Kleiner Perkins, which filed to raise $1.2 billion in two new funds, ranks as the most active VC year-to-date, according to Thomson Reuters data.
2 min read · 02 July 2014
Kleiner Perkins, which filed to raise $1.2 billion in two new funds, ranks as the most active VC year-to-date, according to Thomson Reuters data.
2 min read · 02 July 2014
The firm, which filed to raise $1.2 billion in two new funds, ranks as the most active VC year-to-date, according to Thomson Reuters data
3 min read · 01 July 2014
Uber deal highlights early investors; and Sandell looks ahead
3 min read · 01 July 2014
Susa Ventures has officially launched this morning, announcing on its blog that it has raised $25 million to make seed-stage investments in data-centric-businesses. LPs were not disclosed. The firm has already made 20 investments, including adtech startup Namo Media, which raised $1.9 million in funding from Susa, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Trinity Ventures and other seed-stage investors. Twitter bought the startup in early June for a reported $50 million.
4 min read · 30 June 2014
Helpshift, which provides customer help services for Circa, Flipboard, TinyCo and other mobile apps, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Intel Capital led the round, which also included Visionnaire Ventures and existing investors True Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners. The San Francisco-based company has now raised $13.2 million in total funding. As part of the funding, Susan Choe, managing partner at Visionnaire, has joined the board.
5 min read · 24 June 2014
A total of seven venture-backed companies, including five that are U.S.-based, went public on U.S. exchanges in May, down from 11 in April
2 min read · 23 June 2014
Algolia, which said it provides a developer-friendly SaaS API for database search, has announced the close of its seed round with an additional $1.2 in funding led by Storm Ventures. Additional investors in the expanded seed round include individual investors from Box, Eventbrite, Google, Microsoft and Stripe. The financing brings the company's total funding to $2.8 million. Algolia also announced that Chrisoph Janz of Point Nine Capital has joined the Board. Algolia, founded in 2012 in France, initially raised $1.6 million in seed-stage funding from 500 Startups, Alven Capital, Index Ventures and Point Nine Capital.
3 min read · 19 June 2014
Algolia, which said it provides a developer-friendly SaaS API for database search, has announced the close of its seed round with an additional $1.2 in funding led by Storm Ventures. Additional investors in the expanded seed round include individual investors from Box, Eventbrite, Google, Microsoft and Stripe. The financing brings the company's total funding to $2.8 million. Algolia also announced that Chrisoph Janz of Point Nine Capital has joined the Board. Algolia, founded in 2012 in France, initially raised $1.6 million in seed-stage funding from 500 Startups, Alven Capital, Index Ventures and Point Nine Capital.
3 min read · 19 June 2014
Redwood City, Calif.-based ThoughtSpot has raised $30 million in what it calls an oversubscribed Series B round. Khosla Ventures led the funding, which also includes Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box. As part of the financing, Keith Rabois, partner at Khosla, has joined the board. ThoughtSpot, which provides search and data analysis, previously raised $10.7 million in funding.
4 min read · 18 June 2014
