| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.09.2024 | RunSafe Security raises $12M to drive global expansion and product development
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Founded in 2015, RunSafe speci... |
| 09.02.2022 | Ion Storage Systems Announces $30 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Clear Creek Investments, VoLo Earth Ventures, and Alsop Louie Partners | Ion Storage Systems (ION) announced the initial closing of its $30 million Series A fundraising round led by Clear Creek Investments, VoLo Earth Ventures, and Alsop Louie Partners. This Series A round builds on the $8 million seed funding r... |
| 28.05.2020 | 6 leading mobility VCs discuss the road ahead | Millions of consumers sheltering in place to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus sent shockwaves through the global economy. Transportation-related companies were not spared in the upheaval. Mobility startups consolidated, pulled back ... |
| 14.05.2020 | 7 top mobility VCs discuss COVID-19 strategies and trends | As COVID-19 swept across the globe, no sector lay untouched, but perhaps no industry was more disrupted than transportation.
Airlines slashed routes, public transit use plummeted, ridership on Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing platforms dro... |
| 09.01.2018 | Drop Kitchen Secures $8m Venture Capital | Irish smart kitchen company Drop has announced that it has closed $8 million in Series A venture financing.
The round was led by Alsop Louie Partners, and includes investment from Irish company Frontline Ventures, Chapter One owner Ross Lew... |
| 13.12.2017 | Gfycat applies AI to the challenge of personalized animated GIFs | Has artificial intelligence ever been put to a more silly human endeavor? Gfycat said it is launching Gfycat AI to apply machine learning to improve animated GIFs (the silly moving images associated with Internet memes in the graphics inter... |
| 13.12.2017 | Gfycat applies AI to the challenge of personalized animated GIFs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Has artificial intelligence ever been put to a more silly human endeavor? Gfycat said it is launching Gfycat AI to apply machine learni... |
| 01.11.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, November 1 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
You may know Cindy Whitehead as the woman behind Addyi, the women’s libido-enhancing pill dubbed “the female Viagra.” After two failed attempts, she finally got the drug through FDA approval and promptly sold the compa... |
| 01.11.2017 | Alsop Louie Partners Seeks $125M for Latest Venture Capital Fund | Alsop Louie Partners, a San Francisco, CA-based early-stage, risk-oriented technology venture capital firm, is to raise a new fund.
Per an SEC filing, Alsop Louie Capital 4, L.P., is seeking to raise $125m. No funds have been raised, yet.
T... |
| 03.12.2016 | These three telehealth approaches show how the sector is diversifying | American Well’s agreement with Tyto Care integrates the Israeli device maker’s self-exam tool with American Well’s video visit platform. Tyto Care received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month for a digital... |
| 22.09.2016 | Gfycat raises $10 million to help creatives fire up the memes | A startup called Gfycat (which is pronounced “Jiffy Cat”) has raised a mammoth $10 million seed round to turn its already popular user-generated content platform into a revenue generating concern.
On the content creation side of its busines... |
| 13.03.2016 | The two misconceptions dominating the encryption debate | Nico Sell Contributor
Nico Sell is the founder of Wickr Foundation, and co-founder and co-chairman at Wickr -- a self-destructing, secure, private, anonymous messaging service.
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| 01.02.2016 | Don’t Mess With Musk | Earlier today, longtime Bay Area venture capitalist Stewart Alsop posted something fairly unexpected to Medium.
In a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk titled “Banned by Tesla,” Alsop wrote of his surprise that Tesla would cancel the Model X he’... |
| 20.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 20, 2016 | Khazanah Nasional invested $160M in WeLab; LendUp raised $150M; Maluuba secured $6.2M funding
Maluuba, a machine learning company that offers a Siri-like experience for Android devices, today announced that it has secured $9 million CAD (ab... |
| 20.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 20, 2015 | Le Tote secured $15M; MindTickle landed $12.5M; Hover raised $6M funding
Hover has announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A financing round. Alsop Louie Partners led the round with participation from existing investors, includi... |
| 19.10.2015 | Weeby.co Wants To Take The Reins of Mobile Game Development | Michael Carter and his team at Weeby.co want to break mobile games out of Apple’s App Store and move them into the cloud.
In their office on Mountain View’s Castro Street, the team at Weeby.co is building the first cloud-based mobile game d... |
| 24.03.2015 | Lookingglass Cyber Solutions Raises $20M in Series B Funding | Lookingglass Cyber Solutions Inc., an Arlington, VA-based provider of a threat intelligence platform for security operations, raised $20m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Neuberger Berman Private Equity Funds, with participation fr... |
| 10.02.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 10.02.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Google confirms it put $900M into SpaceX’s $1B round
It’s been three weeks since SpaceX confirmed its $1 billion funding rou... |
| 28.10.2014 | Stealth communications startup Keyssa adds Nest CEO Tony Fadell to board, raises $10.8M | Keyssa, a five-year-old stealth startup that holds a patent for “contactless secure communication” tech, today announced a $10.8 million raise in a public company filing.
A job listing describes Keyssa as a “well-funded stealth startup work... |
| 28.10.2014 | Stealth communications startup Keyssa adds Nest CEO Tony Fadell to board, raises $10.8M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Keyssa, a five-year-old stealth startup that hold... |
| 26.08.2014 | After Twitch sale, Alsop Louie Partners looks to raise new $100M fund | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Fresh off its biggest exit yet, venture capital f... |
| 26.08.2014 | Funding Daily: A really big first round | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s not every day that a startup raises an initi... |
| 26.08.2014 | Funding Daily: A really big first round | It’s not every day that a startup raises an initial funding round worth more than a few million dollars. Today is one of those rare days.
In our funding news roundup today, we’ve got the lowdown on the $63 million first round for ZipRecruit... |
| 25.08.2014 | In global gaming, Amazon gains an advantage, and Google loses a round | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Amazon’s $970 million purchase of game-livestreaming startup Twitch today has paved the way for a new player to emerge in the global ga... |
| 25.08.2014 | In global gaming, Amazon gains an advantage, and Google loses a round | Amazon’s $970 million purchase of game-livestreaming startup Twitch today has paved the way for a new player to emerge in the global gaming landscape. Until this acquisition, Amazon had not fully demonstrated its interest and financial comm... |
| 03.08.2014 | Meet HelloWorld, An Easier Way To Share Your Location With Friends | Three years ago, Ernestine Fu was sitting at the iconic Philz coffee shop in Palo Alto studying for her Stanford exams. She tweeted about it, wondering if any of her friends were studying nearby. A few minutes later a stranger who had seen ... |
| 03.03.2014 | Wickr, a self-destructing messaging app, picks up $9M from Alsop Louie, Knight Foundation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The idea of self-destructing messaging applicatio... |
| 03.03.2014 | Self-Destructing And Encrypted Message App Wickr Raises $9M Series A Led By Alsop Louie | The sale of WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion and the heightened awareness of data security in an NSA-watched world have created a perfect storm for apps that offer messaging with a privacy-first ethos. Wickr, which lets users send encry... |
| 30.06.2013 | Jetlore Raises Funding | Jetlore, a Sunnivale, CA-based provider of CRM and email targeting tools for e-commerce companies, raised a funding round of undisclosed amount.
Backers included Fenox Venture Capital, Alsop Louie Partners, Charles River Ventures and Sierra... |
| 13.06.2013 | Gilman Brothers Receives $4.5M Financing | The Gilman Brothers Company, a Gilman, Conn.-based manufacturer of foamboard products for signage, displays and graphics, received a $4.5m financing package.
Backers included Connecticut Innovations (CI), which made a $750k loan through its... |
| 31.01.2013 | Toopher Closes $2M Series A Funding | Toopher, an Austin, Texas-based developer of authentication technology to prevent online fraud, closed a $2m Series A funding.
Backers included Alsop Louie Partners, Dallas-office of Stonehenge Growth Capital, Austin-based Corsa Ventures an... |
| 27.08.2012 | Aerospike Closes Series B Funding | Aerospike, a Mountain View, CA-based real-time NoSQL database company, has closed its Series B funding.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from existing investo... |
| 30.01.2012 | Lookingglass Cyber Solutions Raises $5M in Series A Funding | Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, a Baltimore, MD-based security software company providing cyber intelligence tools, has raised $5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Alsop Louie Partners, with participation from Vital Financial.
The co... |
| 06.12.2011 | Framehawk Raises $11M in Series B Financing | Framehawk, a San Francisco-CA-based developer of enterprise mobility software, has raised $11m in Series B financing.
Backers include Matrix Partners and existing investors Alsop Louie Partners, Correlation Ventures, and Triangle Peak Partn... |
| 25.08.2011 | Steve Jobs’s most ambitious product: Apple Inc. | The list of iconic designs Steve Jobs made possible is long. But his most brilliant and ambitious design may be Apple itself.
Jobs, who announced his resignation as Apple’s CEO yesterday, is rightly hailed as one of the most design-savvy ex... |
| 27.07.2011 | Phizzle Closes $3M Series A Financing Led by Alsop Louis Partners | Phizzle, Inc., a San francisco, CA-based mobile marketing technology company providing audience engagement solutions, has closed a $3m Series A financing round led by Alsop Louis Partners.
The company intends to use the capital to develop t... |
| 27.07.2011 | Phizzle Sizzles With $3M Series A |
Phizzle, a mobile marketing technology company, today announced that it has closed its $3 million A round financing led by Alsop Louis Partners.
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| 20.07.2011 | Ness grabs $5M for personalized search engine | The company gets support from Khosla Ventures, Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, and Bullpen
Ness Computing, a stealth startup that’s developing a unique new personalized search service, announced late Tuesday that it has raised $5 mi... |
| 08.10.2010 | Early-stage VC firm Alsop Louie closes second fund at $98.6M | Early stage venture firm Alsop Louie Partners confirmed to VentureBeat Friday that it has closed its second fund with $98.6 million and added three new partners.
The firm named its new partners as Cassatt Corporation founder and BEA Systems... |
| 23.08.2010 | Google CEO bets Scoop could be the next Facebook on campus | Remember when Facebook was a college-only social network? The people behind Scoop do, as they work to launch a social mobile app for students. And so, appparently, does Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
According to the website of TomorrowVentures, ... |
| 10.06.2010 | Crowdcast raises $6M to tap the wisdom of your workforce | Crowdcast, a startup that helps companies make better decisions by harnessing the knowledge and opinions of their employees, just announced $6 million in new funding from Menlo Ventures.
San Francisco-based Crowdcast provides what it calls ... |
| 31.10.2009 | The Valley of My Dreams: Why Silicon Valley Left Boston's Route 128 In The Dust | No one disputes that Silicon Valley is the global capital of the tech world. But this wasn’t always so. It is the Valley’s dynamism and networks which have given it an unassailable advantage. Silicon Valley has simply left rivals like Bosto... |
| 03.08.2009 | Smith & Tinker launches game for boys that blends web play and toys | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If there is such a thing as a serial entertainment entrepreneur, Jordan Weisman is it.
He’s been making toys and games for decades and ... |
| 03.08.2009 | Smith & Tinker launches game for boys that blends web play and toys | If there is such a thing as a serial entertainment entrepreneur, Jordan Weisman is it.
He’s been making toys and games for decades and is at it again with a new company called Smith & Tinker, which today is announcing Nanovor, a kid-ori... |
| 01.04.2009 | How Tough Is It Today Being a VC? 10 Questions for Two Early-Stage Stars | Pity the poor venture capitalist. Times were… well, so cushy. Money was flowing, deals were being done in record time, monetization was something one worried about later, and Silicon Valley was bursting at the seams. The sweet smell of weal... |
| 10.02.2009 | Social investing site Cake Financial raises $1.26M more | Cake Financial, a social networking site for investing, is raising a $1.5 million addition to its first venture round, with $1.26 million raised so far.
The San Francisco-based company lets users import their portfolio data from multiple br... |
| 05.12.2008 | There's no such thing as a 'B' round | Nat Goldhaber from Claremont Creek Ventures says the A round needs to take startups to profitability
"There is no such thing as a B round." That's quite an emphatic, and almost frightening, statement made by Nat Goldhaber, managin... |
| 03.11.2008 | Gilman Louie on the great lies of venture capitalists and why it’s still a good time to start a company | When times get bad, it pays to have a sense of humor.
That’s a hallmark of Gilman Louie, a celebrated video game geek and seasoned venture capitalist. He was chief executive of MicroProse, a seminal simulation game company that made flight ... |
| 11.06.2008 | Stewart Alsop on turning down an acquisition | Stewart Alsop, of Alsop Louie Partners, explains why he had to "convince" a CEO at one one of his portfolio companies to turn down an acquisition offer even though it would have produced a 3x or 4x return in about a year.
"Th... |
| 07.04.2008 | Social network Redux raises $3.5M | Updated
Redux, a Berkeley, Calif.-based social networking site (or, as the company calls it, a “discovery network”), has raised $6.5 million in a second round of venture funding, according to PE Hub. Backers include Alsop Louie Partners and... |
| 28.01.2008 | Ribbit, “Silicon Valley’s first phone company” | Ribbit is a remarkable new company, and it knows it: It calls itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company.”
That sounds like marketing overreach for a young company barely launched, but when you look at what it’s doing, you can see why the... |
| 25.01.2007 | The investor chronicles: Mayfield, In-Q-Tel, Garnett-Helfrich, Alsop-Louie & Leapfrog | Here are the latest ups and downs of Silicon Valley’s venture capital/investor community:
Mayfield Fund — The well-known Silicon Valley venture firm with a good pedigree, but a rocky recent past, is on the upswing in China. Tomorrow (Friday... |
| 11.05.2006 | Alsop blogs, despite dismissing it last year | Stewart Alsop is a venture capitalist who left New Enterprise Associates last year. We bumped into him at Starbucks in Palo Alto at the time, and asked him what he was doing. Something in the “media” space, he told us furtively. We asked hi... |
| - | These three telehealth approaches show how the sector is diversifying | There has been a good deal of activity in the world of telehealth in the past couple of weeks. American Well inked a deal with Tyto Care. Austin-based Medici Founder Clinton Phillips, who previously led 2nd.MD, raised $24 million to support... |
| - | Welcoming Andreessen Horowitz | This week Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz announced their new $300 million venture fund. This is really good news for the very early stage venture market. It’s yet another visible indicator of the ongoing reinvention occurring in venture c... |
