Alastair Goldfisher

Contentstack raises $31.5 mln led by Insight Partners

San Francisco-based Contentstack, provider of headless CMS technology for use by marketers, announced it has raised $31.5 million in Series A funding. Insight Partners led the round, which included participation from existing backers Illuminate Ventures and GingerBread Capital. As part of the round, Teddie Wardi, managing director at Insight, will join the board. The company was launched last year.

83North wraps up fifth fund with $300 mln

83North, founded as an offshoot of Greylock Partnersin 2006, has closed its fifth and largest fund

Friday Letter: Venture Debt soars, IPOs and Bird rides

Venture debt is exploding at a rate of between 20 and 30 percent year-over-year. The market is predicted to swell to $10.1 billion this year, about 20 percent higher than 2018 and double from 2016.

Life sciences investor HLM adds healthcare vet Tolle as partner

Greylock taps former AppDynamics CEO Wadhwani as venture partner

Greylock Partners announced that it has hired David Wadhwani as a venture partner. Wadhwani was most recently CEO of AppDynamics, which Greylock backed. Cisco purchased AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.7 billion days prior to its scheduled IPO. Prior to AppDynamics, Wadhwani was with Adobe.

Scale Venture Partners boosts staff

Last week, Scale Venture Partners announced it has hired Chris Yin as the firm's newest principal. Yin joins from Rainforest QA, where he worked on product. At Foster City, California-based Scale, Yin will focused on investments in intelligent business software, vertical AI companies and data-first businesses.

Friday Letter: Takeaways from VCJ's PC West conference (with photos)

A weekly letter from the VCJ editor about an assortment of what's happening in VC, along with who we're meeting and what we're hearing

CRV leads funding in Gatsby's $15 mln round

Berkeley, California-based Gatsby, which operates a platform for building websites, announced it raised $15 million in Series A funding. CRV led the round, with previous seed investors Trinity Ventures, Mango Capital, Fathom Capital and Dig Ventures also participating. In addition, Kong CEO Aghi Marietti and Scott Belsky, founder of Behance and CPO at Adobe, also invested. As part of the funding round, CRV General Partner Devdutt Yellurkar has joined the board.

Fund Performance: Industry Ventures, Top Tier lead young portfolio of Ohio pension

The portfolio is full of recent vintages, but Industry Ventures stands out with a 92.8 percent IRR for a three-year-old fund.

Vertex Ventures taps Dropbox exec Domenic Perri as partner