Alastair Goldfisher
Open Garden, which provides a crowdsourcing platform to connect mobile devices, announced it has raised $2 million in seed funding. Investors include individuals Allan Green, David Ulevitch and Derek Parham, as well as Digital Garage, a Tokyo-based early investor in Twitter and Path. Open Garden was founded in 2011 by former employees of Skype and BitTorrent. […]
Late-stage investor Institutional Venture Partners, which raised its first $1 billion fund earlier this year, has added Kelly O’Kane and Parsa Saljoughian as associates. PRESS RELEASE Kelly O’Kane and Parsa Saljoughian Join Institutional Venture Partners Menlo Park, Calif. – September 10, 2012 – Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a premier later-stage venture capital and growth equity firm, […]
Jeff Fluhr–who co-founded StubHub, where he served as CEO from inception until its $310 million acquisition by eBay in 2007–raised a $7 million Series A round for Spreecast, the latest startup he’s co-founded. The company, which launched early last year and has been in public beta since November 2011, operates a social video platform company. […]
Act-On Software, which monitors online media campaigns and monitors an organization’s presence in social media, has raised $16 million in a Series D round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Joining the round are Voyager Capital and prior investors Trinity Ventures and U.S. Venture Partners. The company previously raised $20 million in financing, according to Thomson […]
Joseph Ansanelli will focus on enterprise, security, storage and emerging mobile applications
Half of all statistics are made up, or so I’ve been told. But around here, we revel in the data. It’s what we’re all about. Hopefully, you’ve noticed. In this issue of VCJ, for example, we present to you some exclusive info on Sequoia Capital exits, July fundraising, first-time VC funds, LP fund performance and […]
The Box CFO chats about the company’s expansion plans in Europe
Cloud computing startup Convergent-io announced it raised a $10 million Series A round from Andreessen Horowitz. The startup–which was founded by veterans of XenSource, which was bought by Citrix five years ago–develops cloud-based storage infrastructure. Peter Levine, general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, has joined the board. The company reportedly raised a $1.2 million seed-stage round of […]
Stealth-mode startup PLAiR, which says it was founded by wireless tech experts to change the way online and mobile content is distributed and consumed, has raised $2.1 million in seed-stage funding from Roger McNamee and Floodgate Fund. The company was founded last year and says in its press release that it will reveal its product […]
GGV Capital announced it has raised $625 million in combined U.S. and Chinese currency. The fund announcement comes a couple of days after two regulatory filings last week indicated the firm had raised about $520 million for its fourth fund. Those filings are available here and here. The firm, which boasts 13 IPOs of its […]