Dan Primack
Updated Lots of talk today about VC-backed busts, after InsideCRM published its list of the 20 Worst Venture Capital Investments of All Time. I tried getting comment from some actual VCs who backed companies on the InsideCRM list, but have so far been unsuccessful (I know, real shocking). While we keep waiting, here is a […]
What follows is a quintet of VC funding items culled from recent Regulation D filings with the SEC. None of these deals have been otherwise announced: * Quantenna Communications Corp., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based fabless maker of wireless chipsets, has raised $12.74 million in Series B funding. Backers include Grazia Equity, Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners and Venrock. […]
What follows is a set of VC funding items culled from recent Regulation D filings with the SEC. Most of these deals have not been otherwise announced: * Troux Technologies Inc., an Austin, Texas-based provider of IT governance software, has secured $7.85 million of a $10 million Series E round. The company previously had raised around $34 […]
What follows is a set of VC funding items culled from recent Regulation D filings with the SEC. None of these deals has been otherwise announced: * SmartDrive Systems Inc., a San Diego-based provider of driver risk management systems and services, has secured nearly $43 million of a $46 million Series D round. New Enterprise […]
Data virtualization technology provider Xkoto Inc. today announced that it has raised $7.5 million in Series B funding. GrandBanks Capital led the deal, and was joined by return backer GrowthWorks Canadian Fund. Three notes on this deal: 1. Xkoto is based in Toronto, but is moving its HQ to Boston. Why? Because the feeling is […]
Here’s an interesting side-note to Dell’s agreement to acquire storage company EqualLogic for $1.4 billion: Two of EqualLogic’s venture capitalists are no longer venture capitalists. The first is Chris Baldwin, who originally met some of the EqualLogic founders while an engineer with Digital Equipment Corp. back in the 1980s. He was with Charles River Ventures […]
What follows is a set of VC funding items culled from recent Regulation D filings with the SEC. None of these deals has been otherwise announced: * Ruckus Wireless Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based home networking company, has raised around $7.5 million in Series E funding. The filing lists return backers Motorola Ventures, Sequoia Capital and […]
What follows is a set of VC funding items culled from recent Regulation D filings with the SEC. None of these deals has been otherwise announced: * Hidden City Games Inc. of Seattle has raised $15.01 million in Series B funding. Backers include Trinity Ventures and Rustic Canyon Ventures. The company’s filing says that it provides […]
Digital comedy studio JibJab today announced that it has raised Series B funding from existing shareholder Polaris Venture Partners, with Polaris partner Jon Flint leading the deal (everyone seems quite pleased). No financial terms were disclosed, but peHUB has learned that the investment was $3 million. This comes on top of a Series A round […]
ValleyWag has resumed its editorial spanking of mobile email company Visto, which the blog said would raise more VC funding “any minute now.” So I did some digging, and learned two things: (1) The abuse is largely deserved, as Visto CEO Brian Bogosian regularly uses poor judgement in making predictions about Visto’s IPO prospects. To be kind, let’s […]