San Francisco-based MovieLaLa, which operates a social network for fans of movies and provides marketing platform for movie distributors, has now raised $1.4 million in seed-stage commitments, thanks to a bevy of entertainment media moguls. Investors include Jonathan Miller, former CEO at NewsCorp and AOL; Jay Rasulo, former CFO of The Walt Disney Company; David Anderman, former COO of LucasFilm; Jim Wyatt, former CEO of William Morris Endeavor; and Gregory Milken from the philanthropic Milken Family in Los Angeles.
1 min read · 12 January 2016
Concord, Mass.-based SmashFly Technologies, provider of a recruitment marketing platform, has raised $22 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investor OpenView Venture Partners also participated in the round, which brings the company's total funding to $31 million. As part of the Series B round, Bob Goodman, partner at Bessemer, has joined the company board.
4 min read · 12 January 2016
New York-based Datadog, a provider of a monitoring service to track how applications run in the cloud, has raised $94.5 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round of funding. ICONIQ Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, OpenView Ventures, Amplify Partners, Contour Ventures and others. The company has now raised about $148 million in funding since it was founded in 2010.
3 min read · 12 January 2016
The staff of VCJ and PE Hub looks forward to engaging with our readers and the VC community, both online and in print, in 2016 and beyond.
2 min read · 11 January 2016
Last year's VC-backed M&A total was a little more than $20 billion, about equal the WhatsApp acquisition the year before
2 min read · 11 January 2016
London-based Balderton Capital announced it has promoted Rob Moffat and James Wise each to partner. Moffat and Wise have been members of Balderton’s investment team for a combined total of 11 years, The firm has now announced five new partners since October 2013.
3 min read · 07 January 2016
The early-stage investor has built a formidable portfolio in the Golden State after establishing roots here less than five years ago
3 min read · 07 January 2016
Venture firms nationwide raised more than $29 billion in 2015, nearly on par with the year before, according to preliminary data
3 min read · 04 January 2016
Sequoia Capital backed the most companies and invested the largest amount of capital in 2015, according to preliminary data
2 min read · 01 January 2016
Not all the news of 2015 was about unicorns. But it was certainly the biggest story of the year.
10 min read · 29 December 2015
