Jonathan Marino
Stipple, the image-based commerce and advertising firm, has raised $3 million more in financing from Sands Capital. Stipple is based in San Francisco. Other backers in the company include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Floodgate, Relevance Capital and Justin Timberlake.
Charles Huang is out to topple Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox. The CEO of Green Throttle Games is welcoming Ajay Chopra, a general partner at Trinity Ventures, to his company as part of a $6 million Series A round...
Steve Case speaks about crowdfunding, entrepreneurship and what should guide the missions of the next generation of startup leaders with Reuters Digital Editor Lawrence Aragon at Venture Alpha 2012.
Thomson Reuters' Venture Alpha 2012 event Thursday in San Francisco, we heard from investing and entrepreneurial legends including Benchmark GP Bill Gurley, DCM founder Dixon Doll and AOL founder Steve Case. Visiting the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill, VCs, entrepreneurs and dealmakers gathered for a day-long series of talks and meetings on the state and future of the venture capital industry.
APIM Therapeutics, a preclinical biotech company targeting cancer therapeutics, has closed a new round to continue drug development. Investors included Norsk Innovasjonskapital III AS, Birk Venture and Sarsia Seed.
The Renaissance Venture Capital Fund is aiming to close a second fund of up to $75 million, peHUB has learned, as the VC fund-of-funds plans to deploy more capital for—of all things—life sciences VCs.
Woofound, the maker of social web and mobile products, raised another $1 million to bring its total capital raised to $2.2 million. Participating in the round was Maryland Technology Development Corporation. Based in Baltimore, Woofound was founded in 2011 by Joshua Spears and Daniel Sines. PRESS RELEASE: Baltimore, Md. (September 10, 2012)—Woofound, a maker of […]
Honest Buildings, the real estate networking site for industry professionals, completed its first round of financing from RockPort Capital and Mohr Davidow—no price tag, though, terms weren’t publicized. The company launched its beta website in March of this year. Also joining in the round were Spring Ventures, Lisa Gansky and Michael Adler, former CFO of […]
Horizon Technology Finance Corp., the Connecticut-based, listed venture lender, is providing $7 million along with Square 1 Bank to Mitralign, a cardiac device company. Mitralign is based in Massachusetts. PRESS RELEASE: FARMINGTON, Conn. and TEWKSBURY, Mass., September 11, 2012 – Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (Nasdaq: HRZN) (“Horizon”), a leading specialty finance company that provides secured […]
Nimble Storage, the hybrid storage company based in California, took in another $40.7 million to bring its capital raised to date up to $98 million. Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners raised the round. Specifics on the deal were not publicized. PRESS RELEASE: SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sept. 10, 2012 – Nimble Storage, the leading provider […]