Private Equity
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2 min read · 21 November 2011
Salt Lake City-based Healthcare Quality Catalyst Corp. has inked an undisclosed amount of financing from Sequoia Capital, and added David Burton as its chief executive. Michael Dixon, a partner at Sequoia Capital, is joining the company’s board. Formed in 2008, Healthcare Quality Catalyst is a provider of healthcare data warehousing software.
6 min read · 18 November 2011
San Francisco-based mobile commerce startup Zaarly has added Hewlett-Packard chief executive and former eBay chief Meg Whitman to its board. Zaarly has created a mobile, local marketplace that allows users to buy and sell with people in their neighborhoods. Zaarly has also announced a newly closed $14.1 million Series A funding round, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' iFund and Sands Capital Ventures. Additional investors include CMEA, Venture51, Crunchfund, Marc Ecko, and Artists and Instigators. John Suliman of Sands Capital Ventures, and Chi-Hua Chien of KPCB have also joined the board.
4 min read · 25 October 2011
For VCs in search of the next hot investing trend, Mark Suster has two words: Internet TV. Not that anyone has been paying much attention to him, Suster told a crowd at the Venture Alpha conference held yesterday in San Francisco. “I’ve walked up and down Sand Hill Road and not a single person agrees with me.” Suster thinks this “means I’m on to something.” But it’s easy to see why others might not agree, beginning with the enduring popularity of good old-fashioned TV. According to the Nielsen Company, Americans watch 5.3 hours of television every single day, and every year, they watch just a tiny bit more than the year before. Indeed, in its latest report....
4 min read · 21 October 2011
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