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Keeping Score with QuantcastIt’s not easy to waltz into an established, crowded market and convince investors that you can lead it. Yet the San Francisco-based Web analytics and advertising firm Quantcast has managed that trick, already collecting $53.9 million over three rounds, including a $27.5 million round in January led by Cisco Systems -- with more funding to come, possibly soon. “We’re well capitalized but are always open-minded to ways we might accelerate our business and better serve the market,” said co-founder and CEO, Konrad Feldman, when we chatted briefly yesterday. How Quantcast is accelerating its growth is a well-guarded secret from a technical perspective, although its large-scale analysis models seem to be working. The four-year-old company is reluctant to share details about how it creates its rich data sets about Web users and their online behavior. But it claims that millions of Web destinations use its service, including two-thirds of Online Publishers Association members, and that it is measuring millions more Websites, games, and widgets. Last week, Quantcast began a push for much stronger customer adoption abroad, too.
- VCs Stuff More Companies Into IPO Pipeline
Financial Engines priced its IPO above range last night, and just closed its first day of trading up nearly 44 percent. It was the fifth VC-backed IPO to price in 2010, and the third to do so since we last looked at the VC-backed IPO pipeline /63772/vc-backed-ipo-pipeline-fills-up/ (the others were pharma companies AVEO and Anthera). There also have been four new additions to the pipeline in the past month, including the recent filing from Broadsoft. That works out to a net total of 38 VC-backed companies in registration to go public on U.S. exchanges, representing more than $4.5 billion in targeted raise. View the entire pipeline after the jump...
- Executive moves, week of March 15, 2010
Hires and other personnel news at Constellation, C.P. Eaton, Lightspeed and other PE and VC firms
- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Random Ramblings
- Warburg Pincus' India Head Quits, Forming New Firm
Rajesh Khanna has resigned as a managing director in charge of Warburg Pincus' India operations. He reportedly will form his own firm and try to raise a private equity fund in excess of $250 million.