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Catamount, Birchmere sell TenMarks to AmazonCatamount Ventures and Birchmere Ventures have sold TenMarks, an educational product that provides personalized instruction around mathematics, to Amazon.com. The firms first invested in TenMarks in late 2011.
- Social media site Upworthy grabs $8 mln
Upworthy has raised $8 million in funding, the company announced Monday in a blog post on its website. Investors included Spark Capital, Catamount Ventures, Uprising and the Knight Foundation. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Upworthy is a social media website. To learn further details about the funding, visit here http://blog.upworthy.com/post/61398111290/we-had-a-kinda-crazy-idea-you-made-it-real-thank-you
- Catamount Ventures to Sell Plum Organics' Stake
Catamount Ventures said Thursday that it agreed to sell Plum Organics to Campbell Soup Co. Financial terms weren't announced. Earlier, Catterton Partners said it also agreed to sell its stake in Plum, a provider of organic baby food.
A Venture Firm's Pitch: We'll Help Find Your CustomersMost venture firms specialize in sectors. But a low-flying venture capital firm is beginning to approach LPs and entrepreneurs with a simple new kind of pitch: its partners can help startups obtain what they most need -- customers.
- People Briefs, October 2011
Hires, promotions and other personnel changes at Khosla, GSR Ventures, Claremont Creek and others firms
- peHUB First Read
Running up a Tab: Cybercrime http://247wallst.com/2011/09/07/global-cybercrime-costs-114-billion-a-year/ costs more than $100B annually Lookin’ Good: Futures http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904836104576556063057747484.html?mod=markets_data headed for a run? Or… are we looking http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/business/global/in-euro-zone-banking-fear-feeds-on-itself.html?_r=2 at a long-term disaster? Yer Out! Yahoo dumps http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/07/us-yahoo-ceo-idUSTRE7857R320110907 Bartz Delayed & Denied: Groupon’s http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/06/us-groupon-ipo-idUSTRE7855S720110906 IPO
- Catamount Ventures Adds James Joaquin
San Francisco-based Catamount Ventures has added James Joaquin as a partner focusing on the consumer internet and consumer packaged goods sectors. Joaquin has a long track record for starting consumer companies. He co-founded Clearview Software while studying at Brown University. He later formed When.com, which was acquired by AOL. He also served as president and chief executive of Ofoto, later bought by Kodak.
- Week in deals, Aug. 30, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week