Alastair Goldfisher
Editor's letter from Alastair Goldfisher
Earlier this week, Nihal Mehta (pictured) announced he launched LocalResponse, a New York-based developer of a Web-based tool that allows local businesses to respond to check-in posts on social media sites with tailored marketing campaigns. Mehta co-founded the company, previously known as Buzzd, as a social city guide for location-based services. The company had raised about […]
Brothers Jamie and Matthew Roche launched their stealth startup BO.LT earlier today in what is certain to stir up some controversy among content-creators. The San Francisco-based company, which raised $5 million in Series A funding from Benchmark Capital last year, allows users to copy any page on the Internet and then edit the page. For instance, […]
Salt Lake City-based Instructure Canvas, a provider of a cloud-based learning management systems, plans to announce on Friday that it has raised $8 million in Series B funding from OpenView Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures, TomorrowVentures and Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurveston. As part of the funding, Firas Raouf from OpenView has joined the board. […]
The IPO of 11-year-old VC-backed carsharing service Zipcar Inc. (Nasdaq: ZIP) took off like a rocket today, rising more than 60% from its $18 a share offering price. At one point today, Zipcar stock was speeding along at $31.50 a share. Reuters has more here. And that’s tremendous news for rival carsharing services, says Shelby […]
Tiny Speck, a San Francisco-based online gaming startup started by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield (pictured) has raised $10.7 million in Series B funding from Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. Butterfield announced the funding yesterday on his blog, on which he said the company’s Web-based MMO game Glitch is still in Beta development, but will be […]
BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund and angel investor Scott Banister (co-founder of Zivity) joined a $15 million Series C round for Topsy, the San Francisco-based company announced today. Western Technology Investments joined the round, which brings to $30 million the amount of equity and debt that Topsy, a provider of real-time search engine services, […]
Forbes came out with it’s Richest People on the planet list Wednesday afternoon and chances are, you’re not on it. Neither am I. The list, a grouping of the richest people in the world and how they became super rich, features only two VCs with enough paper wealth to crack the rankings: Mike Moritz (#692) […]
You spoke. We listened. In late January, we surveyed VCJ readers, asking what you liked about the magazine and what you wanted to see more of. We received a number of comments and some constructive criticism. Overall, the remarks were positive. A common theme to emerge from the survey was that readers wanted to see […]
Box.net raised $48 million in a Series D round in a show of just how much VCs are betting on the growing need of enterprises to share and manage business information in the cloud. New investor Meritech Capital Partners is leading the round, with fellow new investors Andreessen Horowitz and Emergence Capital Partners joining prior […]