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GGV Capital, Icon Ventures lead $25 mln funding in SynackGGV Capital and Icon Ventures (formerly Jafco Ventures) have co-led a $25 million Series B funding round in Synack, an online security startup. Other participants in the funding round include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Greylock Partners, Allegis Capital, Derek Smith, chief executive of Shape Security, Ray Rothrock, CEO of Redseal Networks and Timothy Eades, CEO of vArmour. Synack has raised a total of $34 million to date. Glenn Solomon, managing partner at GGV Capital, and Tom Mawhinney, GP at Icon Ventures, will join Synack's board of directors.
- Qumulo scores $40 mln in KPCB-led round
Seattle-based enterprise data storage company Qumulo has secured $40 million in Series B funding. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the round with participation from return backers Highland Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners. In conjunction with the funding, Wen Hsieh, a partner at KPCB and Matt McIlwain, a managing director at Madrona Venture Group, have been added to Qumulo's board.
- Guardant Health scores about $50 mln Series C
Redwood City, California-based Guardant Health, a cancer testing provider, has closed about $50 million in Series C funding. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with participation from Formation 8 and previous backers Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
peHUB First ReadFirst Read braces against the Tuesday chill with news Apple will invest $2 bln to create a command center, Google may be about to go to war against former BFF Uber and a former KPCB partner seeks $16 mln in discrimination lawsuit.
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Year in review: Kleiner Perkins tops the list of most active VCs in 2014The firm invested a combined $777 million in 117 companies, including Uber Technologies, Magic Leap and Snapchat, among others.
peHUB First ReadFirst Read eases you into the mid-week with news of Yahoo's $16 bln tax dodge, Apple's Tim Cook survives another quarter and the bumpy saga of Sterling Investment Partners' investment in Fairway Markets.
- KPCB tried to acquire Social + Capital Partnership - Fortune
According to a Fortune article http://fortune.com/2015/01/26/exclusive-kleiner-perkins-tried-to-acquire-socialcapital-partnership/ Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers recently tried to buy fellow venture firm Social + Capital Partnership. No financial terms were disclosed. However, as the report says, "talks ended within the past few weeks, and are now considered to be dead." If the deal had gone through, contends Fortune, Social + Capital Partnership's Chamath Palihapitiya, Ted Maidenberg and Mamoon Hamid would have become partners at KPCB's venture practice.
- IPO Profile: LendingClub Corp
Investors include Foundation Capital, Google Ventures, Canaan Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins
Year in review: Kleiner Perkins tops the list of most active VCs in 2014The firm, which is raising two new funds, invested a combined $777 million in 117 companies, including messaging app Snapchat