smartphone Users Share Photos, Contacts, Location In-Call
When you think about it, the experience of talking on the phone hasn’t changed all that much since the world’s first telephone call in 1876 (Alexander Graham Bell’s famous “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you”). The underlying technology is completely different, of course, and today we can make calls from almost anywhere thanks to … Continue reading “Thrutu Reinvents the Phone Call, Letting Smartphone Users Share Photos, Contacts, Location In-Call”
Clickatell Raises $12M
Sequoia Capital and DAG Ventures have contributed $12 million to a Series B venture round for Clickatell, a Redwood City, CA-based startup offering software that helps wireless operators deliver SMS messages across different networks in hundreds of countries and territories. The company also introduced a new SMS marketing service for small businesses called Communicator 2; … Continue reading “Clickatell Raises $12M”
Clickatell Garners $12,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=31d127e6-cbb6-483f-982b-c017c62ed205&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name Clickatell Mailing Address 3200 Bridge Pkwy. Redwood City, CA 94065 Company Description Clickatell has been around for more than a decade and is the largest Online SMS mobile messaging gateway provider covering 871 networks in 221 countries and territories, with the potential to reach 5 billion mobile … Continue reading “Clickatell Garners $12,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
Greplin Receives $4,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=58f06e14-8351-4d5c-bbf7-29e49788acba&Preview=1 Date 2/14/2011 Company Name Greplin Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94123 Company Description The company provides an online personal search service. Website http://www.greplin.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Sequoia Capital
$15M for Meraki
Meraki, a San Francisco startup that makes wireless access points and routers that owners can manage via cloud connections, said today that it has raised $15 million in new capital in a round led by Sequoia Capital. The series C round brings the company’s total venture financing to $40 million.
Stella & Dot Lands $37,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=905f88c4-0f49-49e1-b92b-963b89acd7e0&Preview=1 Date 2/7/2011 Company Name Stella & Dot Mailing Address Undisclosed Round Rock, TX 78664 Company Description The company is an online jewelry and accessories retailer utilizing at-home stylists. Website http://home.stelladot.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $37,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor … Continue reading “Stella & Dot Lands $37,000,000 New Round”
Hearsay Helps Corporate America Get Local, and Get Smarter About Facebook and Twitter
If you’re an ambitious store manager at Starbucks, an agent for State Farm Insurance, or even a paper salesman for a branch of Dunder Mifflin, then of course you’re setting up your own local accounts on Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter. You are certainly reaching out to customer with updates and special offers. It would … Continue reading “Hearsay Helps Corporate America Get Local, and Get Smarter About Facebook and Twitter”
Hearsay Lands $3,000,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=61ee2a3b-bd42-4e17-841d-034d0a830ac3&Preview=1 Date 2/3/2011 Company Name Hearsay Mailing Address Undisclosed Undisclosed, CA 94025 Company Description The company provides an online service that allows businesses to track social media for their local branches. Website http://www.Hearsaylabs.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes The company will use the funding … Continue reading “Hearsay Lands $3,000,000 Series A Financing”
LinkedIn Files for $175 Million IPO, Reveals Financial and Membership Details
Nearly eight years after its founding, LinkedIn, the professional social networking site funded by Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Venture Partners, today began the process of going public. The Mountain View, CA-based firm filed S-1 registration papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying that it intends to raise up to $175 million in … Continue reading “LinkedIn Files for $175 Million IPO, Reveals Financial and Membership Details”
Nine Startup Scaling Secrets from Eventbrite
On anyone’s list of the fastest-growing and most interesting social-commerce startups in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Eventbrite has to rank near the top. Since collecting $6.5 million in Series C financing from Sequoia Capital in late 2009, followed rapidly by another $20 million infusion from DAG, Tenaya, and Sequoia less than a year later, the online … Continue reading “Nine Startup Scaling Secrets from Eventbrite”
Stoke Garners $17,000,000 Series E Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7af9f59c-5cbf-41b4-aaef-895d3b6457e7&Preview=1 Date 1/18/2011 Company Name Stoke Mailing Address 5403 Betsy Ross Dr. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description The Stoke Session Exchange (SSX) is the industry’s first multi-access convergence gateway designed since inception for stateful management of tens of thousands of secure, reliable, high-quality subscriber sessions over multiple network access types including … Continue reading “Stoke Garners $17,000,000 Series E Financing Round”
Bump, With a Fresh $16 Million, Explores New Ways to Connect Mobile-Device Users—Q&A with David Lieb and Jake Mintz
As we reported Monday night, Mountain View, CA-based Bump Technologies got a big bump itself this week, in the form of a $16 million Series B funding round led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz. Bump is famous for building iOS and Android apps that let mobile-device users share files by literally bumping their devices against … Continue reading “Bump, With a Fresh $16 Million, Explores New Ways to Connect Mobile-Device Users—Q&A with David Lieb and Jake Mintz”
Silicon Valley Investors Put, Like, A Billion Dollars Into Groupon, & More Bay Area Deals News
The funding announcements are flying so fast and furiously this week that I’ve decided to round them up into a single article. —In a press released headlined “Groupon Raises, Like, A Billion Dollars,” the Chicago-based daily deals site announced yesterday that it has collected $950 million in new equity-based financing from a syndicate including prominent … Continue reading “Silicon Valley Investors Put, Like, A Billion Dollars Into Groupon, & More Bay Area Deals News”
Bump Raises $16M
Bump Technologies, maker of software that allows mobile device users to initiate file exchanges by physically bumping their devices, announced in a blog post tonight that it has closed a $16 million second round of funding—a big increase over its first round of roughly $3 million, raised in October 2009. Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz led … Continue reading “Bump Raises $16M”
Bump Technologies Secures $16,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6e3d08e2-b5ef-4699-866c-7d2b5817b6ac&Preview=1 Date 1/11/2011 Company Name Bump Technologies Mailing Address Undisclosed Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Bump is a quick and easy way to connect two phones by simply bumping them together. Exchange your phone number, photos, or compare friends with just a bump. Website http://www.bumptechnologies.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Bump Technologies Secures $16,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
Square Secures $27,500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fa98d4bc-413c-4233-bd70-6c88b4e508ff&Preview=1 Date 1/10/2011 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 $27,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Sequoia Capital Venture … Continue reading “Square Secures $27,500,000 New Financing Round”
Exits for Two More Y Combinator Startups, Movity and Etacts
It’s been a busy month for young startups backed by the Mountain View, CA-based venture incubator Y Combinator. Salesforce.com revealed a couple of weeks ago that it had acquired Heroku, which runs a hosting platform for Ruby on Rails websites, for an eye-popping $212 million. Then Rackspace bought Cloudkick, a San Francisco cloud management startup … Continue reading “Exits for Two More Y Combinator Startups, Movity and Etacts”
Meebo Collects $27.5M
Mountain View, CA-based Meebo, which builds browser plugins and other software for instant messaging and social sharing on the Web, said yesterday that it had closed a $27.5 million Series C financing round, bringing its total venture funding to $70 million. Khosla Ventures led the new round, which was joined by existing investors Sequoia Capital, … Continue reading “Meebo Collects $27.5M”
Clustrix Collects $12M
San Francisco-based Clustrix said today that it has closed a $12 million Series B financing round, joined by existing investors U.S. Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and ATA Ventures. The company makes database appliances that are equally capable of handling SQL, MySQL, and “NoSQL” databases. It was founded by Isilon Systems founder Paul Mikesell and has now … Continue reading “Clustrix Collects $12M”
Pocket Gems Receives $5,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b5225ff8-53d4-47df-9512-974f0d0f8685&Preview=1 Date 12/15/2010 Company Name Pocket Gems Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Pocket Gems, a pioneer of the movement of social games to mobile, developed a series of phenomenally successful free-to-play mobile games that have been downloaded more than 15 million times. Website http://www.pocketgems.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Pocket Gems Receives $5,000,000 New Financing Round”
Clustrix Obtains $12,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=523fb862-b6f1-47ea-a1d3-f67b0205e486&Preview=1 Date 12/15/2010 Company Name Clustrix Mailing Address One Post Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Clustrix is an early stage, very well funded start up. We are building the next generation of highly scalable distributed infrastructure products. Our products make it possible to scale infrastructure just by adding nodes – … Continue reading “Clustrix Obtains $12,000,000 Series B Funding”
Inkling Reinvents Textbooks for the iPad
Throughout the two years Matt MacInnis spent working as senior manager in international education at Apple, he had plenty of opportunity to watch teachers integrate technology into their classrooms as a learning tool. And he found it wholly disappointing. “If you walk into a classroom today, and then you roll back the clock and walk … Continue reading “Inkling Reinvents Textbooks for the iPad”
iYogi Receives $30,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c5b30f36-1d12-4d63-a288-d0d2ad7c9e2b&Preview=1 Date 12/13/2010 Company Name iYogi Mailing Address 12 Desbrosses Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10013 Company Description iYogi is a new kind of computer support experience for consumers and small businesses at an incredible price. Website http://www.iyogi.net Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $30,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “iYogi Receives $30,000,000 New Financing Round”
Nimble Storage Secures $16,000,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3c0a278e-8f24-45cf-8d93-48b55c0ededa&Preview=1 Date 12/8/2010 Company Name Nimble Storage Mailing Address 2645 Zanker Rd. San Jose, CA 95134 Company Description Nimble Storage has developed the first converged storage and backup solution that significantly reduces the cost and complexity of storing, accessing, and protecting data for enterprises. Website http://www.nimblestorage.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Nimble Storage Secures $16,000,000 Series C Funding Round”
Moritz on Stage, A Long Look at Blinkx, Gadgets for the Holidays, and other Bay Area BizTech News
The big event dominating Xconomy San Francisco’s calendar last week was our on-stage conversation with Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz, which was enlightening and well-attended, filling San Francisco’s KickLabs to capacity. I’m working on bringing you video highlights from the talk, which ranged from Moritz’s tricks for identifying great entrepreneurs to the funding options for … Continue reading “Moritz on Stage, A Long Look at Blinkx, Gadgets for the Holidays, and other Bay Area BizTech News”
10gen Obtains $6,500,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a308124f-ef3b-47af-a717-eb55f05177ab&Preview=1 Date 12/3/2010 Company Name 10gen Mailing Address 17 W 18th Street 8th Floor New York, NY 10011 Company Description 10gen is a new platform-as-a-service technology designed to help developers quickly and easily build dynamic, scalable, mission critical web sites and applications. Website http://www.10gen.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $6,500,000 Transaction … Continue reading “10gen Obtains $6,500,000 Series C Funding”
See You at Tonight’s Michael Moritz Chat
The big day is here—it’s Xconomy’s first event in San Francisco, and we couldn’t ask for a better headliner than Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz, who’s been called the most powerful venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. The fun starts at 5:00 pm with an hour of networking at Kicklabs at 250 Brannan Street in San Francisco’s … Continue reading “See You at Tonight’s Michael Moritz Chat”
Hope to See You Tomorrow at Xconomy’s Michael Moritz Chat—Only a Handful of Seats Left
We’re nearly out of tickets to “Michael Moritz Unplugged,” our exclusive on-stage conversation Tuesday night with the famed Sequoia Capital partner. Register today if you plan to attend, as we can’t guarantee we’ll have any room for walk-ins at the event, which will be held from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at San Francisco’s Kicklabs … Continue reading “Hope to See You Tomorrow at Xconomy’s Michael Moritz Chat—Only a Handful of Seats Left”
Ruckus Solves 3G Headaches, StumbleUpon Vies with Facebook, Woz Misspeaks, & More Bay Area Biztech News
The long Thanksgiving weekend put an early punctuation mark on last week’s technology and business news in the Bay Area. Here’s a glance back: —StumbleUpon, the San Francisco “discovery engine” company founded in 2002, now rivals Facebook in the amount of social-media traffic it sends to websites. I profiled the company, which has had a … Continue reading “Ruckus Solves 3G Headaches, StumbleUpon Vies with Facebook, Woz Misspeaks, & More Bay Area Biztech News”
Join the Conversation with Michael Moritz Next Tuesday
I’m getting really excited (and a little nervous, to tell you the truth) about Xconomy’s first big event in San Francisco—my on-stage talk with Michael Moritz, the legendary venture capitalist who led Sequoia Capital’s investments in Google, Yahoo, Flextronics, PayPal, YouTube, Zappos, Kayak, Pure Digital, Green Dot, and many other high-profile technology companies. If you … Continue reading “Join the Conversation with Michael Moritz Next Tuesday”
As 3G Networks Buckle, Ruckus Wireless Sends Smart Wi-Fi to the Rescue
Wi-Fi: it’s the new utility, as crucial to many consumers and businesspeople as electricity and telephones. Wi-Fi chips are built into 800 million new laptops, mobile phones, tablet PCs, printers, video game controllers, and TV set-top boxes every year, and Wi-Fi networks blanket virtually every office, library, airport, hotel, café, and campus. If only Wi-Fi … Continue reading “As 3G Networks Buckle, Ruckus Wireless Sends Smart Wi-Fi to the Rescue”
Path Debuts, Stipple and PayNearMe Tank Up, Facebook Sends a Message, & More Bay-Area BizTech News
There was way too much news from the Bay-area infotech industry last week for one correspondent to keep up with, so I focused in on just a few key developments, with some help from my colleagues around the Xconomy network. —Path, a San Francisco company co-founded by ex-Facebooker Dave Morin, launched a new photo sharing … Continue reading “Path Debuts, Stipple and PayNearMe Tank Up, Facebook Sends a Message, & More Bay-Area BizTech News”
Reports: Sequoia Leads Tumblr Round
Details continue to emerge about Tumblr‘s reported venture fundraising round. GigaOm first reported on October 27 that the New York-based blogging platform startup was raising money. BusinessInsider reported November 12 that Menlo Park, CA-based Sequoia Capital was leading the round and that Sequoia partner Roelof Botha would join Tumblr’s board, and on November 19 Fortune … Continue reading “Reports: Sequoia Leads Tumblr Round”
Meebo Mops Up $25M More
Mountain View, CA-based Meebo has raised $25 million in a Series D venture round first revealed this week in a report from AllThingsD. The company makes instant messaging and content-sharing tools for the desktop and mobile Web, including a new browser extension called the Meebo MiniBar that lets users check in and chat directly from … Continue reading “Meebo Mops Up $25M More”
EMC Shells Out $2.25B for Isilon, Cerulean Secures $24M, Kayak Files for IPO, & More Boston-Area Deals News
This week saw deals inked in all corners of New England’s innovation ecosystem, but the biggie was in IT. —Regulatory filings indicate that Kala Pharmaceuticals raised $3 million in an equity and debt financing. The Waltham, MA-based startup, which raised $2 million in December 2009, counts MIT inventor Bob Langer and representatives of Lux Capital, … Continue reading “EMC Shells Out $2.25B for Isilon, Cerulean Secures $24M, Kayak Files for IPO, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
The Real Choices Facing Startups: Talking with Michael Moritz On Stage November 30 in San Francisco
Time for a reality check. Is it really easier to start a tech company these days? That’s certainly the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley—but Michael Moritz begs to differ. I’ll be chatting with the legendary Sequoia Capital partner at San Francisco’s Kicklabs on November 30 (register here), and the top item on the agenda will … Continue reading “The Real Choices Facing Startups: Talking with Michael Moritz On Stage November 30 in San Francisco”
Kayak Files for $50M IPO, Reports Growing Revenues, Profitability
Well, this is an interesting move. Kayak, the online travel search company based in Norwalk, CT, has filed for an initial public offering underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities, Piper Jaffray, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, and Pacific Crest Securities. The proposed maximum aggregate offering price is $50 million, a surprisingly small number for a company … Continue reading “Kayak Files for $50M IPO, Reports Growing Revenues, Profitability”
meebo Receives $25,000,000 Series D Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=082091a0-c55a-4ace-8922-9a70d08190fe&Preview=1 Date 11/17/2010 Company Name meebo Mailing Address 215 Castro Street 3rd Floor Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description meebo is the first all-in-one, Web browser-based instant messaging service. Website http://www.meebo.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $25,000,000 Transaction Round Series D Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed, however the company … Continue reading “meebo Receives $25,000,000 Series D Funding”