Alastair Goldfisher
Many firms augmented their marketing efforts in 2012, as they stepped up their game in appealing to entrepreneurs and LPs
WhipTail, a Whippany, N.J.-based flash based storage company, has raised a $31 million Series C round of funding from SanDisk, Ignition Partners, RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital. Silicon Valley Bank provided debt financing and the company said an unnamed Silicon Valley industry titan also invested.
U.S. Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund and undisclosed individual investors have put $4.3 million into Easilydo, which launches today. San Francisco-based Easilydo provides a personal productivity app for the iOS.
Tony Post, the guy behind the minimalist shoe effort and former president and CEO of Vibram, has launched Topo Athletic, an atheltic gear company. The company is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, which invested $5 million in a Seris A round.
A few sites have aimed to sync all your social networking sites in one. Addappt, which launches today with no VC funding, aims to manage all your mobile contacts through the address book on your smartphone. The free app, which became available on the iPhone App Store today, was launched by co-founders Mrinal Desai and Jorge Ferreira.
Mobile advertising startup Adelphic Mobile has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Google Ventures and including previous investor Matrix Partners. Adelphic Mobile earlier this year raised $2 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners.
It’s that time on the calendar. The new year is just around the corner, and we’ve turned reflective, looking back at the past 12 months of news impacting the VC community. Already, the staff and contributors of VCJ are hard at work on the January 2013 issue, which is our year in review edition. But […]
At its "Minds and Machines" conference in San Francisco, GE announced today its “Industrial Internet Quests” challenge to developers and data scientists to create new algorithms and design applications to reduce air travel delays and improve the patient experience. Winners of the challenge will receive a $600,000 stake for mining data and developing solutions for productivity.
At one point during VCJ’s Venture Alpha conference in San Francisco last month, VCJ contributor Tom York asked me who I thought was the most important venture capitalist in attendance. I harkened back to the book “eBoys” and told him he could “just look for the tallest guy in the room.” That was shortly before […]
Health Essentials, a provider of post-acute care management services, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from SV Life Sciences and Bessemer Venture Partners. Health Essentials, which provides care to the frail and elderly population in California, Nevada and Arizona, aims to use the growth funding to expand into new geographies. As part of the funding, Stephen Kraus from Bessemer and Tom Flynn from SV Life Sciences, have joined the board.