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Viventures scales back E638m technology fundThe global venture firm has become the latest early stage investor to release limited partners from part of their commitments.
- Ex-ICG directors join Favonius Ventures
Matthias Allgaier and Stephen Duckett join an investment team with more than 30 years experience.
VCs Rocking the Marketing AngleMany firms augmented their marketing efforts in 2012, as they stepped up their game in appealing to entrepreneurs and LPs
- uShip.com Adds $18M from KPCB
uShip.com, online shipping marketplace, has closed an $18 million Series C financing round with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the company announced. As a result, Maritza Liaw, Partner at KPCB, will join uShip’s board.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wello Inks $1M Seed Round
Wello, maker of an online two-way video training platform, has closed $1 million seed round, the company announced. Investors include "Rock Health investors from Kleiner Perkins, Mohr Davidow, Aberdare Ventures and Mayo Ventures, as well as Morado Ventures, S-Cubed Capital, PhilQuo Ventures" and undisclosed angel investors, the company said in a press release.
- Silver Lake Kraftwerk Backs friedola®Tech
Silver Lake Kraftwerk has put $40.1 million into recycled plastics processing company friedola®Tech. Silver Lake Kraftwerk is the energy investment unit of Silver Lake. Under the terms of the deal, private equity firm WHEB Partners is selling its majority stake in the company to Silver Lake. WHEB remains a shareholder. Other shareholders include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which also co-led the recent transaction.
- Datameer Appoints Kleiner Perkins Partner to Board
Big data analytics company Datameer has appointed Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' partner Matt Murphy to its board of directors. Prior to joining the Datameer board, Murphy was a board observer at Google from the time of its initial investment to its IPO and also advised several companies that were later acquired by the likes of Google, Dell, Groupon, and RIM.
- Hara Names Nth Power Partner CEO
Energy and resource data management software provider Hara has named Rodrigo J Prudencio as the company's new CEO and member of the board of directors. Prudencio was a partner at Nth Power, one of Hara's investors. He replaces Dan Leff who served as CEO since early 2011.