Connie Loizos

When it comes to social advertising, all roads may lead to Facebook, but that doesn’t mean brands know what they’re doing on the platform yet. On the contrary, according to a new eMarketer survey, fewer than half of marketing execs know what kind of return on investment Facebook delivers. To find out what’s going on […]

This morning, Glassdoor, an employment site driven by user submissions, announced a $12 million Series C round led by Battery Ventures. Other participants in the round include previous investors Benchmark Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures. To date, it has raised $22.2 million. The funding was expected. Though Glassdoor doesn’t disclose revenue numbers and won’t comment […]

Yesterday, eyebrows across Silicon Valley shot up at the news that Andreessen Horowitz invested $80 million for secondary shares of Twitter. It’s the second time in two months the firm has bet a colossal chunk of its three-month-old, $650 million fund on secondary shares. In November, the firm also acquired what co-founder Ben Horowitz calls a “high volume” […]

According to an SEC filing first discovered by Fortune‘s Dan Primack, private shares exchange Sharespost  is closing in on a $3.3 million round. The round would seem to represent Sharespost’s first outside financing. Until recently, it has been bootstrapped, including by founder Greg Brogger, who told me last year that the “plucky upstart” had already been […]

Tony Conrad has had a very good year. Scratch that. Tony Conrad has had a very good five years. Since parachuting out of an imploding VSP Capital in 2004, he has become a venture partner at True Ventures in San Francisco, a special advisor to AOL Ventures, and he has co-founded and sold two companies […]

When LinkedIn filed its S-1 last week, one stated risk listed in its prospectus was the dual class structure of its common stock, which will have the effect of “concentrating voting control with those stockholders who held our stock prior to this offering.” No one has really blinked at that statement. They should have. When […]

Last week, six companies went public. This week, another dozen companies are slated to IPO, including NeoPhotonics and Epocrates, two companies whose highly anticipated offerings are expected to perform well. If that sounds like a lot of activity, it is. In fact, it’s the busiest week for U.S. IPOs since 2007. And the trend looks […]

Insight Venture Partners has raised a new mountain of money to invest in both software and Internet deals. According to two new SEC filings, the 16-year-old, New York-based firm has closed on at least $1.05 billion from investors, including one lump of $325.8 million and another that totals $725.1 million. Whether the funds will be managed […]

Sean Parker of Facebook and Napster (and “The Social Network”) fame has struck his newest deal, for a roughly 200-year-old, 10,000-square-foot, six-bedroom town house on West 10th Street in New York. The price tag: $20 million. The house has long belonged to Enrico Cinzano, an heir of the Cinzano family, which has been making sweet vermouth […]

Well, the folks at LinkedIn say it's a done deal. The S-1 is filed, though the size of the offering and shares price has yet to be determined. From the LinkedIn blog: We’d like to share with you the press announcement related to our filing registration statement for a proposed Initial Public Offering.