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VCs Rocking the Marketing AngleMany firms augmented their marketing efforts in 2012, as they stepped up their game in appealing to entrepreneurs and LPs
Canada's Obscure Startups Break OutMore U.S.-based VCs and acquirers came up to Canada in 2012, looking for good deal flow, rational valuations and inexpensive buys
On Deck Adds Andrea GellertAndrea Gellert has joined On Deck as senior vice president of marketing, a newly created position. Gellert joins On Deck from Group Commerce, where she held the position of vice president of client services and operations. On Deck is financed by investors including SAP Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures and Village Ventures.
- Reuters – Khosla Ventures Hires Condoleezza Rice
Khosla Ventures, the venture firm founded by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, said it had retained former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her consulting firm as strategic advisers. The move points to the growing importance venture firms attach to helping their portfolio companies with policy and regulations. Khosla partner Samir Kaul said he and Rice first got to know each other while serving on the board of biomass fuels company KiOR.
- Former DoubleClick CFO Joins Metamarkets Board
Online advertiser Metamarkets has made two new appointments. Jeff Epstein, former chief financial officer of DoubleClick, is joining the Metamarkets board of directors and Adam Smith, former Google ads product manager and partner at AOL Ventures, is the new vice president of product.
- ClearStory Data Raises $9M Series A Led by Kleiner Perkins
ClearStory Data, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company that's developing new tools to explore corporate data, has raised a $9 million Series A financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The company's seed round investors, Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, which gave the company and undislosed amount of money back in March, also participated.
- Okta Unveils Enterprise Identity Network
Okta has unveiled an enterprise identity network and major service update with expanded capabilities for cloud, mobile and on-premises environments. Okta is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
- Menlo Ventures Leads $8.5M Financing of Montreal's Cinemagram
Montreal-based venture capital firm Real Ventures announced that its portfolio company Cinemagram Inc. has raised a Series A financing totaling $8.5 million. The deal was led by Menlo Ventures and joined by Khosla Ventures, Atlas Ventures and Real Ventures. Cinemagram enables users to create and share animated photos over mobile phones.
The New Fundraising Kids on The BlockThe ratio of new to follow-on VC funds may have dropped this year, but the four firms profiled here have had little issues raising funds to date
- Ginger.io Inks $6.5M
Ginger.io, a San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass.-based maker of behavioral health analytics software, has closed a $6.5 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. Existing seed investors True Ventures and Romulus Capital also participated. Ginger.io's mobile application uses an individual's smartphone to identify changes in behavior that correlate with his or her health, the company says.