| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.12.2016 | When Wealthfront was young: the early years | From Fantasy Stock Exchange to KaChing to Wealthfront, the making of a Silicon Valley robo-advisor
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Founder... |
| 03.10.2016 | Rover raises $40 million Series E for doggy Airbnb | The network of pet sitters and dog walkers has nearly doubled its total venture capital raised
Editor's note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark Cub... |
| 29.09.2016 | Chat app Line backs VC funds to unlock global growth opportunities | Chat app company Line is investing in international opportunities after it announced that it is backing two VC firms outside of its home-turf in Asia: DAG Ventures in the U.S. and France-based Korelya Capital.
Line, which went public in a b... |
| 20.04.2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 20, 2016 | Cabify bagged $120M; Brighter raised $21M; Fame and Partners secured $10.2M
Beijing-based Yummy Express, China’s O2O solutions provider offering logistics and operations services completed $10 million of Series C Financing, led by ClearVue ... |
| 20.04.2016 | Brighter raises $21 million in push to boost transparency for dental benefits | Brighter’s approach is designed to make it easier for individuals to find dentists, particularly dentists in their network. It is also intended to boost the profile of dental practices and make scheduling and bill collection more efficient.... |
| 31.03.2014 | ClearStory Raises $21M From DAG Ventures, KPCB, A16Z To Bring Data Intelligence To The Masses | ClearStory Data, a company that wants to bring data intelligence to the masses, has raised $21 million in Series B funding led by DAG Ventures with Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Bye... |
| 29.11.2013 | Company with medtech to reduce infarct size in heart attack patients seeks $25M for final push | Here’s how:
Immediately following the interventional procedure, proprietary technology from TherOx mixes a pre-specified concentration of “SuperOxygenated” saline solution with the patient’s blood to produce SuperOxygenated blood. The Super... |
| 28.08.2013 | Belly Announces $12.1 Million Series B-1 VC Funding | Loyalty rewards company Belly today announced that they secured $12.1 million in a Series B-1 round of venture capital financing from New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz, DAG Ventures, Lightbank, Cisco, and 7-Ventures. That bring... |
| 14.01.2013 | Convertro Closes $5M Series B Funding | Convertro, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based provider of a platform to measure and optimize ad campaign effectiveness using cross-channel attribution of online and traditional media channels, closed a $5m Series B funding.
The round was led by B... |
| 16.11.2012 | OptiMedica Raises $35M Growth Financing | OptiMedica Corp., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based global ophthalmic device company, has closed a $35m growth round of financing.
Backers include existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Alloy Ventures, DAG Ventures, BlackRock Priv... |
| 31.10.2012 | Glassdoor Raises $20M in Venture Financing | Glassdoor Inc., a Sausalito, CA-based company that owns and operates a career and jobs community (Glassdoor.com), has raised an additional $20m in venture financing.
The round, which brings the company’s total capital raised to date to $42.... |
| 31.10.2012 | Pentaho Raises $23M in Series C Funding | Pentaho Corporation, an Orlando, FL-based big data business analytics company, has raised $23m in Series C funding.
The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from additional existing investors Benchmark Capita... |
| 22.10.2012 | Update: Lithium Technologies issues $5.6M in shares to buy Social Dynamx | 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!
Lithium Technologies has issued $5.6 million in s... |
| 22.10.2012 | Funding Daily: Everybody jump! | 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!
With high rates of unemployment, an emphasis on e... |
| 28.06.2012 | Fast-Growing Luxury Vacation Club Inspirato Quietly Brings In $15.5M From DAG and Millennium | Collaborative consumption — generally, marketplaces for buying and selling access to products and services — may bring to mind startups like TaskRabbit and Zaarly for tasks, or short-term rental service Airbnb.
But Inspirato is bringing the... |
| 21.06.2012 | Do Patents Really Matter To Startups? New Data Reveals Shifting Habits | Editor’s note: Leonid Kravets is a patent attorney specializing in developing IP strategy for young technology companies. He blogs on the topic at startupsip.com. Robert J. Moore is the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, which helps online bu... |
| 22.03.2012 | Contractor-hiring service oDesk raises $15M | 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!
Outsourcing service oDesk, which brokers jobs bet... |
| 15.03.2012 | BOKU Raises $35M | BOKU, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of online mobile payment solutions, has raised $35m in funding.
Backers include New Enterprise Associates, Telefónica Digital, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Index Ventures and... |
| 15.03.2012 | BOKU capta $35M de NEA, Telefónica Ventures y antiguos inversores | 15/03/2012
BOKU CAPTA $35 MILLONES DE NEA, TELEFÓNICA VENTURES Y ANTIGUOS INVERSORES.
El segmento de los pagos móviles está caliente. BOKU ha anunciado una nueva ronda de financiación por importe de $35 millones que ha dado entrada al nue... |
| 15.03.2012 | Mobile Payment Startup BOKU Raises A $35M Round. NEA, Telefonica Among The Investors | Another sign of the significant investment and attention going into the mobile payments market and the competition that is heating up among the bigger players: BOKU is today announcing a significant new round of funding totaling $35 million... |
| 24.01.2012 | Polyvore Raises $14M in Series C Financing | Polyvore, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based online fashion community site, has raised $14m in Series C financing.
The round was led by DAG Ventures, with participation from new investors Goldman Sachs and Vivi Nevo (NV Investments) and existing ... |
| 23.01.2012 | Virtual Styling And Fashion Community Polyvore Raises $14M From DAG Ventures, Goldman Sachs And Others | Polyvore, the startup lets web shoppers pull their favorite items any online store and mix and match to create personalized outfits online, has raised $14 million in Series C financing led by DAG Ventures and with participation from Goldman... |
| 05.01.2012 | SuVolta Raises $17.6M in Venture Capital | SuVolta, Inc., a Los Gatos, California-based developer of semiconductor technologies that enable a reduction in IC power consumption, has raised $17.6m in venture capital funding.
Backers include new investor Bright Capital, as well as exis... |
| 05.01.2012 | Lithium Raises $53.4M Fourth Round To Push For Lead In Social Brand Software | Big consumer brands generate all sorts of consumer interest and expertise, but they’ve generally struggled to capitalize on these relationships to improve themselves. Lithium has been building itself into a market leader at solving this pro... |
| 16.11.2011 | Cloud App Management Platform New Relic Raises $15M From DAG, Benchmark | New Relic, a SaaS-based cloud application management platform, has raised $15 million in funding led by DAG Ventures and Four Rivers Group with participation from existing investors Benchmark Capital, Trinity Ventures, Tenaya Capital and Al... |
| 16.11.2011 | New Relic Closes $15M Expansion Financing | New Relic, a San Francisco, Ca.-based cloud application performance management provider, has closed a $15m expansion financing.
The round was led by new strategic investors DAG Ventures and Four Rivers Group, with participation from existin... |
| 22.09.2011 | Visible Measures Raises $13M in Series D Funding Round | Visible Measures, a Boston, MA-based analytics and advertising platform for social video, has secured $13m in Series D financing.
The round was led by DAG Ventures, with participation from new strategic partner Advance Publications, Inc., o... |
| 03.08.2011 | Lockerz taps DAG Ventures, Live Nation as backers, targets $45M | Lockerz intense hunger for fresh capital continues. The fast-growing social networking company today announced that it has raised $36 million in venture capital, disclosing for the first time that DAG Ventures and Live Nation participated i... |
| 27.07.2011 | Taulia Closes $8.5M Series B Round of Funding | Taulia Inc., a San Francisco, California-based cloud-based dynamic discounting solution provider in the SAP® space, has closed an $8.5m Series B round of funding.
The round was led by new investor DAG Ventures, with participation from exist... |
| 24.06.2011 | Breaking: DAG Ventures raising new $500M 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!
Investment firm DAG Ventures is starting a $500 m... |
| 21.06.2011 | DisplayLink raises $8M for multi-monitor computing | The company notes that the round is not closed and it may raise an additional $6 million
DisplayLink, a provider of networked display technology for multi-monitor and USB-connected computing, on Tuesday announced that it has secured $8 mill... |
| 19.04.2011 | Groupon goes shopping again, buying and retiring Whrrl creator Pelago | Group shopping site Groupon is continuing its buying spree, acquiring the parent company of check-in service Whrrl late Monday, dubbed Pelago, which the company said in a blog post it would retire on April 30.
Pelago was one of the first co... |
| 28.02.2011 | Clickatell scores $12M to rejuvenate texts with bulk messaging | 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!
E-mail, tweets, location-sniffing geofencing—the ... |
| 28.02.2011 | Clickatell scores $12M to rejuvenate texts with bulk messaging | E-mail, tweets, location-sniffing geofencing—the good old text message is still the way to go if you want to reach not just the technologically hip, but virtually every cellphone owner. Clickatell, the Redwood City, Calif.-based SMS gateway... |
| 17.01.2011 | Stoke Scores $17 Million To Improve Mobile Broadband Networks | Mobile broadband network developer Stoke has snagged $17 million in Series E funding led by new investor Focus Ventures and previous investors Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Integral Capital Partners, DAG Ventures, N... |
| 27.12.2010 | Video scanning provider 3VR raises $17M from heavy-hitting investors | 3VR, a provider of video recording and search technology, announced today that it has raised $17 million in its fifth round of funding led by Menlo Ventures.
The company sells a number of video recorders that have scanning and recognition f... |
| 06.12.2010 | Juniper Networks picks up Altor Networks to bring security to the cloud | Juniper Networks, a provider of computer networking technology, announced today that it has acquired network security specialist Altor Networks for $95 million.
Altor Networks specializes in providing security services for companies that st... |
| 19.11.2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/19/10 | ConnectEDU, Fabricly, Fashism, GameGround, Gnip, PayNearMe, Plastic Jungle, Teambox, TokBox, Zemanta
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Fabricly raised a $400,000 seed round from Atomico Ventures for a site that crowdsource styles. The funds will be used to add more col... |
| 15.11.2010 | TokBox raises $12M, launches OpenTok | The OpenTok video chat platform allows up to 20 users to chat on multiple Web pages simultaneously
The video chat space is heating up. TokBox, a San Francisco-based Web video communications provider, announced Monday the close of a $12 mill... |
| 15.11.2010 | What you need to know - Monday 11/15/2010 | TokBox raised $12M; Kineto $3M; Zetta $11.5M; Celeno Communications $12M; Coraid $25M
Celeno Communications, makers of semiconductors for multimedia applications, raised $12 million, in a round led by Liberty Global. Other funders in this r... |
| 02.11.2010 | Apple and Google wooing BOKU? | The mobile payment startup is apparently being courted by both tech giants
Mobile payments startup BOKU his being circled by some big names. According to unnamed sources, both Apple and Google are in discussions with the company about a pos... |
| 06.10.2010 | Online ticket vendor Eventbrite shines with $20M infusion | Online ticketing agent Eventbrite has clearly caught the eye of investors looking for an upwardly mobile competitor to dominant market player Ticketmaster, on Wednesday announcing it had raising $20 million in mezzanine financing from DAG V... |
| 27.09.2010 | Quantenna brings in $21M to carry faster Wi-Fi into the home | Semiconductor chip company Quantenna Communications has closed a $21 million fifth round of funding, the company announced today. The Fremont, Calif.-based company enables consumers to wirelessly stream high-definition video to home devices... |
| 22.09.2010 | RightScale grabs another $25M for web-based cloud management | Cloud management software provider RightScale has raised another $25 million in its third round of funding.
Cloud storage and computing has become increasingly popular because it provides businesses with a low-impact, pay-as-you-go model th... |
| 04.06.2010 | Metacafe lands $5 million for curated movie site | Online video sharing site Metacafe has secured $5 million of an expected $6 million in debt, options, warrants and securities, according to a filing with the SEC.
Metacafe attracts roughly 14 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, according ... |
| 04.06.2010 | Metacafe lands $5 million for curated movie site | 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!
Online video sharing site Metacafe has secured $5... |
| 01.04.2010 | Amyris gets $47.8M more for sugarcane-based biofuel | 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!
Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the more successfu... |
| 01.04.2010 | Amyris gets $47.8M more for sugarcane-based biofuel | Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the more successful companies in the emerging biofuels industry, just took another step up, raising $47.8 million from Singapore venture capital firm Temasek Holdings. The company relies primarily on sugarcane... |
| 22.02.2010 | Gore, Branson team up to keep drivers safe — and improve gas mileage | GreenRoad, maker of a dashboard system that judges how dangerous your driving is at any given time based on road conditions, speed and spatial orientation has just raised $10 million from a notable source: former vice president Al Gore’s Ge... |
| 22.02.2010 | Gore, Branson team up to keep drivers safe — and improve gas mileage | 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!
GreenRoad, maker of a dashboard system that judge... |
| 14.12.2009 | Clarizen gives companies real-time glimpses into project pipelines | 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!
Project management has become a hot segment of th... |
| 14.12.2009 | Clarizen gives companies real-time glimpses into project pipelines | Project management has become a hot segment of the enterprise software market, with many startups launching to foster collaboration, organize tasks and track progress. One such company, Clarizen, has distinguished itself by saying it gives ... |
| 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... |
| 01.10.2009 | Amyris racks up $41.8M for renewable biofuels | 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!
Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the most generousl... |
| 01.10.2009 | Amyris racks up $41.8M for renewable biofuels | Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the most generously-funded startups using microorganisms to produce synthetic biofuels, has added to its third round of funding, taking it from $24.7 million to $41.8 million. But Amyris is not going to stop t... |
| 14.09.2009 | oDesk Challenge gives startups a staffing kickstart | oDesk, a site that helps companies recruit and coordinate online workers, has launched the oDesk Challenge, a program to help young startups piece together teams of staffers quickly and efficiently. It is promoting it today at TechCrunch50,... |
| 21.08.2009 | Amyris takes $24.7M for renewable biofuels | Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the best-funded companies deriving biofuels from synthetic microorganisms, has raised $24.75 million of a targeted $62 million third round of venture financing, according to a regulatory filing with the Securi... |
| 21.08.2009 | Amyris takes $24.7M for renewable biofuels | 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!
Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the best-funded co... |
| 19.08.2009 | 3VR finds $12M for searchable surveillance | 3VR Security, maker of video surveillance equipment with a built-in search engine and more detailed motion and facial recognition, has brought in $12 million in a fourth round of funding led by Menlo Ventures, according to PE Hub. Based in ... |
| 19.08.2009 | Adamas scores $40M, Navy funds to tackle the flu | Adamas Pharmaceuticals, one of Mohr Davidow Ventures‘ key life science investments, has raised $40 million in a fourth round of funding to develop antiviral treatments for the flu virus. Based in Emeryville, Calif., the company also just si... |
| 19.08.2009 | Adamas scores $40M, Navy funds to tackle the flu | 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!
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, one of Mohr Davidow Ventu... |
| 13.08.2009 | Pacific Biosciences takes $68M as genome sequencing becomes more competitive | 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!
Pacific Biosciences, one of the companies working... |
| 13.08.2009 | Pacific Biosciences takes $68M as genome sequencing becomes more competitive | Pacific Biosciences, one of the companies working to advance DNA sequencing technology, just brought in $68 million in new financing — bringing its total raised over the last year to a staggering $188 million. The Menlo Park, Calif., firm s... |
| 12.08.2009 | Mint.com rakes in $14 Million in third round of funding | 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!
Personal finance site Mint.com raked in another $... |
| 12.08.2009 | Mint.com rakes in $14 Million in third round of funding | Personal finance site Mint.com raked in another $14 million in funding, bringing its total to $31 million. The round was led by DAG Ventures, with new financing from Founders Fund and a top-up from existing investors Benchmark Capital, Shas... |
| 14.07.2009 | Peer-to-peer lender Prosper reboots after SEC gives go-ahead | Prosper, a peer-to-peer lender that supported $180 million in loans before shutting down new lending last fall, restarted after federal regulators gave the greenlight to the service.
The site, among the first of its kind to facilitate loans... |
| 12.06.2009 | YuMe takes $2.9M for broadband video ads | YuMe, an advertising network specializing in broadband video, has brought in $2.9 million of a $4.5 million round of equity. In the past, it raised about $16 million in capital from Accel Partners, BV Capital, DAG Ventures and Khosla Ventur... |
| 28.05.2009 | GreenRoad raises $15M for safe driving technology | GreenRoad, maker of equipment and software that reinforces safe driving habits, has brought in $15 million in a fourth round of funding to build its customer base and attract partnerships with technology and insurance companies. DAG Venture... |
| 26.05.2009 | OpenX Keeps On Growing, Raises $10 Million More | We’ve talked about online ad server OpenX quite a bit in the past, and for good reason. The company, formerly known as Openads, is led by former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller (Chairman) and ex-Yahoo exec Tim Cadogan (CEO) and has in the past show... |
| 18.05.2009 | Oil co. Terralliance finds funds despite risky business | Oil and gas exploration company Terralliance has raised an undisclosed amount of funding mostly from existing investors, despite reports that it squandered almost $300 million in capital on questionable purchases — Russian jets not least am... |
| 02.04.2009 | Direct2Silicon nabs $9M to lower cost of chip production | Direct2Silicon, the San Jose, Calif. maker of direct-write e-beam lithography software used to create system-on-a-chip integrated circuits, has filled out its second round of funding, now totaling $9 million. The money will go toward market... |
| 20.03.2009 | AOptix nabs $12.9M for eye-recognition | AOptix Technologies, developer of iris-recognition technology and the wireless communication systems it requires, has brought in $12.9 million in a fourth round of funding to build new products. The Campbell, Calif. company says it is in th... |
| 04.03.2009 | Arresto lands funds to treat cancer and fibrotic disease | Arresto Biosciences, maker of a drug that targets both cancer and fibrotic diseases, just landed an undisclosed third round of funding to push its lead compound closer to clinical trials. The Palo Alto, Calif. company is taking a new approa... |
| 19.01.2009 | Consentry nabs $9.4M for tighter network control | Consentry Networks, a Milpitas, Calif. company that gives network administrators more direct control over computing infrastructure and applications, just raised $9.4 million from DAG Ventures, Invesco Private Capital, Northgate Capital, Tra... |
| 22.12.2008 | Virtual world maker Gaia cuts staff by 13 percent | Gaia Interactive, a San Jose, Calif. creator of virtual world software, has laid off 13 percent of its employees (16 full-time and 20 contractors) due to unfavorable market conditions. The cuts follow an $11 million third round of funding t... |
| 14.12.2008 | BitTorrent loses its $17M funding? | The news continues to be bad for file-sharing startup BitTorrent, according to a report at TechCrunch, which claims the San Francisco company’s recent $17 million venture round has been substantially reduced.
In a letter reportedly sent to ... |
| 08.12.2008 | Kosmix’s new approach to search gets $20M | Kosmix, a search startup that automatically builds pages about any topic, has raised a $20 million in new funding led by Time Warner. That brings the Mountain View, Calif. startup’s total backing to $55 million — pretty impressive, especial... |
| 01.10.2008 | Gigya brings in $11M to grow widget services | Widget distribution network Gigya raked in $11 million in third round funding to continue building out two existing products of its own called Wildfire and Socialize.
They serve different but related purposes: Wildfire provides a platform f... |
| 12.08.2008 | DAG “Coattail” Ventures is raising an $800M fund [Correction: Not true] | [Update: I’ve reached a partner at the fund, who requested anonymity because of securities laws governing public statements while fundraising, but he says the PEHub story is bogus. “We’ve never talked to anyone about an $800 million fund, i... |
| 14.07.2008 | Fast gene sequencing in two years? Investors bet $100M on Pacific BioSciences making it happen | Representing a potential medical quantum leap similar to, but even more important than the commercialization of X-ray imaging, Pacific BioSciences has taken a whopping $100 million to make it possible to affordably map out an individual’s e... |
| 04.06.2008 | ODesk raises $15M to manage remote employees | Updated
Outsourcing technology startup oDesk has raised a $15 million third round of funding led by DAG Ventures.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based oDesk allows companies to hire technology “providers” like programmers and web designers, and it prov... |
| 19.05.2008 | Mu Dynamics raises $10M to reduce network downtime | Mu Dynamics has raised $10 million and given itself a new name as part of its efforts to locate and fix network vulnerabilities.
The Sunnyvale, Calif. startup was previously called Mu Security, but as of today has renamed itself to emphasiz... |
| 18.05.2008 | With new release and new funding, Wetpaint wants to “wikify” the web | updated
Since its launch in 2006, software from a Seattle startup called Wetpaint has been used to build nearly a million wikis where a company’s customers and fans create the content. That’s pretty impressive, but Wetpaint chief executive ... |
| 12.05.2008 | FireEye raises $14.5M for botnet protection | FireEye has raised $14.5 million in a third round of funding to continue its efforts to protect consumers and businesses from “botnets”, which are networks of infected and remotely controlled computers.
Ashar Aziz, the company’s founder and... |
| 07.04.2008 | SpikeSource launches software platform, gets $10M from Intel | SpikeSource, a startup that helps companies build, test and integrate software, is partnering with Intel to launch the SpikeSource Solutions Factory Platform. For SpikeSource, it’s a big strategy change — instead of partnering with independ... |
| 26.02.2008 | Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Rumored Valuation $200 Million | Yelp, the popular local review site, will soon announce a new $15 million dollar round of financing led by DAG Ventures. The valuation is rumored to be in the $200 million range. Yelp says that they will be using the money to expand geograp... |
| 08.01.2008 | Time Warner invests in teen virtual world Gaia Online | Update
Gaia Online, the virtual world for teens, siad media conglomerate Time Warner has invested an undisclosed amount in the company. Update: The amount was for a couple million, I’ve heard, and it was part of the previous round the compa... |
| 02.01.2008 | Plaxo reportedly hires bank to help it sell itself | Two updates!
Plaxo, a company that syncs your contacts’ details across your email and web services, has reportedly hired an investment bank Revolution Partners to help sell itself.
Update 1: The New York Times reports that the company is as... |
| 11.12.2007 | Kosmix riases $10M more for search sites in health, autos, more | Kosmix, the Silicon Valley search engine company that focuses on specific topics, such as health, has raised $10 million more in backing.
Kosmix is run by co-founders (including Venky Harinarayan, pictured left) who came close to buying Goo... |
| 29.11.2007 | AdBrite raises $23M to keep up with ad network race | Updated. And, read our Q&A with AdBrite cofounder Philip Kaplan here.
Online advertising company AdBrite has raised $23 million in a third round of funding from investors led by DAG Ventures and including Sequoia Capital, Mitsui Venture... |
| 20.11.2007 | Agami raising $50 million — for yet another storage company | Agami, a Silicon Valley storage company with high-profile venture backing, is doing what any self-respecting company in the sector should do these days: Raise a large amount of money before the opportunity melts away.
The company confirmed ... |
| 12.11.2007 | DisplayLink raises $24 million in Series C venture capital round... | DisplayLink raises $24 million in Series C venture capital round...
12-11-2007
PALO ALTO, Calif.— Nov. 12, 2007 – DisplayLink today announced it has received $24 million in a Series C venture capital round led by new investor DAG Ventures, ... |
| 31.10.2007 | Prosper wants to create a secondary market in p2p loans | Updated
Prosper, the leader in the small but rapidly growing peer-to-peer lending market, has decided to create a $500 million secondary market for these loans.
Currently, you only get money as the borrower pays it back, and can’t withdraw ... |
| 15.10.2007 | YuMe, Blinkx latest video ad companies to make splash | With all the video content online, the video advertising market is booming. Investors are still placing bets on new companies, and existing companies are getting more aggressive with ad techniques.
The latest company to raise money is YuMe,... |
| 07.10.2007 | ConSentry, raises $21M for a switch to rival Cisco | ConSentry, a Silicon Valley startup that says its Internet network switches are more efficient than those of giant incumbent Cisco, has raised a $21 million round of funding.
Switches are components that route traffic from through the wider... |
| 02.07.2007 | Money pours into venture funds, but selectively: DAG, Accel | Large investment managers are pouring money into venture firms, but they are increasingly selective.
The latest firms to raise money are DAG Ventures, here in Silicon Valley, and Accel Partners and IDG, for their operations in China.
Large ... |
| 12.12.2006 | Indian travel site Cleartrip raises $8M from DAG Ventures — because DAG can react within 48 hours | DAG Ventures has led an $8 million second round of funding for Indian travel site Cleartrip, VentureWire reports today (sub required).
Together with its previous $3 million from Google founding investor Ram Shriram, and Kleiner Perkins, Cle... |
| 09.10.2006 | DAG Ventures has raised $325M, shows “syndication” strategy | DAG Ventures, the Silicon Valley venture firm which has joined the Web 2.0 investment fray backing companies like Podshow, Friendster and Grouper, has finished raising a new $325 million fund, according to VentureWire (sub required).
It has... |
| 29.09.2006 | DAG Ventures leads $15m more for Podshow | It was just announced that DAG Ventures is leading a $15 million B round for Podshow. News got out yesterday and though the investors weren’t named until today, disbelief was the widespread reaction. DAG saw its investment in Grouper, which... |
| 29.09.2006 | Roundup: 4Info, DAG backs Podshow, MySpace hype… | You can get VentureBeat at 4Info — In fact, 4Info lets anyone, not just VentureBeat, publish their blog or applications to mobile users.
With its new service announced yesterday, mobile search company, 4Info said you can upload your blog or... |
