Blogging has become an essential part of the venture business. Still many partners don’t. Top VCs have tips and talk with VCJ about the benefits of blogging.
2 min read · 02 August 2013
Synack, which was incubated in the TechStars Boston program earlier this year, announced it has raised $1.5 million in seed-stage funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Wing Venture Partners, Allegis Capital, and individual investor Derek Smith, CEO of Shape Security. The company provides a security-based crowdsourcing platform.
2 min read · 01 August 2013
3 min read · 01 August 2013
Earlybird Venture Capital closed its fourth early-stage fund with $200 million in commitments. The Berlin-based firm -- which has invested in Auctionata, Carpooling.com, Versus.IO and EyeEm, among others -- says the fund was oversubscribed.
2 min read · 31 July 2013
Dropcam, maker of a high-definition Wi-Fi video camera, has raised a $30 million Series C round led by Institutional Venture Partners. Existing investors Accel Partners and Menlo Ventures also invested in the round, as did new investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The San Francisco-based company has now raised $47.8 million in total capital.
4 min read · 31 July 2013
San Francisco-based Scoop.it -- which provides a social curation tool that allows users to collect and publish online content -- has raised $2.6 million from existing investors Partech International, Elaia Partners, IXO Private Equity and Orkos Capital. The funding gives the company $13.6 million in total capitalization since it was launched about three years ago.
3 min read · 30 July 2013
Qwilt, which provides an online video platform, has raised $16 million in a Series C round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Previous investors Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Marker LLC also participated in the round. With the funding, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company has now raised $40 million in total funding
4 min read · 30 July 2013
SolidFire, a maker of storage systems for cloud providers, announced today it has raised $31 million in Series C financing. Samsung Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors New Enterprise Associates, Valhalla Partners and Novak Biddle Venture Partners. The Boulder, Colo.-based company has now raised $68 million in total funding.
4 min read · 25 July 2013
Accel Partners announced that Kobie Fuller--an Internet executive and a founding member of OpenView Venture Partners--has joined the firm as principal. Accel also promoted growth capital investor John Locke to principal. Locke had been with the firm since 2009.
3 min read · 24 July 2013
DataStax, which provides a big data platform built on Apache Cassandra, has raised $45 million in Series D funding. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital and Meritech Capital Partners and new investors DFJ Growth and Next World Capital. The company has now raised about $110 million in total funding since it was founded in early 2010.
3 min read · 23 July 2013
