Alastair Goldfisher
Huddle, which provides enterprise collaboration tools in the cloud, has raised $24 million in Series C funding from Jafco Ventures (led), DAG Ventures and existing investors Matrix Partners and Eden Ventures. Huddle has now raised more than $40 million in funding, including a $10.2 million Series B round in May 2010. Huddle was founded in […]
Help desk SaaS provider Freshdesk announced today a $10 million fund to back online support companies. The company, which is fresh off of raising $5 million in Series B funding from Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management earlier this month, is teaming up with 500 Startups and other incubators and angel funds, including YouWeb, Tandem […]
An OpenView Venture Partners report identifies Accel Partners as the most effective tech-focused VC firm using social media, helping to to fuel its success reaching entrepreneurs online.
Victoria Ransom from the startup Wildfire Interactive talks about the impending IPO and how she was on hand to witness Obama signing the JOBS Act.
Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, a former lead scientist at AdMob and a onetime Google engineer, says that Drawbridge–the company she founded in late 2010–is solving a problem Google couldn’t: creating an advertising solution that bridges the gap between online and mobile. The company today announced it raised $6.5 million in Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & […]
The latest buzzword to take hold is gamification, and a panel of VCs anticipate more startups will incporate gamifications features.
Cloud-based security provider Appthority has raised a $6.25 million Series A round led by Venrock and U.S. Venture Partners. The company helps the enterprise identify and manage risks hidden in mobile apps, a growing concern as more employees bring their own tablets and smartphones to work. As part of the deal, Ray Rothrock, a partner […]
Co-founder and CEO of social media marketing company Wildfire Interactive chats about the JOBS Act and how her startup has grown
A funny thing happened to my social networking graph at the end of last year. The number of my Google+ followers outgrew my Twitter followers. This isn’t a #humblebrag. I know my followers pale in comparison to others, such as Jason Calacanis, who has more than 600,000 people following him in a circle. Then there’s […]
Although few education startups have swayed the masses, VCs are once again backing tech companies focused on the sector.