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Wordnik Raises $8MLucas Venture Group, Mohr Davidow Ventures, FLOODGATE, Baseline Ventures, Roger McNamee and additional individuals have poured $8 million into Wordnik, a company developing “word navigation systems.” The company also added Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management for Google, to its board. The Series C round brings the company’s total raised to $12.8 million.
- Inrix Seals $37M Series D
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers' Green Growth Fund, and August Capital have poured $37 million into Kirkland, Wash.-based traffic data company Inrix. The Series D round is aimed at fueling acquisition efforts, as well as expansion and continued research and development.
- Foundation Capital, KPCB Back Aquion Energy
Pittsburgh-based Aquion Energy has closed on $20 million of a proposed $29.9 million financing round, according to a filing http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441529/000144152911000005/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The company, formed in 2008, develops stationary energy storage technology.
- Twitter Close to $800M Funding, $8B Valuation
Twitter is near to closing an $800 million two-tranche funding deal that values the company at $8 billion, Reuters reported Thursday, citing the website All Things D. The deal would include a $400 million investment in Twitter and $400 million aimed at cashing out existing investors and employees. It is unclear which investors will supply the new capital.
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- Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Calls Secondary Exchanges a 'Distraction,' Predicts More Companies Will Restrict Private Trades
(Reuters) - Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo called secondary markets a distraction and expects private companies will increasingly enact policies to restrict the trading of its shares on those unregulated exchanges. Microblogging service Twitter, along with fellow red-hot social media companies Zynga and Facebook, have already had to put in place "lots of policies to constrain that," Costolo told the audience at a Fortune conference in Aspen, Colo. In December, an investment led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins valued the company at $4 billion. Since then, an $80 million investment by Andreessen Horowitz in February on the private markets valued Twitter at $4 billion, and recent transactions have accorded the company a price tag of as much as
- Essence Group Sees $61M Infusion from KPCB, Others
Essence Group Holdings Corp., a company with subsidiaries including Essence Healthcare, ClearPractice and Lumeris, has raised $61 million from investors including Camden Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Essence Group’s products provide collaboration, reimbursement, clinical informatics and information technology services for healthcare companies.
- August Capital Leads $41M Series D for Reputation.com
Reputation.com, a developer of online reputation management and privacy technology, has sealed a whopping $41 million in new capital. August Capital led the Series D round, which also including backing from JAFCO Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Floodgate Fund. Reputation.com’s technology is designed to help individuals monitor and control what the Web says about them.