The provider of cloud-based customer relationship management software forms $100 million venture fund focused on the mobile enterprise.
2 min read · 08 September 2014
Wellframe, a Boston-based company that provides a mobile platform for patient care management, announced that it has raised $8.5 million in a round led by DFJ. Formation 8, Waterline Ventures and Queensbridge Venture Partners also participated in the financing.
1 min read · 08 September 2014
The provider of cloud-based customer relationship management software forms $100 million venture fund focused on the mobile enterprise
3 min read · 08 September 2014
DataStax, which provides a big data platform built on Apache Cassandra, has raised a $106 million Series E round of funding in what is likely a pre-IPO round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Joining the round are ClearBridge Investments, Cross Creek Advisors, Wasatch Funds, PremjiInvest and Comcast Ventures. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has now raised $190 million in total funding, including a $45 million Series D round in July 2013.
6 min read · 04 September 2014
Ali Partovi, co-founder of LinkExchange and Code.org and an early adviser at such companies as Zappos, Facebook and Dropbox, has joined Hampton Creek full time as chief strategic officer.
2 min read · 04 September 2014
Investor and entrepreneur Ali Partovi joins the sustainable food company to focus on marketing of its plant-based products
2 min read · 04 September 2014
Institutional Venture Partners has led a $50 million equity and debt funding round for xAd, which helps target mobile advertising using location data. Existing investors Emergence Capital Partners, Softbank Capital and Silicon Valley Bank also participated in the round. The New York-based company had previously raised about $22 million in funding, according to data from Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB). As part of the latest funding round, Dennis Phelps, a general partner at IVP, has joined the board.
3 min read · 04 September 2014
Early-stage investor Hyde Park Venture Partners announced it has hired Tim Kopp, formerly the CMO of email marketing company ExactTarget, as an advisor and venture partner. The firm said Kopp is already a direct investor in five of its portfolio companies. Chicago-based Hyde Park, which focuses on tech companies in the Midwest, raised its inaugural fund in June 2013.
3 min read · 03 September 2014
The index of VC-backed stocks rises nearly 24 points at the end of July
1 min read · 01 September 2014
LendingClub backer Charles Moldow of Foundation Capital is bullish on financial services, VCJ reports.
3 min read · 29 August 2014
