Alastair Goldfisher
Everything.me, a provider of mobile search technology using HTML5, has raised a $3.5 million strategic round of funding from Hong Kong investment firm Horizons Ventures and return investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures and BRM Group. The San Francisco-based company, formerly known as DoAT, has now raised $12.5 million in funding since it […]
Norwest Venture Partners has led a $4.3 million Series A funding round of InsightsOne, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of data analytics. Promod Haque, managing partner at NVP, joins the company board as part of the funding. The company says investors, in addition to Norwest, include Gaurav Garg, private investor and special limited partner at Sequoia Capital; Zod […]
Norwest Venture Partners has invested an undisclosed amount in ClearDATA, which provides cloud computing services to health-care providers. A number of undisclosed individual investors also joined the funding round, which the company said it will use to expand its products and presence in the health-care industry. As part of the funding, Robert Abbott, general partner […]
OpenView Venture Partners announced today it took three months to raise $200 million for its third expansion-stage fund. The fund exceeded its $150 million target. The firm raised $125 million for its second fund, which closed in the fall 2008, the day Lehman Brothers collapsed. The firm raised $100 million for its debut effort in 2006. The […]
The number of VCs dining on food sites is growing, as Yummly announced today it has raised a $6 million Series A round from two new backers and its returning investors. New investor Physic Ventures led the round, with participation from Unilever Corporate Ventures and returning VCs Harrison Metal Capital, First Round Capital, Intel Capital, The Harvard Common […]
Enterprise cloud provider Appirio has raised $60 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic and including existing investors Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital. The company, which previously raised about $17 million in funding, says it plans to use the latest round to support its M&A strategy of global expansion and to bolster its […]
Enterprise software developer Atlassian announced that it has acquired the private instant messaging service HipChat for an undisclosed amount. HipChat was co-founded by Pete Curley, Garret Heaton and Chris Rivers, all of whom had previously started HipCal, a provider of an online calendar service that was acquired by Plaxo in 2006. HipChat had raised $100,000 […]
Investors are going nuts for Brazil, and the latest firms to focus on the Latin American country are Redpoint Ventures and BV Capital‘s eVentures. The firms have partnered to form Sao Paulo-based Redpoint eVentures to invest in the Brazilian market. The firm will be led by Yann de Vries and Anderson Thees. Jeff Brody, Redpoint’s […]
In October, the editorial team of VCJ brought together GPs and LPs at our first ever conference in San Francisco to discuss successful strategies in the venture business. The best measure of success for that one-day conference, in addition to seeing more than 100 people in the room when I interviewed Box co-founder CEO Aaron […]
SchoolFeed.com, a classmate network that aims to connect users to the high school chums in their social network, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. First Round Capital led the round and was joined by Crosslink Capital, InterWest Partners and SK Telecom. Co-founder Lance Tokuda, the co-founder and former CEO of RockYou, told peHUB that SchoolFeed differs […]