| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.10.2018 | Making a lot of money won’t make you more happy, secure, and centered — according to this VC | Ignition Partners’ John Connors and Bay Partners’ Neal Dempsey. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
It’s not all about the money.
That’s what John Connors wishes he would have known before starting his career, one that took him from the Montana... |
| 17.02.2015 | What Should Be on the Next UW President’s Commercialization Agenda? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The University of Washington hired Michael Young as president nearly four years ago in large part because of his reputation as a leader in university commercialization and inn... |
| 11.12.2014 | [Update] Lending Club IPO Shows The Profit Potential For Financial Technology Investments | Lending Club’s $5.4 billion initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange is more than just the largest IPO for a U.S.-based tech company this year, it’s also planting the flag for an entire ecosystem of startup companies engaged i... |
| 14.06.2013 | Covestor Raises $12.75M in Series B Funding | Covestor, a Boston, MA-based online marketplace for investing, raised $12.75m in Series B financing.
Backers included Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, and Bay Partners.
The company intends to use the capital t... |
| 04.03.2013 | Bain Capital Ventures Staffs Up | 2012 was a big year for Bain Capital Ventures—the firm raised $600 million for new investments, and focused on expanding its newly launched operations into Palo Alto, under the direction of managing director Ajay Agarwal. Today, the VC firm... |
| 24.07.2012 | Apigee Raises $20M, Looks to Grow API Business Internationally | Apigee, the Palo Alto-based company that provides application programming interface (API) support, management and service, today announced a new $20 million round of venture investment, led by Focus Ventures, and including existing investor... |
| 15.08.2011 | Buddy Media Raises $54M in Series D Funding | Buddy Media, a New York-based social media management software, has raised $54m in Series D funding.
Backers include existing investors GGV Capital, Institutional Venture Partners and Bay Partners, as well as new shareholder Insight Venture... |
| 06.05.2011 | What’s cooler than a million dollars? Changing a million lives | Henry Ford once said that a business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Impact investing takes that idea to a new level.
Impact investors look for businesses that have a positive social or environmental impact as well as the p... |
| 19.10.2010 | Buddy Media locks down $23M to help marketers get facetime on Facebook | Buddy Media, the Facebook page-management service for brands and businesses, said today it has raised $23 million in mezzanine financing as it attempts to keep up with booming growth and capture the attention of deep-pocketed institutional ... |
| 19.10.2010 | Investors buddy up to Buddy Media with $23M | The Facebook page management company is backed by IVP, Greycroft, and Bay Partners
Buddy Media, a company that offers a Facebook page management service for other businesses and brands, announced Tuesday the close of an impressive $23 milli... |
| 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... |
| 16.08.2010 | Google to buy Like; Facebook buys Chai Labs | It's hardly a slow summer for 'search-related' startups and mergers and acquisitions
It hardly feels like the dog days of summer in Silicon Valley, as both Google and Facebook make some interesting acquisitions in search-related businesses.... |
| 03.08.2010 | How much do you pay salespeople? Xactly brings in $12M to help companies figure it out | Xactly, a San Jose startup that makes software for sales performance management, announced today that it has raised $12 million in a round led by Bridgescale Partners. The company plans to use the funding to focus both on customer acquisiti... |
| 14.04.2010 | Greycroft’s $131M VC fund: “Small is beautiful” | Early-stage venture firm Greycroft Partners announced Wednesday that it closed its second fund at $130.7 million — a humble amount compared to many other funds, but well-suited to the capital-efficient digital media enterprises it’s been ba... |
| 09.04.2010 | Bay Partners falls apart, latest sign of crisis in venture industry | [Update 9/23/11: Remarkably, the firm has been put together again, albeit with fewer general partners. The firm’s limited partners stuck together, and have let three general partners continue to invest the firm’s funds. The partners are Sal... |
| 02.12.2009 | HipLogic raises $7 million to make feature phones smarter | HipLogic, a company that brings features and apps from smartphones to regular feature phones, just raised $7 million in a second round of financing with Bay Partners as the lead investor. Stage 1 Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Accrue Sport... |
| 02.12.2009 | HipLogic raises $7 million to make feature phones smarter | 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!
HipLogic, a company that brings features and apps... |
| 09.11.2009 | Advanced Power enters week-long rebranding cocoon | Advanced Power Projects, a company that revamps power plants to make them greener and more energy efficient, will shutter this week, in hopes of reemerging next week as a brand new company with a more expansive roadmap, according to Dow Jon... |
| 14.10.2009 | The secret behind Like.com's revenue engine | CEO Munjal Shah reveals the real strategy behind making money off of visual search
Like.com CEO and founder Munjal Shah was one of the presenters at The Funded and Vator’s Juice Pitcher event last week. Munjal’s presentation, which was a fr... |
| 08.10.2009 | Engine Yard’s Rails app support gets another $19M | Engine Yard, a company that helps developers deploy and manage web applications built with the Ruby on Rails programming framework (which is popular for fast web development), has raised $19 million in a third venture round.
This brings the... |
| 18.08.2009 | Jambool raises $5M for virtual goods platform | Virtual currency seems to be the way to get venture capitalists to part with their real currency.
Jambool said it has raised $5 million in a second round of funding for its virtual currency and payments platform, Social Gold, which has beco... |
| 18.08.2009 | Jambool raises $5M for virtual goods platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Virtual currency seems to be the way to get venture capitalists to part with their real currency.
Jambool said it has raised $5 million... |
| 30.06.2009 | ParAccel brings in $22M for analytical databases | ParAccel, maker of database technology that allows users to see broader patterns in massive data sets, has raised $22 million in a third round of funding from Menlo Ventures, Bay Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Tao Venture Partners and Wal... |
| 25.06.2009 | Yapta lands $2M to track airfare and hotel prices | Yapta.com, a site that monitors airfare and hotel prices to get users bargains, has raised $2 million in a second round of funding to further product development and expand its marketing strategy. The company says it’s not enough anymore to... |
| 09.02.2009 | M-Factor raises new funding for profit optimization | M-Factor, which sells web-based software to improve profit and revenue, has raised an undisclosed round of funding led by UV Partners. The San Mateo, Calif. company’s solution looks at marketing investments, trade spending, and portfolio pr... |
| 27.01.2009 | Jambool launches virtual goods platform for social network apps | Competition is heating up in the virtual goods economy on Facebook, because they actually appear to be making significant amounts of money. The latest entrant is Jambool, InsideFacebook reports. A long-time developer shop for Facebook appli... |
| 06.01.2009 | Force10 and Turin merge, pool their capital and clients | Network builder Force10 Networks has merged with Ethernet services provider Turin Networks to create a powerhouse in both spaces, with an impressive list of clients, numbering 1,300 (including eHarmony and Facebook), reports peHUB. More sig... |
| 04.11.2008 | OncoMed nabs $93M for stem cell programs | OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, a company working to fight cancer using stem cells, added a $93 million tranche to a second round of funding that now totals $154 million. The money will be used to push its lead antibody candidate through phase-two... |
| 23.10.2008 | Envia raises $3.2M for lithium ion batteries | Envia Systems, a company that provides energy storage services via lithium ion batteries, took $3.2 million in first-round funding from Bay Partners and Redpoint Ventures. The Hayward, Calif.-based firm hopes to integrated its technology in... |
| 15.10.2008 | Eventful Celebrates $10M Financing Event; Aims to “Cement” Lead in Online Events Services | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Eventful is celebrating its own financing event as it closes a $10 million Series C round, the company announced today. San Diego-based Eventful, a four-year-old firm that ena... |
| 27.08.2008 | Daptiv scores more funding for project management software, continuing on growth trajectory | Still on its quest to become the Salesforce.com of project portfolio management (PPM), Seattle startup Daptiv has raised $9 million more to develop and market its platform to large companies.
PPM, for those of you who haven’t spent much tim... |
| 05.08.2008 | Cloud company Elastra gets $12M from Amazon | Elastra, a company that helps manage applications in the Internet cloud, has raised $12 million in new funding.
This is Elastra’s second venture round, and it was led by Bay Partners, with Amazon.com and existing investor Hummer Winblad Ven... |
| 06.05.2008 | Online gambling is illegal, right? Not quite; the poker is still going on PurePlay | It’s pretty rare that venture capitalists will bet on a company that shows a hint of impropriety. Yet happens occasionally, for companies that don’t push the envelope too far.
In March, for instance, soft-porn site Zivity got $7 million fro... |
| 15.02.2008 | Roundup: Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down, Montalvo’s mobile chip and more | 1. Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down
2. Montalvo Systems vs. Intel, with chip for handheld devices
3. Fox Interactive to introduce “music Hulu for MySpace”
4. Yahoo’s board moving against Yang
5. Google searchers are wealthier, buy more online... |
| 31.01.2008 | Ensenda, a provider of last-mile logistics, raises $10.3M | Ensenda, a San Francisco provider of last-mile logistics, has raised $10.3 million in a third round of funding, according to a regulatory filing cited first by PE Wire. Questmark was joined by return backers Alloy Ventures and Bay Partners.... |
| 29.01.2008 | Like, the online visual search company for shopping, raises $3.3M | Like, the San Mateo company lets you search for items to buy based on visual characteristics you’re looking for, has raised $3.3m more in financing.
Like’s chief executive Munjal Shah has proven nimble. He started two years ago with photo s... |
| 12.12.2007 | Neoscale, storage security company shuts down after eating through $44M | NeoScale Systems, a Silicon valley provider of data storage security products that ate through $44 million in venture backing, has shuttered.
NCipher, a “management specialist” company, has acquired the Milpitas, Calif.’ company’s assets fo... |
| 12.11.2007 | EProject becomes Daptiv, aims to take over PPM market | A Seattle, Wash. company known for a decade as eProject has changed its name to Daptiv, in an apparent challenge to Microsoft and other dominant players that offer portfolio and project management software.
Founded in 1997, eProject barely ... |
| 15.10.2007 | Eloqua, lead generation for B2B marketers, takes $23M | To help effectively track down and make sales to new customers, Eloqua offers to nurture relationships and keep track of a customer’s interest over time.
Already in possession of a strong business in the United States and on track to genera... |
| 30.09.2007 | VC’s set up fund for apps on Salesforce’s Force.com | “Platform” has become a buzzword this past year. With more and more business going online, the big Internet companies want to put logs in the fire, and make their living rooms cozy: Like never before, they’re providing third-party software ... |
| 19.07.2007 | The Impact of Facebook’s Platform | It has been just under 2 months since Facebook launched their platform initiative, but this self-opening move has already had an extremely positive impact on the company. The changes are not limited to the company itself, however. The move ... |
| 10.07.2007 | Venture firm throws money at Facebook leeches | Silicon Valley venture capital firm Bay Partners said it wants to write checks of between $25,000 and $250,000 to developers writing applications for Facebook’s platform.
This is like candy to some developers, who will enjoy nothing more th... |
| 09.07.2007 | Bay Partners Launches Facebook-Apps-Only Fund | Here’s another indication of the importance of the new Facebook platform: Silicon Valley VC fund Bay Partners has earmarked millions of dollars for investments in startups creating applications for Facebook. The new program, called AppFacto... |
| 09.07.2007 | Bay Partners Announces AppFactory, A Seed Fund For Facebook Apps | Bay Partners, a San Francisco area venture capital fund that invests in Eventful, PicksPal, and Riya among others, has announced AppFactory a seed fund aimed at developers on the Facebook Platform. AppFactory will invest $25,000 to $250,000... |
| 02.03.2007 | The transformation of a VC firm, Bay Partners | Bay Partners is the latest Silicon Valley venture firm to go through a major generational change — witnessing an influx of new faces, even as an older generation of partners exits for reasons apparently related to poor performance.
Chamath ... |
| 09.08.2006 | Is Bay Partners falling apart? Maybe, maybe not | There is a story by Private Equity Week today that says Bay Partners, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested in companies like Riya, Wallop and Xactly, has lost half its six partners.
It says the firm’s investors, the “li... |
| 26.04.2006 | Wednesday wrap-up: Wallop, World Bank VC & other web wampum | Updated
Microsoft Research’s Wallop — Microsoft has created a new social-networking spin-off called Wallop, to be run by Karl Jacob, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur (Dimension X, Keen.com and more recently anti-spam company Cloudmark)... |
